AWESOME!

Two days after the launch, the Mail’s TV critic Peter Black wrote ‘the appeal of colour TV coming across your carpet is... awesome. Suddenly there it was, the creeper round the Centre Court was green, the ball boys wore mauve and green shirts (one had carroty hair and freckles).’ But to get the best out of it, he said, ‘you have to draw the curtains. There is not, I predict, a stampede for colour TV.’