Colorized Version?

Don't know if Ernest Borgnine financed the colorization (although, he did own a piece of the show), pretty sure that the company that handled the deal was one of the big companies in Australia in the late 1980s called Qintex that was run by a multimillionaire, Christopher Skase. At $50,000 an episode, it would have cost close to $7 million to do the whole show.

Skase was was one of the high flyers of the late 80s and at one stage was to close a deal to own MGM/UA. It was at that point that his entire fortune turned to dust -- Wikipedia has all the blow-by-blow details.

Suffice to say, he became a wanted man by all his investors and fled Australia and died a couple of years later in exile. He became one of the most wanted men by Australian authorities -- a movie was made in the late 90s "Let's Get Skase" about a mercenary group sent out to kidnap Skase and bring him back to justice, a curio to see these days.

Another show I'm pretty sure Qintex was going to colorize was "The Munsters"

I remember when they were colorized. It was on for about a week (Channel 9 in N.J.) and then it was pulled.

Are you all sure they were colorized?

I remember watching it in syndicated reruns in the 1970's and even then, the last season or at least part of the last season (fourth)was in color.

The first two seasons were definitely in black and white.

So I think at least part of the last season was filmed in color if not all of the last season.

Although I can't recall any other show which switched to color in the middle of a season.

Every other show I recall switching from black and white to color switched at the start of a new season.

Also, as I understand it they didn't have colorization as such in the 1970's.

So it must have been originally filmed in color for those particular episodes.

If the first two seasons are in color, then those were definitely colorized but not the last episodes of the final (fourth) season.

Just like season 1 of Gilligan's Island was colorized but seasons 2 and 3 weren't since season 2 and 3 were filmed in color and season 1 was filmed in black and white.

edit: I just checked and I'm not the only one who remembers most of the episodes that were set in Italy being in color in the 1970's.

Although Wikipedia claims the entire series was filmed in black and white.

But I know better.

Anyone can edit Wikipedia to make it say anything they want to.

And no, I'm not thinking of the two theatrical movies which were also filmed in color.

I used to watch the colorized episodes on Comedy Central in 1991-1992. They looked horrible. This was the early days of colorization. From what I recall, all of the colorized episodes were pulled and they continued rerunning the original black and white ones. Now, colorization is decent like they did with the black-and-white episodes of Bewitched.

George Carlin: It's all bullsh-t and it's bad for ya.

I recently saw season 1 which was colorized.