The Show Was in Color, but Most People Didn’t Know
In the 1950s, having a color television was the purview of only the wealthiest of folks. The vast majority of people tuned in to watch television on a black and white TV set and that meant The Cisco Kid is often remembered, incorrectly, as a black and white show.
In fact, it was the first program in history to be filmed in color, but it would be more than a decade before many people got to see it that way. MGM Television had obviously predicted that color TV would fall in price more rapidly than it did. It wasn’t until the 1960s that most people could afford color at home.
