OMG...Is This Real?

Colour came in 1972, but we didn't immediately get the colour TV (why throw away a perfectly fine TV set?) We never had a Colorama coloured glass filter (only Grandma had one) and I remember that the programs were changed manually, which was not a problem, because although there were a dozen buttons for various programs, we only had two, one of which always showed rather boring political broadcasts, summaries of Marshal Tito's travellings around the world, and discussions about the meetings of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia.  

Cartoon for kids (just one a day) was on Channel 1 at 19.15 every day. A sacred time! And I had to be quiet at certain times, such as the time when the central news program was broadcast at 19.30, and, of course, the time when "Peyton Place" was shown in the afternoon in the 1970s.

Mom always had a sufficient supply of PCL 15 lamps (I don't know what those "lamps" actually were), which for some reason had to be manually inserted into the TV by removing the back side of the TV. If the lamp burned out, the images on the screen would disappear, which Mom feared more than the apocalypse. Therefore, it was crucial to have a replacement lamp in the cupboard if the lamp in the TV burns out just at the time of crucial shows, such as "Peyton Place" or (my favourite): "Space: 1999". 

And now the flying saucers are popping out of the giant screens on the buildings? God I'm ancient...