 The program was highly innovative in its use of color videotape, a technology then in its infancy.As with the first major television program to be recorded on videotape—"The Edsel Show" in 1957—this was a straight recording of a live performance with no editing.Early videotape use was confined largely to rebroadcasting programs from the east coast three hours later in the west, and was a cheaper, better-quality alternative to the film-based kinescopes.