<P> Perhaps one of ABC 's first truly popular daytime series , along with the game show Let 's Make a Deal , Dark Shadows found its demographic niche in teenagers coming home from school in time to watch the show at 4 p.m. Eastern / 3 p.m. Central , where it aired for almost all of its network run , the exception being a 15 - month stretch between April 1967 and July 1968 , when it aired a half - hour earlier . Originally , it was aired in black - and - white , but the show went into color starting with the August 11 , 1967 installment transmission . It became one of ABC 's first daytime shows to actually win its timeslot , leading to the demise of NBC 's original Match Game and Art Linkletter 's long - running House Party on CBS , both in 1969 . </P>
<P> Perhaps one of ABC 's first truly popular daytime series , along with the game show Let 's Make a Deal , Dark Shadows found its demographic niche in teenagers coming home from school in time to watch the show at 4 p.m. Eastern / 3 p.m. Central , where it aired for almost all of its network run , the exception being a 15 - month stretch between April 1967 and July 1968 , when it aired a half - hour earlier . Originally , it was aired in black - and - white , but the show went into color starting with the August 11 , 1967 installment transmission . It became one of ABC 's first daytime shows to actually win its timeslot , leading to the demise of NBC 's original Match Game and Art Linkletter 's long - running House Party on CBS , both in 1969 . </P>
when did dark shadows start airing in color
when did dark shadows start airing in color
August 11 , 1967
August 11 , 1967