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With T.J. HOOKER on MeTV now, I've been devouring five episodes a week and loving it. But one thing bugs me.
The dialogue constantly refers to blue uniforms on the cops, specifically and directly. Even some episode titles say "Blue" this or that. But on film the uniforms almost always look black. Really black. They looked blue in two scenes of one episode for some reason, but otherwise they always look black.
So, were the uniforms really blue or black?
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Very deep blue, I'd say.
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Very deep blue, I'd say.
Yeah, I think you're right; good image there. This is deep blue hero stuff.
But they only looked like this for two brief glimpses in one episode. Otherwise they look like true-black, even in bright sunlight. Maybe the show's film stock had some kind of chemical bias, a tiny spectral gap, that didn't respond to that exact shade of blue.
I wonder if Shatner's ever worn a costume before that had people seeing two different colors. 
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Probably the quality of the prints is also making a difference. I have the complete series on DVD (Shout! Factory - recommended!) and they do seem black, especially in the 3rd - 5th seasons, where the print quality is not as good as seasons 1 and 2 - which I suspect is because the first two seasons are just re-pressings of the same prints Sony put out previously and the rest of the series' prints weren't given the same care when Shout! took on the license. Sony just passed 'em over as is. Most of the final 3 seasons retain the Columbia Broadcasting logo from the original airings, where the first 2 seasons have the Sony Television logo.
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