What series was the first to be broadcast in color on ABC ?

Jersey: I found the following, but it does not specifically give a date and program for the first broadcast but it does give a pretty good idea as to when the broadcasts started.

Color had been the holy grail of television almost from its infancy. As early as 1929, Bell Labs had demonstrated color TV transmissions. The original intention was to create a color system compatible with existing black-and-white sets, but this soon proved technologically impossible. All through the initial war with radio, CBS and NBC were experimenting with competing color TV systems.

The CBS system was a mechanical system based on the Nipkow Wheel and developed by Peter Goldmark, who shepherded the first color TV broadcast for CBS in 1940. RCA presented an alternative, so-called "compatible" system, an electronic system based on Zworykin's and Farnsworth's work and the NTSC standard.

At first, the FCC couldn't make up its mind, but in 1950 it approved CBS' system. The NTSC investigated, formed subcommittees and held hearings. In mid-1953, the NTSC recommended to the FCC that it reverse its earlier decision. In December 1953, the FCC did, approving the all-electronic NTSC color system proposed by RCA that is still the standard today.

Three years later, Zenith conceived an era of couch potatoes when it perfected the first practical wireless remote control, the Space Commander, invented by Zenith researcher Dr. Robert Adler.

Sales of color TVs, however, were slow. Time magazine proclaimed that color TV was "the most resounding industrial flop of 1956." But in the fall of 1960, Sarnoff gave people a reason to buy them. His NBC began airing "Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color" and color TVs began flying out of the stores. The first all-channel VHF and UHF sets were mandated in 1964.

It's a cartoon.

BTW, great research there SAE !

was it something to do w/ Disney, such as The Wonderful World of Disney?

The Flintstones.?

The Jetsons

First, I am sorry this took so long to get to. I remember seeing it when first posted, and meant to check it, but obviously I didn't.

The Jetsons premiered on September 23, 1962. (The Complete Directory to Prime TimeNetwork and Cable TV Shows. Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh) The Internet Movie Data Base comfirms that it was in color at the time of its debut.

Initial ABC colorcasts had started three years earlier from film, starting with a cartoon show, "The Jetsons", on September 23, 1962.