User blog comment:LLight/Failsafe American Flag/@comment-98.180.48.106-20111113023734

I actually thought that the "Hello, Megan!" sitcom -was- from the 50s, since it was depicted as being black and white. Color television was introduced in 1953, but it didn't gain acceptance until the early sixties. However, it wouldn't really make any sense, since television/radio signals could reach Mars from Earth in ten minutes (though that time varies, since the distance between Mars and Earth isn't constant). There isn't a delay that would prohibit Ms. Martian from watching modern TV on Mars, so I'm not really sure why she's not aware of current happenings... unless the zeta beam that transported her from Mars also transported her temporally as well.