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Originally Posted by crich70
That's the same reason they made Barney purple. He started out as grey but grey doesn't show up very well on video so they made him purple. And the magic slippers in "The Wizard of Oz" were silver but they wouldn't have shown up on the screen so the color was changed to ruby red.
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It's likely a related reason that Mercury in The Metal Men was colored red despite real mercury being silver-colored. Two other members of the team (Platinum and Tin) are colored silverish and coloring Mercury red makes him stand out from the rest of the team.
New Trivia Item:
During a performance of "My Generation" on The Smothers Brothers Show, Pete Townsend's hearing was permanently damaged when a drum set exploded. It was caught in the following YouTube clip (the explosion occurs at 7:45):