Okay, I watched it. The colorization seemed okay to me. Everyone looked to me like they were wearing too much makeup and the Petrie living room looked too busy. Those may have been the actual colors of the set but that set was designed to look right in black-and-white.
After a few minutes though, I stopped thinking about the color and just enjoyed the episodes. What I didn't enjoy were the cuts in both episodes. They each lost a couple of minutes — the top of the hospital scene in "That's My Boy," for instance. The opening scene and tag in "Coast to Coast Big Mouth" were absent as were a few other bits.
I'm going to guess that later today, we'll hear that the ratings weren't great and the demographics were worse. I was going to write that the numbers were probably fine given how cheap it is to air two old half-hours…but then I got to wondering what the colorization cost. I have no idea what that costs these days.
I received a number of e-mails from foes of colorization but — no offense, people — none of them seemed worthy of posting here. They all basically just said, "Colorization is bad because it desecrates the material" with no further argument. Not much of a discussion there. One person did write, "A movie should only be presented exactly the way its director intended."
Okay, if that's the way you want it, stop watching them on your home TVs and seek out theaters that still have 35mm (or in some cases, 70mm) projectors. I don't think you're going to see very many movies and the ones that do turn up will probably have a lot of splices, scratches and missing scenes. But if you want to do that, I admire your purity.