We've rounded up 12 black-and-white episodes of typically color TV shows that not only paid homage to the past, but that worked beautifully within the world of their own series.

The unemployment rate among black women, for instance, was 14.1 percent in the second quarter of 2011 compared to 7.4 percent among white women.

In Black and White, however, Costner is put through the emotional wringer, and the ambitious film adds a much more complicated issue: race. Elliott’s life has already been marked by tragedy.