September 19, 1970…”The Mary Tyler Moore Show” Debuts
In the first video below, Mary Tyler Moore discusses the problems with the pilot, and there were many…it was the lowest scoring pilot ever tested at CBS.
Below that is the first ever episode, but when you watch it, the story just doesn’t seem dated does it? This is the episode that sets up everything and where she meets “Lou Grant” in the famous “you’ve got spunk” scene. Enjoy and share! -Bobby Ellerbee
Ah Ha! Ever wonder how they get those great underwater shots in swimming events? This the the Spirit system from Deep Vision. Check out the demo video. Source
TeleTales #46…More Behind The Scenes Super Bowl Reports When you click this article, notice to the right are a half dozen more written Sunday about other technical aspects and operations, and below that in the Sportswire section are even more stories on some of the new equipment used at the game. Enjoy and share! -Bobby […]
What Do You Think? This photo from South Africa shows dual Sony cameras televising World Cup Soccer and the caption said “in stereoscopic hdc”. Unless this is a 3D broadcast, I just don’t get it. I’ve never seen regular broadcast cameras slaved together for 3D, but maybe that’s what is happening here. What do you […]
Dumont Iconoscope Camera Chains Pictured here are two complete chains for studio and field use. Everything on the cart can be placed in a truck or control room, but notice the two elements at the foot of each tripod. Those had to be with the camera head…one element is an amplifier and the other, a […]
I have seen the pilot and I’ve always been amazed at how it just sat there. No response at all and yet the first episode, with a few minor changes, is classically hilarious.
I heard in an interview somewhere, one of the problems during the first audience run through, was that the studio sound system was not loud enough. The audience had trouble hearing the jokes. Has anyone else heard that?
No AC in the studio, Ed Asner played it serious and Valerie Harper wasn’t likable (it’s why they added Lisa Gerritson’s say the line about “Aunt Rhoda not being so bad”), sound system was bad, James L Brooke did the warm up and bombed…
I think I heard that network execs were fretting about whether MTM would be seen as a divorced Laura Petrie.
I remember that it did not go well and Grant Tinker sent the writers back to the proverbial drawing board.