ABC, CBS, NBC…Tuesday Night Lineup, 1960 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAgrP18c2D8 What you would’ve watched on a typical Tuesday night in the fall of 1960: Bugs Bunny, Rifleman, Wyatt Earp, Stagecoach West, Alcoa Premiere (One Step Beyond)… Source
Did You Know This? Before the factoid, take a look at this great one minute clip from Studio 1 in Burbank with TK44s. Producer Fred de Cordova sat off camera at the end of the guest sofa and had a “go to commercial” button at his chair that lit a signal light in the studio […]
April 22, 1966…A Moment In Time With Sammy Davis This opens with a great shot of Sammy standing in front of an RCA TK41 operated by veteran cameraman Frank Gaeta. This was the fifteenth and last episode of “The Sammy Davis Jr. Show”, from NBC’s Brooklyn Studios on April 22, 1966. Notice at the end, […]
Who Knew Atlanta, GA and Mayberry, NC were so close? Below in pink, you see Tara from ‘Gone With The Wind’ and under it, the Mayberry set for the ‘Andy Griffith Show’ on the ‘Back Forty’. Forty Acres was a film studio backlot that belonged to RKO Pictures and later Desilu Productions, located in Culver […]
NBC should have re-run this…instead of that awful “production” with Walken.
Love it ! I remember it well.
Ritchard was hysterical in this clip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gims9O9oi8s&spfreload=10
It was a marvelous performance, Mary Martin and Cyril Ritchard were amazing…
When Miss Martin did her show “Over Easy” ( as I recall the title ) on Channel 9, many years ago, she was a listener to KABL “while making up” each morning and invited me to her “Peter Pan” at Davies Hall. We had excellent seats and met the gracious and warm great lady. The thrill of my Radio life as that faded, flattering, autographed photo on my family room wall attests. ( 30 years ago, I guess and, if few remember. . . . .I do.)