Even More ‘Match Game’ Follies…The Oldest Trick In The Book
As we all know, if nothing else works…banging on the side of the TV, or even the camera usually does it! Enjoy and share! – Bobby Ellerbee
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1FDyV8kYSE
A behind-the-scenes look at how Christina the cameraman keeps Camera 3 working with a bang during a game round.
Total Color Camera Count for USA 1954-1982 from RCA, and 1964-1981 including all major brands Thanks to our friend Lytle Hoover at Old Radio.com who has single-handedly collected volumes of information from the historic documents he has collected, we have for a few years now, had for a pretty good idea of how many RCA color […]
Thanks For The Tickets Daddy! On the left is Nancy Cronkite and on the right, sister Kathy with Paul and Ringo after the Saturday rehearsal. I wonder if Walter brought them? The girls returned Sunday night for the live show. There is a story that Jack Paar’s daughter Randi, brought Julie and Tricia Nixon to […]
Exclusive New Photos From NBC Brooklyn…2 of 4 Thanks to Peter Katz, here is another of four photos taken on the set of ‘Amahl And The Night Visitors’ at NBC Brooklyn. After posting the first one yesterday and mentioning the show was finally recorded in color in 1963, we found out that someone accidentally erased […]
‘Squidbillies’…Season 8 Debuts On Adult Swim Tonight At 11:45 This is my show! I am the voice of Sheriff on ‘Squidbilles’…television’s fourth most watched animated series. That’s a pretty good trick considering the other three are on Fox tonight in primetime! Since our demo is mostly men 18 to 34, most of you have not […]
Percussive maintenance.
thats how i get my tired ole macbook 2 work..works on most everything electronic..but the wife…not so much (LOL)
Back in the NY days of Carson, one night during the monologue you heard a loud bang and Carson just stopped cold and then as the director cut to the camera operator Johnny joked that NBC had the best camera repairmen in the biz.
The cameraman was around 60 and had white hair and the camera in question was a TK-41.
I am a but curious as to what would cause such a malfunction in a PC-60?
Gene Rayburn was such a fun guy to work with. I had several on cameras on that show as Gene really liked women and I think he knew I got a great pay bump when I was on camera. He had a bunch of fun regulars on the panel like Charles Nelson Riley and I remember that Gene’s two teenage sons use to hang out back stage.
I liked the camera-person! Very cute girl!
I really don’t remember but I think the banging came from behind me, somewhere backstage and the director probably Marc Breslow was roaring at me on headset to ‘act like I was banging on the camera’.
Gene Rayburn treated each show as though it was live. Johnny Carson did, too!