CBS Broadcast Center…Studio 41, 1975

Remember ‘Beacon Hill’? I didn’t think so…it was a huge waste of time and money for CBS. This was basically “borrowed” version of ‘Upstairs, Downstairs’ about a wealthy 1920s Boston family and their Irish servants. The show lasted less than a season, but did leave behind some interesting photos that were taken by our friend Gady Reinhold.

Studio 41 is the largest of the Broadcast Center studios at over 8,100 square feet. In these shots we see four or five Norelco PC60, dual cabled cameras, at work with one on a Chapman Elektra crane. A couple of the PC60s have the plastic viewfinder hoods that were made in the BC prop shop.

I never knew that Robert Stigwood and RSO was involved in television but they are listed as the producers. Enjoy and share! – Bobby Ellerbee

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