‘Search For Tomorrow’…The LIVE Episode!
Very Interesting! ‘Search For Tomorrow’…The LIVE Episode!
On August 4, 1983 the master tape and back up copy of one of the show’s daily episodes went missing! By now the show had moved to NBC from CBS and WNBC’s Jack Cafferty is reporting here on the event of doing a live show. Even Don Pardo is there live, but NOT at NBC! They were at Reeves Teletape and the cameras are RCA TK46s.
As our friend Chuck Snitchler explains; “Although Search had switched networks, it was still produced at the CBS Broadcast Center at 524 West 57th St. in Manhattan until December 1982. By late December 1982 or January 1983, NBC relocated the show’s production to the Reeves Teletape Studio on Broadway and West 81st St., the former home of Sesame Street (which had relocated to the former WNET-TV studios at 9th Ave and 55th St.). However, in March 1985, production of the show moved to the former Edge of Night studio at the EUE/Screen Gems Studios at 222 East 44th St., where it remained for the rest of its run.”
More than likely, the tapes were hidden by the shows producers and the live event was just a way to get some free publicity. Enjoy and share!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsTmfQ_croA
News report on CPC’s Sid Hoffman running the teleprompter on the set of Search for Tomorrow.
Most soaps were done live to tape at that time so it wasn’t that big if a deal.
Once you see the video it’s obvious it was done as a publicity stunt. They had “Live from New York” shirts made for some of the crew.
Life imitates art. They probably stole the idea from “Tootsie.”
I remember watching this episode!
Now I’m curious about when the soap operas switched over to tape. “As The World Turns” was still on CBS live in 1963, the day Walter Cronkite broke in and reported that President Kennedy had been shot.