Although this episode was the 4th to air in season 1, it was actually the first regular episode ever shot. Posted here is the first of the two page schedule with the second page below in Comments. Rehearsals stared on Thursday and the show was filmed at 8PM on September 8, 1951. The show title is “Lucy Thinks Ricky Is Trying To Murder Her”. Here’s a snippet from that episode.
This photo is from a 1948 RCA Broadcast News Magazine. The article was about some new equipment at the NBC Washington station, WNBW and this was added as a reminder of how far television had come. Note the caption states that, aside from an antenna, this is the whole station! The transmitter is on the […]
Press releases and news articles about the construction and expansion of CBS Television City.
For Vintage TV Props…”History For Hire” Is Ground Zero Our friend Richard Wirth has a new article I wanted to share with you, on the world famous History For Hire Prop House in Los Angeles. Vintage TV Studios in Modern Film and Television Aside from a dizzying selection of “other” period specific props, HFH is […]
This was a step up from the Iconoscope in it’s light sensitivity, but it was a remote camera and still needed daylight, or stadium lighting. The Orthicon was a hybrid of sorts, needing the added utility of Philo Farnsworth’s Image Dissector tube technology, which was finally incorporated into the Image Orthicon a few years later. […]