How Zsa Zsa Helped Mike Douglas Go From Live, To Videotape

On December 7, 2012 - TV History

Mike Douglas Show, TK10

This shot is from 1963, a couple of years into the show. It was live every weekday for an hour until around October of ’65. That’s when Zsa Zsa Gabor called Morey Amsterdam a “son of a bitch” for interrupting her joke. After that, the program aired on a one-day tape delay basis.

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5 Comments

  1. Paul Duca December 8, 2012

    Obviously it was live only in Cleveland…

  2. Bob Sewvello December 7, 2012

    I grew up in Montana and we watched Mike Douglas on a Salt lake City station. We would see the show about three months after it was taped because the tapes had to be shipped from one market to another market to another market, etc. I think they called that “piggy backing’.

  3. Gary Donahue December 7, 2012

    KYW in Cleveland became WKYC and was an NBC O&O. I worked there for vacation relief 2 years in a row.

  4. Dave Dillman December 7, 2012

    I watched the Douglas show from the control in Philly. I think the director was Dave Wilson who I later worked for when he was an EP at WTTW.

  5. Jeff Ryan December 7, 2012

    Channel 3 in Philadelphia was WRCP in 1963.