Per Episode Production Cost Of One Hour Shows 1970
On July 4, 2013
- TV History
Per Episode Production Cost Of One Hour Shows
The 1970s was the first full decade of all color programming for all networks. These figures are quite tame compared to today’s costs! Click to enlarge for the whole list.
[…] faire un épisode, “Charlie’s Angels” dépensait autant pour la garde-robe seule (certaines sources dire que le budget pour un épisode de la série variait de 310 000 $ à 450 000 $, pour […]
I think that number on the Sonny & Cher was my salary they were referring to !! Lol !
I bet most of step increase was talent and little changed in technical cost outside of inflation .
Ah the days when TV stars made less than $2,000 a week.
Looks about like a KPBS cost sheet.
And it was all deficit financing!
Wrong about BSG and BR. The original series was done with models. CGI was at least 15 to 20 yrs away.
Wow. For it’s day, the Dean Martin Show was expensive.
Second series of 1999 was USA, should have appeared
‘thought 6 million dollar man and Hulk cost more
Some Television Programs of my youth !
Both Battlestar Galactica & Buck Rogers had CGI in ’em (I’d attribute a large cost to that!) .. and possibly more odd/unusual set designs than other shows.
It DOESN’T reflect the costs (as it was made in the UK) but I’d like to see how the costs of SPACE 1999 stacked up to those two shows in cost.
Note how expensive Battlestar Galactica and Buck Rogers In the 21st Century were compared to the other shows.