I’m pretty sure this is a photo from “The Art Linkletter Show” or his “House Party” show at Television City. I can’t imagine being the person who had to write these cards daily, but reading them live from 8 feet away is a pretty good trick too!
WGN: Chicago In 1960, between the Cubs and White Sox, WGN televised 120 baseball games with 8 RCA TK41s. For attendance reasons, I’m sure both teams tried not to be home at the same time, but when it happened, 4 cameras went to Cominskey Park and 4 went to Wrigley Field. WGN Television, whose call […]
ULTRA RARE: May 1949, Sid Caesar’s First Series ‘The Admiral Broadway Review’ Caesar began his television career when he made an appearance on Milton Berle’s Texaco Star Theater. In early 1949, Sid and producer Max Liebman met with Pat Weaver, president of television at NBC (and father of Sigourney Weaver), which led to Caesar’s appearance […]
Producer Joseph Cates…The Man Who Introduced Ralph To Norton A few years back, I was fortunate meet actor Kevin Kline, and of all things, we talked mostly about television history…and you will not believe his connection to a True Pioneer! In case you had forgotten, Kevin is married to actress Phoebe Cates, whose father was […]
For You To COPY & PASTE…NBC Studios Thumbnail List Many have asked for this and I wish I could post the PDF version, but Facebook won’t do PDF files. The best way I know to save this is to copy it and paste it into either an email to yourself, or into Corel or Microsoft […]