UNBELIEVABLY RARE! The SHOW, The SCRIPT & SCHEDULE!

On Sunday night at 9PM, October 4, 1959, ‘The Dinah Shore Chevy Show’ aired LIVE and in color on NBC from The Ziegfeld Theater. Here is the whole show! The script and tech details are below! 

Below are a few pages of the script and the rehearsal sheets from this same show, which we believe were from the Technical Director.  Thanks to our friend Gady Reinhold at CBS, we are able to see these historic artifacts AND what these pages and notes mean, with the captions below provided by Mr. Reinhold.  You will only see this here so please share this rarity! -Bobby Ellerbee

At NBC the TD was the one to ready the camera shots and the director called the takes. During rehearsal the director talked to the cameras but not during the show. The AD was basically a timekeeper at NBC. This was a union thing (NABET). Page 1 (Pink sheet at top) shows the cameras used and the lens complement for each camera. Camera 4 had the long lenses.
Page 2 (above) is a production rehearsal schedule and shows that 4J was going to roll the show for the B Net. Grant Johnston was a TD in 4J.
Page 3 (above) is the back of an opening page. It shows that camera 4 would be on the A row and camera 3 would be on the B row of Effects bus 1 and used as a chroma-key.The patch 1 & 2 refers to film 1 and 2 inputs. Tape – N1 refers to a videotape playback on a NEMO input. This was an old telephone company acronym for Not Emanating From Main Office. Basically it means from a remote location. In this case the remote location was the VT room at 30 Rock.
Page 4 (above) at the top shows the opening positions for all 4 cameras. The first item to air is a slide from F2’ and then a change of slide followed by the effect described in page 3 above. At the bottom camera 2 is showing a waist shot of Dinah.
Page 5 (above) shows how a dance number is scripted. The bars of music are shown and the camera shots that go with them. An AD would count the bars for the director.
Pages 6 & 7 are the rehearsal schedules for the show and are self explanatory. Nola refers to a rehearsal studio in NY. The show aired LIVE.

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