Video Rarity #4…Inside ABC Studio TV 2, November 7, 1952

This show-within-a-show depicts a live telecast of ‘Tales of Tomorrow’, an actual ABC dramatic series, which keeps being broken into by a phantom broadcast. It’s far fetched, but it gives us a rare look at the early years of ABC’s TV 2.  My guess is that the apartment scene is taking place in TV 1, just next door. Speaking of doors, that’s how we know where this is. That back door where many of the telephone calls are made from, and the location of the control room I think nail down TV 2 as the location.

There are some nice shots of the ABC TK10s in action and although there is no logo on the main camera, there is an ABC logo on the crane camera and on a few of the studio desks.

The “lover” is Rod Steiger in one of his first television roles. At the end, notice in the credits and the VO, the people in the studio are not actors…they are real ABC studio employees. Enjoy and share! -Bobby Ellerbee

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