On Sunday, December 31, 2017 at 2:30:38 PM UTC-5, Steve Timko wrote: > > By the way, episode 5 has Merv entering through a door at the back of the > theatre. I recognized then that it was being filmed in The Ed Sullivan > Theater. > > Actually, Merv's mid-60s Westinghouse series - the '65 - '69 one with Arthur Treacher - was taped not at the Sullivan but at The Little Theatre on West 44th - a.k.a. "The Little Theatre on Times Square," as Treacher called it at the beginning of each episode. It's now the Helen Hayes Theatre. It's much smaller than the Sullivan. And he did frequently enter from the rear of the auditorium.
His '69 - '72 CBS late night show originally taped at the Cort Theatre on 48th before he moved it to Television City. His long-running Metromedia show did tape at the Sullivan on trips east in the late seventies and early eighties. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
