Right, Family Feud, and HBO's "Real Time With Bill Maher" "In the mid-1980s, CBS built an annex to Television City to house two additional large studios, 36 and 46. Later, upstairs rehearsal halls in the main building were converted into Studios 56 and 58." - from History of CBS Television City: TV shows produced (mostly videotaped) in the 1950's-1970's at CBS Television City include: audience at CBS's Television City CBS Columbia Square (name circa 1960) Currently: KCBS / Columbia Square (property has been sold and vacated) aerial view of KCBS / Columbia Square (Bing Maps)
General Service Studios (name circa 1960) Currently: Location: 1040 N. Las Palmas Avenue, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California in 1919, became known as General Service Studio in 1933 renamed Hollywood General purchased by Coppola in 1979 (Zoetrope) sold in 1984, and renamed Hollywood Center Studios at one time, the lot was home to Monogram Studios, before it moved to its new home where KCET is today. NO BACKLOT..."but Perry (and the various Filmways shows) would frequently film exterior scenes around administrative buildings and the parking lot as well as the gated/guarded entrance to the facility. Sometimes you even see the 1040 numbers for the street address of 1040 N.Las Palmas, on the admin buildings at the front gated/guarded entrance! OR on at least Perry, close-ups of auto registrations or drivers' licenses of characters in episodes during the "General Service" seasons will have that character living at 1040 N.Las Palmas!" - Mark J. C. "Jed Clampett's "Mammoth Pictures" entrance was a stock footage of the main entrance to General Service Studios!" - Mark J. C. "General Service Studios was important to Desilu because by the 2nd season of I Love Lucy they had rented the entire facility. But because of it's small size, they moved to Motion Picture Center. Not sure how long they rented GSS for or if they still had a presence after I Love Lucy and Our Miss Brooks moved." - William F., Jr. "Stage 2 was named "Desilu Playhouse" and a special entrance was created on Romaine St. on the south side of the lot." - from Wikipedia entry on Desilu Productions entrance to Hollywood Center Studios (formerly General Service Studios) (Google Maps Street View) aerial view of Hollywood Center Studios (formerly General Service Studios) (Bing Maps) The set of Acres on a soundstage at General Service Studios
Republic Pictures (name circa 1960) Currently: Location: 4024 Radford Avenue, Studio City, Los Angeles, California 38-acre studio to circa 1928 as (Mack Sennett's) Keystone Studios in mid-1930's, became Mascot, then Monogram Studios, which joined to form Republic Pictures CBS Television took over in 1963 at one time co-owned by Mary Tyler Moore (MTM) productions and CBS ALL MCA/Revue TV shows were filmed there through the 1958/59 season Four Star Productions filmed here until about 1970 backlot included such sets as western streets, New England Street, mansion (seen in The Big Valley and The Wild Wild West), and the Gilligan's Island lagoon "The opening famous gun battle of Gunsmoke was shot on the western street on the back lot of the CBS Radford Studio in Studio City. This street set remained the later 90's just inside the truck gate off Cole Ave. Also using the stages at CBS Radford was The Wild Wild West." R. "Gilligan's Island was shot in the river basin at the studio that runs along behind the studio. Years later they built a home for a famous reality TV show at this spot. Had a big fence around it to keep every one out as they lived locked up in there during the series. But writers used to love to walk by and throw wadded up paper with notes full of story ideas into the yard." - Randall R. "Today, the old western street is a parking lot and sound stages. They have named streets after the various shows, including Gunsmoke. [In 1997] they tore out the old lagoon from Gilligan's Island, which Gunsmoke also used." - Randall R. prior to its removal, the lagoon was used as a parking lot when it was empty. aerial view of Republic Pictures studios 1957 (courtesy Bison Archives) aerial view of CBS Studio Center (formerly Republic Studios) (Bing Maps) a current-day diagram of CBS Studio Center The cast of The Mary Tyler Moore Show in the series finale curtain call
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