FEBRUARY 2017 CBS STUDIO CENTER – A HISTORY LESSON by JUDI MILLER The year was 1926 and plans for a new city in stages and several more support buildings. the San Fernando Valley were in development. The Studio was known as the most efficient It began with the purchase of a 50-acre lettuce of the independent studios because of its high ranch at the corner of Colfax Avenue and quality technical equipment, expert use of stock Ventura Boulevard, along with a 300-acre footage, superior editing facilities and high ranch located on Laurel Canyon. During this caliber craftsmen. Between 1937 and 1950, time “King of Comedy” Mack Sennett, known Republic’s output grew from ten features a year for his two reelers and the Keystone Kops, to over fifty, and the number of sound stages was looking for a new studio location. A deal tripled. Some of the film legends to grace the was struck, and in 1928 Mack Sennett Studios lot included Roy Rogers, John Wayne, Slim opened and the surrounding area became known Pickens, Allen “Rocky” Lane, Joan Crawford as Studio City. At this time, the Studio consisted and Barbara Stanwyck. With the advent of of two sound stages, one with a swimming television in the early 1950’s, Republic entered pool below the floor, the other with a two-story a new medium and produced a number of series, dressing room building attached; one office such as The Rifleman, Burke’s Law, Leave it to building, projection room, film editing building, Beaver, and The Big Valley. film library, wardrobe building, and a garage. In May of 1963 the CBS Television Network With the advent of sound in 1929, Sennett was entered into an agreement with Republic Studios the first producer to use RCA equipment, with whereby CBS became the major lessee and the which he produced a bunch of singing short facility was renamed CBS Studio Center. During subject films with a young unknown named this era, many well known television series such Fire, 3rd Rock from the Sun, Cybill, Evening Bing Crosby. During the next several years, as Rawhide, Gunsmoke, The Great Adventure, Shade, and Caroline in the City are just a few Sennett made more than 150 one and two reel Gilligan’s Island, The Wild Wild West and My of the shows which called CBS Studio Center feature films, and also produced and directed Three Sons called CBS Studio Center home. home during the 90’s. Features such as Father four films for Paramount distribution starring In 1969 a then unknown production of the Bride 2, Dr. Doolittle, and I Love Trouble W.C. Fields; The Dentist, The Pharmacist, The company, MTM Entertainment, moved in and were also filmed on the Studio lot at that time. Barber Shop, and The Fatal Glass of Beer. became an important tenant, producing such hit As we approached the year 2000 and moved In 1933 the Great Depression forced Sennett shows as The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Rhoda, forward, CBS Studio Center kept going strong into bankruptcy, and the Studio became an The Bob Newhart Show, Lou Grant, and The with long term hit shows such as Will & Grace, independent production facility. Mascot White Shadow. Malcolm in the Middle, Bernie Mac, According Pictures, under the direction of Nat Levine, In 1982 CBS and 20th Century Fox Film to Jim, That 70’s Show, Just Shoot Me, Passions, became one of the principle tenants and for the Corporation formed a joint venture which Big Brother, CSI: NY, and more recently, Hot next two years the Studio was known as Mascot included ownership and operation of CBS in Cleveland, Last Man Standing, Baby Daddy, Studios. Mascot produced the Saturday matinee Studio Center, and for the first time in almost Brooklyn Nine Nine, and The Talk. serial which always ended with the heroine twenty years a new name appeared on the sign Moreover, the Studio continues to grow left tied to the railroad tracks as a speeding above the main gate, CBS/Fox Studios. Two and change. In 2005 construction on The train came hurtling toward her, interrupted years later, Fox sold its interest in the Studio Broadcast Center began and in 2007 KCBS and by “CONTINUED NEXT WEEK.” Some of to MTM Enterprises and the facility became KCAL9 moved in, followed shortly thereafter Mascot’s big stars included, Gene Autry, Bela CBS/MTM Studios. Shows produced on the by the CBS corporate departments. Our most Lugosi, Gabby Hayes, and Rin Tin Tin. lot during the 1980’s included Roseanne, A recent addition is the Lagoon Building, which In 1935 Mascot Pictures, Monogram Pictures Different World, thirtysomething, St. Elsewhere, provides 30,000 square feet of office space for and Consolidated Film Industries, financed Newhart, Hill Street Blues, and Falcon Crest. productions and corporate entities. And we’re by Herbert J. Yates, joined with several other CBS acquired MTM’s interest in the Studio not done building yet………….stay tuned for independent producers and became known as in 1992 and once again the CBS Studio Center more details! Republic Studios. By then there were six sound sign appeared at the gate. Seinfeld, Grace Under n n n 1 PRODUCTION SCHEDULE ADR ...........................5091 Backlot Services ..................5667 Carla’s Café Commissary ...........5692 Car Wash .......................5042 Client Services ...................5099 People’s Choice Awards CPR & First Aid Training (monthly) ....5256 Winners Emergency Line ..................5555 Graphics ........................5395 Favorite Cable TV Comedy Grip Dept. ......................5711 Hair Salon ......................6000 Baby Daddy Health Wheels ............818.876.4755 House Internet Access .............5218 Favorite Actor In A New TV Series Janitorial .......................5966 Matt LeBlanc – Man With A Plan Joe’s Gym ......................5099 Lighting ........................5349 Medical ........................5341 Favorite New TV Comedy Notary Public Services Man with a Plan -Brandt Bowers (1st Flr. Mack Sennett) ....5162 THE GREAT INDOORS (CBS TV Studios/CBS) n n n Parking .........................5165 Parking Place Signs ...............5670 SOLUTREAN FEATURE Paint Dept. .................5396/5858 (Solutre, LLC) Safety & Environmental Concerns ....4444 LIP SYNC BATTLE Safety Hotline (anonymous reporting) ....6078 (Highway Content/Spike TV) ongratulationsongratulations Sign Shop ......................5395 PHOTO: ABC/John Fleenor © 2015 American Broadcasting Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. American Broadcasting Companies, Inc. ABC/John Fleenor © 2015 PHOTO: C ENtertAINMENT TONIGHT Special Effects ...................5671 John Idoni, A/V (CBS TV Distribution/Syndication) Supply Station ...................5001 Department Take 5 Coffee Shop ...............5979 THE INSIDER (CBS TV Distribution/Syndication) On your retirement after Telephones ......................4800 42 years of services at RECYCLING LAST MAN STANDING HH we no longer recycle videotape, cds or dvds HH (20th Century Fox TV/ ABC) CBS Television City and CBS Studio Center. Stage and Media .................5661 BROOKLYN NINE-NINE Paint, Solvents, Spray Cans, Rags, (Universal Television/FOX) Batteries, Brush Wash, Office Recycling ..................5966 MAN WITH A PLAN Toner Cartridges, Paper, Cans (CBS TV Studios/CBS) Craig McCue, Telecom E-Waste Recycling ................5396 BROWN GIRLS PILOT Department Anything with a circuit board, ie TVs, (Prodco/Freeform) On the birth of your Monitors, Recorders, Keyboards and UNTITLED DISTEFANO PILOT grandson Florescent Lights (Woodridge Productions Inc./CBS) Pens .....................interoffice to Jonathan Craig TVC RECORD CENTER, RM. 73 THE TALK October 21, 2016 (CBS TV Studios/CBS) Born to Emily and Jose PLAYING HOUSE Camacho (Open 4 Business Productions/USA) BABY DADDY afety (Prodco/Freeform) Tammy Yazgulian, S Medical Department & ecurity YOUNG & HUNGRY S (Prodco/Freeform) On the birth of your granddaughter SAFETY IS EVERYONE’s RESPONSIBILITY! SUPERIOR DONUTS (CBS TV Studios/CBS) Autumn Rose Attention all CBS & Production Drivers: Please AMERICAN HOUSEWIFE January 13 obey the RED LIGHTS near the stages by (ABC Studios/ABC) Born to Crystal stopping and shutting off your engine until the ALONE TOGETHER and Christopher red light turns off. (Prodco/Freeform) Yazgulian Please observe the speed limit (8mph), stop Jason Hilmer, signs and pedestrian crossings. The Studio Transportation FEBRUARY Department has the contractual right to refuse entrance to BLACK HISTORY MONTH any repeat violator of our Safety Rules. Studio and wife Heather Security strictly enforces this policy. n2 Groundhog Day On the birth of your daughter 12 Lincoln’s Birthday n Brooklyn Diane n 14 Valentine’s Day January 23 n n n n n n n 20 President’s Day (observed) and big brother Contributing Editor Marsha Gorodkin Carter NewsletterDesign Elizabeth Gulick Staff n 28 Shrove Tuesday (Mardi Gras) 2 FEBRUARY 2017 In Memoriam MARY TYLER MOORE SHE TURNED THE WORLD ON WITH HER SMILE! by JUDI MILLER film Ordinary People, in which she portrayed and later in 1982 when their company had On January 25th we lost a true television pioneer the bitter matriarch of a family who recently ownership in the Studio. and icon. Mary Tyler Moore was best known lost their son in a drowning accident. She for her comedic roles as Laura Petrie on The also received a Tony® Award that year for her In later years, Mary Tyler Moore returned Dick Van Dyke Show in the 60’s, and later as the role in the Broadway play Whose Life Is It to CBS Studio Center time and again, guest indomitable, groundbreaking Mary Richards on Anyway? starring in The Naked Truth in 1997, That The Mary Tyler Moore Show, which was filmed 70’s Show (also filmed on Stage 2), and most here on Stage 2 from 1970-1977, and became a In addition to being a renowned actress, Ms. recently joining her old cast mate Betty White fixture on the CBS network. She was nominated Tyler Moore was a successful businesswoman on Hot in Cleveland in 2011 and 2013. for a Best Actress Emmy® Award each of the seven as well. She and former husband Grant Tinker years the show aired, and she won three times.