[quote name=\'rwalker\' post=\'221384\' date=\'Jul 29 2009, 10:48 AM\']
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pay_Cards!Where the heck would they get a facility big enough for an audience and a set?
Other than Survivor, Amazing Race, etc., what other shows were taped outside the 2 major market areas?[/quote]
Crosley Field would have done nicely.
Seriously, game shows don't need a lot of space, and this one really didn't. I was astonished, when I saw a
What's My Line? taping at The Ed Sullivan Theater, how small the set actually was relative to the stage. And the audience could have been 15 or 20 people.
I did a American University-only version of
Password in a studio that was about the same size as a rec room in your local church or community center. We had a five-person table donated by a local station after their news department upgraded its facilities; we dropped a lectern in the middle of the table, and we were ready to roll. No audience, but there wasn't really a need. (Even though I hosted and produced the three episodes I could do before going back to Cornell, I never could come up with a satisfactory format that didn't straddle.)
Lots of shows have taped outside NYC and LA.
Matches 'n' Mates, The Diamond Head Game, Beat the Clock 1972-74, and many of the first-run games on USA come immediately to mind.