[quote name=\'cmjb13\' date=\'Jan 3 2005, 06:50 AM\']That Price into was very interesting. First time seeing that.
I never knew CBS did a special in 1978.
That would explain the photo in one of the offices of Television City. It's a group photo circa that time frame with tons of people. At least 50. (Barker, Arlene Francis, etc...)
And one of the few times Barker's in a tux.
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The climax to the opening of the first part of "CBS: On the Air" was the CBS equivalent to "A Great Day in Harlem" (the documentary of which was made by Bob Bach's widow Jean)--a living group portrait of as many CBS stars of the present and past as they could get to come to TV City and stand on the stage of Studio 33. Everyone seemed to be there--including for our purposess, Arlene, Barker, Gene Rayburn, Art Linkletter, Garry Moore and many others. For the finale of the seventh and last installment of the show, the group was gathered again along the edge of the roof of TV City and stood in their formal wear as a helicopter camera swooped by getting all of their faces--and then pulling back showing all of the bodies lining the illuminated roof in the Hollywood night. Even if the applause was canned, it still was a gangbusters way to begin and end the series.
