[quote name=\'uncamark\' date=\'May 12 2005, 11:40 AM\'][quote name=\'dale_grass\' date=\'May 11 2005, 11:54 PM\']How about Goodson bringing Feud to New York with Rafferty at the helm (assuming it were at all feasable)? Would the East Coast locale with an East Coast host have fared as good as Combs/California? Or would it have crashed and burned?
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The story was that Goodson had considered doing "Feud" in New York to begin with, since he felt that southern California couldn't provide a diverse enough pool of families (and before anyone did out-of-town contestant searches). Perhaps Dawson didn't want to commute. They still found families of every race, creed, color and nationality.
It could've been possible, considering that the Combs version did have a contestant office in New York run by Edye Chan and Rae Pichon (and Dick DeBartolo was doing material from New York). But they kept the show in LA.
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I honestly don't think it occurs to many viewers where the shows tape - or that it would have made a difference to the audience if Rafferty sounded more at home amongst New Yawkers.
Finding suitable facilities in New york for game shows has gotten more difficult since the genre moved west - I don't know that there's a good place anymore. At NBC, 8H and 6A are now taken up by
Saturday Night Live and
Late Night, I believe, and the Sullivan is now used by
The Late Show. Many of the facilities ABC used in the '60s and '70s are gone.
Millionaire was in some studio wayyyyy over on the West Side that would have been too small for
Feud.
Nice to know that Edye Chan, who'd been contestant coordinator for many of Bob Stewart's shows, and Rae Pichon (who I remember getting an odd shout-out in one of Dick DeBartolo's
Mad books) were still working into the '90s.
EDIT: If I had been Mark Goodson in 1988 (fat chance) and was willing to tape the show in New York to accommodate a host (same), the first guy I'd call wouldn't be Rafferty, it would have been Gene Rayburn. Yeah, he was getting up there, but it would have been an easy and fun show for him to do, and both Gene and Mark would have enjoyed seeing Dawson's head explode.