[quote name=\'uncamark\' date=\'Nov 7 2005, 03:55 PM\']It seems to me that "What's Happening!!" taped at KTLA, not NBC or ABC--and the set was not the actual set. "Sanford" may've used a smaller version of the "Gong" set, since they most likely couldn't have fitted the whole thing next to the main junkyard set.
And the Carol Burnett sketch actually taped at NBC on the "Gong" set, complete with NBC Mother MacKenzie. That freeze frame at the end of the sketch as the gong sounds of Eunice's look on her face is a classic.
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I do believe you're right on all counts. The scaled-down set for WH! did utilize GONG's wall patterns pretty well (I didn't look closely enough to see if they were legit). But if KTLA = Golden West, then that's exactly where they taped.
I haven't seen the S&S GONG episode in ages, but I wonder--for two weeks in June 1978 (which would've been well after the S&S ep aired initially), GONG used a smaller-scale set with the band on stage (one of those eps was the one that introduced Michael Winslow to America). I wonder if part of that same set was also used for the S&S show.
Shame on me for not remembering having seen the Burnett sketch.
Doug