[quote name=\'SRIV94\' date=\'Nov 7 2005, 04:55 PM\'][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
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KTLA was owned by Golden West, Gene Autry's company. Their outside production division was called "Golden West Videotape Division."
And since TVL's ep guides to "Carol Burnett and Friends" only list Family sketches as "The Family," I can't say whether the "Gong Show" sketch is included in the package or if it's coming up any time soon on the weekend airings. (Carol did much more than 151 shows, the number in the "Carol and Friends" package.)