[quote name=\'Jimmy Owen\' post=\'172012\' date=\'Dec 13 2007, 04:06 PM\']
Yeah, his company produced a very successful Richard Dawson/Larry Hovis series in the '60's called "Hogan's Heroes," also the movie "Willard" with frequent HSq guest Ernest Borgnine and other movies.
I think Bill Derman worked on that show while it was a Bing Crosby Production. Bing probably wasn't involved in the day-to-day workings of the shows.
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Going to the studio on "Beat The Odds" wasn't as high on Bing's list of priorities as playing 18 holes at Pebble Beach and "interacting" with his kids.
To Bing's credit, it's probably because of his vision that we have magnetic recording technologies today, both audio and video. Bing invested a bunch of money in Ampex, and engineers there developed the first audio tape recorder and video tape recorder as a result, and Bing used the new technologies in the production of his radio and TV shows.
I enjoyed "Beat The Odds", though. Cool game, but I would probably be dumbstruck by its primitiveness if I saw an episode today.