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Date Posted: 03:42:30 09/07/08 Sun
Author: Dave James
Subject: Re: Come Alive on Channel 11
In reply to: JM 's message, "Re: Come Alive on Channel 11" on 23:10:57 09/06/08 Sat

One problem with doing a dance show at Channel 11 was getting kids to schlep up the steep hill to the station
during snowy days. Then-cobblestone Rising Main Avenue was trecherous! Even we employees often had trouble making it. And, there was no videotape back then, so there was no "best-of" back-up opportunity. I remember we briefly did a quiz show hosted by Big Steve Risen called "Give It a Whirl." It was so hard getting audiences up the hill that the producer occasionally used employees as contestants. Of course, they could not keep the prizes they had "won." But despite all that, "Studio Wrestling" fans always found a way to scale Mount WIIC.

>Those dance shows were a staple of '50s and '60s
>television because they were inexpensive time fillers.
>The studio crew was on duty anyway, so you just needed
>a host, a stack of records and a bunch of kids to come
>in and dance. Next thing you knew, you'd filled a
>90-minute gap and put on a show that would draw an
>audience. On the occasions when artists were actually
>there, most of them lip synched their hit, so it
>wasn't a big production issue.
>
>I believe the Channel 2 show faded away in 1967. Clark
>Race did a pilot for Westinghouse, which was a
>half-hour show featuring pop music artists. The pilot
>didn't sell, and that was the end of Clark's presence
>on Channel 2.
>
>
>
>>>Thanks for that information. Does anybody know how
>>>long the show stayed on the air?
>>>
>>>
>>>>>Does anybody remember the timeline for this show? I
>>>>>think it started in '66 but I can't recall when
>>Terry
>>>>>Lee took over for Chuck Brinkman and I don't
>>remember
>>>>>how long it stayed on the air. Thanks for any help.
>>>>
>>>>Chuck started in the show in April 1966 and left end
>>>>of September 1967 and Terry Lee took over.
>>IIRC, Come Alive left the air in February of
>>1970.Pretty sure Terry Lee made mention of Come
>>Alive's last show a few weeks prior. What a shame
>>little or nothing was saved of this very cool
>>program.I was a fan from the very beginning and
>>enjoyed both Chuck Brinkman and Terry Lee as the
>>hosts,and much of the music.

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