"It was on for six seasons with respectable ratings but all during that time, I never heard one person mention it, either on TV or in my presence," reads the website that serves as a gallery of tickets to TV show tapings, narrated with interesting and quirky tid-bits about Hollywood production.

Learn how evening tickets to the Match Game were in demand, because the guest stars would get drunk during the dinner break. And that as late as 1975, NBC was still touting the fact the Tonight Show was in color. And get a load of "Archie Bunker's neighbors in their own series." Sherman Hemsley, one of my all-time favorite wiseass heroes ever, would need no such introduction in later tapings of the Manhattan-based classic comedy series The Jeffersons.

Do we even have to get into how many great comedies were situated in New York? The Jeffersons, All in the Family, Taxi, Seinfeld, Friends, The Cosby Show, Welcome Back Kotter, Barney Miller, Honeymooners, I Love Lucy. Every other city gets one. Boston has its pathetic drunks. Phoenix has that flea circus Mel calls a diner. Indianapolis has an ugly single mom with one hot daughter another who's a crackhead. Cincinnati has a radio station that can't outpull Christian rock. Santa Monica's best attraction is that sausage-fest, the Regal Beagle. Milwaukee gives us a 5-7 Jew and tries to make us believe he's a leather-wearing biker who gets all the broads despite palling around with nerds.

They may have taken the porn out of Times Square and the cigarettes out of the bars, but they will never take away our Louie DePalma, Mr. Bentley or Cockroach.

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