Hollywood Center Studios

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Hollywood Center Studios is a company based in Los Angeles, California which provides stage facilities to television and movie production companies. Its sound stages, located at 1040 N. Las Palmas Avenue in Hollywood, California, are steeped in Hollywood history. Many game shows were filmed there in the 1980s and 1990s, and most from the 1970s through today.

[edit] History

The studios were originally constructed in 1919.
In the 1920s Howard Hughes used the stages to shoot the silent Hell's Angels.
Monogram Studios took up residence before moving to where KCET is currently located.
General Service Studios became the tenant in the 1930s.
The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet filmed the entire run of it's series here.
I Love Lucy was shot in Studio 2 prior to Desilu Productions' move to the former RKO Pictures lot (and the show was moved to the Ren-Mar Studios lot).
Francis Ford Coppola purchased the lot for American Zoetrope in 1980, but following the bankrupting failure of One from the Heart in 1982, was forced to sell the lot in 1983.

[edit] Famous TV shows once recorded at Hollywood Center Studios

"The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet"
Jeopardy! (syndicated version)
Finders Keepers (syndicated version)
Fun House
The Newlywed Game
The Dating Game
Let's Make a Deal
Face the Music
Hollywood Squares (1986-89 version)
Pee-wee's Playhouse (1987-91)
Love Connection
Supermarket Sweep
Shop 'Til You Drop
Soul Train
Win Ben Stein's Money
Whose Line is it Anyway (US Version)
Candid Camera
All-New 3's a Crowd (Alan Thicke version)
Hollywood Showdown
Don't Forget Your Toothbrush
Beat the Geeks
Cram
Beat the Clock (Gary Kroeger version, 2002)
The Suite Life of Zack and Cody
Cory In the House
That's So Raven
Balderdash
Chain Reaction (GSN version)
Distraction
MADtv (Present)

Most recently, Deal or No Deal taped there in its initial run. Two of GSN's new and current original shows, I've Got a Secret (2006) and Starface, also tape there, including 1 vs. 100.

The lot does not give public tours, but the public is admitted to the lot as part of studio audiences for television tapings.