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 almost the entire run of its series here. For its final season it was forced to relocate to the Desilu-Culver lot. Filmways, already using virtually every other available stage, needed more space and Green Acres took over use of Stage 5.
- 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"
- Balderdash
- Beat the Geeks
- "The Beverly Hillbillies"
- Candid Camera
- Cory In the House (2007-present)
- Cram
- The Dating Game
- Distraction
- Don't Forget Your Toothbrush
- Everybody Loves Raymond (1996-97)
- Face the Music
- Finders Keepers (syndicated version)
- Fun House
- "Green Acres"
- Hollywood Showdown
- Hollywood Squares (1986-89 version)
- Jeopardy! (syndicated version)
- Kids Incorporated (September 1984-1993)
- Let's Make a Deal
- Love Connection
- MADtv (Present)
- Monopoly
- The Newlywed Game
- Pee-wee's Playhouse (1987-89)
- "Petticoat Junction"
- Supermarket Sweep
- Shop 'Til You Drop
- Soul Train
- That's So Raven (2003-2007)
- The Suite Life of Zack and Cody (2005-present)
- All-New 3's a Crowd (Alan Thicke version)
- Tic Tac Dough (Patrick Wayne version)
- Win Ben Stein's Money
- Whose Line is it Anyway (US Version)
- Wizards of Waverly Place (2007-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.
