Doris Day CBS Special - 1970

[@melissa61272]

I love Doris Day.She is a wonderful person.I love her movies.She brings sunshine to everything.

[@astralagosto]

Hi Vintage Television, This is great historic footage of Doris. I love the behind-the-scenes filming of her special. I always love behind-the-scenes filming of anything. I love Doris!!!!!

[@gli7utubeo]

That was really fascinating! No kidding. A perfectly clear window into 1970. Thanks!!

[@RachelBinghamRinehimer]

Wow....thanks so much for posting this!!LOVE it! :) Doris is my favorite person ever!!

[@catholicpriest1]

Beatiful color quality. The Norelco PC-70cameras did a great job.

[@faqirsilki]

great footage, VT behind-the-scenes r a very pleasant stuff Thnx

[@catholicpriest1]

It appears that they taped this over a period of two days without a live audience. Audience response was added later.

[@SerSagrad]

thanks for this!!!!!

[@elfdog100]

Great piece of archived video, any more like this one?

[@92947angel]

this is so cool.

[@MrDisneyCollector]

wow, where did you find this, love the outtakes. I adore Doris and Perry. what voices. that was singing, thanks so much for posting.

[@wmbrown6]

@catholicpriest1 - From what I could tell, what CBS had in their TV City studios was among the first group of PC-70's produced (in early 1966), with the same "round applied handles" (per Chuck Pharis' verbiage) on the top as was on PC-60's, as opposed to the "square molded handles" that were on later PC-70's. But I concur, the pictures the PC-70 produced were "da bomb."

[@fromthesidelines]

Doris didn't want to appear before a live audience, as she developed an aversion to them. This is why the "audience" that was heard during the final version of the special was "technically augmented".

[@PocketMarmo04]

+Barry I. Grauman I had heard that she had NO desire to return to television OR to movies. There are several references to it in her Wikipedia entry. I wonder if she had stage fright [common enough] or if she just had unbridled contempt for the public by this time?.......

[@meenyminymoe]

Stage fright!

[@diosadiwa670]

doris day and perry como:)the best:)

[@diosadiwa670]

perry como and doris day so sweet :))))

[@Celluloidwatcher]

Interesting behind-the-scenes view of the taping of Doris Day's CBS special, which would air a year later in 1971. And without a live audience. Viewers were fooled back then. Of course, some taped shows had canned laughter and applause unless they played a disclaimer that the show was taped/filmed before a live audience.

[@meredrums1]

Total Pro. Just love this.

[@VintageTelevision]

@catholicpriest1 I suppose the sound of the clapboard helped to locate the start of each take. Although two-inch quadruplex videotape machines do not display a picture at anything other than normal play speed, audio can be heard while shuttling a tape.

[@VintageTelevision]

@jcice3 When listening to the audio, I can't tell whether it is stereo or just "rich sounding" from the reverb. It would be unusual and require special effort for a stereo audio recording to be made on a quad VTR in 1971. At that time, I think the videotape's cue track would have to be used to record a second audio channel.

[@Tickerage]

So great. Marty signed her to CBS w/o her knowing...but my goodness, they re-created her back porch for the special. Not bad. I like that they indulged DD. She deserved it. And of course the end product was beautiful, as was everything she did.

[@catholicpriest1]

I like how the guy runs out of the shot at 4:58.

[@akrenwinkle]

Perry's tossing his costume into the phony pond, certainly a surprise to Doris, provides a clue as to his feelings about Doris and this show. It turned out later that Perry never got paid for his work here. He later put it out, through the press, that he and Doris had an agreement; each would appear on the other's special, no fees on either side. But Doris would not appear on Perry's upcoming show, so he had to pay Mitzi Gaynor. Perry called Doris "an ice cream cone," whatever that meant.

[@VintageTelevision]

@elfdog100 Thanks, but nothing additional at the moment.

[@catholicpriest1]

The Norelco PC 70 seemed to produce better, more vibrant, colors than its competitor the RCA TK 44.

[@catholicpriest1]

I wonder if they really needed a clapper board on a video taped television show.

[@danbent1054]

looks good in that shirt wow