You Don't Say! footage in "That Thing You Do!"
David Johnson
You Do!" on HBO and noticed something interesting during one scene in
the appliance store: Several TV sets on display are showing footage of
an old You Don't Say! episode (this is supposed to be 1964), and while I
recall that footage from seeing it on the big screen, I didn't notice
until the HBO showing that the footage is in full color and is shown
that way on a vintage color set in the store along with the B/W images
on other sets. The logo sign above the contestants has an orange
background, which I recall from one colorcast I saw in 1965 before we
got a color set, but in later years, as some of us know, the sign's
background color was changed to blue. I oneder (oops) wonder if this
show is one of the few that survived NBC's mass-erasuer, because if that
description doesn't match any of the color eps now in collector's
circles, it may give pause to think what color game show tapes Ralph
Andrews or whoever owns his tape library today may have locked up
somewhere.
--David Johnson
Paul Duca
David Johnson wrote:
> This week I watched about 35 minutes of the Tom Hanks movie "That Thing
> You Do!" on HBO and noticed something interesting during one scene in
> the appliance store: Several TV sets on display are showing footage of
> an old You Don't Say! episode (this is supposed to be 1964), and while I
> recall that footage from seeing it on the big screen, I didn't notice
> until the HBO showing that the footage is in full color and is shown
> that way on a vintage color set in the store along with the B/W images
> on other sets.
My offline friend John(a big fan of YDS and Tom Kennedy)confirms
that this is a correct episode for the time...the set and color scheme
changed in 1967.
> The logo sign above the contestants has an orange
> background, which I recall from one colorcast I saw in 1965 before we
> got a color set, but in later years, as some of us know, the sign's
> background color was changed to blue. I oneder (oops) wonder if this
> show is one of the few that survived NBC's mass-erasuer, because if that
> description doesn't match any of the color eps now in collector's
> circles, it may give pause to think what color game show tapes Ralph
> Andrews or whoever owns his tape library today may have locked up
> somewhere.
>
I don't know how many Andrews has, but John wrote him for
permission to get a copy of the episode that is in the Museum of Television
and Radio in New York(from its 1964 prime-time run, in color and also not
in the trading circuit)and Ralph mentioned Tom Hanks requesting the use of
the episode, in the letter giving his permission for John's copy(sadly, the
Museum charges $750 to dub a single half-hour).
Paul Duca
Steve
I taped "That Thing You Do!" several months ago, so I better play it back
and find the "You Don't Say!" scenes.
Dave Mackey
>
>I taped "That Thing You Do!" several months ago, so I better play it back
>and find the "You Don't Say!" scenes.
I think they may be relatively early in the movie, but stay tuned later on
as the Wonders appear on "Hollywood Television Showcase" taped in a
verrrrrry familiar television studio with actual technicians from that
studio at the controls and behind the cameras! :)
--
Dave Mackey
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