concordgirl wrote:I think, what with the pedestrian island btwn tracks at Park, the potential for carnage if they installed a bar would be exponential
RedLantern wrote:Was the show actually shot in part of the station? I'd imagine there might be some room in the tunnel from Park Street to Downtown Crossing. Did the show ever show people entering the bar, and give any indication of where in the station it might be?
Most likely the show would've been shot on a sound stage somewhere with scenes showing parts of the station.
A320 wrote:(Or if the lawyers at NBC have told the station ownership to forget that the program ever existed.)
Ron Newman wrote:A320 wrote:(Or if the lawyers at NBC have told the station ownership to forget that the program ever existed.)
I don't know why they would, since WCVB-5 has always been an ABC station.
Ron Newman wrote:A320 wrote:(Or if the lawyers at NBC have told the station ownership to forget that the program ever existed.)
I don't know why they would, since WCVB-5 has always been an ABC station.
On the occasion of Bull & Finch pub owner Thomas Kershaw's opening another Cheers bar in Faneuil Hall, reader Mitchell Myers questions the Globe's account of why the Hollywood producers decided to set their famous sitcom at Kershaw's pub. We reported that series cocreator Glen Charles stopped in Boston en route to a Maine vacation, and fell in love with the Bull & Finch. "That may or may not be true," Myers writes, "but it still avoids discussing the true origins of `Cheers' in WCVB's `Park Street Under.' "
Ah, yes. The story that will not die. Myers is right that 'CVB (Channel 5) producer Hubert Jessup had launched a successful sitcom set in a Boston bar a couple of years before "Cheers" came on the air. Jessup's show, "Park Street Under," has remarkable similarities to the eventual NBC product: a talented comedian-bartender (Steve Sweeney), "the long-suffering yet quick-witted waitress" - a quote from Monica Collins's 1979 Herald review - and so on. It is also true that 'CVB had sold Jessup's earlier sitcom, "The Baxters," to Norman Lear for national production. And yes, 'CVB was shopping "Park Street Under" to Hollywood production companies just before James Burrows and Glen and Les Charles came up with the "Cheers" concept.
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