Hollywood Center Studios

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.

History

• The studios were originally constructed in 1919.
• In 1928, Howard Hughes used the stages to shoot the silent version of Hell's Angels (it was later entirely reshot and released as a sound film in 1930).^[1]
• 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.
• The first two seasons of I Love Lucy (1951-1953)^[2] were shot in Studio 2 prior to Desilu moving production of the show to Desilu-Cahuenga Studios, now known as Ren-Mar Studios.^[3]
• 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.
• Interiors for the 1982 film Frances starring Jessica Lange were filmed on the lot.

Famous television shows filmed or taped at Hollywood Center Studios

• The $1,000,000 Chance of a Lifetime
• The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet
• The Adventures of Timmy the Tooth
• America's Funniest Home Videos
• Balderdash
• Beat the Geeks
• The Big Spin (early episodes with Chuck Woolery as host, 1985-early 1986)
• The Beverly Hillbillies
• BrainSurge
• Candid Camera
• Catch 21
• The Challengers
• Cory in the House (2007-2008)
• Cram
• The Dating Game
• Distraction
• Don't Forget Your Toothbrush
• Everybody Loves Raymond (1996-1997)
• Face the Music
• Finders Keepers (syndicated version)
• Fun House
• The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show
• Green Acres
• Hollywood Showdown
• Hollywood Squares (1986-1989 version)
• I Love Lucy (first two seasons only, 1951-1953)^[2]
• I Married Joan
• The Jack Benny Program (1953-1955 filmed episodes)
• Jeopardy! (syndicated version, 1985-1994)
• JONAS
• Kids Incorporated (September 1984-February 1993)
• Let's Make a Deal
• Love Connection
• Mall Masters (Although the full title was Mall Masters at Mall of America which is based in Minnesota, the show was taped in Los Angeles.)
• MADtv (1995-2007)
• Monopoly
• The Newlywed Game
• Pee-wee's Playhouse (1987-1989)
• Petticoat Junction
• Powerball: The Game Show
• Shop 'til You Drop (1991-1993, 1996-1998, 2000-2002, 2003-2005)
• Shopping Spree
• Soul Train (1985-1993)
• Supermarket Sweep (1990-1995; 2000-2001)
• That's So Raven (2003-2007)
• The Suite Life of Zack and Cody (2005-2008)
• The Suite Life on Deck (2008-present)
• All-New 3's a Crowd (Alan Thicke version)
• Tic-Tac-Dough (Patrick Wayne version)
• Wait 'til You Have Kids
• 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.

In early 2000 late R&B singer Aaliyah's Grammy-nominated # 1 single, "Try Again", was filmed at the studio.

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

Hannah Montana used the studio to tape its pilot episode, but moved to Tribune Studios for all other episodes.

MADtv used the studio Tribune Studios for its 14th season.

References

External links

• Hollywood Center Studios website

Coordinates: 34°05′23″N 118°20′05″W / 34.0897766°N 118.3347219°W / 34.0897766; -118.3347219

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