Black Tie Affair

I worked on the show too, all 13 episodes that were shot. Unfortunately, there was a major blunder during the first 2 days of shooting and a feud between Jay Tarsus and NBC. This resulted in the show airing after the options on all of the primary characters contract's has expired, which meant there was no possible way to continue the series.

There shooting blunder was that the first two days of shooting were over exposed by about 2-3 f-stops. What this translates to is that the image is washed out and extremely bright. Since reshooting the first 2 days was not an option, the first 4 episodes (4 weeks of shooting) all had to be shot at the same exposure setting. I'm sure that this is the reason why NBC wanted to not even air the show, but I think that Jay took it personally.

Anywho, I remember the boom operator (another one of these comments) and I remember helping her out on a few episodes. BTW, I stood in for John Calvin, who seems to have disappeared after 1995. The worst day of shooting was at the hotel where I had this squab sitting in front of me for 2 days. On the second day, I think that they sprayed it with Lysol to help cover the rotting smell.