| Ken Shapiro
(pictured) and Lane Sarasohn opened the Channel
One Video Theater at 62 East 4th Street in New
York's East Village in l967. It ran Off-Broadway
for five years. See TV Guide article for FULL
STORY |
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| "Channel
One offers a televised shock comparable
to a bop on the head with a sock full of
gravel." |
| - William
Marsano, TV
Guide |
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| "Reduces
audiences to aching laughter. Lewd,
imaginative, preposterously
lyrical." |
| - Tom Prideaux,
Life
Magazine |
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| "One
of the funniest shows I have ever seen.
Ranges from merely delightful to outright
genius." |
| - John L.
Wasserman, San
Francisco Chronicle |
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| "Anyone
who has ever suffered that Chinese
torture known as American television owes
it to himself to see 'Groove Tube' at
Channel One." |
| - Clive Barnes,
New
York Times |
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| Channel One Group
Picture (circa. 1967, left to right): Richard
Allen (writer, actor), Karen Shapiro (actress), Ken
Shapiro (producer, director, writer, actor) and
Jenny Shapiro (baby), Myra Epstein (theater
design), Lane Sarasohn (producer, writer), Chevy
Chase (writer, actor), Ed Epstein (art director) |
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