TV Guide – Behind the Scenes of the 1964-1965 Season
May 8th, 1965 – “Hollywood on Wheels”
This picture feature wasn’t a look behind the scenes of a specific television show but rather an interesting peek at how bicycles are used by television actors.
On the huge Hollywood lots, some office workers, production-crew members and messengers save wear and tear on shoe leather by using bikes when they travel from far-flung parking lots to their offices, or from sets to commissaries for lunch, or to and from administrative offices. And some actors, too, have taken up bicycle riding–for exercise (Fess Parker), to relieve the tedium of waiting around to perform (Richard Chamberlain) or just to get a good lunch (Ray Walston and Bill Bixby pedal from Desilu to Paramount at noontime because they prefer the chow at Paramount).
And not a single one of them ever wore a helmet.
Richard Chamberlain and David McCallum on the MGM Lot – 1965
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Bill Bixby and Ray Walston Playing Bicycle Polo on Their Way to Paramount – 1965
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Robert Vaughn Exercising at MGM – 1965
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Fess Parker and Darby Hinton at 20th Century-Fox – 1965
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Notes
Pictures and text excerpted from TV Guide, Volume 13, Number 19
Originally published May 8th, 1965 by Triangle Publications, Inc.
Copyright 1965 Triangle Publications, Inc.
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