Ditto, but only once. They were taping a string, five shows back to back in a day. We stayed for two, 30 minutes each with another 30 as a break in between, then left so some of the people who’d been cut off could come in. For the life of me I can’t remember which show it was but I remember the host joking about changing his shirt, tie, and jacket because, after all, “We’ll be here a week.”
Back in the day, I attended a taping of the GE College Bowl. I remember vividly watching the host, Allen Lufden, wriggling his fingers just out out of camera range as he wrapped up the show
Went to one way back when in college. Some game show, I don’t even remember. It was hot in the studio, boring as all fuck, you couldn’t really make too much noise, except when prompted. Hated it. Wouldn’t do it again unless it was Price is Right, where you might get a shot at winning something. But I wouldn’t drive more than 20 miles for that off chance, so I guess I’ll never go. Too bad, too. I would crush those games. They are very formulaic.
Not me but my husband and kids went to an Emeril Lagasse show that taped 3 blocks away from my job that I couldn’t go to because I had to work and then they came to visit me at my job when it was done AND I AM STILL BITTER!!!
I was on an episode of Mr. Zing and Tuffy in about 1968 in Tulsa OK. One of those local after school shows. I have only vague memories of it. For years I thought Tuffy was a bear, after the internet came around I found out Tuffy was a tiger. Eh, I was 4.
The show was sponsored by a cookie company and I remember getting a package of cookies that I had to share with my dad.
I was an actor in a film once (low budget, it wasn’t much but it was enough for me to have an IMDb entry). That was pretty fun. I’ve attended sporting events that were televised but I don’t know if that counts.
Lots. When I was a kid my mother would take us to tapings of game shows that filmed in New York. It was easy to get free tickets on the street. I saw Beat the Clock, To Tell the Truth with Bud Collyer and Whom Do You Trust with pre-Tonight Show Johnny Carson and Ed McMahon. Back then little kids like me were allowed in to the taping.
When my daughter was acting I was on the set of the show she was in. And I was on Jeopardy, so I saw the three before the one I was on.
The best part of the old shows was watching Johnny Carson make jokes about the ads which ran during the break - which we the audience could see.
On Jeopardy after each show they recorded Alex giving answers he had muffed during the original taping, and in one case they reset the scores when the staff decided an answer which had been judged wrong was correct. Invisible when I watched them later.
I’ve been to a WCW Monday Nitro in which there was a U.S. Title change, and a WWE RAW in which Stone Cold Steve Austin won the WWF Title for the sixth and last time.
Aside from that, I was on the news once (giving blood for the first time) and was once a background extra in a commercial. A company made an anti-bullying commercial starring two kids that weren’t in my class, and used our class as the extras. I was kinda pissed so I made noise on every take. Teacher knew it, too.
Interesting. I grew up watching Mr. Zing and Tuffy (and the sequel “Uncle Zeb”). If you had asked me, I would have guessed that Tuffy was a dog. If you were 4 in 68, there’s a good chance that I saw you as I was 5 and we had moved to Tulsa by then.
Now that I think about it. When I was 3-4, I was on OKC’s version, “The Forman Scotty Show.” All I remember about it was that when Scottie went around asking kid’s names, I answered out of turn.
My mom says I made a fool of myself. I don’t remember that part, but I’m glad it was the days before VCRs. 
I went to a taping of The Late Show with David Letterman circa 2005. I was in New York with my wife and baby, wandering past the Ed Sullivan Theatre on Broadway we saw there were tickets available for that night. My wife told me to go and she would stay with our daughter.
I was surprised at how small the theatre felt and how quickly the show was paced. After the warmup there was not a lot of down time during the taping. If I remember correctly Josh Brolin was the guest and Blues Traveller the musical act.
No, it was a show on a Canadian kids’ network, but I can’t remember the name. Rather than a single host, it had two or three for the different segments.
I attended a taping of the sixties music show Shindig! Guests included The Righteous Brothers, Donovan, and Sonny & Cher. They had technical difficulties so it lasted until after midnight. The show had a two-year waiting list but my dad knew the producer and got me tickets right away. I also got to visit the closed sets of sitcoms like That Girl, The Beverly Hillbillies, and Mr. Ed.
Technically, yes. 20+ years ago I did a couple of half-hour segments for a local PBS station on home-brewing. I kept and drank most of the demos.
I attended a filming of Bozo on WGN.
Late 60s.
I have fond memories of Frazier Thomas on TV.
About 5 years ago me, my girlfriend (now wife) and our combined 5 teenage daughters attended a taping of the Ellen DeGeneres show. It was a ton of fun - especially since they used the same audience to also tape a clip show, so we got to see a lot of funny clips from the previous year. I remember the audience coordinator had 2 hand signals, one for us to start clapping and cheering, and one for us to shut up. We managed to see ourselves a few times when the episode aired a week or 2 later. And each of us got a Fandango $150 gift card so we didn’t pay for movies for about a year.
I was repeatedly in the audience of Philadelphia kiddie shows — Gene London and Happy the Clown, for sure. Each child was generally called up to participate, or at least be closer to the action, once or twice. I recall being mortified, the last time my mother took my sister and I to Happy the Clown, because of feeling I was too old to be seen with Happy.
Later we went to Mike Douglas, then nationally syndicated from Philadelphia.
Oh, you’re never to old for the Marching Sticks, à la Happy the Clown!
I grew up in and around Philadelphia and IMHO, Philly had the very best Kiddie shows in the 50s and 60s.
Besides HtC and Gene London, we had Pixanne (every boy’s secret crush, including mine), Chief Halftown (the world’s longest running local TV children’s show), Wee Willy Webber, Captain Noah, Bertie the Bunyip (that odd puppet show with the Australian host), and Sally Starr. And, of course we had Dr. Shock and his precocious daughter Bubbles, for late night freight.
I wanted desperately to get on the Sally Starr show. They ran a promo where if you sent in 10 boxtops from some pudding company (My-T-Fine I think), you could win a chance to be on her show and bring along an adult who you admired. My older sister was dating a Philly cop at the time, so I figured I could bring him along with me (we were fishing buddies). I collected the 10 boxtops and sent them to Sally, but alas I did not win a ticket to the show. 
Philly was a great place to be a kid.
When I was a kid we were in line for the tour of the Nickelodeon Studios at Universal Studios, Florida, when someone came up to us and asked if we wanted to be in the audience for the taping of a show. So instead of doing the tour, we got to be in the audience for the taping of an episode of Nick Arcade. The parents were seated somewhere else; being a kid’s show they wanted an audience of all kids, or at least the part of the audience visible on camera. I remember they one rule – no Disney shirts. I assume that was because they didn’t want to advertise for their competitor.
I got to attend as a member of the U.S.A.F. when they were doing some sort of armed forces tribute back int spring of 1977. Another time, as a member of the local Dr. Who fan club in Portland OR I manned a phone for a PBS fun raiser held during a showing and got some air time.