Radio & TV: The Body-Eater

In New York City last week, television went underground. After filming sections of the Ford Theater's production of Subway Express in the I.R.T. subway between Chambers Street and Pennsylvania Station, Producer Winston O'Keefe moved nearly 100 actors, technicians and camera crewmen up to The Bronx for a telecast from an isolated subway car in the I.R.T. Jerome Avenue yard.

Since O'Keefe's basic staff of ten can be quickly and efficiently expanded, almost nothing on Ford Theater (alternate Fridays, 9 p.m. E.D.T., CBS-TV) is left to chance. Nobody gets lost in what O'Keefe calls...

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