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Title: It's Academic pics
Post by: geno57 on October 30, 2006, 03:47:13 PM

http://www.richsamuels.com/nbcmm/grennan/grennan.html (http://\"http://www.richsamuels.com/nbcmm/grennan/grennan.html\")

A couple of pics of host Ed Grennan on the set of Chicago's version of "It's Academic", in the 1960s.  (WMAQ-TV).

Title: It's Academic pics
Post by: uncamark on October 30, 2006, 05:41:42 PM

[quote name=\'geno57\' post=\'136140\' date=\'Oct 30 2006, 02:47 PM\']
http://www.richsamuels.com/nbcmm/grennan/grennan.html (http://\"http://www.richsamuels.com/nbcmm/grennan/grennan.html\")

A couple of pics of host Ed Grennan on the set of Chicago's version of "It's Academic", in the 1960s.  (WMAQ-TV).
[/quote]

Having been around when Grennan was working at WMAQ, I can vouch that he was a true professional and a class act always.

His son Sean is an actor-turned-playwright and now lives in New York, but to the WMAQ technicians who might come to see him act in the 80s, he was always "Ed Grennan's kid."

Title: It's Academic pics
Post by: tomobrien on October 30, 2006, 06:26:31 PM

[quote name=\'uncamark\' post=\'136149\' date=\'Oct 30 2006, 04:41 PM\']
Having been around when Grennan was working at WMAQ, I can vouch that he was a true professional and a class act always.
[/quote]
Agreed.  I remember him coming in to the make-up room to talk to us contestants before the show.  Really nice guy.
And the "It's Academic" set looked much cooler in real life than on TV...