The TV Zone

If you’ve ever attended a New York or Hollywood TV taping -- or wish you had -- there’s cool nostalgia to be found at the Old TV Tickets website.

Did you know that David Letterman appeared on a 1978 game/talk show called “The Love Experts”? (With “Laugh-In” loudmouth JoAnne Worley?) Or that ’70s sportscaster Howard Cosell hosted a completely different ABC prime-time variety showcase called “Saturday Night Live”?

The site shows you a scan of the stub, then fleshes out info on the show it represents, from sitcom faves like “I Love Lucy” and “All in the Family” to talkfests like “The Dick Cavett Show” to song-and-dance hours like “Tony Orlando & Dawn.” (That last ticket advises Television City guests, “Audience will be seen on camera. Please dress accordingly.”) Also detailed are such cult-fave obscurities as Jackie Mason’s 1989 sitcom “Chicken Soup.”

For New Yorkers who attended early-days-of-TV programs like “Mister Peepers” or “Beat the Clock” when the industry was city-based in the 1950s, it’s also a time trip back through local theater history -- revisiting shows staged at the Ziegfeld, Colonial, Hudson and Ritz Theatres, in addition to CBS’ west side studios and NBC’s Radio City tower, plus NBC’s Brooklyn facility (1960s rockfest “Hullabaloo”).

The site also reveals that tube assistants don’t necessarily know how to spell celebs’ names -- not with “Jimmie” Durante and “Cindy” Lauper among the stars hyped in ticket printings.