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In the summer of 1970, when I was 14, my grandma’s friend Lydia acquired tickets to attend a taping of The Merv Griffin Show at CBS Television City in Los Angeles, where The Carol Burnett Show was also taped. The three of us were part of the audience waiting to enter Merv’s studio, overlooking the parking area, when Carol and her husband Joe Hamilton exited the building and headed for their car. A woman from the waiting audience screamed and took off running after the car, waving her autograph book above her head. They noticed the woman running after them and when the car stopped, the entire audience waiting for the taping of Merv’s show broke into applause.