Ed Flesh

Ed Flesh's Scenic Design career began in New York with NBC Rockafeller Center TV Studios. In 1968, Ed was hired by Milt Altman at the West Coast NBC-Burbank Studios to Art Direct the daily day-time series "The Days Of Our Lives", alias "DOOL". During his tenure on the show, Ed accepted, or was assigned additional Tele-Sales projects the art department accepted. In 1974, Ed departed "DOOL" accepting design-art direction duties on preliminary game show pilots. Among those pilots was the "Wheel of Fortune" game show pilot with Merv Griffin (Executive Producer) and Nancy Jones (Producer). The three staff Art Directors at NBC-Burbank, during 1969-1976, were John Shrum, Ed Flesh, and Hub Braden. Not on staff, but with the NBC Art Department, were Mary (Dodson) Weaver, Richard "Dick" Stiles, Spencer Davies, Jay Krause, Bob Keene, Jan Scott, Herman Zimmerman, Richard James, Molly Joseph, Frank Swig, Bill Morris, Edward Stephenson, Romaine Johnston, Ken Johnson, Mary Ann Biddle, and Rene Lagler, Charles Lisanby, and Roy Christopher (running the Brunning print machine). Ed Flesh, after quitting his staff position in 1977, retained his design office in the NBC Art department, primarily accepting game show pilot projects. On some of these sold game show pilots, he performed as the show's art director. Ed became known as the "Game Show Wizard" having more successful "sold" game show pilots as a production designer than any other West Coast designer.