Producer Klaus Landsberg felt television should be done live any where and every where. Locations for each show were kept secret, even crew would not know where they were going until they left the studio gate on Bronson. Shows were tours of industry, police stations, the Ice Capades, movie studios.
"City at Night" visited Southern California's Knott's Berry Farm theme park on May 16, 1951 to tour Walter Knott's Ghost Town after hours. The program was hosted by Ken Grauer and ran for 1.25 hours on KTLA television. On July 25, the program returned to Knott's Berry Farm for more of Ghost Town and to film the Mark Smith Horse Show.
In 1952, escape artist Leo Irby was seen on City At Night TV show doing his escape from a straight jacket hanging by his feet a hundred feet in the air. He was performing in Long Beach for the Pacific Coast Association of Magicians' convention.