The TV show “Bill Nye the Science Guy” was filmed and produced in Seattle from 1993-1999. This prop television has a false blue cardboard screen that could be replaced in post-production with an image or a video (using the same principal as a green screen). Bill Nye moved to Seattle in 1977 to work as an engineer at Boeing and later for Sundstrand Data Control. In the early 1980s he began to do stand-up comedy and eventually was hired as a writer and performer on the Seattle TV comedy show Almost Live! It was on Almost Live! that he built the Bill Nye the Science Guy character, doing wildly popular comedic science demonstrations alongside show host John Keister. Nye partnered with producers James McKenna and Erren Gottlieb to pitch the “Bill Nye the Science Guy” to various TV stations. It was picked up by Seattle’s PBS member station KCTS, and was available for syndication with funding from National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy. It became the first TV show to be shown concurrently on public and commercial stations.