Welk, who paid the minimum union scale to his cast. "We worked at group scale, which was $110 a week, for 10 years," Kathy Lennon recalled. "After that he agreed to pay us solo scale, $210 a week.May 19, 1992

And he was cheap with the lighting too.... looked like an American soap opera or a Brit series.

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