production assistant for the on-location recording of the program's ″Blind Mini Golf″ episode at Milford Amusement in Milford, Connecticut. The production crew of The Lone Shark then consisted of a staff of four, with each crew member performing more than one duty. Sharky produced, hosted and wrote material; Haffner was floor director and operated the in-studio cameras; Oppenheimer directed the program from the control room and managed the in-studio lighting; Segal operated the audio board and VTRs. Because of the communal environment at the Xavier Hall production facilities, producers and staff from other programs would often sit in on the tapings of each other's programs, at times becoming regular crew members of other productions. Also, because the production facilities were located in the Fairfield University Media Center, the Fairfield University Video Production Course was located directly across the hallway from the studio. The Video Production students were often brought into the studio to view the set-up and recording of The Lone Shark as a part of their education. Because of these two groups joining The Lone Shark's production staff, for a while in 1992 and 1993, the staff grew to over 20 people on a program that needed no more than four or five staff members. Many of the extra crew and students had nothing to do during the program's taping, so they were often used as a live in-studio audience. Due to scheduling conflicts for the booking of studio time and broadcast time, The Lone Shark was often recorded within an hour of its actual broadcast, with little or no time to edit the program. Many times, the just-recorded program tapes were literally run down the hall to the broadcast facility with only minutes or seconds until the program's on-air broadcast time. The Lone Shark was basically being broadcast as a taped-but-unedited live program. Live episodes (1992) In 1992, The Lone Shark broadcast two live episodes on dates when the program's studio time aligned with its broadcast time. The March 17, 1992 (St. Patrick's Day) episode featured in-studio body piercings, with a man getting his nipple pierced and a woman getting her navel pierced. The extremely close-up, full-screen camera shots of the piercings were so graphic that the station manager declared "There's no place on television for that kind of material" and attempted to suspend The Lone Shark from production, but was unsuccessful. Later in the year, the second