[2] Club Seven's opening depicted a nightclub's exterior that included a flashing marquee and an advertising board that featured Thompson.
[5] Murray Forman, in the book One Night on TV Is Worth Weeks at the Paramount: Popular Music on Early Television, described the show's opening as "a kind of portal through which viewers might, if only in a vicarious relationship to the 'nightclub' performances before them.
"[3] Forman noted that television was suited to the atmosphere of a nightclub, since both made members of the audience feel closer to performers than did films and large theaters.
[3] In a review of the March 3, 1949, episode in the trade publication Billboard, Paul Ackerman wrote that Club Seven "stacks up well" as a talent show.
He had mixed comments about cameras showing people at tables, saying that it was not a novel approach, but adding that the episode "didn't go overboard on this technique".