Andy Ackerman on directing Seinfeld
26:36
Andy Ackerman on editing and directing Cheers
11:06
Andy Ackerman on directing Seinfeld
30:01
Andy Ackerman on how he got a job editing for WKRP in Cincinnati and winning an Emmy for the show
04:58
Andy Ackerman on his first job as an assistant editor at Welcome Back, Kotter
01:06
Andy Ackerman on working on Wings
07:30
Andy Ackerman on being approached to do Frasier with Peter Casey, David Angell, and David Lee
08:54
Andy Ackerman on directing Everybody Loves Raymond
03:07
Andy Ackerman on the show Almost Perfect
00:50
Andy Ackerman on the great experience he had on the show Andy Richter Controls the Universe starring Andy Richter
02:55
Andy Ackerman on the great experience he had on the show LateLine
01:04
Andy Ackerman on directing The New Adventures of Old Christine starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus
03:33
Andy Ackerman on reuniting with Larry David on Curb Your Enthusiasm
03:15
Alan Alda on seeing early Vaudeville acts and the comedy of George Burns and Gracie Allen; on how it relates to later television comedy
02:27
Alan Alda on his love for comedians Bob Hope, Jack Benny, and Steve Allen
04:08
Alan Alda on the importance of laughter with his fellow actors on M*A*S*H and in life
03:45
Alan Alda on learning from other performers and actors by standing in the wings
02:35
Alan Alda on playing "Hawkeye Pierce" on M*A*S*H
18:57
Alan Alda on playing "Hawkeye Pierce" on M*A*S*H
28:34
Debbie Allen on working on Good Times, her first television role
02:51
Debbie Allen on producing and directing A Different World
03:37
Debbie Allen on the genius of how Family Ties was produced
00:56
Debbie Allen on the changes she made to the show A Different World
15:52
John Amos on playing "Gordy the Weatherman" on The Mary Tyler Moore Show
06:50
John Amos on playing "James Evans" on Good Times (Part 1)
06:44
John Amos on appearing as "James Evans" on Good Times (Part 2)
03:03
John Amos on starring on 704 Hauser and Norman Lear's legacy
06:00
Howard Anderson Jr. on creating the opening titles for The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show and various other shows
06:21
Howard Anderson Jr. on doing titles for I Love Lucy
02:45
Howard Anderson Jr. on working with Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball on I Love Lucy (Part 2)
13:23
Howard Anderson Jr. on creating the opening for The Lucy Show
01:44
Howard Anderson Jr. on creating the opening titles for The Addams Family
02:51
Howard Anderson Jr. on creating the opening titles for The Andy Griffith Show
01:48
Howard Anderson Jr. on creating the opening titles for The Beverly Hillbillies
00:49
Howard Anderson Jr. on creating the opening titles for The Dick Van Dyke Show
00:40
Howard Anderson Jr. on creating the opening titles for Get Smart
01:29
Howard Anderson Jr. on creating the opening titles for My Favorite Martian
02:19
Howard Anderson Jr. on creating the opening titles for My Three Sons
01:14
Howard Anderson Jr. on creating the opening titles for My World and Welcome to It
01:46
Howard Anderson Jr. on creating the opening titles for That Girl
00:51
Howard Anderson Jr. on creating the opening titles for The Brady Bunch
05:52
Howard Anderson Jr. on creating the opening titles for Happy Days
00:59
Howard Anderson Jr. on creating the opening titles for Love, American Style
01:51
Howard Anderson Jr. on creating the opening titles for The Love Boat
00:58
Howard Anderson Jr. on creating the opening titles for Cheers
00:54
Beatrice Arthur on starring on Maude
30:46
Beatrice Arthur on playing "Dorothy" on The Golden Girls
19:37
Beatrice Arthur on Empty Nest
01:10
Beatrice Arthur on how television changed through her career
02:10
Beatrice Arthur on playing "Maude Findlay" on All in the Family and Maude
15:57
Thomas Azzari on designing the set for Newhart
03:32
Thomas Azzari on doing set design for Night Court
05:17
Thomas Azzari on set designing for Seinfeld
36:24
Thomas Azzari on set designing for Spin City
01:55
Thomas Azzari on set designing for Sports Night
03:52
George Balzer on writing for the radio version of The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show and meeting his writing partner Sam Perrin
06:22
George Balzer on writing for The Jack Benny Program (Part 1)
04:26
George Balzer on writing for The Jack Benny Program (Part 2)
28:01
George Balzer on writing for The Jack Benny Program (Part 3)
28:19
George Balzer on working on Here's Lucy
01:43
George Balzer on writing for The Red Skelton Show
02:39
George Balzer on writing for The Don Knotts Show
00:42
Richard L. Bare on directing Petticoat Junction
04:29
Richard L. Bare on directing Green Acres
08:14
Richard L. Bare on "Arnold the pig's" trainer, Frank Inn, and his training techniques and abilities on Green Acres
16:47
George Barris on designing a car for The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis starring Dwayne Hickman
01:29
George Barris on designing the "Munster Coach" and the "Dragula" for The Munsters starring Fred Gwynne as "Herman Munster" and Al Lewis as "Grandpa Munster"
08:31
George Barris on making cars for The Beverly Hillbillies
04:27
George Barris on making the car for My Mother the Car
02:32
Bonnie Bartlett on performing on stage, and doing guest spots on shows like The Jackie Gleason Show
02:19
Bonnie Bartlett on guest-starring on Midnight Caller, Wiseguy, Home Improvement, and ER
04:52
Bonnie Bartlett and William Daniels on Boy Meets World
02:14
Bonnie Bartlett and William Daniels on Boy Meets World
02:14
Anne Beatts on her time as a writer on Saturday Night Live
24:22
Anne Beatts on the popularity of Saturday Night Live and issues with Standards & Practices on the show
15:39
Anne Beatts on creating and pitching Square Pegs
20:36
Anne Beatts on producing A Different World for a year
06:29
Anne Beatts on writing an episode of Murphy Brown
00:48
Anne Beatts on the pilots The Julie Brown Show and The Belles of Bleeker Street
02:32
Anne Beatts on her experience as executive producer/writer of The Stephanie Miller Show
02:21
Earl Bellamy on directing Bachelor Father
05:41
Earl Bellamy on directing Leave it to Beaver
01:23
Earl Bellamy on directing Leave it to Beaver
02:13
Earl Bellamy on directing The Andy Griffith Show
01:48
Earl Bellamy on directing McHale's Navy
03:05
Earl Bellamy on working with the cast of The Andy Griffith Show
07:46
Earl Bellamy on directing The Munsters
02:25
Earl Bellamy on directing Get Smart starring Don Adams
02:09
Earl Bellamy on directing My Three Sons
05:12
Earl Bellamy on directing M*A*S*H
03:09
Sam Bobrick on writing for The Andy Griffith Show
11:40
Sam Bobrick on working on The Bill Dana Show
00:47
Sam Bobrick on working with Garry Marshall on Hey Landlord
01:56
Sam Bobrick on writing the pilot Diana, with Diana Rigg for producer Leonard Stern
05:07
Sam Bobrick on writing various unsold pilots
04:44
Sam Bobrick on writing for The Tim Conway Comedy Hour, and on working with Tim Conway
05:04
Sam Bobrick on writing and producing The New Dick Van Dyke Show
04:10
Sam Bobrick on writing The Paul Lynde Show
02:47
Paul Bogart on directing a few episodes of Get Smart
03:53
Paul Bogart on directing All in the Family, including episode "Edith's 50th Birthday" (airdate: October 16, 1977), where Edith is almost raped by an intruder
23:41
Paul Bogart on directing All in the Family
08:49
Tom Bosley on guest-starring on Car 54, Where Are You? and Route 66 and on the pilot Marty
05:39
Tom Bosley on co-starring on The Debbie Reynolds Show
04:42
Tom Bosley on playing "Howard Cunningham" on Happy Days
12:37
Tom Bosley on playing "Howard Cunningham" on Happy Days
25:32
Tom Bosley on appearing on the pilot for Love Boat
01:47
Kevin Bright on Madame's Place
06:12
Kevin Bright on Dream On
07:17
Kevin Bright on the legacy of Dream On and why it came to an end
03:21
Kevin Bright on Friends
01:08:08
Kevin Bright on Friends (Part 2)
10:37
Kevin Bright on Veronica's Closet and Jesse
04:20
Kevin Bright on the Friends spin-off, Joey
02:43
Bernie Brillstein on the creation, development and syndication of Hee Haw
07:20
Manager Bernie Brillstein on Jim Henson's contributions to Sesame Street
03:23
Manager Bernie Brillstein on selling The Muppet Show
03:56
Executive producer Bernie Brillstein on being approached by Paul Fusco for ALF and the pitch to NBC
01:42
James L. Brooks on his Mary Tyler Moore Show being in the Saturday night CBS lineup with All in the Family
04:44
Show co-creator/writer James L. Brooks on The Mary Tyler Moore Show
27:56
James L. Brooks on specific episodes of The Mary Tyler Moore Show
14:07
James L. Brooks on Rhoda
09:13
James L. Brooks on the genesis, development and casting of Taxi
26:59
James L. Brooks on the making of some of the best-known episodes of Taxi
14:53
James L. Brooks on the characters of The Simpsons
13:58
James L. Brooks on The Simpsons
18:12
Harvey Bullock on writing for The Andy Griffith Show (Part 1)
09:50
Harvey Bullock on writing for The Andy Griffith Show (Part 2)
28:24
Harvey Bullock on writing for The Andy Griffith Show (Part 3)
16:26
Harvey Bullock on writing for Johnny Carson on Who Do You Trust?, and on writing McKeever & the Colonel
01:47
Harvey Bullock on writing for Hogan's Heroes
01:01
Harvey Bullock on writing for Love, American Style
02:00
Harvey Bullock on writing for Alice
04:10
Harvey Bullock on being a producer on The Love Boat
04:06
Allan Burns on writing for the sitcom The Smothers Brothers Show and having their work severely edited
06:37
Allan Burns on co-creating The Munsters with Chris Hayward and having their idea stolen
09:09
Allan Burns on working with Leonard Stern on He & She
15:04
Allan Burns on co-creating My Mother The Car
03:03
Allan Burns on meeting Grant Tinker, the seed idea for The Mary Tyler Moore Show and selling the initial concept to CBS executives
12:46
Allan Burns on writing for Room 222, working with James L. Brooks, and producing several episodes of the show
10:07
Allan Burns on the pilot script and assembling the cast of The Mary Tyler Moore Show
28:14
Allan Burns on the early days, staff, and memorable episodes of The Mary Tyler Moore Show
27:44
Allan Burns on notable episodes of The Mary Tyler Moore Show ("The Good-Time News", "Chuckles Bites the Dust") and the finale; on the legacy of the show
12:09
James Burrows on getting his job on The Mary Tyler Moore Show
04:18
James Burrows on his first time directing The Mary Tyler Moore Show
07:04
James Burrows on directing Laverne & Shirley
03:01
James Burrows on directing The Bob Newhart Show
04:44
James Burrows on the challenges of being the series director of Taxi
20:52
James Burrows on the origin, casting, and typical work week of Cheers
29:32
James Burrows on memorable episodes of Cheers; on Shelley Long leaving and Kirstie Alley joining the cast
21:30
James Burrows on the Cheers spin-off, Frasier
06:36
James Burrows on Will & Grace
10:36
James Burrows on directing Friends and knowing it would be a hit; on the cast
10:53
James Burrows on working with Lea Thompson on Caroline in the City
02:35
James Burrows on the cast of Will & Grace ; on how Will & Grace has been perceived in the gay community; on the then-future of the show
06:10
Reuben Cannon on casting for Ironside, Emergency!, The Rockford Files, Baretta and Sanford and Son
08:44
Reuben Cannon on casting and co-producing Amen
06:54
Reuben Cannon on casting The Bernie Mac Show
01:56
Reuben Cannon on executive producing House of Payne
06:32
Charles Cappleman on stage managing for the series Meet Millie and My Favorite Husband
03:11
Charles Cappleman on stage managing That's My Boy! and The Jo Stafford Show
02:44
Charles Cappleman on The Carol Burnett Show
03:56
Charles Cappleman on All in the Family
08:09
Glenn Gordon Caronon creating Moonlighting and casting the leads
09:21
Glenn Gordon Caron on the premise, pilot, and music of Moonlighting
28:32
Glenn Gordon Caron on recurring gags, the writers' room and production problems on Moonlighting
29:40
Glenn Gordon Caron on memorable episodes of Moonlighting, leaving day-to-day operations, and the legacy of Moonlighting
15:13
Marcy Carsey and Tom Werner on developing and casting their first big hit, The Cosby Show
21:27
Marcy Carsey and Tom Werner on developing and casting Roseanne
10:28
Marcy Carsey and Tom Werner on the end of The Cosby Show and the Cosby spin-off A Different World
05:08
Marcy Carsey and Tom Werner on producing and casting 3rd Rock From the Sun
06:46
Dan Castellaneta on playing "Homer Simpson" and other characters on The Simpsons
59:08
Dan Castellaneta on playing "Homer Simpson" on The Simpsons
36:35
Dan Castellaneta on appearing on Sibs
03:05
Dan Castellaneta on guest-starring on various series including Murphy Brown, Frasier, How I Met Your Mother, and Everybody Loves Raymond
03:11
Tucker Cawley on working for Diane English as a writer's assistant on Murphy Brown
02:16
Tucker Cawley on writing for Everybody Loves Raymond (Part 1)
11:17
Tucker Cawley on writing for Everybody Loves Raymond (Part 2)
28:35
Tucker Cawley on writing for Everybody Loves Raymond (Part 3)
28:43
Tucker Cawley on writing for Everybody Loves Raymond (Part 4)
23:57
Glen and Les Charles on writing for the MTM show Phyllis and working with MTM's Stan Daniels and Ed. Weinberger
06:28
Glen and Les Charles on producing and writing for the last season of The Bob Newhart Show
08:41
Glen and Les Charles on producing and head-writing for Taxi
11:28
Glen and Les Charles on the writing process and writers on Taxi; on casting the show and working with the actors
16:53
Glen and Les Charles on Andy Kaufman joining the cast of Taxi; on specific episodes of Taxi
11:13
Glen and Les Charles on the creation of Cheers, setting the show in Boston, and creating the main characters
09:20
Glen and Les Charles on James Burrows' contributions to Cheers; on being their own bosses on Cheers and their initial plan for the series
08:32
Glen and Les Charles on the physical comedy between "Sam" and "Diane"; on the writers' room on Cheers; on a typical workweek on Cheers
04:42
Glen and Les Charles on casting Kelsey Grammer as "Dr. Frasier Crane"; on Shelley Long's decision to leave Cheers and how her departure affected the show; on Kirstie Alley becoming the female lead
05:30
Glen and Les Charles on the Cheers theme song and title design; on the show's initially poor ratings and critical success
06:30
Glen and Les Charles on which characters on Cheers changed the most throughout the run of the show; on favorite episodes and filming in front of a live studio audience
04:58
Glen and Les Charles on their favorite guest stars on Cheers; on the three-part finale and the surrounding press; on the legacy of Cheers
11:50
Glen and Les Charles on writing for the MTM show Phyllis and working with MTM's Stan Daniels and Ed. Weinberger
06:28
Glen and Les Charles on producing and writing for the last season of The Bob Newhart Show
08:41
Glen and Les Charles on producing and head-writing for Taxi
11:28
Glen and Les Charles on the writing process and writers on Taxi; on casting the show and working with the actors
16:53
Glen and Les Charles on Andy Kaufman joining the cast of Taxi; on specific episodes of Taxi
11:13
Glen and Les Charles on the creation of Cheers, setting the show in Boston, and creating the main characters
09:20
Glen and Les Charles on James Burrows' contributions to Cheers; on being their own bosses on Cheers and their initial plan for the series
08:32
Glen and Les Charles on the physical comedy between "Sam" and "Diane"; on the writers' room on Cheers; on a typical workweek on Cheers
04:42
Glen and Les Charles on casting Kelsey Grammer as "Dr. Frasier Crane"; on Shelley Long's decision to leave Cheers and how her departure affected the show; on Kirstie Alley becoming the female lead
05:30
Glen and Les Charles on the Cheers theme song and title design; on the show's initially poor ratings and critical success
06:30
Glen and Les Charles on which characters on Cheers changed the most throughout the run of the show; on favorite episodes and filming in front of a live studio audience
04:58
Glen and Les Charles on their favorite guest stars on Cheers; on the three-part finale and the surrounding press; on the legacy of Cheers
11:50
Margaret Cho on Good Times being her favorite show
01:00
Margaret Cho on how All-American Girl came about -- successful comedians got their own sitcoms in the '90s and she had a unique viewpoint as a young Asian American woman
02:49
Margaret Cho on the groundbreaking and controversial aspects of All-American Girl -- the first representation of a Korean American family on U.S. primetime television
06:10
Margaret Cho on network notes she got on All-American Girl -- that she was too fat
04:51
Margaret Cho on not having creative input on All-American Girl even though it was supposed to be based on her stand-up
01:10
Margaret Cho on how she learned that All-American Girl was cancelled and how that motivated her to go do comedy "for real" with stand-up
01:08
Margaret Cho on her guest roles on 30 Rock and on being nominated for an Emmy
01:44
Margaret Cho on Eddie Huang approaching her to discuss Fresh Off the Boat since she had previously navigated a show starring an Asian American family on U.S. primetime television; on what had changed in the culture between the time of All-American Girl and Fresh Off the Boat
02:00
Margaret Cho on the legacy of All-American Girl
00:45
Margaret Cho on playing Ken Jeong's sister on Dr. Ken and on knowing Ken Jeong for decades
00:39
Roy Christopher on working with James Komack on shows like Welcome Back, Kotter
02:32
Roy Christopher on doing production design for Growing Pains
03:33
Roy Christopher on doing production design for My Sister Sam
02:42
Roy Christopher on doing production design for Murphy Brown
07:35
Roy Christopher on doing production design for Wings
02:58
Roy Christopher on how he came to do production design for Frasier
02:34
Roy Christopher on doing production design for Frasier
17:12
Roy Christopher on doing production design for NewsRadio and Just Shoot Me!
02:19
Roy Christopher on doing production design for Becker, starring Ted Danson
02:33
Roy Christopher on doing production design for sitcoms including Chico and the Man, Welcome Back, Kotter, Frasier, and Murphy Brown
15:49
Ron Clark on writing for Hot L Baltimore
01:47
Ron Clark on writing for Ace Crawford, Private Eye
02:47
Ron Clark on writing for Silver Spoons
02:33
Ron Clark on writing for Moonlighting
03:34
Alf Clausen on composing for ALF
10:51
Alf Clausen on composing music and recording for The Simpsons (Part 1)
28:11
Alf Clausen on composing and recording for The Simpsons (Part 2)
31:45
Alf Clausen on composing and recording music for The Simpsons (Part 3)
08:00
Bob Claver on associate producing Four Star Playhouse and directing Ensign O'Toole
01:31
Bob Claver on producing The Farmer's Daughter starring Inger Stevens
01:52
Bob Claver on producing The Second Hundred Years
00:37
Bob Claver on producing the pilot of Gidget
01:02
Bob Claver on the problems of producing The Girl with Something Extra
00:53
Bob Claver on producing Occasional Wife
00:59
Bob Claver on producing Here Come the Brides
02:26
Bob Claver on producing and directing The Partridge Family
14:54
Bob Claver on writing and directing The Partridge Family (Part 2)
06:31
Bob Claver on directing All's Fair
01:14
Bob Claver on directing one season of Welcome Back, Kotter
04:38
Bob Claver on directing one season of Mork & Mindy
03:44
Bob Claver on directing Gloria
02:55
Bob Claver on directing Gloria ( Part 2)
01:25
Bob Claver on directing Small Wonder
03:27
Bob Claver on directing The New Leave it to Beaver
01:12
Bob Claver on directing The New Love, American Style
00:52
Bob Claver on directing The Munsters Today and Automan
00:59
Bob Claver on directing Charles in Charge
00:29
Beatrice Arthur on working with Larry David on Curb Your Enthusiasm
04:23
Beatrice Arthur on working with Rue McClanahan on Maude
00:37
Beatrice Arthur on Norman Lear creating a part for her, --"Maude" on All in the Family and getting a spin-off, Maude
01:41
Beatrice Arthur on the actors, casting, and writing on The Golden Girls
07:43
Beatrice Arthur on tackling social issues like abortion and death through the guise of laughter in Norman Lear's shows -- particularly on Maude; on mail she received after the abortion storyline on the show
03:25
Rocky and Irma Kalish on producing the show Good Heavens with Carl Reiner and Too Close for Comfort
04:50
Rocky and Irma Kalish on writing for Good Times and the classic All in the Family episode "Edith's Christmas Story" where Edith deals with a breast cancer scare
04:16
Rocky and Irma Kalish on hiring Janet Jackson to play "Penny" on Good Times
00:58
Rocky and Irma Kalish on the value of comedy and on working with Madeline Kahn on Oh Madeline
05:06
Rocky and Irma Kalish on producing the show Good Heavens with Carl Reiner and Too Close for Comfort
04:50
Rocky and Irma Kalish on writing for Good Times and the classic All in the Family episode "Edith's Christmas Story" where Edith deals with a breast cancer scare
04:16
Rocky and Irma Kalish on hiring Janet Jackson to play "Penny" on Good Times
00:58
Rocky and Irma Kalish on the value of comedy and on working with Madeline Kahn on Oh Madeline
05:06
Rose Marie on being convinced to stay on The Dick Van Dyke Show after the death of her husband
02:54
Rose Marie on being cast by Carl Reiner and Sheldon Leonard to play "Sally Rogers" on The Dick Van Dyke Show
01:54
Rose Marie on playing "Myrna Gibbons" on The Doris Day Show
00:23
Rose Marie on The Dick Van Dyke Show, and on working for producer Sheldon Leonard
03:14
Bill Dana on the character of "Jose Jimenez," which he played on The Bill Dana Show and others, and on the controversy surrounding the character
10:44
Bill Dana on working with Norman Lear on writing the All in the Family episode "Sammy's Visit," featuring Sammy Davis, Jr.
09:18
Bill Dana on Don Adams' "Would you believe?" routine used on both Get Smart and The Bill Dana Show
02:42
Bill Dana on his guest shot on The Golden Girls, where he got his biggest laugh
03:21
Bill Dana on playing "Jose Jimenez" on The Bill Dana Show
28:32
Bill Dana on writing the All in the Family episode "Sammy's Visit" for producer Norman Lear
07:43
Jack Riley on playing "Elliott Carlin" on The Bob Newhart Show
03:42
Jack Riley on playing "Elliott Carlin" on The Bob Newhart Show
02:46
Jack Riley on appearing on Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
05:45
Jack Riley on what made his character of "Elliott Carlin" funny on The Bob Newhart Show
01:50
Hal Cooper on being hired by Sheldon Leonard to direct two episodes of The Dick Van Dyke Show
04:38
Hal Cooper on casting Gilligan's Island and directing two episodes
06:54
Hal Cooper on directing I Dream of Jeannie
22:53
Hal Cooper on directing That Girl
09:15
Hal Cooper on directing Mayberry R.F.D.
04:01
Hal Cooper on directing The Courtship of Eddie's Father
09:13
Hal Cooper on directing Maude
12:06
Hal Cooper on directing Maude
29:09
Hal Cooper on directing Maude (continued)
10:07
Fred de Cordova on producing and directing The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show
06:40
Fred de Cordova on directing December Bride
01:24
Fred de Cordova on directing The Bob Cummings Show
05:45
Fred de Cordova on how he came to produce The Jack Benny Program
00:59
Fred de Cordova on working on The George Gobel Show
04:19
Fred de Cordova on producing The Jack Benny Program
05:03
Fred de Cordova on producing and directing several series for Screen Gems including The Donna Reed Show, The Farmer's Daughter, and Bewitched
06:28
Fred de Cordova on directing Mr. Adams and Eve and The Doris Day Show
03:48
Fred de Cordova on directing My Three Sons
07:37
David Crane on the premise of his then-just debuting show Episodes
01:02
David Crane and Marta Kauffman on creating Dream On
18:03
David Crane and Marta Kauffman on working on The Powers That Be with Norman Lear
13:36
David Crane and Marta Kauffman on creating Friends
11:23
David Crane and Marta Kauffman on creating and running Friends
57:48
David Crane and Marta Kauffman on creating Veronica's Closet
02:03
David Crane and Marta Kauffman on creating Dream On
18:03
David Crane and Marta Kauffman on working on The Powers That Be with Norman Lear
13:36
David Crane and Marta Kauffman on creating Friends
11:23
David Crane and Marta Kauffman on creating and running Friends
57:48
David Crane and Marta Kauffman on creating Veronica's Closet
02:03
Richard Crenna on playing "Walter Denton" on Our Miss Brooks
19:07
Richard Crenna on directing The Andy Griffith Show, specifically the classic episode "Opie the Birdman," which featured Ron Howard as "Opie Taylor"
06:54
Richard Crenna on directing Wendy and Me, produced by George Burns and starring Connie Stevens
04:11
Richard Crenna on directing No Time for Sergeants (misidentified here as "No Room for Sergeants"), and on working with producer Bill Orr
02:03
Richard Crenna on producing Make Room for Granddaddy, starring Danny Thomas
09:14
Richard Crenna on directing Turnabout
01:32
Richard Crenna on starring in the short-lived Norman Lear sitcom All's Fair with Bernadette Peters
05:45
Richard Crenna on It Takes Two
07:16
Judy Crown on being a hair stylist for The Dukes of Hazzard
06:22
Judy Crown on styling hair for Designing Women
09:35
Judy Crown on styling hair for Murphy Brown
23:11
Judy Crown on styling hair for Seinfeld
18:44
Judy Crown on doing hair for Seinfeld
06:07
Judy Crown on styling hair for The Riches
03:47
Judy Crown on styling hair for Hannah Montana
03:37
Greg Daniels on writing for The Simpsons
29:50
Greg Daniels on writing and being showrunner on King of the Hill
20:51
Greg Daniels on creating and writing The Office
49:51
Greg Daniels on creating Parks and Recreation
08:29
Greg Daniels on writing Parks and Recreation
01:56
Bob Carroll, Jr. & Madelyn Pugh Davis on the preparations to film I Love Lucy in Hollywood
04:02
Bob Carroll, Jr. & Madelyn Pugh Davis on thd timelessness of I Love Lucy
01:37
Bob Carroll, Jr. & Madelyn Pugh Davis on the preparations to film I Love Lucy in Hollywood
04:02
Bob Carroll, Jr. & Madelyn Pugh Davis on thd timelessness of I Love Lucy
01:37
Elias Davis and David Pollock on writing for The New Dick Van Dyke Show under producer Carl Reiner
05:23
Elias Davis and David Pollock on writing The Monkees episode "Monkees Race Again"
02:38
Elias Davis and David Pollock on writing for All in the Family
04:35
Elias Davis and David Pollock on writing for The Mary Tyler Moore Show
05:35
Elias Davis and David Pollock on creating the show One Big Family starring Danny Thomas
02:44
Elias Davis and David Pollock on writing for Frasier
04:57
Elias Davis and David Pollock on writing for M*A*S*H
36:23
Sam Denoff on writing for The Dick Van Dyke Show; on working with Carl Reiner and Sheldon Leonard
08:12
Sam Denoff on learning a lesson from Carl Reiner: "the best comedy comes from reality"
02:43
Sam Denoff on specific episodes of The Dick Van Dyke Show
13:54
Sam Denoff on That Girl with Marlo Thomas
26:44
Walter Dishell on consulting for M*A*S*H
08:19
Walter Dishell on the surgery, triage, medical techniques and medical research on M*A*S*H
14:10
Walter Dishell on working with the creative forces behind M*A*S*H
13:38
Walter Dishell on the cast of M*A*S*H
12:26
Elinor Donahue on getting cast as "Betty 'Princess' Anderson" on Father Knows Best; on her familiarity with the radio show
07:36
Elinor Donahue on production, storylines, and the end of Father Knows Best
28:11
Elinor Donahue on working on The Andy Griffith Show
11:40
Elinor Donahue on her regular role as "Miriam Welby" on The Odd Couple
05:01
Elinor Donahue on her role on Get a Life (and how she didn't know her son was a 30-year-old paperboy)
09:35
Charles S. Dubin on directing The New People, Room 222, Of Men and Women, Sanford and Son, and The 10th Level
03:25
Charles S. Dubin on directing M*A*S*H
25:43
Charles S. Dubin on directing M*A*S*H
11:20
Charles S. Dubin on directing Jennifer Slept Here, Amanda's, The Four Seasons, Murder, She Wrote, and Hotel
02:47
Garvin Eddy on working in the art department as an assistant on Maude and Sanford & Son
01:41
Garvin Eddy on going from assistant to collaborator to Edward Stephenson on Amanda's and Victory at Entebbe
02:19
Garvin Eddy on choosing the afghan and sofa on Roseanne
05:07
Garvin Eddy on designing the junkyard on Sanford and Son
09:35
Garvin Eddy on how the set of Maude reflected the character of "Maude Findlay"
02:45
Garvin Eddy on production designing for Good Times
02:20
Garvin Eddy on production designing for Soap and Benson
10:54
Garvin Eddy on production designing for The Cosby Show
23:55
Garvin Eddy on production designing for A Different World
02:00
Garvin Eddy on production designing for Roseanne
17:12
Garvin Eddy on production designing for Grace Under Fire
06:11
Barbara Eden on her first series role, on How to Marry a Millionaire
05:54
Barbara Eden on her guest appearance I Love Lucy
02:57
Barbara Eden on guesting on The Andy Griffith Show
01:15
Barbara Eden on starring on I Dream of Jeannie
21:20
Barbara Eden on starring as "Jeannie" on I Dream of Jeannie
26:34
Barbara Eden in her role in the feature film and subsequent series, Harper Valley PTA
07:08
Hector Elizondo on appearing on The Jackie Gleason Show
02:59
Hector Elizondo on appearing on All in the Family
05:13
Hector Elizondo on starring in the series Popi
04:51
Hector Elizondo on co-starring on A.k.a Pablo
04:54
Hector Elizondo on directing A.k.a. Pablo
02:58
Hector Elizondo on co-starring with Tim Allen on Last Man Standing
05:12
Ruth Engelhardt on packaging The Danny Thomas Show
03:43
Ruth Engelhardt on the role of the advertiser in the early days of packaging television shows, and on controversy over The Dick Van Dyke Show and The New Dick Van Dyke Show
05:39
Ruth Engelhardt on the continued popularity of The Dick Van Dyke Show, and on working with Carl Reiner
03:23
Ruth Engelhardt on packaging the first version of The Life of Riley, starring Jackie Gleason
03:44
Ruth Engelhardt on packaging I Married Joan, and on learning the business from Ann Rosenthal
02:21
Ruth Engelhardt on packaging The Andy Griffith Show and The Dick Van Dyke Show, and That Girl
06:09
Ruth Engelhardt on packaging Gomer Pyle - USMC, Mayberry R.F.D. and The Bill Dana Show
02:53
Ruth Engelhardt on packaging Murphy Brown, My Sister Sam, and other '80s series
04:23
Ruth Engelhardt on her involvement with The Cosby Show
05:47
Diane English on writing for Foley Square
06:35
Diane English on writing/producing for My Sister Sam
05:55
Diane English on creating Murphy Brown
05:09
Diane English on Murphy Brown
29:55
Diane English on Murphy Brown
29:20
Diane English on Murphy Brown
05:31
Rod Erickson on the process of pairing advertisers with shows and attempting to pair Whitman Chocolates with The Red Skelton Show
02:41
Rod Erickson on the sponsorship of I Love Lucy by Phillip Morris and later by Jello
03:37
Rod Erickson on working on The Goldbergs, The Aldrich Family, and I Married Joan
02:01
George Faber on interivewing Max Baer of The Beverly Hillbillies
00:52
George Faber on working with Donna Douglas of The Beverly Hillbillies
02:06
George Faber on selling I Love Lucy to overseas markets
01:14
George Faber on the cast of Hogan's Heroes and his task of selling the show to overseas markets
04:05
George Faber on doing publicity for Green Acres
00:55
Nanette Fabray on starring on The Nanette Fabray Show
04:54
Nanette Fabray on appearing on Love, American Style
00:50
Nanette Fabray on appearing as "Mary Richards'" mother on two episodes of The Mary Tyler Moore Show
05:13
Nanette Fabray on her guest appearance as stroke survivor on Maude in the episode "Maude's Reunion"
03:35
Nanette Fabray on her role as "Ann Romano's" mother on One Day at a Time, and on her guest appearances on Coach
07:38
Jamie Farr on the premise of M*A*S*H; on the scripts and characters and his character, "Maxwell Q. Klinger"
20:45
Jamie Farr on a typical production week on M*A*S*H; on the cast and crew
09:42
Jamie Farr on the final episode of M*A*S*H
02:37
Jamie Farr on negotiating a raise on M*A*S*H
04:04
Irving Fein on The Jack Benny Program on radio and television
22:33
Irving Fein on The Jack Benny Program
21:03
Irving Fein on The Jack Benny Program
25:25
Irving Fein on the end of The Jack Benny Program on television and The Jack Benny Specials
13:51
Barbara Feldon on the premise and subtext of Get Smart - a satire about the world of political espionage
05:39
Barbara Feldon on the social agenda behind Get Smart, stars, writers, and production of the show
30:25
Barbara Feldon on some of the props on the show Get Smart; on the final season of the show and reuniting with Don for TV movies and remakes of the series
12:50
Gerald Perry Finnerman on shooting Moonlighting
28:58
Gerald Perry Finnerman on shooting Moonlighting
28:07
Gerald Perry Finnerman on Orson Welles appearing in the Moonlighting episode "The Dream Sequence Always Rings Twice"
03:33
Gerald Perry Finnerman on shooting Room for Two with Linda Lavin
04:55
Gerald Perry Finnerman on shooting Double Rush
02:59
Gerald Perry Finnerman on shooting New York Daze
08:26
John Forsythe on playing "Bentley Gregg" on Bachelor Father
01:03
John Forsythe on starring on Bachelor Father
13:19
John Forsythe on starring on The John Forsythe Show
01:02
John Forsythe on The John Forsythe Show
00:54
John Forsythe on appearing on To Rome with Love
04:59
Richard Frank on overseeing production of Happy Days and Laverne and Shirley
13:08
Richard Frank on overseeing production of Taxi
08:30
Richard Frank on developing Family Ties
02:56
Richard Frank on developing Cheers
06:49
Richard Frank on developing The Golden Girls
07:59
Richard Frank on developing Ellen
06:00
Ron Friedman on writing for Bewitched and The Odd Couple
05:03
Ron Friedman on The Lucy Show special "Lucy in London"
01:52
Ron Friedman on writing for the series Funny Face
02:16
Ron Friedman on writing for All in the Family and working with Norman Lear
00:55
Ron Friedman on acting as a troubleshooter for shows, including A Year at the Top, and on writing for Barney Miller
02:23
Ron Friedman on writing for Chico and the Man
06:14
Pamela Fryman on directing Friends and Cybill
03:35
Pamela Fryman on directing Frasier
11:13
Pamela Fryman on directing Just Shoot Me
04:03
Pamela Fryman on directing Just Shoot Me and Two and a Half Men
04:30
Pamela Fryman on directing How I Met Your Mother
43:54
Pamela Fryman on the enduring popularity of the sitcom, and on mentors in her career
01:15
Pamela Fryman on directing How I Met Your Mother (Part 2)
14:41
Pamela Fryman on directing the One Day at a Time reboot
07:14
Betty Garrett on playing "Irene Lorenzo" on All in the Family
14:58
Betty Garrett on playing "Irene Lorenzo" on All in the Family
06:26
Betty Garrett on playing "Edna Babish" on Laverne & Shirley
14:38
Betty Garrett on guest-starring on The Love Boat
00:31
Betty Garrett on guest-starring on Murder, She Wrote, and on working with Angela Lansbury
02:40
Betty Garrett on guest-starring on The Golden Girls
01:04
Betty Garrett on guest-starring on The Good Life
03:10
Betty Garrett on guest-starring on Becker with Ted Danson
02:44
Brad Garrett on his character "Robert Barone" and production on Everybody Loves Raymond
22:18
Brad Garrett on specific episodes, castmates, and his character on Everybody Loves Raymond
27:30
Brad Garrett on his character "Eddie Stark" on 'Til Death; on a typical work week and his favorite episodes; on promoting the show on American Idol
10:24
Marla Gibbs on playing "Florence Johnston" on The Jeffersons
27:02
Marla Gibbs on her guest appearance on an episode of Barney Miller
00:48
Marla Gibbs on The Jeffersons
16:26
Marla Gibbs on how 227 came about
10:46
Marla Gibbs on starring in and executive producing 227
28:23
Marla Gibbs on appearing on Pryor's Place
01:05
Gary David Goldberg on writing for MTM's The Bob Newhart Show
05:05
Gary David Goldberg on becoming story editor and then producer on MTM's The Tony Randall Show
09:25
Gary David Goldberg on the genesis of Family Ties
15:49
Gary David Goldberg on the cast and the atmosphere of the writers' room on Family Ties
28:18
Gary David Goldberg on the cast, themes, and success of Family Ties
24:06
Gary David Goldberg on ending the series and the legacy of Family Ties
03:33
Gary David Goldberg on creating Brooklyn Bridge and trying to recreate his childhood
12:45
Gary David Goldberg on re-teaming with Michael J. Fox for Spin City
07:30
Gary David Goldberg on the cast and guest stars on Spin City
30:43
Gary David Goldberg on Charlie Sheen's role on Spin City; on moving production from New York to Los Angeles; on favorite episodes of Spin City
06:28
Everett Greenbaum on writing for Mr. Peepers
05:53
Everett Greenbaum on writing for Mr. Peepers
11:44
Everett Greenbaum on writing for The Andy Griffith Show
10:33
Everett Greenbaum on writing for M*A*S*H
09:19
Everett Greenbaum on writing for M*A*S*H
11:58
Marge Greene on writing for and performing on Kovacs on the Corner
18:30
Marge Greene on Ernie Kovacs getting fired and stopping production on Kovacs on the Corner
06:28
Marge Greene on Ernie Kovacs nailing her in a coffin on Kovacs on the Corner and Kovacs' apology
07:39
Marge Greene on working with Fred Bennett on the sitcom Marge and Fred, which later became Marge and Jeff
08:28
Marge Greene on ad-libbing and starring in Marge and Jeff for DuMont
11:37
Marge Greene on joining the staff of Candid Camera
03:39
Marge Greene on getting cast on Candid Camera; on production on the show and the difficulties of working with Allen Funt; on her favorite moments from the show
26:07
Earle Hagen on scoring and conducting for The Danny Thomas Show
19:55
Earle Hagen on scoring The Andy Griffith Show
23:47
Earle Hagen on composing the theme song for That Girl
03:17
Earle Hagen on using library music for Guestward Ho!
00:45
Patricia Heaton on Room for Two with Linda Lavin
03:58
Patricia Heaton on her role as "Debra Barone" on Everybody Loves Raymond
21:38
Patricia Heaton on working on Everybody Loves Raymond - on the cast, writers, directors, work week, specific episodes, and series finale
28:40
Patricia Heaton on winning Emmys for and the legacy of Everybody Loves Raymond as a classic comedy; on working with Ray Romano
07:19
Florence Henderson on how she got cast as "Carol Brady" on The Brady Bunch
03:24
Florence Henderson on production and the cast and creator of The Brady Bunch
28:40
Florence Henderson on working with the kids, memorable episodes, and the end of The Brady Bunch
22:10
Florence Henderson on her co-stars, the spin-offs and reunion specials of The Brady Bunch
24:30
Marilu Henner on playing "Elaine Nardo" on Taxi
35:25
Marilu Henner on playing "Elaine Nardo" on Taxi (Part 2)
38:05
Marilu Henner on playing "Elaine Nardo" on Taxi (Part 3)
05:03
Marilu Henner on co-starring on Evening Shade
16:14
Paul Henning on writing for the radio and television versions of The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show
19:43
Paul Henning on The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show moving to film to lessen the load on Gracie Allen
03:51
Paul Henning on producing and creating The Dennis Day Show
06:26
Paul Henning on creating and casting The Beverly Hillbillies
22:43
Paul Henning on the origins of Petticoat Junction
01:59
Producer Paul Henning on production of and promotions for The Beverly Hillbillies
26:50
Paul Henning on the premise of and casting on Petticoat Junction
12:00
Paul Henning on creating and casting Green Acres
05:48
Winifred Hervey on becoming an intern on Rhoda through a Television Academy internship; on writing a script for Rhoda that got her into the Warner Bros. Writing Workshop
07:22
Winifred Hervey on becoming an intern and then staff writer on Laverne & Shirley; on tensions on set and the camaraderie amongst the staff of Garry Marshall's TV shows
09:40
Winifred Hervey on writing for Mork & Mindy; on whether Robin Williams and Jonathan Winters stayed on script
04:12
Winifred Hervey on becoming story editor for The New Odd Couple; on problems with the show and the rotating producers
04:22
Winifred Hervey on writing for Benson; on learning about post-production and learning from the show's producers
08:36
Winifred Hervey on writing for The Cosby Show; on Bill Cosby's involvement with scripts; on being the only female writer on staff, and her favorite episodes of the show
16:59
Winifred Hervey on writing for The Golden Girls; on censorship on the show and writing for each of the characters
23:14
Winifred Hervey on becoming Executive Producer on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air; on disagreements with Will Smith; on what she brought to the show
14:57
Winifred Hervey on dealing with heavy issues on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and the hip-hop culture represented on the show
13:34
Winifred Hervey on creating The Steve Harvey Show; on working with Steve Harvey and Cedric the Entertainer; on 9/11; on her favorite episodes and storylines on The Steve Harvey Show
22:02
Leslie Hoffman on doing stunts for Love Boat
14:45
Leslie Hoffman on doing stunts for M*A*S*H
01:03
Leslie Hoffman on performing stunts for M*A*S*H and the atmosphere on set
02:40
Leslie Hoffman on doing stunts for Private Benjamin
00:28
Monica Horan on working on the TV show Coach
00:29
Monica Horan on Phil Rosenthal working on Baby Talk
00:30
Monica Horan on working on the TV show In Living Color
01:27
Monica Horan on working on the TV show In the House
01:11
Monica Horan on the beginnings of and working on the TV show Everybody Loves Raymond
10:37
Monica Horan on working with the cast of Everybody Loves Raymond
11:05
Monica Horan on key episodes featuring her character "Amy" on Everybody Loves Raymond
09:46
Ron Howard on how the tone of The Andy Griffith Show was set by Andy Griffith and his approach to comedy
02:59
Ron Howard on how The Andy Griffith Show episode "Opie the Birdman" took a dramatic risk for a sitcom of its era
01:56
Ron Howard on comparing the approach to comedy on The Andy Griffith Show to that of Happy Days
01:23
Ron Howard on memorable moments and episodes of Happy Days
21:01
Felicity Huffman on Sports Night
19:53
Felicity Huffman on her guest arc on Frasier
06:00
Felicity Huffman and William H. Macy on Macy's guest appearance on Sports Night
01:07
Felicity Huffman and William H. Macy on Macy's guest appearance on Sports Night
01:07
Eddie Foy III on casting Dennis the Menace and casting children
03:31
Eddie Foy III on casting Farmer's Daughter
02:10
Eddie Foy III on casting Gidget
05:31
Eddie Foy III on casting I Dream of Jeannie
04:50
Eddie Foy III on casting I Dream of Jeannie
07:51
Eddie Foy III on casting The Monkees
05:20
Eddie Foy III on casting The Flying Nun
03:52
Eddie Foy III on casting Wackiest Ship in the Army
04:01
Eddie Foy III on going to work for 4D Productions and casting That Girl
06:52
Eddie Foy III on casting That Girl
23:48
Eddie Foy III on casting Julia
05:25
Eddie Foy III on casting My World and Welcome to It
03:54
Eddie Foy III on casting Fish
00:59
Eddie Foy III on casting Soap
03:01
Eddie Foy III on casting The Love Boat
02:34
Eddie Foy III on casting Cheers
01:39
Frank Inn on acting as animal trainer for The Beverly Hillbillies
23:34
Frank Inn on "Little Ricky's" dog on I Love Lucy, and on working with Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball
07:49
Frank Inn on acting as animal trainer for The Andy Griffith Show
06:03
Frank Inn on acting as animal trainer on Green Acres
10:23
Frank Inn on acting as animal trainer for Petticoat Junction
05:18
David Isaacs on consulting on George & Leo, starring Judd Hirsch and Bob Newhart
03:02
Ken Levine and David Isaacs on writing for M*A*S*H
26:25
Ken Levine and David Isaacs on co-producing After MASH
03:06
Ken Levine and David Isaacs on writing for Cheers (Part 1)
16:03
Ken Levine and David Isaacs on writing for Cheers (Part 2)
13:25
Ken Levine and David Isaacs on writing for Frasier
17:35
Ken Levine and David Isaacs on assembling writers' rooms for Almost Perfect and Mary
05:09
Seaman Jacobs on writing for Bachelor Father
08:29
Seaman Jacobs on working with producers Danny Thomas and Sheldon Leonard on The Real McCoys
03:21
Seaman Jacobs on writing for Oh! Those Bells
01:36
Seaman Jacobs on writing the pilot for The Addams Family
08:34
Seaman Jacobs on writing for No Time for Sergeants, and on Nat Hiken
02:41
Seaman Jacobs on writing for Family Affair, and on the craft of writing for sitcoms
04:30
Seaman Jacobs on writing for F Troop
02:51
Seaman Jacobs on creating the characters for F Troop
09:13
Seaman Jacobs on writing for The Lucy Show and Here's Lucy
10:51
Seaman Jacobs on writing for The Jeffersons
03:54
Seaman Jacobs on writing for Maude
02:49
Alan Jaggs on moving into editing for television and editing The Andy Griffith Show
02:59
Alan Jaggs on editing The Andy Griffith Show
01:23
Alan Jaggs on editing The Dick Van Dyke Show
03:18
Alan Jaggs on editing Get Smart
01:50
Al Jean on writing for and becoming a showrunner on The Simpsons
01:56
Al Jean on writing and being showrunner on The Simpsons
58:59
Al Jean on writing and being showrunner on The Simpsons
13:10
Al Jean on creating and writing The Critic
10:40
Geri Jewell on being the first visible character with a disability on a television series on The Facts of Life
02:36
Geri Jewell on being cast on The Facts of Life and having to dance on the episode "Cousin Geri" (the first episode on which she appeared)
04:30
Geri Jewell on navigating her way personally and professionally while appearing on The Facts of Life
14:53
Geri Jewell on her relationship with her fellow castmates on The Facts of Life, particularly Lisa Welchel
01:28
Geri Jewell on the end of her run on The Facts of Life
06:32
Geri Jewell on the impact of her role on The Facts of Life and appearing on Norman Lear's special I Love Liberty
06:18
Asaad Kelada on apprenticing on the show Rhoda
06:08
Asaad Kelada on directing his first episode "Rhoda Goes to Paris" on the show Rhoda
04:43
Asaad Kelada on his experience working on the show Phyllis
05:55
Asaad Kelada on his experience working on The Tony Randall Show
02:18
Asaad Kelada on his memories working as a director while working on The Tony Randall Show
04:24
Asaad Kelada on directing WKRP in Cincinnati
04:43
Asaad Kelada on directing The Last Resort
07:00
Asaad Kelada on directing The Facts of Life
28:58
Asaad Kelada on directing the pilot for Family Ties
12:24
Asaad Kelada on his time directing Who's the Boss?
16:28
Asaad Kelada on directing The Hogan Family (aka Valerie)
02:37
Asaad Kelada on directing an episode of Day By Day featuring The Brady Bunch
01:55
Asaad Kelada on directing Sister, Sister
01:34
Asaad Kelada on directing Dharma & Greg
04:17
Asaad Kelada on directing two episodes of Everybody Loves Raymond
01:38
Asaad Kelada on directing Karen's Song
03:11
Asaad Kelada on directing George
03:17
Asaad Kelada on directing episodes of Two and a Half Men
04:00
Asaad Kelada on directing an episode of The Office
02:51
David E. Kelley on co-creating Doogie Howser, M.D.
05:48
David E. Kelley on having a strong point of view on issues on Boston Legal; on why the show ended
06:31
David E. Kelley on creating Ally McBeal; on the dialogue, visual fantasies, the dancing baby, and the music on the show; on being the only producer in history to win Emmys for drama and comedy series in one year (The Practice and Ally McBeal); on Ally McBeal's Time magazine cover
15:59
Michael Patrick King on the premise and final year of Murphy Brown
01:56
Michael Patrick King on becoming Executive Producer and writing for Sex and the City
22:14
Michael Patrick King on writing for Will & Grace
Michael Patrick King on Sex and the City
46:16
Arnie Kogen on writing for Candid Camera
03:52
Arnie Kogen on writing for Love, American Style
02:20
Arnie Kogen on writing for The New Dick Van Dyke Show, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, and Mary
04:20
Arnie Kogen on writing for The Bob Newhart Show and Newhart
12:36
Arnie Kogen on writing for Empty Nest
05:37
Arnie Kogen on writing for various shows in the '90s including The Sinbad Show and The Gary Owens All-Nonsense News Network
03:48
Arnie Kogen on writing for Ace Crawford, Private Eye starring Tim Conway, and for All-American Girl
02:21
Bernie Kopell meeting Danny Thomas and Sheldon Leonard, and being cast on The Jack Benny Program
04:45
Bernie Kopell on doing accents, and on using them on My Favorite Martian, The Flying Nun, and The Doris Day Show
08:06
Bernie Kopell on being fired from The Danny Kaye Show, what he learned from it, and on encountering Kaye later in his career
05:53
Bernie Kopell on playing "Siegfried" on Get Smart
40:52
Bernie Kopell on appearing in The Lancelot Link Secret Chimp Hour
01:50
Bernie Kopell on playing "Jerry Bauman" on That Girl
13:48
Bernie Kopell on appearing on Bewitched, directed by William Asher and starring Elizabeth Montgomery
08:35
Bernie Kopell on playing "Doc" on The Love Boat
57:14
Bernie Kopell on guest-starring on Arrested Development
01:17
Irma Kusely on being hairstylist for Our Miss Brooks
02:02
Irma Kusely on being hairstylist for The Danny Thomas Show and The Dick Van Dyke Show
01:57
Irma Kusely on being hairstylist for December Bride
01:05
Irma Kusely on working with Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz on I Love Lucy (Part 1)
20:26
Irma Kusely on doing hair for I Love Lucy (Part 2)
11:45
Irma Kusely on doing hair for The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour
04:16
Irma Kusely on doing hair for The Lucy Show
08:47
Irma Kusely on doing hair for Lucy Calls the President
00:55
Irma Kusely on doing hair for Lucille Ball's final show Life With Lucy
01:38
Mort Lachman on writing and producing the Bob Hope Specials
29:05
Mort Lachman on writing the pilot for One Day at a Time, and on moving over to All in the Family
13:37
Mort Lachman on writing for All in the Family and Archie Bunker's Place
12:19
Mort Lachman on working with Redd Foxx on Sanford
06:48
Mort Lachman on writing Gimme A Break! with Nell Carter
04:56
Mort Lachman on writing Kate & Allie with Jane Curtin and Susan Saint James
02:42
Mort Lachman on writing Bagdad Cafe with Whoopi Goldberg and Jean Stapleton
03:41
Mort Lachman on writing for The Hank McCune Show
01:09
Louise Lasser on starring as "Mary Hartman" on Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
21:42
Louise Lasser on appearing on The Bob Newhart Show and The Mary Tyler Moore Show
01:37
Louise Lasser on playing the title character on Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
47:35
Louise Lasser on the real-life incident that inspired the dollhouse episode of Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
07:20
Louise Lasser on appearing on Taxi and Girls
03:08
Norman Lear on his parents being similar to "Archie" and "Edith" on All in the Family
00:50
Norman Lear on creating, writing, and producing All in the Family
16:24
Norman Lear on creating, producing and writing All in the Family
29:00
Norman Lear on creating and producing All in the Family
12:06
Norman Lear on creating and producing Sanford & Son
06:22
Norman Lear on creating and producing Maude
04:49
Norman Lear on creating and producing The Jeffersons
04:36
Norman Lear on creating and producing Good Times
03:15
Norman Lear on creating and producing One Day at a Time
03:04
Norman Lear on creating and producing Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
08:48
David Lee on writing for The Jeffersons
29:49
David Lee on writing for Cheers
14:28
David Lee on writing and producing Cheers
42:35
David Lee on creating and writing Wings
16:42
David Lee on creating and producing Frasier
51:18
David Lee on creating the series Encore! Encore!
05:40
David Lee on production on Frasier
26:35
Sheldon Leonard on the secret of The Andy Griffith Show's success: Andy Griffith's willingness to subdue his comedy talents
00:40
Producer Sheldon Leonard on the genesis and production of The Andy Griffith Show
10:19
Sheldon Leonard on how The Dick Van Dyke Show came about
08:06
Sheldon Leonard on how The Dick Van Dyke Show got on the air
12:42
Sheldon Leonard on The Don Rickles Show
00:52
Sheldon Leonard on My World and Welcome to It and Big Eddie
03:25
Sheldon Leonard on his work producing and directing The Danny Thomas Show
10:28
Sheldon Leonard on his favorite moments from The Danny Thomas Show and The Dick Van Dyke Show
02:49
Ken Levine on directing Wings
03:47
Ken Levine on directing Frasier
01:55
Ken Levine on directing Becker, Everybody Loves Raymond, LateLine, and Instant Mom
01:48
Ken Levine on directing Dharma & Greg
02:35
Ken Levine and David Isaacs on writing for M*A*S*H
26:25
Ken Levine and David Isaacs on co-producing After MASH
03:06
Ken Levine and David Isaacs on writing for Cheers (Part 1)
16:03
Ken Levine and David Isaacs on writing for Cheers (Part 2)
13:25
Ken Levine and David Isaacs on writing for Frasier
17:35
Ken Levine and David Isaacs on assembling writers' rooms for Almost Perfect and Mary
05:09
Steve Levitan on the writers' room at Wings and almost not getting asked back for season two
03:58
Steve Levitan on developing the premise of, casting, and running Just Shoot Me !
22:40
Steve Levitan on co-creating and casting Modern Family
40:25
Steve Levitan on winning multiple Emmys for Modern Family and on then-upcoming storylines on the show
06:15
Judith Light on playing "Angela Bower" on Who's the Boss? (Part 1)
18:45
Judith Light on playing "Angela Bower" on Who's the Boss? (Part 2)
28:54
Judith Light on starring in the series The Stones
03:28
Judith Light on playing "Claire Meade" on Ugly Betty
09:35
Judith Light on playing "Shelly Pfefferman" on Transparent
14:57
Warren Littlefield on Cheers
17:22
Warren Littlefield on Family Ties
05:47
Warren Littlefield on The Cosby Show
05:47
Warren Littlefield on The Cosby Show
07:07
Warren Littlefield on the development and success of Frasier
05:43
Warren Littlefield on Seinfeld
09:52
Warren Littlefield on Friends
05:59
Barry Livingston on getting a semi-regular role on The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet and working with the Nelson family
07:24
Barry Livingston on getting cast as "Ernie Thompson Douglas" on My Three Sons
21:47
Barry Livingston on working with the cast, favorite episodes, and the end of My Three Sons
38:26
Chuck Lorre on writing for My Two Dads, originally called Who's Dad?
06:34
Chuck Lorre on writing for the then-number-one show in comedy, Roseanne
05:30
Chuck Lorre on creating Cybill starring Cybill Shepherd and Christine Baranski
05:39
Chuck Lorre on the back-story to creating Grace Under Fire, starring Brett Butler; on the premise
13:11
Chuck Lorre on co-creating Dharma & Greg with Dottie Zicklin
05:17
Chuck Lorre on creating and producing Two and a Half Men
16:18
Chuck Lorre on casting Two and a Half Men
22:56
Chuck Lorre on co-creating the Big Bang Theory; on casting the show
13:07
Chuck Lorre on creating Mike and Molly; on casting Melissa McCarthy
05:08
Julia Louis-Dreyfus on being cast on Seinfeld as "Elaine Benes"; on almost not being able to get out of her contract with Warner Bros. for the part
04:45
Julia Louis-Dreyfus on shooting her first four episodes of Seinfeld; on the tone of the show and clicking with the cast
02:51
Julia Louis-Dreyfus on Seinfeld
33:11
Julia Louis-Dreyfus on playing "Selina Meyer" on Veep
20:19
Julia Louis-Dreyfus on starring in The New Adventures of Old Christine
09:46
Julia Louis-Dreyfus on playing "Selina Meyer" on Veep
24:40
Gavin MacLeod on guest-starring on The Dick Van Dyke Show, and on working with Sheldon Leonard and Carl Reiner
03:12
Gavin MacLeod on playing "Joseph 'Happy' Haines" on McHale's Navy
08:13
Gavin MacLeod on guest-starring on My Favorite Martian
00:49
Gavin MacLeod on guest-starring on Hogan's Heroes, and on working with Bob Crane on the show
01:56
Gavin MacLeod on playing "Murray Slaughter" on The Mary Tyler Moore Show
09:11
Gavin MacLeod on co-starring as "Murray Slaughter" on The Mary Tyler Moore Show
28:18
Gavin MacLeod on playing "Captain Merrill Stubing" on The Love Boat
25:45
Gavin MacLeod on starring on The Love Boat
16:10
Will Mackenzie on working with Carol Kane and Andy Kaufman on Taxi
02:22
Will Mackenzie on directing Gimme A Break!, starring Nell Carter
04:16
Will Mackenzie on directing the pilot for Too Close for Comfort, starring Ted Knight
05:05
Will Mackenzie on directing Family Ties
31:05
Will Mackenzie on directing Caroline in the City
03:00
Will Mackenzie on directing Everybody Loves Raymond
13:39
Will Mackenzie on moving to New York City to work with Christine Baranski on the series Welcome to New York
01:40
Will Mackenzie on directing the Family Ties episode "Birthday Boy"
02:11
Will Mackenzie on directing Dharma & Greg
02:29
Will Mackenzie on directing Reba
13:39
Will Mackenzie on directing Scrubs, starring Zach Braff, and on winning an Emmy Award for his work on that show
06:48
Will Mackenzie on moving to Los Angeles and on appearing on Rhoda and The Bob Newhart Show, where he learned to direct for television
04:23
Will Mackenzie on directing The Bob Newhart Show
07:02
Will Mackenzie on directing WKRP in Cincinnati, Bosom Buddies, and Newhart
13:25
Will Mackenzie on directing an episode of Taxi
01:51
Anita Mann on appearing on The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, and on her acting career
06:32
Anita Mann on appearing on The Monkees, and on dancing with Davy Jones
03:09
Anita Mann on working as assistant choreographer on The Lucy Show and Here's Lucy with Lucille Ball
11:56
Penny Marshall on playing "Myrna Turner" on The Odd Couple
07:13
Penny Marshall on playing "Laverne DeFazio" on Laverne & Shirley
17:57
Cindy Williams and Penny Marshall on starring on Laverne & Shirley (Part 1)
57:18
Cindy Williams and Penny Marshall on starring on Laverne & Shirley (Part 2)
19:51
Garry Marshall on seeing TV comedy and thinking: "I could do that"
01:18
Garry Marshall on joke writers being trained to do story for sitcoms in the 1950s
01:57
Garry Marshall on the writing process for The Dick Van Dyke Show
02:25
Garry Marshall on the differences between the fictional writers on The Dick Van Dyke Show and the actual ones
01:27
Garry Marshall on realizing the increased importance of casting while producing The Odd Couple
02:25
Garry Marshall on Happy Days' dual appeal to children and adults
01:13
Garry Marshall on negotiating with ABC so Fonzie could wear a leather jacket on Happy Days
02:19
Garry Marshall on the family focus of Happy Days
00:39
Producer Garry Marshall on the success of Mork & Mindy
02:19
Leslie H. Martinson on directing The Mickey Rooney Show
06:55
Leslie H. Martinson on almost directing The Honeymooners
05:34
Leslie H. Martinson on directing Topper
04:33
Leslie H. Martinson on directing Batman
02:36
Leslie H. Martinson on directing Batman (Part 2)
07:54
Leslie H. Martinson on directing The Brady Bunch and Gilligan's Island
03:29
Leslie H. Martinson on directing Love, American Style
04:09
Leslie H. Martinson on directing Eight Is Enough
01:54
Leslie H. Martinson on directing Diff'rent Strokes and Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
06:36
Leslie H. Martinson on directing Harper Valley PTA
00:24
Leslie H. Martinson on directing Small Wonder
01:53
Jerry Mathers on his memories of the volume of fan mail he and Tony Down received on Leave it to Beaver and the dressing room set up on the set
02:16
Jerry Mathers on the casting process for Leave It To Beaver
04:32
Jerry Mathers on Leave It To Beaver
28:28
Jerry Mathers on themes, characters, and acting on Leave It To Beaver
29:12
Jerry Mathers on the setting and specific episodes of Leave it to Beaver
28:13
Jerry Mathers on specific episodes, the end, and revival of of Leave it to Beaver
09:50
Jerry Mathers on his thoughts about the 50th anniversary and recording interviews with the cast of Leave It To Beaver
04:54
Beth McCarthy-Miller on directing Saturday Night Live (Part One)
11:41
Beth McCarthy-Miller on directing Saturday Night Live (Part 2)
48:39
Beth McCarthy-Miller on directing 30 Rock
30:13
Beth McCarthy-Miller on directing Modern Family
09:42
Rue McClanahan on guest-starring, along with Vincent Gardenia, on the All in the Family episode "The Bunkers and the Swingers"
05:22
Rue McClanahan on playing "Vivian Harmon" on Maude
16:56
Rue McClanahan on co-starring on Maude
21:14
Rue McClanahan on co-starring on Mama's Family
06:27
Rue McClanahan on The Golden Girls
29:28
Rue McClanahan on The Golden Girls, including the end of the show
10:56
Burt Metcalfe on how he came to work for M*A*S*H
02:38
Burt Metcalfe on casting M*A*S*H
18:29
Burt Metcalfe on the pilot for M*A*S*H
04:12
Burt Metcalfe on the research that was done to prepare for M*A*S*H
10:06
Burt Metcalfe on the dramatic elements, relation to Vietnam, and laugh track on M*A*S*H
09:10
Burt Metcalfe on characters and cast defections on M*A*S*H
29:09
Producer Burt Metcalfe on the most effective line in M*A*S*H: "The Interview"
03:01
Burt Metcalfe on the death of "Col Henry Blake" on M*A*S*H
04:39
Burt Metcalfe on directing the M*A*S*H episode "A War For All Seasons"
03:35
Burt Metcalfe on directing and co-writing the M*A*S*H episode "The Party"
04:45
Burt Metcalfe on the M*A*S*H finale "Goodbye, Farewell, and Amen"
09:54
Burt Metcalfe on the reception of and watching the M*A*S*H finale "Goodbye, Farewell, and Amen"
03:49
Burt Metcalfe on executive producing After MASH; on the genesis and cancellation of After MASH
04:17
Nolan Miller on designing "Ginger's" (Tina Louise) gowns for Gilligan's Island
03:09
Nolan Miller on designing costumes for The Addams Family, particularly "Morticia" (Carolyn Jones)
06:41
Nolan Miller on designing costumes for Green Acres including Eva Gabor
01:47
Nolan Miller on working with Eva Gabor on Green Acres
03:49
Nolan Miller on costume designing for The Love Boat
14:53
Nolan Miller on costuming for The Love Boat
05:10
Nolan Miller on costume designing for Life with Lucy starring Lucille Ball
01:38
Vic Mizzy on writing the theme song for The Addams Family and directing the main title
02:24
Vic Mizzy on working with the cast, scoring and writing the theme song to The Addams Family
23:50
Vic Mizzy on scoring and writing the theme song to Green Acres
04:53
Vic Mizzy on composing for Green Acres
08:46
Vic Mizzy on composing for Pruitts of Southampton
04:11
Rita Moreno on appearing on On the Rocks
02:38
Rita Moreno on the pilot for The Rita Moreno Show
02:53
Rita Moreno on guest-starring on The Love Boat with Ted Knight
01:53
Rita Moreno on guest-starring on Miami Vice, and on starring in 9 to 5 and dealing with network notes
04:45
Rita Moreno on appearing in The Golden Girls episode which was a pilot for the spinoff Empty Nest
07:03
Rita Moreno on guest-starring on The Nanny and doing a tag scene which referenced "West Side Story"
01:29
Rita Moreno on guest-starring on Murphy Brown
01:11
Harry Morgan on co-starring on Pete and Gladys
08:42
Harry Morgan on joining M*A*S*H; on his character
14:19
Harry Morgan on his co-stars on M*A*S*H; on the characters and the comedy of the series
28:44
Actor Harry Morgan on co-stars and specific episodes of M*A*S*H
21:16
Pat Morita on appearing on M*A*S*H
02:00
Pat Morita on appearing on Love, American Style, where he worked with Garry Marshall and Jerry Paris
04:57
Pat Morita on being cast as "Arnold Takahashi" on Happy Days
29:31
Pat Morita on playing "Arnold" on Happy Days
09:00
Pat Morita on starring on Mr. T. & Tina,
04:33
Pat Morita on appearing on Welcome Back, Kotter
01:44
Pat Morita on appearing as "Ah Chew" on Sanford and Son
16:04
Pat Morita on appearing in Garry Marshall's show Blansky's Beauties with Nancy Walker
02:51
Howard Morris on being cast as "Ernest T. Bass" on The Andy Griffith Show
05:00
Howard Morris on guest-starring as "Mr. Holdecker" on The Dick Van Dyke Show for the episode "The Masterpiece"
00:48
Howard Morris on directing The Andy Griffith Show and Gomer Pyle - USMC
00:57
Howard Morris on guest-starring on The Lucy Show with Lucille Ball
01:30
Howard Morris on directing the pilot for Get Smart
02:55
Howard Morris on producing The Corner Bar with Alan King
01:13
Howard Morris on directing Laverne & Shirley, The Love Boat, and The Beatrice Arthur Special
00:38
Robert Mott on working on The Honeymooners with Jackie Gleason
03:36
Robert Mott on working on The Jack Benny Program
01:46
Robert Mott on working on The Ernie Kovacs Show
05:24
Robert Mott on working on Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
01:35
Michael Moye on writing for Good Times
25:48
Michael Moye on writing for and favorite episodes of The Jeffersons
16:31
Michael Moye on co-creating Married...With Children
06:17
Michael Moye on creating It's Your Move with Ron Leavitt and not liking shows that imitated The Cosby Show
11:53
Michael Moye on co-creating 227; on working with Marla Gibbs and Jackee Harry
09:58
Michael Moye on the premise of Silver Spoons; on selling the pilot and casting the show
09:50
Michael Moye on casting, the pilot, initial testing, network notes, and audience reaction to Married...With Children
29:22
Michael Moye on "the Rakolta incident" (so called because a woman named Terry Rakolta complained about content on Married...With Children) and FOX withholding fan mail; on subsequent problems with the network
14:01
Michael Moye on typical production on and casting Married...With Children
14:52
Michael Moye on casting, network problems, leaving Married...With Children, and the legacy of the show
47:20
Thad Mumford on writing for Good Times, Maude, and various other Norman Lear shows
06:36
Thad Mumford on writing for Maude
02:11
Thad Mumford on acting as supervising producer on ALF
03:17
Thad Mumford on writing for A Different World
04:58
Dan Wilcox and Thad Mumford on writing for That's My Mama
02:14
Dan Wilcox and Thad Mumford on writing for M*A*S*H
07:54
Dan Wilcox and Thad Mumford on writing for That's My Mama
02:14
Dan Wilcox and Thad Mumford on writing for M*A*S*H
07:54
Horace Newcomb on Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
01:30
Horace Newcomb on M*A*S*H
01:20
Horace Newcomb on writing about television for the "Baltimore Sun," and on the coming of age of television in the 1970s with shows like All in the Family and The Mary Tyler Moore Show
07:46
Horace Newcomb on Seinfeld
01:51
Bob Newhart on the genesis, casting and production of The Bob Newhart Show
27:16
Bob Newhart on specific episodes of The Bob Newhart Show
13:43
Bob Newhart on the genesis and cast of Newhart
13:59
Bob Newhart on the cast, memorable storylines and episodes, and the crew of Newhart
15:17
Bob Newhart on his fourth television series, George & Leo, with Judd Hirsch
10:54
Bob Newhart on the creation and cast of his short-lived series Bob
08:49
Ed O'Neill on getting cast in Married... with Children; on his character, "Al Bundy"
20:56
Ed O'Neill on a typical work week, the cast, and the legacy of Married...With Children
28:47
Ed O'Neill on getting cast on Modern Family, working with the cast, and the characters' relationships
39:16
Lori Openden on getting hired as a secretary on Barnery Miller and getting hired in casting
08:20
Lori Openden on casting the Barnery Miller spin-off, FIsh
01:17
Lori Openden on casting Cheers, starting in season three of the series
05:34
Lori Openden on the success of Saved by the Bell
00:41
Lori Openden on casting Seinfeld
04:00
Lori Openden on her involvement in casting The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
02:16
Lori Openden on her involvement in casting Mad About You
00:28
Lori Openden on her involvement in casting Frasier
03:20
Lori Openden on her involvement in casting Friends
05:55
Lori Openden on her involvement in casting the main cast and guest stars on Will & Grace
05:02
Lori Openden on being the casting director on the sitcom Bette
00:44
Lori Openden on being the casting director on 8 Simple Rules ... for Dating My Teenage Daughter
01:46
Lori Openden on her involvement in casting Everybody Hates Chris
00:42
Bernie Orenstein on his first writing job in the United States, on Candid Camera and being paired up with Joan Rivers, who was also on the writing staff
01:22
Bernie Orenstein on writing Hey Landlord! with Saul Turteltaub and the contributions of Garry Marshall
00:53
Bernie Orenstein on producing That Girl with Saul Turteltaub
17:22
Bernie Orenstein on producing The New Dick Van Dyke Show with Saul Turteltaub
04:40
Bernie Orenstein on writing for The Monkees
02:51
Bernie Orenstein on producing Sanford and Son with Saul Turteltaub
16:38
Bernie Orenstein on creating What's Happening!! with Saul Turteltaub
10:05
Bernie Orenstein on creating E/R
02:10
Bernie Orenstein on producing Foley Square with Saul Turteltaub, which was created by Diane English
01:22
Bernie Orenstein on producing Kate & Allie
05:02
Bernie Orenstein on consulting on Cosby
03:27
Bernie Orenstein on Cosby being the last American television show he worked on
01:11
Bernie Orenstein on other shows he and Saul Turteltaub created: Condo, This Week in Nemtin, A Touch of Grace, and The Super Comedy Bowl
03:11
Gail Parent on co-creating Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman (Part 1)
02:35
Gail Parent on co-creating Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
04:21
Gail Parent on writing for The Golden Girls
29:34
Gail Parent on writing for Tracey Takes On...
15:26
Dick Van Patten on how appearing on Mama prepared him for his role on Eight is Enough
01:13
Dick Van Patten on the differences between the shows The Goldbergs and Mama
01:58
Dick Van Patten on appearing as a villain on The Love Boat
00:26
Dick Van Patten on working on The Dick Van Dyke Show
01:00
Dick Van Patten on working on the show Arnie
01:36
Bill Persky on writing, with Sam Denoff, The Dick Van Dyke Show
12:14
Bill Persky on his favorite comedy joke, which he wrote for The Steve Allen Show, about Ben Casey, about Ben Casey
Bill Persky on writing and producing, with Sam Denoff, The Dick Van Dyke Show
29:13
Bill Persky on creating That Girl with Marlo Thomas
13:03
Bill Persky on how That Girl reflected its time, and on the show's feminist undertones
04:16
Bill Persky on writing and directing Kate & Allie
23:27
Bill Persky on writing and directing Kate & Allie
08:37
Bill Persky on his failed series Working it Out
05:52
Bill Persky on making the transition from writer to director with The Montefuscos
03:46
Bill Persky on splitting up with Sam Denoff as a result of the series Big Eddie
04:37
Bill Persky on writing Good Morning World starring Goldie Hawn with Sam Denoff
03:55
Bill Persky on directing Welcome Back, Kotter produced by James Komack and starring John Travolta
01:50
Pam Polifroni on working with Sherwood Schwartz on Gilligan's Island and It's About Time
02:44
Pam Polifroni on casting the third pilot for All in the Family, and on working with Norman Lear
10:51
Pam Polifroni on casting Eight is Enough
04:22
Pam Polifroni on casting The Love Boat and Hotel for Aaron Spelling and Douglas S. Cramer
02:48
Elias Davis and David Pollock on writing for The New Dick Van Dyke Show under producer Carl Reiner
05:23
Elias Davis and David Pollock on writing The Monkees episode "Monkees Race Again"
02:38
Elias Davis and David Pollock on writing for All in the Family
04:35
Elias Davis and David Pollock on writing for The Mary Tyler Moore Show
05:35
Elias Davis and David Pollock on creating the show One Big Family starring Danny Thomas
02:44
Elias Davis and David Pollock on writing for Frasier
04:57
Elias Davis and David Pollock on writing for M*A*S*H
36:23
Carroll Pratt on working on sound in the postproduction of I Love Lucy
02:40
Carroll Pratt on providing a laugh track for Hogan's Heroes
02:19
Carroll Pratt on working with Lucille Ball during his career, including The Lucy Show
02:19
Carroll Pratt on providing laugh track for Green Acres, Bewitched, Beverly Hillbillies, My Three Sons, and I Dream of Jeannie
04:26
Carroll Pratt on providing laugh track for Kraft Music Hall, The Steve Allen Show, The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, The Odd Couple, and The Partridge Family
05:50
Carroll Pratt on providing a laugh track for The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour, The Brady Bunch, Gilligan's Island, My Favorite Martian, Happy Days, and The Andy Griffith Show
05:14
Carroll Pratt on providing a laugh track for The Carol Burnett Show, The Jeffersons, Mama's Family, and The Bob Newhart Show, and on not getting screen credit for his work
03:35
Carroll Pratt on providing a laugh track for Barney Miller, The Love Boat, Mork & Mindy, Eight is Enough, Taxi, and Benson
05:29
Carroll Pratt on providing a laugh track for Soap, which proved a challenge as the show was a soap opera parody, and on providing laugh tracks for Kate & Allie, and Family Ties
02:08
Carroll Pratt on the most common plot lines for situation comedies
03:43
Charlotte Rae on guest-starring on The Phil Silvers Show
02:50
Charlotte Rae on appearing as "Sylvia Schnauser" on Car 54, Where Are You?, created by Nat Hiken and co-starring Al Lewis and Joe E. Ross
03:00
Charlotte Rae on guest-starring on All in the Family, and on working with Jean Stapleton on the show
02:44
Charlotte Rae on becoming a regular on Norman Lear's Hot L Baltimore, and declining a role on Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
06:21
Charlotte Rae on playing "Mrs. Garrett" on Diff'rent Strokes
11:33
Charlotte Rae on playing "Edna Garrett" on The Facts of Life
28:09
Tony Randall on being cast on Mr. Peepers and working with Fred Coe and Wally Cox
06:58
Tony Randall on playing Felix Unger on The Odd Couple
22:08
Tony Randall starring in The Odd Couple
07:45
Tony Randall starring in The Tony Randall Show
01:44
Tony Randall on starring on Love, Sidney
05:58
Tim Reid on working with Richard Pryor on The Richard Pryor Show
04:05
Tim Reid on how he was cast as "Venus Flytrap" on WKRP in Cincinnati, developing his character, memorable episodes, and the cancellation and legacy of the show
22:45
Tim Reid on developing and pitching Frank's Place with Hugh Wilson, memorable episodes, and the cancellation and legacy of the show
21:05
Tim Reid on how he became involved with Sister, Sister; on working with producer Suzanne de Passe; on the storylines on Sister, Sister and working with his castmates; on fighting with the writers, working with guest stars, and mentoring his younger castmates on Sister, Sister
18:09
Tim Reid on producing and shooting the Showtime show Linc's at his Petersburg, Virginia studio
00:33
Rob Reiner on his visiting the sets of his father Carl Reiner's series The Dick Van Dyke Show
04:46
Rob Reiner on the way marriage was portrayed on The Dick Van Dyke Show
00:56
Rob Reiner on his television acting debut on Hey Landlord! created by Garry Marshall
01:06
Rob Reiner on appearing on various series, including That Girl, Gomer Pyle, and The Mothers-In-Law from which he was fired after a fight with Desi Arnaz
01:55
Rob Reiner on playing "Mike Stivic" on All in the Family
27:17
Rob Reiner on playing "Mike Stivic" on All in the Family
30:32
Rob Reiner on starring on All in the Family
17:53
Rob Reiner on working with his father, Carl Reiner, on Good Heavens
00:46
Rob Reiner on creating and starring on the short-lived 1978 sitcom Free Country
02:54
Rob Reiner on directing Likely Stories
01:49
Rob Reiner on his production company Castle Rock's producing Seinfeld
05:56
Rob Reiner on the talents of Jerry Seinfeld and the success of Seinfeld produced by Castle Rock
02:40
Rob Reiner on guest-starring on The Larry Sanders Show
00:50
Gene Reynolds on directing My Three Sons (Part 1)
05:49
Gene Reynolds on directing My Three Sons (Part 2)
14:53
Gene Reynolds on directing Hogan's Heroes
08:20
Gene Reynolds on directing Ghost and Mrs. Muir
04:52
Gene Reynolds on directing Ghost and Mrs. Muir (Part 2) (Part 1)
06:05
Gene Reynolds on directing Room 222
16:30
Gene Reynolds on producing M*A*S*H (Part 1)
03:22
Gene Reynolds on producing M*A*S*H (Part 2)
28:07
Gene Reynolds on producing M*A*S*H (Part 3)
28:50
Gene Reynolds on producing M*A*S*H (Part 4)
17:03
Larry Rhine on writing for Private Secretary starring Ann Sothern
07:14
Larry Rhine on writing for The Gale Storm Show aka Oh Susanna
05:55
Larry Rhine on writing for The Gale Storm Show aka Oh Susanna
02:36
Larry Rhine on how he came to write for All in the Family
02:18
Larry Rhine on the Hollywood Blacklist having writing partners, and on writing for Here's Lucy
05:34
Larry Rhine on writing for The Red Skelton Show
09:44
Larry Rhine on writing for the Bob Hope Specials
06:11
Larry Rhine on writing for Here's Lucy
02:59
Larry Rhine on writing episodes of The Brady Bunch
05:18
Larry Rhine on writing The Odd Couple
01:28
Larry Rhine on writing All in the Family
12:41
Larry Rhine on writing for All in the Family
29:41
Larry Rhine on writing for All in the Family
22:17
Ted Rich on editing the pilot Living Doll, starring Bob Cummings and Julie Newmar
00:59
Ted Rich on editing The Bill Dana Show
01:05
Ted Rich on editing My Favorite Martian, starring Ray Walston
04:49
Ted Rich on editing He & She starring Richard Benjamin and Paula Prentiss
01:51
Ted Rich on editing Get Smart
03:39
Ted Rich on editing Kolchak: The Night Stalker and going to work for MTM Productions
04:53
Ted Rich on editing The Governor and J.J.
01:29
Ted Rich on editing The Bill Dana Show
02:16
Ted Rich on the final The Mary Tyler Moore Show episode
01:39
Ted Rich on editing I Love Lucy
03:01
Ted Rich on editing WKRP in Cincinnati
01:10
Director John Rich on the creation of the classic ottoman opening of The Dick Van Dyke Show
01:55
John Rich on the writing staff and memorable episodes of The Dick Van Dyke Show; on leaving The Dick Van Dyke Show to make feature films
13:08
John Rich on directing All in the Family
15:33
John Rich on All in the Family
28:45
John Rich on directing All in the Family
13:16
John Rich on directing the pilot of Newhart
05:35
Rita Riggs on how she came to do costumes for Norman Lear's All in the Family
06:04
Rita Riggs on costuming for Maude
09:05
Rita Riggs on designing costumes for Sanford & Son
09:27
Rita Riggs on costuming for One Day at a Time
01:00
Rita Riggs on costuming One Day at a Time
08:11
Rita Riggs on costuming the cast of The Jeffersons
12:15
Rita Riggs on costuming Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, starring Louise Lasser
05:28
Rita Riggs on costuming for Hot L Baltimore
01:17
Rita Riggs on costuming for All's Fair
01:13
Rita Riggs on costuming for The Nancy Walker Show
01:30
Rita Riggs on costuming He's the Mayor
01:22
Rita Riggs on costuming Bagdad Café and Broadway Bound
02:28
Rita Riggs on costuming All in the Family
22:44
Rita Riggs on costuming Maude
05:43
Doris Roberts on being offered a regular role on Maude and then being fired before she appeared on the show
02:44
Doris Roberts on appearing on All in the Family
00:53
Doris Roberts on playing "Dorelda Doremus" on Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
01:02
Doris Roberts on playing "Flo Flotsky" on Soap
01:23
Doris Roberts on appearing on Barney Miller
00:24
Doris Roberts on Angie
08:02
Doris Roberts on her appearance on Dream On
01:01
Doris Roberts on Everybody Loves Raymond (Part 1)
11:58
Doris Roberts on Everybody Loves Raymond (Part 2)
28:38
Doris Roberts on Everybody Loves Raymond (Part 3)
14:48
Doris Roberts on Everybody Loves Raymond (Part 4)
03:55
Phil Rosenthal on being a staff writer on the show on A Family for Joe with Robert Mitchum
04:21
Phil Rosenthal on writing for Coach; on the premise of the show
07:31
Phil Rosenthal on working for Alan Kirschenbaum and Ed. Weinberger on Baby Talk
06:55
Phil Rosenthal on writing a sitcom for Peter O'Toole and NBC not wanting it because O'Toole was too old
05:45
Phil Rosenthal on being asked to create a show for Ray Romano and formulating the ideas for Everybody Loves Raymond; on the pilot episode
29:26
Phil Rosenthal on the characters in Everybody Loves Raymond
29:16
Phil Rosenthal on the Everybody Loves Raymond characters
26:29
Phil Rosenthal on his wife's role on Everybody Loves Raymond, the writer's room, the show's audience, and specific episodes
26:56
Phil Rosenthal on specific episodes of Everybody Loves Raymond; on syndicating the show
11:34
Phil Rosenthal on the series finale of Everybody Loves Raymond
13:26
Actress Marion Ross on her first television role, on Life with Father starring Leon Ames
03:37
Marion Ross on playing "Marion Cunningham" on Happy Days
30:06
Marion Ross on playing "Marion Cunningham" on Happy Days
15:52
Marion Ross on various guest-starring roles on Aaron Spelling's The Love Boat
05:51
Marion Ross on guest-starring on Night Court
01:28
Marion Ross on playing "Sophie Berger" on Brooklyn Bridge created by Gary David Goldberg
05:25
Marion Ross on guest starring as "Drew's" mother on The Drew Carey Show
03:45
Marion Ross on her guest appearances on That '70s Show
02:03
Stanley Ralph Ross on writing for Batman
16:34
Stanley Ralph Ross on writing for Batman
28:07
Stanley Ralph Ross on writing an episode of That Girl
02:09
Stanley Ralph Ross on writing an episode of All in the Family for which he was nominated for an Emmy Award
05:55
Stanley Ralph Ross on writing for Love, American Style
01:52
Stanley Ralph Ross on writing for Cos
01:35
Stanley Ralph Ross on writing for That's My Mama
03:13
Stanley Ralph Ross on developing Monster Squad
02:51
Sol Saks on getting hired on the radio version of Duffy's Tavern
05:32
Sol Saks on working with Hattie McDaniel on the Beulah radio show
01:15
Sol Saks on working on The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet radio show and Ozzie Nelson's view on giving writers credit
02:07
Sol Saks on writing the pilot for My Favorite Husband and his desire to do a sitcom with actors instead of comedians
03:09
Sol Saks on how he wrote for I Married Joan for 7 weeks to pay for his swimming pool
01:59
Sol Saks on coming up with episode premises with series star Ida Lupino for Mr. Adams and Eve
04:26
Sol Saks on quitting My Favorite Husband, and how this led, years later, to getting an offer to write a pilot that became Bewitched
10:26
Sol Saks on creating Bewitched
28:11
Sol Saks on how producer William Froug was considered to replace Sherwood Schwartz on Gilligan's Island, and how Saks himself didn't like the pilot script
06:11
Jay Sandrich on watching Lucille Ball work with Red Skelton and honing her comedic talents on I Love Lucy
02:10
Jay Sandrich on directing comedy, where he'd "rather laughs came out of the humanity of the character" inspired by the comic talents of Don Knotts and Andy Griffith on The Andy Griffith Show
01:30
Jay Sandrich on the importance of a studio audience when filming a comedy series
01:17
Jay Sandrich on how Bill Cosby got the laughs on the first taping of The Cosby Show
01:22
Jay Sandrich on taking a serious topic and turning it into a funny scene on The Cosby Show
03:38
Jay Sandrich on how humor on television has changed
01:21
Jay Sandrich on what good comedy can do for us socially
01:37
Jay Sandrich on I Love Lucy
08:55
Jay Sandrich on The Mary Tyler Moore Show
19:29
Jay Sandrich on directing the final episode of The Mary Tyler Moore Show
02:15
Jay Sandrich on Soap
13:25
William Schallert on why The Patty Duke Show shot in New York; on Patty Duke and his character on the show
08:12
William Schallert on how he got the role for The Patty Duke Show; on the premise and theme song of the show
06:37
William Schallert on his co-stars on The Patty Duke Show; on how scenes with the identical cousins were shot; on his favorite episodes and his character "Martin Lane"; on reuniting for a TV movie of The Patty Duke Show
08:22
Bob Schiller and Bob Weiskopf on how they came to write for I Love Lucy in its fourth season; on the writing process and working with the cast
19:45
Bob Schiller and Bob Weiskopf on the writing process on I Love Lucy and memorable episodes they wrote
28:13
Bob Schiller and Bob Weiskopf on the hour-long Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour
08:26
Bob Schiller and Bob Weiskopf on writing for The Lucy Show
06:21
Bob Schiller and Bob Weiskopf on writing for The Red Skelton Show
05:54
Bob Schiller and Bob Weiskopf on writing for Maude and working with Norman Lear
10:27
Bob Schiller and Bob Weiskopf on the writing process for and memorable episodes of Maude
15:45
Bob Schiller and Bob Weiskopf on writing for All in the Family; on the transition from All in the Family to Archie Bunker's Place
08:42
Bob Schiller and Bob Weiskopf on writing for Archie Bunker's Place
05:07
Thomas Schlamme on directing It's Garry Shandling's Show
03:35
Thomas Schlamme on directing Mad About You
02:01
Thomas Schlamme on directing children in The Wonder Years
01:23
Thomas Schlamme on directing Ally McBeal
02:49
Thomas Schlamme on directing Friends
02:24
Thomas Schlamme on directing Tracey Takes On
03:47
Thomas Schlamme on the process of directing Sports Night
04:09
Arthur Schneider on editing for Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
10:09
Arthur Schneider on editing Candid Camera
01:00
Arthur Schneider on editing Norm Crosby's The Comedy Shop
01:28
Arthur Schneider on editing The Greatest American Hero
00:34
Alfred Schneider on negotiating the contract for The Phil Silvers Show as Assistant Director of Business Affairs at CBS
03:44
Alfred Schneider on why ABC passed on All in the Family
02:44
Alfred Schneider on why ABC was able to take a risk on Soap and how the network dealt with the show's depiction of controversial topics
03:03
Alfred Schneider on Producer Danny Arnold throwing him off the set of Barney Miller
01:10
Lew Schneider on appearing on Jack and Mike with Shelley Hack
01:45
Lew Schneider on appearing on Wish You Were Here
09:31
Lew Schneider on Down the Shore, and HBO's One Night Stand
04:38
Lew Schneider on The George Wendt Show originally based on NPR's "Car Talk", and acting on various pilots
03:38
Lew Schneider on writing for Everybody Loves Raymond
21:31
Lew Schneider on writing for Everybody Loves Raymond
29:24
Lew Schneider on writing for Everybody Loves Raymond
19:10
Lew Schneider on writing for The New Adventures of Old Christine
01:23
Sherwood Schwartz on how working on early comedy shows on radio prepared him to write comedy television shows
01:25
Sherwood Schwartz on writing for Red Skelton Show
25:57
Sherwood Schwartz on the success of Gilligan's Island and The Brady Bunch
01:18
Sherwood Schwartz on his first TV writing job on I Married Joan starring Joan Davis
05:25
Sherwood Schwartz on trying to fix script issues on the first season of My Favorite Martian
07:44
Sherwood Schwartz on the concept of Gilligan's Island
11:52
Sherwood Schwartz on creating Gilligan's Island
28:23
Sherwood Schwartz on creating Gilligan's Island
28:11
Sherwood Schwartz on creating Gilligan's Island
15:53
Sherwood Schwartz on creating The Brady Bunch
28:36
William Self on developing The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, Daniel Boone, and 12 O'Clock High
03:57
William Self on developing The Monroes, and Julia, starring Diahann Carroll
02:57
William Self on developing Land of the Giants with Irwin Allen, and on developing The Ghost & Mrs. Muir
03:03
William Self on developing Room 222 and Nanny and the Professor
02:23
William Self on developing Anna and the King
02:00
William Self on developing M*A*S*H
13:23
Garry Shandling on the scripts he wrote for Sanford and Son
03:27
Garry Shandling on It's Garry Shandling Show and winding up on Showtime, not NBC; on the premise and theme song of the show
08:38
Garry Shandling on the writing process and cast on It's Garry Shandling's Show
10:28
Garry Shandling on creating The Larry Sanders Show; on the writers, cast, and finale
34:19
Jack Shea on the cast of and production on Sanford and Son
07:31
Jack Shea on directing Sanford and Son and on the show's producers, premise and working with Redd Foxx
06:17
Jack Shea on "George and Louise Jefferson" on The Jeffersons
01:10
Jack Shea on the cast of and producers on The Jeffersons
11:28
Jack Shea on the most important role a director fulfills on the set of sitcoms
01:44
Jack Shea on directing Silver Spoons
08:40
Jack Shea on directing Designing Women
08:47
Jack Shea on directing Golden Girls
02:35
Sidney Sheldon on his first real experience with television - co-creating The Patty Duke Show with William Asher
12:21
Sidney Sheldon on creating and producing I Dream of Jeannie
21:33
Sidney Sheldon on the guest stars, end of, and enduring popularity of I Dream of Jeannie
14:56
James Sheldon on being hired to direct the pilot of Mister Peepers by producer Fred Coe
02:36
James Sheldon on casting Tony Randall as "Harvey Weskit" on Mister Peepers
02:43
James Sheldon on directing Mister Peepers and Wally Cox's humor on the show
00:44
James Sheldon on Marion Lorne as "Mrs. Gurney" on Mister Peepers
01:20
James Sheldon on nearly casting James Dean on Mama and helping him get an agent
03:58
James Sheldon on directing Anna and the King, and being reassigned to direct M*A*S*H instead
01:14
James Sheldon on My World and Welcome to It being his favorite piece of work
00:30
Treva Silverman on The Mary Tyler Moore Show
20:15
Treva Silverman on writing for The Monkees
22:22
Treva Silverman on writing for Captain Nice, created by Buck Henry
00:56
Treva Silverman on decisions made on The Monkees being influenced by the Marx Brothers' "controlled comic anarchy"
02:58
Treva Silverman on Captain Nice
04:59
Treva Silverman on writing for Get Smart and He & She
05:23
Treva Silverman on writing on Room 222 for producer James L. Brooks
07:24
Treva Silverman on how she came to write for The Mary Tyler Moore Show for James L. Brooks
06:23
Treva Silverman on writing for The Mary Tyler Moore Show
24:19
Sam Simon on writing for Taxi
24:27
Sam Simon on writing and producing Cheers
10:25
Sam Simon on consulting on It's Garry Shandling's Show (Part 1)
04:37
Sam Simon on consulting for It's Garry Shandling's Show (Part 2)
02:58
Sam Simon on producing and writing The Tracey Ullman Show
07:02
Doris Singleton on working on Lucille Ball's radio show, My Favorite Husband and on I Love Lucy, its television successor
07:15
Doris Singleton on playing "Carolyn Appleby" on I Love Lucy
24:18
Doris Singleton on working on The Lucy Show and Here's Lucy
02:47
Doris Singleton on working on dramas and comedies
00:26
Doris Singleton on the popularity of I Love Lucy and Lucille Ball
05:43
Doris Singleton on working on Adventures of Superman, The Great Gildersleeve, The Bob Cummings Show, and The People's Choice
07:53
Doris Singleton on working on the Jess Oppenheimer sitcom Angel
07:38
Doris Singleton on working on The Ann Sothern Show
00:57
Doris Singleton on working on The Real McCoys
01:07
Doris Singleton on working on Hazel with Shirley Booth
01:18
Doris Singleton on working on The Dick Van Dyke Show
01:15
Doris Singleton on coming into an established ensemble cast on The Dick Van Dyke Show
02:05
Doris Singleton on working on The Munsters
00:50
Doris Singleton on appearing on Hogan's Heroes
01:56
Doris Singleton on appearing on My Three Sons
02:48
Doris Singleton on working on All in the Family
01:54
Doris Singleton on working on Phyllis with Cloris Leachman
01:11
Yeardley Smith on appearing on episodes of Mama's Family
00:39
Yeardley Smith on Herman's Head
04:11
Yeardley Smith on production on The Simpsons during the COVID-19 pandemic, on politicians pulling "Lisa Simpson" into politics and The Simpsons staying relevant, and on how long she thinks The Simpsons will run for
23:05
Herbert F. Solow on the change from I Love Lucy to The Lucy Show
02:29
Herbert F. Solow on working with Lucille Ball on The Lucy Show
07:07
Herbert F. Solow on the Star Trek sketch on Saturday Night Live
00:17
Herbert F. Solow on the success of the show, The Courtship of Eddie's Father
08:11
Darren Star on the impact of Melrose Place and its thematic connection to two of his other shows, Beverly Hills, 90210 and Sex and the City
01:24
Darren Star on developing Sex and the City
04:53
Darren Star on casting Sex and the City
05:38
Darren Star on the Sex and the City writers room and the comedy of the show
04:08
Darren Star on having characters address the camera on Sex and the City, and eliminating the device in later seasons
01:22
Darren Star on how the writers plotted out the first season of Sex and the City
01:50
Darren Star on the intended audience for Sex and the City
02:12
Darren Star on the way sex was depicted on Sex and the City
01:52
Darren Star on his favorite gags and storylines on Sex and the City
01:28
Darren Star on a Sex and the City gag that HBO objected to
01:33
Darren Star on Chris Noth as "Mr. Big" on Sex and the City and the real-life inspiration for the character
02:22
Darren Star on the men of Sex and the City
07:39
Darren Star on the Sex and the City series finale
02:37
Darren Star on the legacy of Sex and the City
01:48
Darren Star on the themes of Younger, which is based on a book, and why he was interested in making it into a TV show
02:47
Darren Star on Younger being on TV Land and the changing landscape of television
02:39
Ben Starr on working with George Burns and the other producers of Mister Ed; on how "Mister Ed" talked; on leaving Mister Ed to write movies
07:22
Ben Starr on writing for The Brady Bunch, including penning the episode "The Personality Kid" with the famous line "pork chops and apple sauce"
07:02
Ben Starr on writing for All in the Family
04:29
Ben Starr on the creation of Diff'rent Strokes and coining the phrase "Whatchu talking 'bout, Willis?"; on working with the lead actors
21:17
Mary Kay and Johnny Stearns on how Mary Kay and Johnny (one of TV's earliest sitcoms) came about
03:12
Johnny Stearns on writing the first script and dressing the set for Mary Kay and Johnny
03:13
Mary Kay and Johnny Stearns on rehearsal and production of the first episode of Mary Kay and Johnny
02:26
Mary Kay and Johnny Stearns on getting a contract to continue Mary Kay and Johnny beyond one episode
01:41
Mary Kay and Johnny Stearns on the premise and production of Mary Kay and Johnny
28:23
Mary Kay and Johnny Stearns on the humor, censorship, and end of Mary Kay and Johnny
27:23
Mary Kay and Johnny Stearns on how Mary Kay and Johnny (one of TV's earliest sitcoms) came about
03:12
Johnny Stearns on writing the first script and dressing the set for Mary Kay and Johnny
03:13
Mary Kay and Johnny Stearns on rehearsal and production of the first episode of Mary Kay and Johnny
02:26
Mary Kay and Johnny Stearns on getting a contract to continue Mary Kay and Johnny beyond one episode
01:41
Mary Kay and Johnny Stearns on the premise and production of Mary Kay and Johnny
28:23
Mary Kay and Johnny Stearns on the humor, censorship, and end of Mary Kay and Johnny
27:23
Jeremy Stevens on writing for Fernwood 2-Night
07:31
Jeremy Stevens on writing for Fernwood 2-Night
08:04
Jeremy Stevens on writing for Everybody Loves Raymond
09:02
Jeremy Stevens on the writing for Everybody Loves Raymond
30:08
Jeremy Stevens on writing for Everybody Loves Raymond
29:00
Jeremy Stevens on writing for Everybody Loves Raymond
16:47
Gale Storm on handling the physical comedy on My Little Margie
04:06
Gale Storm on the premise of, production week, and her character on My Little Margie
09:37
Gale Storm on how My Little Margie impacted television
01:43
Gale Storm on her treasured memories of working with Jack Benny on The Jack Benny Hour
03:49
Gale Storm on her memories of working on The Gale Storm Show (aka Oh Susanna)
19:37
Gale Storm on working on the romantic comedy series The Love Boat
00:48
Howard Storm on directing Mork & Mindy
25:51
Howard Storm on directing Beatrice Arthur in Amanda's
04:54
Howard Storm on directing Taxi
03:36
Howard Storm on directing Angie starring Donna Pescow and Robert Hays
02:01
Howard Storm on directing Too Close for Comfort starring Ted Knight
00:51
Howard Storm on directing Gimme a Break! with Nell Carter
05:40
Howard Storm on the difficulties of directing The Redd Foxx Show, and on working with Redd Foxx
02:04
Howard Storm on directing Full House with Bob Saget
02:50
Jeffrey Tambor on playing "Jeffrey Brookes" on The Ropers (Part 1)
06:21
Jeffrey Tambor on playing "Jeffrey Brookes" on The Ropers (Part 2)
06:48
Jeffrey Tambor on playing "Hank Kingsley" on The Larry Sanders Show
18:40
Jeffrey Tambor on playing "Hank Kingsle"y on The Larry Sanders Show (Part 2)
13:33
Jeffrey Tambor on playing "George Bluth" on Arrested Development
31:26
Marlo Thomas on her father Danny Thomas' fame and her thoughts on his television show, Make Room for Daddy
08:38
Marlo Thomas on That Girl
23:33
Marlo Thomas on That Girl
25:34
Marlo Thomas on guest-starring on Friends; on positing that "Rachel" is a modern "That Girl"
03:26
Grant Tinker on the development and sponsorship of The Dick Van Dyke Show
06:00
Grant Tinker on CBS' James T. Aubrey canceling The Dick Van Dyke Show after its first season and Sheldon Leonard's reaction
04:37
Grant Tinker on how NBC got Get Smart
01:38
Grant Tinker on the development of The Mary Tyler Moore Show
18:55
Grant Tinker on Les Charles and Glen Charles - creators of Cheers
01:48
Mel Tolkin on writing for The Danny Thomas Show
02:19
Mel Tolkin on writing for I'm Dickens ... He's Fenster and for The Danny Kaye Show with Larry Gelbart
04:02
Mel Tolkin on writing The Good Guys, starring Bob Denver and Alan Hale, Jr.
01:08
Mel Tolkin on writing for All in the Family
08:54
Mel Tolkin on writing for All in the Family and Archie Bunker's Place
07:19
Mel Tolkin on writing for Joe's World
01:08
Mel Tolkin on writing for Love, Sidney
02:59
Saul Turteltaub on writing for and performing on Candid Camera
03:05
Saul Turteltaub on writing for That Was the Week that Was
04:50
Saul Turteltaub on producing That Girl with his partner Bernie Orenstein
04:50
Saul Turteltaub on producing Sanford and Son and it spin-offs with his partner Bernie Orenstein
21:41
Saul Turteltaub on creating What's Happening!! with Bernie Orenstein and Bud Yorkin
09:05
Saul Turteltaub on creating Carter Country with Bernie Orenstein
01:38
Saul Turteltaub on writing the sitcom E/R with Bernie Orenstein
02:40
Saul Turteltaub on co-executive producing Foley Square, which was written and produced by Diane English
01:39
Saul Turteltaub on executive producing and writing Kate & Alley with Bernie Orenstein
06:13
Saul Turteltaub on serving as an executive consultant on Cosby with Bernie Orenstein
05:15
Tracey Ullman on doing research into American comedy, and particularly female comedians, (as encouraged by James L. Brooks) prior to starting The Tracey Ullman Show on Fox
02:59
Tracey Ullman on the Tracey Ullman Show
32:23
Tracey Ullman on the end of The Tracey Ullman Show and its legacy
06:22
Tracey Ullman on her special Tracey Ullman: A Class Act
03:41
Tracey Ullman on Tracey Takes On...
24:25
Tracey Ullman on Tracey Ullman's State of the Union
13:08
Tracey Ullman on Tracey Ullman's Show
18:55
Dean Valentine on developing 227 and on Norman Lear's Embassy shows
01:57
Dean Valentine on Touchstone Television's relationship with Witt/Thomas Productions, producers of The Golden Girls and Blossom
04:08
Dean Valentine on developing Home Improvement
19:25
Dean Valentine on developing Ellen
16:50
Jimmie Walker on playing "J.J. Evans" on Good Times
26:44
Jimmie Walker on playing "J.J. Evans" on Good Times
47:26
Jimmie Walker on playing "J.J. Evans" on Good Times
14:40
Jimmie Walker on appearing on The Love Boat
01:01
Jimmie Walker on appearing on The Larry Sanders Show starring Garry Shandling
04:13
Jimmie Walker on guest-starring on Everybody Hates Chris
02:01
Matthew Weiner on how he wanted to be "Danny Partridge" from The Partridge Family
00:40
Matthew Weiner on being influenced by style of 70's shows such as The Brady Bunch
01:03
Matthew Weiner on watching All in the Family as a child but not understanding the levels of humor at the time
00:37
Matthew Weiner on not being allowed to watch much TV as a kid; on being told I Love Lucy was sexist
01:21
Matthew Weiner on the writing staff of Becker; on what the experience there taught him
02:42
Bob Schiller and Bob Weiskopf on how they came to write for I Love Lucy in its fourth season; on the writing process and working with the cast
19:45
Bob Schiller and Bob Weiskopf on the writing process on I Love Lucy and memorable episodes they wrote
28:13
Bob Schiller and Bob Weiskopf on the hour-long Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour
08:26
Bob Schiller and Bob Weiskopf on writing for The Lucy Show
06:21
Bob Schiller and Bob Weiskopf on writing for The Red Skelton Show
05:54
Bob Schiller and Bob Weiskopf on writing for Maude and working with Norman Lear
10:27
Bob Schiller and Bob Weiskopf on the writing process for and memorable episodes of Maude
15:45
Bob Schiller and Bob Weiskopf on writing for All in the Family; on the transition from All in the Family to Archie Bunker's Place
08:42
Bob Schiller and Bob Weiskopf on writing for Archie Bunker's Place
05:07
Lou Weiss on packaging Texaco Star Theater starring Milton Berle
02:02
Lou Weiss on packaging game shows and The Danny Thomas Show
03:41
Lou Weiss on packaging The Danny Thomas Show and working with Sheldon Leonard
02:29
Lou Weiss on packaging The Dick Van Dyke Show
03:22
Lou Weiss on packaging Barney Miller
01:43
Marcy Carsey and Tom Werner on developing and casting their first big hit, The Cosby Show
21:27
Marcy Carsey and Tom Werner on developing and casting Roseanne
10:28
Marcy Carsey and Tom Werner on the end of The Cosby Show and the Cosby spin-off A Different World
05:08
Marcy Carsey and Tom Werner on producing and casting 3rd Rock From the Sun
06:46
Betty White on her first TV series, Life with Elizabeth co-starring Del Moore
03:15
Betty White on how Life with Elizabeth developed
03:34
Betty White on hosting Date with the Angels
04:14
Betty White on her first appearance as Sue Ann Nivens on The Mary Tyler Moore Show
06:23
Betty White on the ensemble cast of The Mary Tyler Moore Show
08:17
Betty White on appearing on Mama's Family and The Carol Burnett Show
03:36
Betty White on playing "Rose Nylund" on The Golden Girls
11:07
Tucker Wiard on working on The Red Skeleton Show
01:17
Tucker Wiard on working on the Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour
00:49
Tucker Wiard on the rhythm of editing comedy shows
01:46
Tucker Wiard on working on the memorable Carol Burnett Show sketch "Went With the Wind"
02:11
Tucker Wiard on favorite episodes of Murphy Brown including "On a Plane"
01:44
Dan Wilcox on writing for Fernwood 2 Night
05:18
Dan Wilcox on being supervising producer for Newhart
15:48
Dan Wilcox on co-creating and writing the series FM with Allan Burns
10:55
Dan Wilcox on writing for The Jeff Foxworthy Show
02:00
Fred Willard on playing "Jerry Hubbard" on Fernwood 2-Night
12:27
Fred Willard on playing "Jerry Hubbard" on Fernwood 2-Night
31:00
Fred Willard on playing "Scott" on Roseanne
12:18
Fred Willard on guest starring as "Hank MacDougall" on Everybody Love Raymond
12:46
Cindy Williams on her first television appearance on Room 222 and working with director James L. Brooks
01:27
Cindy Williams on playing "Shirley Feeney" on Happy Days
04:24
Cindy Williams on playing "Shirley Feeney" on Laverne & Shirley (Part 1)
11:13
Cindy Williams on playing "Shirley Feeney" on Laverne & Shirley (Part 2)
38:04
Cindy Williams on appearing in the series Getting By
01:05
Cindy Williams and Penny Marshall on starring on Laverne & Shirley (Part 1)
57:18
Cindy Williams and Penny Marshall on starring on Laverne & Shirley (Part 2)
19:51
Larry Wilmore on auditioning for a.k.a. Pablo, and on his first television appearance, on The Facts of Life
09:19
Larry Wilmore on appearing on Stand Up Spotlight with Rosie O'Donnell, and on his then-emerging interest in politics
06:33
Larry Wilmore on writing for Sister, Sister
07:58
Larry Wilmore on become a co-producer and writer on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
02:23
Larry Wilmore on writing for The Show
01:28
Larry Wilmore on writing for The Jamie Foxx Show
03:54
Larry Wilmore on co-creating The PJs
15:24
Larry Wilmore on creating The Bernie Mac Show
25:27
Larry Wilmore on writing for Whoopi, and Beverly Hills S.U.V., and on appearing on The Office
09:00
Larry Wilmore on becoming a writer and correspondent on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
10:08
Larry Wilmore on writing for Insecure and Black-ish
03:38
Larry Wilmore producing and hosting The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore
27:56
Hugh Wilson on writing for The Bob Newhart Show and learning to write scripts
04:04
Hugh Wilson on writing for The Tony Randall Show
04:17
Hugh Wilson on creating, writing, and producing WKRP in Cincinnati
33:56
Hugh Wilson on creating, writing, and producing WKRP in Cincinnati
26:32
Hugh Wilson on creating, writing, and directing Frank's Place
21:40
Hugh Wilson on creating The Famous Teddy Z starring Jon Cryer and Alex Rocco
04:29
Jane Wyatt on how she got cast on, the production of, and premise of Father Knows Best
05:08
Jane Wyatt on her character "Margaret Anderson" on Father Knows Best and becoming an iconic TV mom
03:27
Jane Wyatt on her co-stars, the writers, directors, and the end of Father Knows Best
18:32
Bud Yorkin on working in various capacities on The Colgate Comedy Hour
28:25
Bud Yorkin on directing The George Gobel Show
10:34
Bud Yorkin on directing The Jack Benny Hour
06:07
Bud Yorkin on directing The Danny Kaye Show
01:52
Bud Yorkin on developing All in the Family with Norman Lear (Part 1)
10:51
Bud Yorkin on developing All in the Family with Norman Lear (Part 2)
28:05
Bud Yorkin on developing Sanford and Son
09:04
Bud Yorkin on The Jeffersons and Good Times
01:38
Bud Yorkin on Maude spinning off of All in the Family
01:27
Bud Yorkin on forming TOY Productions and creating What's Happening!, Carter Country, and 13 Queens Boulevard
06:29
Jeff Zucker on his favorite line from The Honeymooners
00:41
Jeff Zucker on his idea to "supersize" Friends episodes in order to compete with Survivor
03:48
Jeff Zucker on telling the cast of Friends about his idea to "supersize" the show's episodes
00:42
Jeff Zucker on negotiating the contract for Frasier in 2001
01:02
Jeff Zucker on his pride in having been able to keep Friends on the air longer than had been expected and the difficulty for the network in finding another show that would be as big of a hit
02:04
Jeff Zucker on the possibility that if Scrubs had been a multi-cam comedy, it could have been an even bigger hit
02:30
Jeff Zucker on his work to keep Friends on the air longer than was expected and the difficulty in finding an equally successful show once it ended
03:13
Jeff Zucker on the Friends spin-off, Joey, and its ultimate failure
00:52
Jeff Zucker on the rocky first season of The Office and the demographics of its audience
02:16
Jeff Zucker on courting Tina Fey to do 30 Rock because of his conviction that she was "the next great voice for comedy"
00:29
Jeff Zucker on how Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip suffered because it premiered at the same time as 30 Rock, another NBC show that took place behind the scenes of a late night sketch comedy show
00:51
Jeff Zucker on his all-time favorite television show, The Honeymooners
01:07
Alan Zweibel on the influence of The Dick Van Dyke Show, and on his friendship with Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks
03:05
Alan Zweibel on deciding he wanted to be a television writer, and on the influence of That Was the Week that Was
01:59
Alan Zweibel on co-creating and writing It's Garry Shandling's Show
21:08
Alan Zweibel on being showrunner for It's Garry Shandling's Show
16:56
Alan Zweibel on writing for It's Garry Shandling's Show.
27:12
Alan Zweibel on writing for Curb Your Enthusiasm
16:04
Alan Zweibel on inspiring Larry David to write "The Pez Dispenser" episode of Seinfeld
04:50
