Berle Adams on secretly replacing scripts written by The Tennessee Ernie Ford Show staff writers with better ones written by Danny Arnold and Roland Kibbee
02:32
Berle Adams on his clients Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis breaking up their act before fulfilling a four-episode contract to appear on The Colgate Comedy Hour, and how he convinced them to appear on the show anyway
06:53
Berle Adams on how the television special An Evening With Fred Astaire came to be
02:36
Berle Adams on the controversy over Fred Astaire winning the Emmy for Best Actor for An Evening With Fred Astaire
00:48
Bob Banner on directing and producing The Fred Waring Show
16:31
Bob Banner on producing The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
07:08
Bob Banner on producing Peggy Fleming Visits the Soviet Union
05:43
Bob Banner on producing The Colgate Comedy Hour
00:58
Bob Banner on working with Frank Sinatra on a number of his television specials
06:58
Bob Banner on producing The Jimmy Dean Show
01:19
Bob Banner on working with Ethel Merman on the special A Salute to American Imagination
01:57
Bob Banner on Carol Burnett's contributions on The Garry Moore Show
06:12
Bob Banner on producing The Carol Burnett Show
03:22
Bob Banner on Solid Gold's popularity in Israel
03:24
Bob Banner on working on various Perry Como Specials
07:09
Bob Banner on the decline of variety programming in the '80s and '90s
02:45
Bob Banner on working with Jim Henson and Muppets on The Jimmy Dean Show and A Sesame Street Christmas
04:27
Bob Banner on producing It's Showtime at the Apollo
05:28
Bob Banner on producing Solid Gold
04:03
Bob Banner on producing Star Search
02:55
Milton Berle on getting approached by Texaco to star in their new TV show, Texaco Star Theater
04:04
Milton Berle on the beginnings of Texaco Star Theater
02:46
Milton Berle on the lore of him stealing jokes for Texaco Star Theater
03:51
Milton Berle on how he contributed to the success of Texaco Star Theater
07:14
Milton Berle on memorable live television mishaps on Texaco Star Theater
08:35
Milton Berle on a memorable live television mishap with Red Buttons on Texaco Star Theater
03:36
Milton Berle on the mishap with the "Barber of Seville" sketch on Texaco Star Theater and how it affected the subsequent sketch
04:26
Milton Berle on a typical workweek on Texaco Star Theater
10:01
Milton Berle on memorable guest stars on Texaco Star Theater
06:12
Milton Berle on a memorable flashback scene on Texaco Star Theater
04:25
Milton Berle on how he got his start in television with Texaco Star Theater
01:53
Steve Binder on Shindig and Hullabaloo
03:34
Steve Binder on producing Petula, and the controversy surrounding a segment of it (part 1)
04:49
Steve Binder on producing and directing Elvis: The '68 Comeback Special
09:49
Steve Binder on producing and directing 1977's The Barry Manilow Special
09:49
Steve Binder on directing Diana Ross in Central Park (1985)
04:02
Allan Blye on being a writer and producer on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
28:52
Allan Blye on writing for Petula
03:11
Allan Blye on writing Elvis: The '68 Comeback Special with Chris Bearde
13:53
Allan Blye on the typical production schedule on the variety specials he wrote
00:58
Allan Blye on The Andy Williams Show
06:01
Allan Blye on the Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour
15:55
Allan Blye on Van Dyke and Company
02:33
Sam Bobrick on getting a job in the ABC mailroom, and on starting to write jokes for The Ray Bolger Show
03:56
Sam Bobrick on writing for The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
03:03
Sam Bobrick on writing for The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
27:53
Sam Bobrick on writing for The Kraft Music Hall
12:00
Al Borden on being propmaster for The Colgate Comedy Hour
26:34
Al Borden on being propmaster on The Colgate Comedy Hour
17:55
Al Borden on being propmaster for Texaco Star Theater with Milton Berle
03:22
Al Borden on being propmaster for The Bob Hope Chevy Show
25:38
Al Borden on being propmaster Bob Hope's USO specials
28:29
Al Borden on being propmaster on Bob Hope's specials
04:58
Kirk Browning on working on NBC Opera Theatre
24:02
Kirk Browning on directing NBC Opera Theatre
28:57
Kirk Browning on directing NBC Opera Theatre
24:16
Kirk Browning on working with Arturo Toscanini on NBC Opera Theatre
07:21
Kirk Browning on directing TV Recital Hall
03:13
Kirk Browning on working with Frank Sinatra on the first episode of The Frank Sinatra Show
07:13
Kirk Browning on directing various musical specials
03:00
Kirk Browning on directing the first episode of The Frank Sinatra Show
06:01
Kirk Browning on directing various specials including the Miss America Pageant with Bert Parks
01:43
Kirk Browning on directing NET Opera Theatre
08:47
Carol Burnett on starting to like television when she did musical comedy/variety on The Garry Moore Show
00:59
Carol Burnett on how she became a regular on The Garry Moore Show
01:22
Carol Burnett on the famous "Went with the Wind!" sketch on The Carol Burnett Show
00:49
Carol Burnett on her co-stars and how she created characters on The Carol Burnett Show
08:20
Carol Burnett on her favorite moment on The Garry Moore Show - on her last day on the show when the cast purposely ruined a scene to see how she'd react
04:06
Carol Burnett on the variety format and whether or not she thinks it could make a comeback
01:47
Vince Calandra on getting hired to handle cue cards for The Ed Sullivan Show
04:45
Vince Calandra on doing cue cards and being production coordinator on The Ed Sullivan Show
28:11
Vince Calandra on moving from production into talent coordinating on The Ed Sullivan Show
28:44
Vince Calandra on being promoted to talent coordinator for The Ed Sullivan Show; on how he scouted talent; on booking meetings and pay scales for The Ed Sullivan Show; on how he booked the Beatles' appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1964
27:45
Vince Calandra on first meeting The Beatles; on The Beatles' historic first performance on The E d Sullivan Sh; on controversial performances on The Ed Sullivan Show
28:00
Vince Calandra on some of the comics and guests on the show: Alan King, John Byne, Topo Gigio, Senor Wences, Alan King, Fred Astaire, and more; on the cancellation of the show
28:18
Vince Calandra on the cancellation of The Ed Sullivan Show
08:31
Vince Calandra on becoming a talent executive for The Mike Douglas Show; on some of the show's guests and working with Mike Douglas
17:32
Charles Cappleman on working with Judy Garland on Ford Star Jubilee, and on working with big stars
01:55
Charles Cappleman on stage managing That's My Boy! and The Jo Stafford Show
02:44
Charles Cappleman on celebrating the 33rd Anniversary of The Carol Burnett Show on stage 33 at Television City with the cast of the show
02:47
Charles Cappleman on The Ed Sullivan Show
02:57
Charles Cappleman on working with Joe Hamilton and Dave Powers on The Carol Burnett Show
04:29
Charles Cappleman on Captain & Tennille
01:20
Kevin Carlisle on working on The Garry Moore Show
08:43
Kevin Carlisle on being a choreographer on The Dean Martin Show, and on the dance styles of the 1960s
04:56
Kevin Carlisle on working with Barry Manilow on the Barry Manilow Specials
06:52
Kevin Carlisle on choreographing Solid Gold
26:00
Kevin Carlisle on choreographing various celebrity specials
05:26
Marge Champion on dancing on Admiral Broadway Revue
03:42
Marge Champion on dancing on Your Show of Shows
06:23
Marge Champion on leaving Admiral Broadway Revue and going on the road with Gower Champion
05:53
Marge Champion on working on The Dinah Shore Show and various other television shows in the late '50s
07:18
Marge Champion on appearing on The Ed Sullivan Show with Gower Champion and touring the Soviet Union with Ed Sullivan
15:49
Marge Champion on dancing with Gower Champion on The Perry Como Show
03:08
Marge Champion on her and Gower Champion's final television appearance on The Bell Telephone Hour
02:43
Cyd Charisse on her first television appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show
03:07
Cyd Charisse on The Hollywood Palace produced by Nick Vanoff
00:53
Cyd Charisse on the Cyd Charisse Special and Center Stage: Cyd Charisse and working with various choreographers including Tony Charmoli
02:52
Cyd Charisse on appearing on Gene Kelly's American in Pasadena special
01:18
Cyd Charisse on appearing on The Kennedy Center Honors to honor Donald O'Connor
01:22
Tony Charmoli on choreographing Giselle McKenzie for Your Hit Parade and the challenges of working in live TV
05:23
Tony Charmoli on choreographing for an hour long show versus an half hour show while working on The Dinah Shore Show
01:32
Tony Charmoli on choreographing for The Danny Kaye Show
11:52
Tony Charmoli on Danny Kaye's writing team for The Danny Kaye Show
05:28
Tony Charmoli on choreographing for The Julie Andrews Hour
03:47
Tony Charmoli on choreographing for the variety-series The Julie Andrews Hour
04:31
Tony Charmoli on winning an Emmy for choreographing and directing for a Mitzi Gaynor special
04:40
Tony Charmoli on winning and Emmy for directing and choreographing the special Gypsy In My Soul for Shirley MacLaine
04:29
Roy Christopher on doing production design for The Richard Pryor Show
07:20
Roy Christopher on doing production design for Midnight Special
03:23
Roy Christopher on doing production design for The Carol Burnett Show (1991), and on working with Carol and Lucille Ball
04:34
Roy Christopher on doing art direction for The Dean Martin Show and The Pat Boone Show
11:43
Ron Clark on writing for The Jimmy Dean Show
11:31
Ron Clark on writing for The Jackie Gleason Show
05:43
Ron Clark on writing for The Steve Allen Comedy Hour
01:01
Ron Clark on writing for The Danny Kaye Show
02:33
Ron Clark on writing for The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
08:03
Ron Clark on writing for The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
12:58
Ron Clark on writing for Kraft Music Hall
03:29
Ron Clark on writing for The Tim Conway Comedy Hour
06:14
Roy Clark on his first television appearance, on the local series The Hayloft Conservatory of Musical Interpretation
04:04
Roy Clark on appearing on Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts
04:25
Roy Clark on appearing on The Ed Sullivan Show, and on performing with Sullivan
05:15
Roy Clark on guest-starring on The Jonathan Winters Show, which led to Hee Haw
01:59
Roy Clark on hosting Hee Haw on CBS
06:42
Roy Clark on Hee Haw
28:41
Roy Clark on Hee Haw (Part 2)
24:15
Norman Lear on spreading messages in the television he's done and on not speaking up about something on The Colgate Comedy Hour
02:39
Norman Lear on the writing teams on early television and early writing staffs
01:05
Norman Lear on he and Ed Simmons beginning their career writing for Ford Star Revue
00:56
Norman Lear on controversial moments on The Martha Raye Show and why the show got canceled
03:53
Norman Lear on originally being unhappy when Jerry Lewis broke the fourth wall on The Colgate Comedy Hour
01:42
Tim Conway on his 10 year guest appearance on The Carol Burnett Show
02:20
Tim Conway and Harvey Korman on their first appearances on The Carol Burnett Show
27:02
Tim Conway and Harvey Korman on The Carol Burnett Show
28:52
Tim Conway and Harvey Korman on the end of The Carol Burnett Show
03:51
Billy Crystal on his early comedy troupe's act, and appearing on the special That Was the Year that Was
04:14
Billy Crystal on being bumped by Lorne Michaels from the first episode of Saturday Night Live in 1975
07:45
Billy Crystal on being a regular on Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell
02:58
Billy Crystal on The Billy Crystal Comedy Hour and his HBO special A Comic's Line
07:55
Billy Crystal on his stint as a cast member on Saturday Night Live
23:02
Billy Crystal on his involvement, along with Robin Williams and Whoopi Goldberg, in HBO's Comic Relief specials
08:15
Billy Crystal on his HBO special Don't Get Me Started
01:20
Billy Crystal on his HBO special Midnight Train to Moscow, for which he won an Emmy
11:51
Bill Davis on how he came to work in New York on The Jimmy Dean Show
08:51
Bill Davis on directing Hullabaloo
06:45
Bill Davis on directing The Smothers Brothers' Comedy Hour
08:00
Bill Davis on directing Hee Haw (Part 2)
14:09
Milton Delugg on working on The Morey Amsterdam Show
04:40
Milton Delugg on working on The Doodles Weaver Show
01:12
Milton Delugg on working on Dagmar's Canteen
01:07
Milton Delugg on working on The Bill Cullen Show
01:51
Milton Delugg on working on the music for many Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade broadcasts
03:56
Milton Delugg on working on Bill Cosby's variety show Cos
00:46
Charles S. Dubin on directing "Judy and Her Guests, Phil Silvers and Robert Goulet," the 1963 special that served as the pilot for The Judy Garland Show
01:38
Charles S. Dubin on directing The Dinah Shore Chevy Show, The Virginian, The Meanest Man in the West, Tarzan, and The Big Valley
03:34
Rod Erickson on going to work for the advertising agency Foote, Cone & Belding as executive director of the radio version of "Your Hit Parade" on behalf of American Tobacco
03:41
Rod Erickson on how early advertising on television worked and on broadcasting We, The People
03:08
Rod Erickson on the Gulf sponsored programs We, The People and The Gulf Road Show
22:19
Rod Erickson on how Holiday Hotel, sponsored by Packard, got on the air produced by Felix Jackson
03:13
Rod Erickson on working on The Fred Waring Show, sponsored by General Electric
06:23
Rod Erickson on working on The Arrow Show, sponsored by Arrow Shirts
03:03
Nanette Fabray on appearing on The Ed Sullivan Show
01:36
Nanette Fabray on appearing on Texaco Star Theater with Milton Berle
01:49
Nanette Fabray on appearing on The Arthur Murray Party
01:25
Nanette Fabray on appearing on Caesar's Hour
13:26
Nanette Fabray on co-starring on Caesar's Hour
23:11
Nanette Fabray on appearing on The Dinah Shore Show
02:05
Nanette Fabray on appearing on The Danny Kaye Show
02:37
Nanette Fabray on appearing on The Andy Williams Show
01:01
Nanette Fabray on appearing on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, and Art Linkletter's House Party
02:40
Nanette Fabray on appearing on The Carol Burnett Show
04:58
Nanette Fabray on appearing on Ford Startime
01:49
Nanette Fabray on appearing on The Bell Telephone Hour
02:29
Nanette Fabray on appearing in the special Alice Through the Looking Glass
02:49
Bob Finkel on The Perry Como Show
05:23
Bob Finkel on troubleshooting The Eddie Fisher Show
05:54
Bob Finkel on The Dinah Shore Chevy Shore
07:23
Bob Finkel on The Andy Williams Show
02:14
Bob Finkel on the disappearance of music/variety shows
01:25
Bob Finkel on creating/producing The Jerry Lewis Show
04:56
Bob Finkel on the difficulties of residuals for variety shows
04:01
Greg Garrison on directing The Kate Smith Hour
06:37
Greg Garrison on directing Texaco Star Theater
02:40
Greg Garrison on directing The Standard Oil Anniversary Show for NBC
02:32
Greg Garrison on working with Hubbell Robinson and Jim Aubrey, and on making a deal to direct The Judy Garland Show and The Keefe Brasselle Show
07:41
Greg Garrison on directing a Danny Kaye Special
06:58
Greg Garrison on directing specials for Jack Paar, including Jack Paar Presents and on working with Jonathan Winters on those shows
03:23
Greg Garrison on directing specials for Jonathan Winters
02:27
Greg Garrison on why the variety show dropped out of favor with audiences
01:25
Greg Garrison on directing and producing The Dean Martin Show
26:45
Greg Garrison on producing and directing The Dean Martin Show and The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts >
14:19
Dwight Hemion on directing Timex All-Star Jazz Show
00:49
Dwight Hemion on producing and directing Kraft Music Hall
04:25
Dwight Hemion on directing the Barbra Streisand Specials
11:19
Dwight Hemion on directing the Frank Sinatra Specials
06:55
Dwight Hemion on directing The Kraft Music Hall
09:25
Dwight Hemion and Gary Smith on the highlights of their partnership, including the special Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass
04:25
Dwight Hemion and Gary Smith on the highlights of their partnership, including the special Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass
04:25
Seaman Jacobs on the format of The Ed Wynn Show, and on various bits that Ed Wynn did on his show
05:30
Seaman Jacobs on writing for George Burns' specials
06:09
Seaman Jacobs on writing for The Bob Hope Specials
11:03
Seaman Jacobs on writing for The Tim Conway Show
01:30
Lucille Kallen on writing for Admiral Broadway Revue
07:13
Lucille Kallen on writing for Admiral Broadway Revue
08:58
Lucille Kallen on writing for Your Show of Shows
19:42
Lucille Kallen on writing for Your Show of Shows
28:07
Lucille Kallen on writing for Your Show of Shows and The Imogene Coca Show
15:03
Lucille Kallen on writing for Your Show of Shows and The Imogene Coca Show
15:03
Lucille Kallen on writing for Max Liebman Presents and The United States Steel Hour
06:17
Lucille Kallen on writing for The Bell Telephone Hour
05:32
Lucille Kallen on her decision to retire from writing for television and focus on writing novels and on Your Show of Shows having been a training ground for comedy writers
03:27
Hal Kanter on his first television writing job on The Ed Wynn Show
16:28
Hal Kanter on writing for The Ed Wynn Show
01:12
Hal Kanter on The George Gobel Show winning Emmy Awards
02:12
Hal Kanter on writing for Kraft Music Hall featuring Milton Berle
06:54
Arnie Kogen on his involvement with MADtv
01:12
Arnie Kogen on writing for The Dean Martin Show
04:51
Arnie Kogen on going to write for The Carol Burnett Show
19:53
Arnie Kogen on writing for The Carol Burnett Show
09:16
Arnie Kogen on writing for Donny & Marie
06:52
Arnie Kogen on writing for The Jacksons
03:46
Buz Kohan on writing for Perry Como Specials and why he was a good fit for the task
04:45
Buz Kohan on working on The Sammy Davis, Jr. Show
11:54
Buz Kohan on writing for The Carol Burnett Show
19:34
Buz Kohan on writing particular sketches for The Carol Burnett Show, the musical guests on the show, and leaving and returning to the show and leaving again
14:03
Buz Kohan on working on The Beatles at Shea Stadium
04:13
Buz Kohan on working with Bette Midler on her TV special Bette Midler: Ol' Red Hair Is Back
03:24
Buz Kohan on working on Bing Crosby's Merrie Olde Christmas, featuring the famous "Little Drummer Boy" duet with Bing Crosby and David Bowie
04:58
Buz Kohan on meeting Michael Jackson and working with The Jackson 5; on working on their first act when they played the MGM Grand
02:15
Buz Kohan on writing for Baryshnikov in Hollywood
03:56
Buz Kohan on consulting for Dolly Parton's variety series Dolly
03:56
Buz Kohan on working with Sammy Davis, Jr. on his Sammy Davis, Jr.'s 60th Anniversary Celebration
12:10
Buz Kohan on working with Frank Sinatra on the TV special Sinatra: 80 Years My Way and other specials
08:17
Buz Kohan on working with Julie Andrews on TV specials and other performances
04:19
Buz Kohan on working on the pilot for The Wayne Brady Show
01:56
Harvey Korman on joining The Danny Kaye Show
04:48
Harvey Korman on being a "second banana" to Danny Kaye
02:33
Tim Conway and Harvey Korman on their first appearances on The Carol Burnett Show
27:02
Tim Conway and Harvey Korman on The Carol Burnett Show
28:52
Tim Conway and Harvey Korman on the end of The Carol Burnett Show
03:51
Perry Lafferty on directing Kay Kyser's Kollege of Musical Knowledge along with Buzz Kulik
07:09
Perry Lafferty on directing The Victor Borge Show and Kay Kyser's Kollege of Musical Knowledge
09:06
Perry Lafferty on producing The Imogene Coca Show, and on directing The Arthur Murray Party
08:44
Perry Lafferty on producing Your Hit Parade, directed by Norman Jewison
03:28
Perry Lafferty on producing The Big Show
05:36
Perry Lafferty on producing The Mary Tyler Moore Comedy Hour
02:07
Norman Lear on writing for Ford Star Review and The Colgate Comedy Hour
08:19
Norman Lear on writing for The Colgate Comedy Hour
07:10
Norman Lear on writing for The Martha Raye Show
13:47
Norman Lear on writing for The Tennessee Ernie Ford Show
06:08
Norman Lear on writing for The Andy Williams Show
10:21
Norman Lear on writing for The George Gobel Show
03:57
Sam Lovullo on producing Hee Haw and The Jonathan Winters Show
28:09
Sam Lovullo on producing Hee Haw
24:16
Sam Lovullo on producing Hee Haw
29:09
San Lovullo on producing Hee Haw
28:00
Sam Lovullo on producing Hee Haw
29:12
Sam Lovullo on producing Hee Haw
28:55
Sam Lovullo on producing Hee Haw
29:25
Sam Lovullo on producing Hee Haw
22:23
Sam Lovullo on producing Swing Out, Sweet Land
05:54
Bob Mackie on Judy Garland and The Judy Garland Show
07:31
Bob Mackie on the famous curtain-rod dress he made for Carol Burnett in "Went With the Wind," a spoof of Gone With the Wind on The Carol Burnett Show
02:17
Bob Mackie on costume design for The Carol Burnett Show
23:37
Bob Mackie on working with Cher on Cher and The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour
16:38
Anita Mann on appearing as a dancer on "The T.A.M.I. Show"
10:39
Anita Mann on dancing on Shindig!
07:17
Anita Mann on appearing on Elvis: The '68 Comeback Special
04:52
Anita Mann on choreographing Cher, and on working with Cher and Bob Mackie
11:56
Anita Mann on choreographing The Jacksons and on working with the Jackson family, including Michael Jackson
08:22
Anita Mann on working with Jim Henson on various Muppet projects including The Fantastic Miss Piggy Show
16:15
Anita Mann on choreographing Solid Gold
39:16
Anita Mann on choreographing the Miss America Pageant for which she won an Emmy
03:52
Kent McCray on the experience of working as a stagehand for NBC on shows like The Colgate Comedy Hour and All Star Revue
10:21
Kent McCray on being unit manager for Bob Hope on a show from Alaska, also featuring Ginger Rogers
04:24
Kent McCray on being unit manager for a Bob Hope USO show that also featured Mickey Mantle
04:20
Kent McCray on traveling around the country as an associate producer on Bob Hope's USO Shows
17:19
Kent McCray on traveling to South Korea to associate produce Bob Hope's USO shows
09:28
Barney McNulty on doing cue cards for The Ed Wynn Show
28:31
Barney McNulty on a typical workweek writing cue cards for The Ed Wynn Show and working on The George Gobel Show
06:10
Barry McNulty on doing cue cards for The Frank Sinatra Show and on working with a teleprompter
04:42
Barry McNulty on working with Bob Hope on his TV specials
16:57
Barney McNulty on doing cue cards and other duties for Bob Hope's USO Specials
17:16
Barney McNulty on doing cue cards for Milton Berle on The Milton Berle Show
02:43
Barney McNulty on doing cue cards for Let's Make a Deal, Ralph Edwards, and The Carol Burnett Show
01:59
Barney McNulty on doing cue cards for Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
01:25
Walter C. Miller on directing Sing Along with Mitch
05:41
Walter C. Miller on leaving NBC to direct the Barbra Streisand special The Belle of 14th Street with choreographer Joe Layton
06:26
Walter C. Miller on directing ...And Debbie Makes Six starring Debbie Reynolds
00:43
Walter C. Miller on directing Annie, the Women in the Life of a Man starring Anne Bancroft
01:05
Walter C. Miller on directing 'S Wonderful, 'S Marvelous, 'S Gershwin starring Jack Lemmon and Fred Astaire for which he won an Emmy Award
01:50
Walter C. Miller on directing Doug Henning's World of Magic, and on the challenges of doing magic on television
02:04
Walter C. Miller on directing Sha Na Na
02:32
Walter C. Miller on directing Liberty Weekend
02:28
Walter C. Miller on directing Liberty Weekend, with Whitney Houston
02:43
Walter C. Miller on directing Sinatra: Concert for the Americas and his friendship with Frank Sinatra
05:55
Walter C. Miller on directing the 1989 Presidential Inaugural Gala
01:12
Walter C. Miller on directing Dolly Parton's Christmas at Home
01:24
Walter C. Miller on directing A Capital Fourth
02:05
Don Mischer on the Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever Special that made his production company well known - where Michael Jackson first does the moonwalk
11:32
Don Mischer on working with Dolly Parton
02:29
Don Mischer on producing Barbara Walters Specials
09:15
John Moffitt on joining The Ed Sullivan Show as a PA
18:43
John Moffitt on The Beatles' appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show
03:55
John Moffitt on The Beatles' appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show (cont.)
06:25
John Moffitt on directing The Richard Pryor Show
10:54
Howard Morris on co-starring on Admiral Broadway Revue
07:10
Howard Morris on co-starring on Your Show of Shows
08:40
Howard Morris on co-starring on Caesar's Hour
03:17
Howard Morris on The Sid Caesar, Imogene Coca, Carl Reiner, Howard Morris Special
00:48
Howard Morris on directing Laverne & Shirley, The Love Boat, and The Beatrice Arthur Special
00:38
Robert Mott on a sound effects blooper on The Jackie Gleason Show
01:24
Robert Mott on doing sound effects for The Arthur Godfrey Show
01:52
Robert Mott on doing sound effects for The Ed Sullivan Show
03:17
Robert Mott on working on The Garry Moore Show
06:03
Robert Mott on moving to Los Angeles and working on The Red Skelton Show
03:08
Alan Neuman on directing The Three Flames Show
02:33
Alan Neuman on directing the Kate Smith Hour
09:51
Alan Neuman on working with Kate Smith on Kate Smith Hour
07:56
Alan Neuman on directing Broadway Open House
06:15
Alan Neuman on directing various variety shows on location and outdoors
04:15
Bill Persky on writing for The Julie Andrews Show and The Andy Williams Show
10:22
Bill Persky on writing, with Sam Denoff, The Sid Caesar, Imogene Coca, Carl Reiner, Howard Morris Special
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 Hee Haw, on dealing with regional and ethnic audiences when creating a laugh track, and on creating a laugh track for American shows that have been dubbed into another language
06:14
Arthur Rankin Jr. on Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
13:07
Arthur Rankin Jr. on producing The Cricket on the Hearth and The Ballad of Smokey the Bear with James Cagney
05:28
Arthur Rankin Jr. on The Wacky World of Mother Goose with Margaret Rutherford
02:02
Arthur Rankin Jr. on producing The Little Drummer Boy
02:11
Arthur Rankin Jr. on producing Frosty the Snowman with Jimmy Durante
04:09
Arthur Rankin Jr. on producing The Mad, Mad, Mad Comedians
03:23
Arthur Rankin Jr. on producing Santa Claus is Coming to Town with Fred Astaire and Mickey Rooney
05:17
Arthur Rankin Jr. on producing Here Comes Peter Cotton Tail and The Mouse on the Mayflower
02:50
Arthur Rankin Jr. on producing Mad, Mad, Mad Monsters
04:03
Arthur Rankin Jr. on producing The Year without a Santa Claus starring Shirley Booth
04:07
Arthur Rankin Jr. on producing First Christmas, and on getting the rights to White Christmas from Irving Berlin
02:48
Arthur Rankin Jr. on producing The First Easter Rabbit
01:32
Arthur Rankin Jr. on adapting The Hobbit for television
05:23
Arthur Rankin Jr. on producing Jack Frost with Buddy Hackett
02:57
Arthur Rankin Jr. on producing Leprechaun's Christmas Gold
01:49
Arthur Rankin Jr. on producing The Coneheads
02:19
Arthur Rankin Jr. on producing The Wind in the Willows
02:13
Keith Raywood on working on Lorne Michaels' The New Show, and Saturday Night Live
14:14
Keith Raywood on working on various MTV and VH1 productions including the MTV Video Music Awards, MTV Unplugged, and VH1 Storytellers
17:28
Keith Raywood on ways in which he presents music on television, including the Eagles Hell Freezes Over special on MTV
07:16
Keith Raywood on production designing The Concert for New York City after 9/11
07:18
Keith Raywood on production designing for Lip Sync Battle
11:13
Rob Reiner on writing for The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour featuring Tom and Dick Smothers
15:49
Rob Reiner on writing for The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour
02:03
Rob Reiner on writing Romp!!!
01:21
Rob Reiner on guest hosting Saturday Night Live
03:51
Rob Reiner on directing The T.V. Show, which spawned Spinal Tap
02:42
Heino Ripp on acting as technical director for Admiral Broadway Revue and Your Show of Shows
08:04
Heino Ripp on being technical director for The Perry Como Show
18:55
Heino Ripp on The Perry Como Show traveling to other countries, including London and Cuba
11:33
Heino Ripp on acting as technical director for the Barbra Streisand Specials
05:42
Heino Ripp on being technical director for Saturday Night Live
08:53
Fred Rogers on working as floor manager at NBC on NBC Opera Theatre
09:47
Fred Rogers on working as floor manager at NBC on The Kate Smith Hour
Fred Rogers on Kate Smith as a performer on Kate Smith Hour
01:11
Fred Rogers on stage managing The Gabby Hayes Show
05:49
Fred Rogers on imitations of him on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson and by Eddie Murphy on Saturday Night Live
03:24
Herbert S. Schlosser on the genesis of Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In
05:28
Herbert S. Schlosser on programming Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, and on the show being a huge hit for NBC
02:03
Herbert S. Schlosser on programming The Flip Wilson Show, and on other NBC variety shows
02:58
Herbert S. Schlosser on Saturday Night Live
17:32
Arthur Schneider on editing The Colgate Comedy Hour
02:28
Arthur Schneider on editing The Dinah Shore Chevy Show and This Is Your Life
01:56
Arthur Schneider on editing Milton Berle's Texaco Star Theater
02:30
Arthur Schneider on editing The Perry Como Show
01:12
Arthur Schneider on editing Your Show of Shows
00:29
Arthur Schneider on editing the Bob Hope Specials
03:54
Arthur Schneider on editing the Bob Hope Specials
16:33
Arthur Schneider on editing for The Julie Andrews Show, with guest-star Gene Kelly
03:43
Arthur Schneider on editing for The Dean Martin Show
01:17
Arthur Schneider on editing his final Bob Hope Special, and on those being his favorites
04:19
Garry Simpson on directing Macbeth for NBC- considered NBC's first "spectacular"
05:16
Garry Simpson on directing Four Star Revue
03:05
Garry Simpson on directing Jimmy Durante, Ed Wynn, and Jackie Gleason on Four Star Revue
16:48
Garry Simpson on directing the Ford Festival
07:59
Sid Smith on the format, setup, and surveys on Your Hit Parade
05:40
Sid Smith on the studio and music setup, musical guests, and favorite memories of Eddie Condon's Floor Show
06:02
Sid Smith on directing Your Hit Parade
07:34
Sid Smith on directing Jimmy Durante on All Star Revue
13:43
Sid Smith on directing Jimmy Durante on The Jimmy Durante Show
06:20
Sid Smith on the writing, format, guests and audience response to The Jimmy Durante Show
23:22
Sid Smith on becoming one of the main directors of The Bell Telephone Hour
02:40
Sid Smith on the staging of and memorable performances on The Bell Telephone Hour
22:33
Sid Smith on his seventeen year association with Bob Hope, directing Bob Hope Specials
10:52
On directing and producing the Miss U.S.A. and Miss Universe pageants
06:56
Sid Smith on directing Bob Hope Specials
15:55
Sid Smith on directing Circus of the Stars
07:12
Gary Smith on doing art direction for Perry Como's The Kraft Music Hall
05:51
Gary Smith on his duties as a set designer and on working with Harry Belafonte on "Tonight with Belafonte" on The Revlon Revue
06:37
Gary Smith on working with Perry Como on The Kraft Music Hall
04:11
Gary Smith on producing The Judy Garland Show
21:17
Gary Smith on producing The Bell Telephone Hour and Ford Presents the New Christy Minstrels, and on how he came to produce Hullabaloo
07:22
Gary Smith on producing the special Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass
02:07
Gary Smith producing Hullabaloo
05:59
Gary Smith producing The Kraft Music Hall
10:00
Gary Smith on producing various shows in London for Lew Grade including James Paul McCartney and Peter Pan, starring Mia Farrow
05:00
Gary Smith on producing Singer Presents Tony Bennett, directed by Dwight Hemion, and on producing Sammy for Sammy Davis, Jr.
04:36
Gary Smith on producing Burt Bacharach: Opus No. 3 and Bette Midler: Ol' Red Hair Is Back
03:28
Gary Smith on working with Barbra Streisand on her various specials
02:40
Gary Smith on working with Neil Diamond
01:45
Gary Smith on the end of the variety format
01:02
Gale Storm on appearing on Milton Berle's variety show
26:19
Gale Storm on her appearances on The Perry Como Show
02:23
Gale Storm on hosting the NBC Comedy Hour nine times
05:22
Gale Storm on her memories of filming scenes for a special with Bob Hope
02:00
Gale Strom on the producer of The Colgate Comedy Hour Ernie Glucksman
00:18
June Taylor on the June Taylor Dancers appearing on Toast of the Town (later The Ed Sullivan Show)
11:25
June Taylor on expanding the number of June Taylor Dancers when they appeared on The Jackie Gleason Show, and on working with Jackie Gleason
03:05
June Taylor on the kinds of numbers the June Taylor Dancers performed on Toast of the Town (later The Ed Sullivan Show), and on rehearsal and budget for that show
04:29
June Taylor on the June Taylor Dancers performing on Cavalcade of Stars
11:11
June Taylor on the June Taylor Dancers on Cavalcade of Stars
06:15
June Taylor on the June Taylor Dancers on The Jackie Gleason Show
15:34
June Taylor on doing choreography for The Jackie Gleason Show
30:45
June Taylor on choreographing The Jackie Gleason Show
05:37
June Taylor on choreographing Stage Show
06:12
June Taylor on choreographing American Scene Magazine
10:31
June Taylor on choreographing the 1966 version of The Jackie Gleason Show
04:02
June Taylor on the potential for variety shows to make a come back
00:57
Mel Tolkin on writing for Admiral Broadway Revue
17:43
Mel Tolkin on writing for Your Show of Shows
08:55
Mel Tolkin on writing for Your Show of Shows
28:53
Mel Tolkin on writing for Your Show of Shows
10:26
Mel Tolkin on writing for Caesar's Hour
15:57
Mel Tolkin on writing for Caesar's Hour
15:22
Mel Tolkin on writing for The Danny Thomas Show
07:42
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 Sid Caesar, Imogene Coca, Carl Reiner, Howard Morris Special, and on his deal with Universal Television
05:27
Saul Turteltaub on writing The Super Comedy Bowl with writing partner Bernie Orenstein
02:25
Saul Turteltaub on writing for The Carol Burnett Show
08:15
Saul Turteltaub on leaving The Carol Burnett Show to be a producer for The Beautiful Phyllis Diller Show
01:29
Saul Turteltaub on producing The Beautiful Phyllis Diller Show and decisions he regrets making on the show
06:21
Saul Turteltaub on writing a special for Cass Elliot and how that led to Marlo Thomas asking he and his partner Bernie Orenstein to produce That Girl
01:52
Leslie Uggams on getting her start in television as a child on The Milton Berle Show and other variety shows
01:19
Leslie Uggams on appearing Your Show of Shows and The Milton Berle Show as a child and her interactions with the performers and writers
01:44
Leslie Uggams on her work on Sing Along with Mitch
13:36
Leslie Uggams on appearing on The Ed Sullivan Show
01:46
Leslie Uggams on The Leslie Uggams Show
07:37
Bruce Vilanch on working with Florence Henderson on The Brady Bunch Hour
14:07
Bruce Vilanch on writing for Donny & Marie
07:14
Bruce Vilanch on writing for The Paul Lynde Show
06:07
Bruce Vilanch on writing for The Star Wars Holiday Special
05:53
Bruce Vilanch on writing for The Star Wars Holiday Special which featured Beatrice Arthur and Harvey Korman
06:28
Bruce Vilanch on writing for The Barry Manilow Special and for Bette Midler: Ol' Red Hair Is Back
10:55
Bruce Vilanch on writing for Dolly
05:44
Bruce Vilanch on writing for Cher and The Sonny Comedy Review
03:19
Andy Williams on the genesis of The Andy Williams Show
03:30
Andy Williams on his Christmas specials and songs
03:19
Andy Williams on new talent he debuted on The Andy Williams Show, regular guests, rehearsal process, scripts, and how he welcomed guests onto the show
10:27
Andy Williams on guests, "Cookie Bear," the crew of The Andy Williams Show and changes to the show during its last two years, and his show's theme song, "Moon River"
25:06
Andy Williams on why The Andy Williams Show went off the air in 1971 and on continuing to do Christmas specials even though he and his wife were separated by that time
02:20
Bud Yorkin on associate directing The Dinah Shore Show
04:36
Bud Yorkin on associate directing The Tony Martin Show
01:15
Bud Yorkin on producing The Tennessee Ernie Ford Show
06:41
Bud Yorkin on directing Light's Diamond Jubilee for David O. Selznick
04:13
Bud Yorkin on writing, producing, and directing An Evening with Fred Astaire
12:04
Bud Yorkin on producing The Andy Williams Show
02:21
Alan Zweibel on meeting Lorne Michaels and being hired to write for Saturday Night Live
03:27
Alan Zweibel on writing for Saturday Night Live
57:13
Alan Zweibel on writing for Saturday Night Live
28:51
Alan Zweibel on writing for the Lorne Michaels-produced The New Show
04:51
Alan Zweibel on writing for Saturday Night Live
16:22
