TV Movies/Miniseries/Dramatic Specials

Edie Adams on acting with Cloris Leachman in the TV movie Ernie Kovacs, Between the Laughter

Debbie Allen on the impact of Roots; on being cast as "Nan" in Roots: The Next Generations

Debbie Allen on working with her sister Phylicia Rashad on Old Settler for PBS Presents

Debbie Allen on working with her sister Phylicia Rashad on the movie of the week, Polly

John Amos on playing "Kunta Kinte" on Roots (Part 1)

John Amos on playing "Kunta Kinte" on Roots (Part 2)

Julie Andrews on the TV movie Our Sons

Julie Andrews on One Special Night with James Garner

Julie Andrews on starring in the TV movies Eloise at the Plaza and Eloise at Christmastime

Editor Janet Ashikaga on editing the TV movies of The Incredible Hulk

Dick Askin on selling the made-for-television movie The Burning Bed to advertisers

Ed Asner on acting in the miniseries Roots

Ed Asner on acting in the miniseries Rich Man, Poor Man

Hank Azaria on playing "Mitch Albom" in Tuesdays with Morrie  co-starring Jack Lemmon 

Reza Badiyi on directing the TV movie White Water Rebels

Rick Baker on aging Cicely Tyson for The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

Rick Baker on the production of The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman and winning the Emmy Award

Bob Banner on producing The Dinah Shore Chevy Show

Bob Banner on producing Julie and Carol at Carnegie Hall starring Julie Andrews and Carol Burnett

Bob Banner on producing A Salute to American Imagination, the Ford Motors seventy-fifth anniversary celebration and on working with Ed Wynn

Bob Banner on producing My Sweet Charlie on Broadway and later for television starring Patty Duke

Bob Banner on producing the made-for-television movie Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus starring Charles Bronson 

Joseph Barbera on producing the live action The Gathering

Paris Barclay on directing television movies

Bonnie Bartlett on playing "Mamie Eisenhower" in Ike: The War Years

Bonnie Bartlett on appearing in The Deliberate Stranger, Once and Again, Tuesdays with Morrie, and Better Call Saul

Harve Bennett on producing A Woman Called Golda

Dick Berg on producing the movie-of-the-week Thief 

Dick Berg on producing the movie-of-the-week Footsteps  starring Richard Crenna

Dick Berg on producing the movie-of-the-week Firehouse 

Dick Berg on producing the movie-of-the-week Class of '63

Dick Berg on producing the movie-of-the-week Louis Armstrong - Chicago Style

Dick Berg on producing the movie-of-the-week Rape and Marriage: The Rideout Case

Dick Berg on executive producing the miniseries The Word  and Space

Dick Berg on executive producing the miniseries The Martian Chronicles  and Wallenberg

Dick Berg on producing the movie-of-the-week A Rumor of War

Dick Berg on executive producing the made-for-television movies Pronto  and Rated X

Walter Bernstein on writing and directing the HBO production Return to Kansas City starring Matt Dillon and Kyra Sedgwick

Walter Bernstein on writing the HBO TV movie Miss Evers' Boys

Sharon Bialy on her first TV project as a casting director (while still working under Rick Pagano), the TV movie On Fire and learning how to do contracts

Sharon Bialy on actors being attached to a project -- as with Jeff Daniels in The Comey Rule

Sharon Bialy on casting the Hulu miniseries The Act

Sharon Bialy on casting actors to play high-profile, real people, as with The Comey Rule

William Blinn on how he came to adapt Brian's Song for television

William Blinn on adapting Brian's Song

William Blinn on being a writer on Roots

William Blinn on writing the miniseries Roots

William Blinn on writing the miniseries Roots

William Blinn on the made-for-television movie A Question of Love

Steven Bochco on Universal Television's approach to the NBC Mystery Movie "wheel" concept

Haskell Boggs on acting as director of photography for Where Pigeons Go to Die

Haskell Boggs on acting as director of photography for Bonanza: The Return

Ernest Borgnine on working with Franco Zeffirelli on the miniseries "Jesus of Nazareth"

Tom Bosley on appearing in The Right Man starring Art Carney, and on meeting John F. Kennedy

Tom Bosley on appearing in A Step Out of Line with Peter Falk

Tom Bosley on appearing in Vanished and Congratulations It's a Boy

Peter Boyle on starring in the TV movie Echoes in the Darkness and The Challenger

Frances Buss Buch on directing Sorry, Wrong Number for television starring Mildred Natwick

Harvey Bullock on writing Return to Mayberry

LeVar Burton on Roots

LeVar Burton on how Roots raised the bar for TV miniseries

Robert Butler on directing television movies-of-the-week and their lack of specificity compared to series television

Reuben Cannon on casting Winds of War

Reuben Cannon on casting Amerika 

Reuben Cannon on casting and co-producing The Women of Brewster Place

Reuben Cannon on casting Roots: The Next Generations

Dan Castellaneta on playing "Aaron Spelling" in Behind the Camera: The Unauthorized Story of Charlie’s Angels

Gilbert Cates on the TV movie Consenting Adult, for which he was nominated for an Emmy

Gilbert Cates on the TV movie Absolute Strangers

Richard Chamberlain on his work in miniseries

Marge Champion on choreographing Queen of the Stardust Ballroom

Marge Champion on her various activities after her split with Gower Champion including choreographing Queen of the Stardust Ballroom

Margaret Cho on the challenge of getting roles on television when there were no parts for Asian Americans and on her role in the TV movie/pilot Move the Crowd

Roy Christopher on doing production design for The Legendary Curse of the Hope Diamond, and on working with director Delbert Mann

Roy Christopher on doing production design for the 1978 made-for-television movie Fame

Roy Christopher on doing production design for All the Way Home

Dick Clark on producing the TV Movie, "The Woman Who Willed a Miracle"

Robert Conrad on his character "Pasquinel" on Centennial

Barbara Corday on executive producing the made-for-television movie I Dream of Jeannie... 15 Years Later

Alexander Courage on Jerry Goldsmith bringing him on to orchestrate the miniseries QBVII 

Ron Cowen on writing 1985's An Early Frost (with Daniel Lipman), which depicted the AIDS epidemic, being his proudest career achievement

Ron Cowen and Daniel Lipman on their 1985 made-for-television movie An Early Frost

Ron Cowen and Daniel Lipman on their made-for-television movie The Love She Sought

Douglas S. Cramer on developing QB VII

Richard Crenna on starring in the made-for-television movie Thief with Angie Dickinson

Richard Crenna on starring in the made-for-television movie Footsteps

Richard Crenna on starring in a television remake of Double Indemnity

Richard Crenna on appearing in Nightmare with Patty Duke

Richard Crenna on appearing in Shootout in a One Dog Town

Richard Crenna on appearing in Honky Tonk

Richard Crenna on appearing in Double Solitaire

Richard Crenna on appearing in A Girl Named Sooner, directed by Delbert Mann

Richard Crenna on appearing in the "Frank Janek" series of made-for-television movies

Hume Cronyn on appearing in Moon and Sixpence  with Jessica Tandy and Laurence Olivier

Hume Cronyn on appearing in the made-for-television movie The Gin Game  with Jessica Tandy

Judy Crown on being a hair stylist for The Day After

Judy Crown on doing hair for Geppetto starring Drew Carey

Judy Crown on styling hair for Bye Bye Birdie starring Jason Alexander and Vanessa Williams

Judy Crown on styling hair for The Great Houdini, and on winning an Emmy for it

William Daniels on appearing in the television movie A Case of Rape

William Daniels on playing G. Gordon Liddy in Blind Ambition

Ossie Davis on the impact Roots had on American culture, and on his and Ruby Dee's first meeting with Alex Haley

Ossie Davis on his groundbreaking role in The Outsider

James Day on Woody Allen's Men of Crisis: The Harvey Wallinger Story

Ruby Dee on her and husband Ossie Davis' involvement in the development of Roots

Thomas Del Ruth on acting as director of photography for Barbarians at the Gate

Richard Donner on directing the made-for-television movie Sarah T. Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic

David Dortort on executive producing the miniseries The Chisholms, starring Robert Preston

David Dortort on working on later Bonanza made-for-television movies with Ben Johnson and Lorne Greene appearing in one of them

Charles S. Dubin on directing The Dinah Shore Chevy Show, The Virginian, The Meanest Man in the West, Tarzan, and The Big Valley

Charles S. Dubin on directing Cinderella, starring Lesley Ann Warren

Charles S. Dubin on directing Roots: The Next Generations, and on working with Henry Fonda on that show

Charles S. Dubin on directing The Masterpiece of Murder starring Bob Hope

Patty Duke on playing "Anne Sullivan" in the TV movie of The Miracle Worker opposite Melissa Gilbert as "Helen Keller"

Hector Elizondo on starring in the 1992 made-for-television movie Burden of Proof

Nanette Fabray on appearing in Happy Anniversary & Goodbye with Lucille Ball

Nanette Fabray on appearing with Fred Astaire in The Man in the Santa Claus Suit, and on working with him in the feature "The Band Wagon"

Mike Fenton on casting Somebody Has to Shoot the Picture

Mike Fenton on casting Louisiana  

Mike Fenton on casting Dinotopia and other mini-series or made-for-television movies

Mike Fenton on casting Friendly Fire with Carol Burnett 

Mike Fenton on casting Out on a Limb with Shirley MacLaine

Sally Field on starring in and executive producing A Woman of Independent Means

Sally Field on directing The Christmas Tree starring Julie Harris

Sally Field on starring in Sybil

John Forsythe on starring in See How They Run, the first made-for-television movie

John Forsythe on starring in the made-for-television movie "A Bell for Adano"  for Hallmark Hall of Fame

John Forsythe on playing "Blake Carrington" on Dynasty

Eddie Foy III on casting Fireball Forward

Eddie Foy III on casting City Beneath the Sea

Eddie Foy III on casting Breaking Up Is Hard To Do

Eddie Foy III on casting Friendly Fire

Eddie Foy III on casting The Man in the Santa Claus Suit

John Frankenheimer on directing Gary Sinise in George Wallace

Gerald Fried composing for made-for-TV movies, including The Ordeal of Dr. Mudd and The Incredible Journey of Doctor Meg Laurel

Chuck Fries on producing QB VII, the first miniseries

Chuck Fries on producing the miniseries The Word written by Dick Berg

Chuck Fries on producing the made-for-television movie A Rumor of War

Chuck Fries on producing A Rumor of War

Chuck Fries on producing The Martian Chronicles

Chuck Fries on producing The Queen of Mean starring Lloyd Bridges and Suzanne Pleshette

Michael Fuchs on developing the made-for-television movies Stalin and Sakharov for HBO

James Garner on Heartsounds and the miniseries Space

James Garner on the made-for-television movie Barbarians at the Gate

Brad Garrett on playing Jackie Gleason in the TV movie Gleason

David Gerber on producing Gibbsville

David Gerber on producing Beulah Land

David Gerber on producing The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case

David Gerber on going to work for MGM and shepherding George Washington

David Gerber on producing Flight 93 

Melissa Gilbert on working with Patty Duke on The Miracle Worker

Melissa Gilbert on the TV movie Splendor in the Grass

Melissa Gilbert on Choices with George C. Scott

Leonard Goldberg on hiring Barry Diller and re-vamping the ABC Sunday Night Movie

Leonard Goldberg on the creation on the made-for-TV movie

Leonard Goldberg on the creation of the TV movie Brian's Song

Leonard Goldberg on producing the TV movie The Boy in the Plastic Bubble, starring John Travolta

Leonard Goldberg on executive producing the TV movie Something About Amelia

Leonard H. Goldenson on ABC's success with miniseries and movies of the week

Leonard H. Goldenson on the decision to air Roots on consecutive nights

Jerry Goldsmith on composing for various made-for-television movies in the '70s including The Homecoming, the pilot for The Waltons

Jerry Goldsmith on composing for QB VII

Jerry Goldsmith on composing for Babe and Pursuit

Jerry Goldsmith on composing for Contract on Cherry Street

Jerry Goldsmith on composing for Hollywood Television Theater and Masada

Louis Gossett, Jr. on being cast as "Fiddler" in Roots, and on his initial disappointment with the role

Louis Gossett, Jr. on playing "Dr. MacArthur St. Clair" on The Lazarus Syndrome

Louis Gossett, Jr. on playing "Anwar al-Sadat" in Sadat

Herb Granath on starting the Hallmark Movie Channel

Walon Green on writing and executive producing the television movie Strange New World from a concept by Gene Roddenberry

Walon Green on adapting "Killing Jesus," based on Bill O'Reilly's book, for a National Geographic Special

Robert Halmi, Sr. on producing the 1979 television movie My Old Man and financing it directly through advertisers, rather than the networks

Robert Halmi, Sr. on producing the TV movie Nurse  

Robert Halmi, Sr. on producing TV movies

Robert Halmi, Sr. on producing the miniseries Lonesome Dove

Robert Halmi, Sr. on what makes a great miniseries

Robert Halmi, Sr. on producing TV movies and miniseries

Robert Halmi, Sr. on producing TV movies and miniseries

Earl Hamner on working on the TV version of the TV movie The Homecoming

Earl Hamner on working on the TV version of Heidi

Earl Hamner on reuniting for six Waltons reunion TV movies

Earl Hamner on writing the TV movie The Gift of Love: A Christmas Story

Albert Heschong on art directing several made for television movies

Albert Heschong on directing My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Legend of Errol Flynn

Albert Heschong on art directing the made for television movie Visions

Martin Hoade on directing the made-for-television movie Duty Bound, about the Vietnam War

Leslie Hoffman on performing stunts for Centennial 

Leslie Hoffman on doing stunts for The Munsters Revenge 

Hal Holbrook on appearing in the groundbreaking made-for-television movie That Certain Summer

Hal Holbrook on playing "Abraham Lincoln" in various projects, including North and South and Sandburg's Lincoln

Lee Holdridge on working on the TV miniseries East of Eden

Ron Howard on financing his own TV movies in the early 1980s, and learning valuable lessons of fiscal responsibility

Felicity Huffman on appearing on an ABC Afterschool Special called "Home Run for Love" when she was fifteen

Felicity Huffman on appearing on the Stephen King miniseries Golden Years, which she considers her first big break

Felicity Huffman and William H. Macy on the TV movie The Water Engine, based on the David Mamet play

Felicity Huffman and William H. Macy on the TV movie A Slight Case of Murder, written by Macy and Steven Schachter

Felicity Huffman and William H. Macy on the Showtime miniseries Out of Order, in which they both appeared

Roy Huggins on creating the movie of the week concept

Kim Hunter on the made-for-television movie Skokie

Kim Hunter on the made-for-television movie Out of the Cold

Herb Jellinek on ABC Circle Films' Eleanor and Franklin

Herb Jellinek on the vision of ABC Circle Films and on the various programming it produced including Love Among the Ruins starring Katharine Hepburn and Laurence Olivier

Herb Jellinek on ABC Circle Films' production of Eleanor and Franklin and art director Jan Scott

Herb Jellinek on ABC Circle Films' production of Ike: The War Years

Herb Jellinek on The Day After

Herb Jellinek on War and Remembrance, starring Robert Mitchum

Herb Jellinek on Jane Seymour in War and Remembrance and other members of the cast and crew

Joseph Jennings on being accurate with his art direction including on North and South

Joseph Jennings on doing art direction for Alex Haley's Roots

Joseph Jennings on doing art direction for Shogun

Joseph Jennings on acting as art director for Shogun  in Japan

Joseph Jennings on doing art direction for James Michener's Space

Joseph Jennings on doing art direction for North and South

Joseph Jennings on acting as art director for Ironclads

Geri Jewell on appearing in the TV movie Two of a Kind

Lamont Johnson on breaking the Hollywood Blacklist, and on the blacklist drama Fear on Trial

Lamont Johnson on directing the groundbreaking gay drama That Certain Summer, starring Martin Sheen and Hal Holbrook

Lamont Johnson on directing The Execution of Private Slovik

Lamont Johnson on directing Crisis at Central High

Lamont Johnson on directing Dr. Kildare, starring Richard Chamberlin, and The Execution of Private Slovik

Lamont Johnson on directing Unnatural Causes

Lamont Johnson on directing The Kennedys of Massachusetts

Lamont Johnson on directing Voices Within: The Lives of Truddi Chase

Lamont Johnson on directing The Broken Chain

Russell Johnson on the TV movies of Gilligan's Island

Quincy Jones on producing Duke Ellington... We Love You Madly

Quincy Jones on the impact of Roots

H. Wesley Kenney on directing ABC Afternoon Playbreak: Miss Kline We Love You

Kim Kimble on being the hair stylist for Hallmark's 2024 television movie Sense and Sensibility

Ernest Kinoy on writing the made-for-television movie Crawlspace 

Ernest Kinoy on writing the made-for-television movie Victory at Entebbe

Ernest Kinoy on writing Roots and Roots: The Next Generations

Ernest Kinoy on writing the made-for-television movie Skokie

Bernie Kopell on appearing in the 1966 television production of Death of a Salesman with Lee J. Cobb and Mildred Dunnock

Harvey Korman on the TV Movie Bud and Lou

Rita Lakin on working with Aaron Spelling, and on writing the television movie Women in Chains

Rita Lakin on writing Death Takes a Holiday

Rita Lakin on writing A Summer without Boys, and on working with Hugh Hefner on that show

Rita Lakin on the television movie Torn Between Two Lovers, and on advancing the cause of more women television writers

Paul LaMastra on editing the made-for-television movie Wallenberg: A Hero's Story

Paul LaMastra on editing the made-for-television movie Eleanor and Franklin

Paul LaMastra on editing the made-for-television movie Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy

Louise Lasser on writing Just Me and You

Louise Lasser on appearing in the Ingmar Bergman-scripted made-for-television movie The Lie

Jack Lemmon on appearing in the special The Entertainer  

Barry Levinson on directing the HBO movie You Don't Know Jack

Barry Levinson on executive producing the HBO movie Phil Spector

Barry Levinson on the experience of working with HBO on TV movies

Richard Lewis on his involvement in the made-for-television movie concept

Richard Lewis on the process of filming made-for-television movies as opposed to feature films and on networks' reaction to the concept

Judith Light on starring in A Step Toward Tomorrow with Christopher Reeve

Judith Light on starring in Men Don't Tell

William Link on adapting his stage play "Enough Rope" to the made-for-television movie Prescription: Murder the basis for the Columbo series

William Link on various made-for-television movies he wrote with Richard Levinson

William Link on writing and producing That Certain Summer

William Link on My Sweet Charlie

William Link on writing and producing The Execution of Private Slovik

William Link on the controversial TV movie, The Gun

William Link on the anti-violence TV movie, The Storyteller

William Link on Terrorist on Trial: The United States vs. Salim Ajami

William Link on his and Richard Levinson's affinity for writing mystery made-for-television movies

Barry Livingston on appearing off-Broadway and in the TV movie You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown

Barry Livingston on his role in the TV movie High School U.S.A. . in which former child stars play the teachers to then-current child stars

Sidney Lumet on directing the two-part movie for television The Sacco-Vanzetti Story

William H. Macy on the TV movie Door to Door, which he co-wrote and starred in

Loring Mandel on writing To Confuse the Angel, starring Lee J. Cobb, and I Remember Illinois

Loring Mandel on writing The Best of Families

Loring Mandel on writing Benjamin Franklin

Loring Mandel on writing Lincoln and the American Parade episode "The Case Against Milligan," and on how working for PBS was different from working for networks

Loring Mandel on writing The Trial of Chaplain Jensen and Breaking Up

Loring Mandel on writing Conspiracy

Abby Mann on developing the made-for-television movie King

Abby Mann on The Marcus-Nelson Murders

Abby Mann on casting Paul Winfield as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in King, and on how King was portrayed

Abby Mann on writing The Atlanta Child Murders

Abby Mann on writing Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story

Abby Mann on writing Sinatra

Abby Mann on writing Indictment: The McMartin Trial

Anita Mann on choreographing The Legend of Valentino

Delbert Mann on returning to directing for television in 1967 with Heidi

Delbert Mann on directing David Copperfield

Martin Manulis on producing the miniseries Space and Harem, and the made-for-television movie Grass Roots

Bob Markell on working on Ceremony Of Innocence at PBS

Bob Markell on working on TV movie, Doctor Cook's Garden for ABC

Bob Markell on producing two movies of the week for CBS: Murder Once Removed and This Tattered Web

Bob Maerkell on the movie of the week, Twenty Shades of Pink

Bob Markell on The Tenth Level

Bob Markell on You Can't Go Home Again

Bob Markell on the miniseries, The Dane Curse

Bob Markell on the miniseries If Tomorrow Comes

Penny Marshall on appearing in the made-for-television movie Love Thy Neighbor  with John Ritter

Jerry Mathers on working on the TV movie Still The Beaver

Bob McGrath on one of his first jobs in television, working on the Hallmark Hall of Fame

Eryn Krueger Mekash on her work for the miniseries It and how working on a miniseries compared to working on a film

Eryn Krueger Mekash on her approach to the makeup on The Normal Heart, and on winning an Emmy for her work

S. Epatha Merkerson on her Lackawanna Blues character "Nanny"and winning an Emmy and Golden Globe for her performance

S. Epatha Merkerson on appearances in TV movies and projects dealing with social issues; on auditioning

S. Epatha Merkerson on starring in the HBO movie Lackawanna Blues

Nolan Miller on costuming The Boy in the Plastic Bubble starring John Travolta

Nolan Miller on costume designing for The Two Mrs. Grenvilles starring Ann-Margret and Claudette Colbert

Walter C. Miller on The Hallmark Hall of Fame production of "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown"

Paul Monash on producing Stalin

Paul Monash on producing Kingfish

Paul Monash on writing and producing George Wallace

Millie Moore on editing the TV movies The Rape of Richard Be ck, To Heal A Nation, and The Tenth Man

Thomas Moore on producing The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

Harry Morgan on Roots

Pat Morita on starring in Farewell to Manzanar, which portrayed the Japanese internment camps

Pat Morita on appearing in Hiroshima

Pat Morita on appearing in Amos with Kirk Douglas for which he was nominated for an Emmy Award

Pat Morita on appearing in Babes in Toyland with Drew Barrymore

Pat Morita on appearing in Larry Gelbart's Mastergate

Tad Mosel on his work on The Adams Chronicles 

Tad Mosel on dealing with network censorship on an NBC adaptation of All the Way Home

Tad Mosel on writing The Adams Chronicles 

Diana Muldaur on appearing in The Miracle Worker starring Melissa Gilbert and Patty Duke

Dan Wilcox and Thad Mumford on writing the fifth installment of Roots: The Next Generations

Don Ohlmeyer on producing the television movie Special Bulletin

Lyn Paolo on being the costume designer for Little Fires Everywhere

Lyn Paolo on being the costume designer on Inventing Anna

Lyn Paolo on being the costume designer on Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story

Fess Parker on starring in Climb an Angry Mountain, and on an unsold pilot he made

Estelle Parsons on playing "Bess Truman" in Backstairs at the White House

Bill Persky on directing Orson Welles in the Hallmark Hall of Fame production of "The Man Who Came to Dinner"

Daniel Petrie, Sr. on directing Silent Night, Lonely Night

Daniel Petrie, Sr. on directing Sally Field in Sybil

Daniel Petrie, Sr. on the challenges of directing Sybil

Daniel Petrie, Sr. on directing Eleanor and Franklin and Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years

Daniel Petrie, Sr. on directing The Dollmaker

Daniel Petrie, Sr. on directing My Name Is Bill W.

Daniel Petrie, Sr. on directing Kissinger and Nixon

Daniel Petrie, Sr. on directing Calm at Sunset and Inherit the Wind

Pam Polifroni on casting The Homecoming: A Christmas Story, and The Waltons

Pam Polifroni on casting the television movie The Migrants and the pilot Three for the Road

Marian Rees on producing The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

Marian Rees on producing Deadman's Curve

Marian Rees on producing The  Cracker Factory

Marian Rees on producing Orphan Train

Marian Rees on producing The Marva Collins Story

Marian Rees on producing Angel Dusted

Marian Rees on executive producing "Love Is Never Silent" for Hallmark Hall of Fame  (Part 2)

Marian Rees on executive producing Foxfire  starring Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy

Marian Rees on executive producing "Miss Rose White" for Hallmark Hall of Fame

Marian Rees on executive producing "The Shell Seekers" for Hallmark Hall of Fame

Marian Rees on executive producing Between Friends  with Elizabeth Taylor and Carol Burnett (Part 1)

Marian Rees on working with Elizabeth Taylor and Carol Burnett on Between Friends  (Part 2)

Marian Rees on executive producing The Gift of Love  starring Andy Griffith 

Marian Rees on executive producing Is There Life Out There?

Marian Rees on executive producing When the Vows Break

Marian Rees on executive producing Ruby Bridges

Marian Rees on producing Ruby Bridges (Part 2)

Marian Rees on executive producing Miss All-American Beauty

Marian Rees on producing "Love Is Never Silent" for Hallmark Hall of Fame

Lee Rich on the Lorimar production, The Blue Knight

Lee Rich on the Lorimar production, Sybil

Lee Rich on the Lorimar production, Helter Skelter, the Charles Manson story

Rita Riggs on costuming Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years

Doris Roberts on appearing in the television movie Ruby and Oswald

Doris Roberts on appearing in The Diary of Anne Frank

Fatima Robinson on choreographing the TV movies Lackawanna Blues and Their Eyes Were Watching God

Howard Rosenberg on made-for-television movies, miniseries and specials

Meta Rosenberg on producing Off the Minnesota Strip co-written with David Chase

Stanley Ralph Ross on being a creative consultant for and appearing in Helter Skelter

Stanley Ralph Ross on writing Three on a Date, directed by Bill Bixby

Stanley Ralph Ross on writing Murder at the Mardi Gras, starring David Groh and Didi Conn

Stanley Ralph Ross on writing Sky Heist and producing For the Love of It, directed by Hal Kanter

Stanley Rubin on producing the TV movie Babe

Joseph Sargent on directing Hustling  in Los Angeles

Joseph Sargent on directing The Marcus Nelson Murders

Joseph Sargent on directing James Cagney in Terrible Joe Moran

Joseph Sargent on directing Manions of America

Joseph Sargent on directing Playing for Time

Joseph Sargent on working with Elizabeth Taylor on There Must Be a Pony

Joseph Sargent on directing the miniseries Space

Joseph Sargent on directing the made-for-television movie Love is Never Silent  for Hallmark Hall of Fame

Joseph Sargent on directing the made-for-television movie Miss Rose White

Joseph Sargent on directing Angela Lansbury in The Love She Sought

Joseph Sargent on directing Abraham  for TNT

Joseph Sargent on directing Miss Evers' Boys

Joseph Sargent on directing Warm Springs

Thomas W. Sarnoff on NBC's early dominance of long-form television programming

Thomas W. Sarnoff on bringing back Bonanza in TV movies featuring the next generation - Bonanza: The Next Generation (1988), Bonanza: The Return (1993) and Bonanza: Under Attack (1995)

William Schallert on his work in the Stephen King TV miniseries Bag of Bones

Edgar Scherick on producing (and being a writer on) the TV movie Raid on Entebbe (1976)

Edgar Scherick on producing the TV movie Uncle Tom's Cabin

Edgar Scherick on producing the TV miniseries On Wings of Eagles

Edgar Scherick on producing the TV miniseries The Kennedys of Massachusetts

Edgar Scherick on the response to the TV movie Raid on Entebbe (1976)

Herbert S. Schlosser on Lew Wasserman and Jennings Lang at Universal packaging the first made-for-television movies for NBC, including The Killers

Herbert S. Schlosser on programming and developing Jesus of Nazareth

Herbert S. Schlosser on programming and developing Holocaust

Alfred Schneider on negotiating the depiction of the controversial subject matter of That Certain Summer

Alfred Schneider on regulating portrayals of violence in Roots versus S.W.A.T. and The Six Million Dollar Man

Alfred Schneider on working with Producer Leonard Goldberg on his TV movie Something About Amelia, which dealt with incest

Alfred Schneider on his pride in his work on The Day After

Alfred Schneider on allowing nudity to be shown in The Winds of War

Jan Scott on doing production design for Andersonville, with George C. Scott

Jan Scott on doing production design for Eleanor and Franklin for director Daniel Petrie

Jan Scott on doing production design for Eleanor and Franklin

Jan Scott on doing production design for Roots

Jan Scott on doing production design for The Gathering, starring Ed Asner

Jan Scott on doing production design for Orphan Train

Jan Scott on doing production design for Evergreen

Jan Scott on doing production design for Foxfire, with Jessica Tandy

Jan Scott on working on The Kennedys of Massachusetts, directed by Lamont Johnson

Jan Scott on her more recent production design jobs, including Harvest of Fire, The Summer of Ben Tyler, and The Love Letter

Jan Scott on her final production design job, Grace & Glorie

William Self on various movies and miniseries he developed for CBS, and the challenge of making made-for-television movies

John Shaffner on art directing the made-for-television movie A Lathe of Heaven and The Cheever Stories

Esther Shapiro on getting hired by ABC's Brandon Stoddard to start the miniseries department

Richard and Esther Shapiro on writing the made-for-TV movie Sarah T.: Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic

Richard and Esther Shapiro on writing the made-for-TV movie Minstrel Man

Richard and Esther Shapiro on writing the made-for-TV movie Intimate Strangers

Esther Shapiro on why miniseries worked well for the TV audience of the 1970s

Esther Shapiro on developing the miniseries Pearl

Esther Shapiro on developing the miniseries Roots: The Next Generation

Richard and Esther Shapiro on writing the made-for-TV movie Sarah T.: Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic

Richard and Esther Shapiro on writing the made-for-TV movie Minstrel Man

Richard and Esther Shapiro on writing the made-for-TV movie Intimate Strangers

William Shatner on starring in Andersonville

Mel Shavelson on his work on the miniseries Ike: The War Years

Mel Shavelson on his TV movie The Great Houdini

Sid Sheinberg on Universal Television producing movies-of-the-week starting with The Killers

Cybill Shepherd on executive producing the TV movie Memphis

Cybill Shepherd on playing Martha Stewart in two TV movies, Martha, Inc: The Story of Martha Stewart and Martha Behind Bars

Fred Silverman on developing specials, mini-series, and television movies for ABC

Doris Singleton on working on a TV movie The Boy Who Stole the Elephant

Mark Snow on composing for the TV movie The Boy in the Plastic Bubble

Mark Snow on composing for the TV movie Something About Amelia

John Soh on editing Hiroshima

Aaron Spelling on producing the HBO movie And the Band Played On

Lynn Stalmaster on casting and producing Footsteps, and on why he became a producer

Lynn Stalmaster on casting Katherine starring Sissy Spacek, Art Carney and Henry Winkler

Lynn Stalmaster on casting The Entertainers starring Jack Lemmon and Ishi: The Last of His Tribe

Lynn Stalmaster on casting Letters From Frank and Flesh and Blood

Lynn Stalmaster on casting Amber Waves and The Executioner's Song

Lynn Stalmaster on casting The Torn Birds starring Richard Chamberlin and Barbara Stanwyck

Lynn Stalmaster on casting Ernie Kovacs: Between the Laughter

Lynn Stalmaster on casting Roots

Lynn Stalmaster on the legacy of Roots

Fred Steiner on working on Death of a Salesman

Dick Stiles on doing art direction for Scarecrow with Jan Scott

Dick Stiles on doing art direction for Awake and Sing

Brandon Stoddard on developing The Day After

Brandon Stoddard on developing Amerika

Brandon Stoddard on developing The Thorn Birds

Brandon Stoddard on developing Rich Man, Poor Man

Brandon Stoddard on developing the "novel for television" and early made-for-television movies on which he worked

Brandon Stoddard on developing Roots and Roots: The Next Generations

Brandon Stoddard on developing The Day After

Brandon Stoddard on developing The Winds of War and War and Remembrance 

Brandon Stoddard on developing Masada

George Takei on the TV movie The Year of the Dragon (1975)

Marlo Thomas on bringing Free to be... You and Me to television; on the use of satellites; on television's responsibility to children

Richard Thomas on originating the role of "John-Boy Walton" in the made-for-television movie The Homecoming: A Christmas Story

Richard Thomas on appearing in Roots: The Next Generations

Richard Thomas on appearing in All Quiet on the Western Front, directed by Delbert Mann and other made-for-television movies and miniseries

Tony Thomas on producing Brian's Song

Daniel J. Travanti on appearing in A Case of Libel, and on playing "John Walsh" in Adam

Daniel J. Travanti on starring as "Edward R. Murrow" in Murrow

Daniel J. Travanti on playing "Edward R. Murrow" in Murrow

Daniel J. Travanti on starring in Howard Beach: Making a Case for Murder and various feature films

Neil Travis on how being on location for Roots helped inform his editing, leading to his Emmy win

Leslie Uggams on Roots

Leslie Uggams on Backstairs at the White House

Timothy Van Patten on his work on the HBO miniseries The Pacific

Timothy Van Patten on his work on the TNT miniseries Into The West

Jac Venza on production design for Wonderful Town starring Rosalind Russell

Jac Venza on production designing Twenty-Four Hours in a Woman's Life starring Ingrid Bergman and Rip Torn

Jac Venza on The Adams Chronicles

Ellen M. Violett on adapting Go Ask Alice for television

Dennis Weaver on starring in the TV movie Duel directed by Steven Spielberg

Michael Westmore on makeup for the miniseries Eleanor and Franklin

Michael Westmore on makeup for the nuclear fallout portrayed in The Day After

Michael Westmore on makeup for the television movie, Why Me?

Michael Westmore on working with Elizabeth Taylor on the television movie Malice in Wonderland

Joseph M. Wilcots on doing cinematography for Roots

Joseph M. Wilcots on doing cinematography for Roots and Roots: The Next Generations

Cindy Williams on appearing in the made-for-television movie The Stepford Husbands

David L. Wolper on producing The First Woman President directed by Delbert Mann

David L. Wolper on executive producing Roots

David L. Wolper on executive producing Roots

David L. Wolper on executive producing Roots and Roots: The Next Generations

David L. Wolper on executive producing The Thorn Birds

David L. Wolper on executive producing North and South

David L. Wolper on executive producing North and South

David L. Wolper on producing Alex Haley's Queen

David L. Wolper on how cable television impacted television documentaries and miniseries