Don Pike

On his early life and influences; on his music training; on how the Depression impacted his family

On his earliest days in television and early equipment and sets; on meeting Philo T. Farnsworth and going to work for him; on the shop where he worked with Philo T. Farnsworth and the equipment to build cameras and televisions

On building early televisions for Philo T. Farnsworth; on how early television signals worked; on being involved in Philo T. Farnsworth's company Farnsworth Television and Radio

On Farnsworth Television's facilities and its goals; on Philo T. Farnsworth becoming ill and leaving his company, and other inventions that Farnsworth was working on; on the patent battle between Farnsworth's company and RCA

On the impact of Philo T. Farnsworth's declining health on his research, and RCA's iconoscope tube; on engineering cameras for bombs during World War II

On leaving Farnsworth for NBC/RCA; on his responsibilities at NBC/RCA; on perfecting the television picture and the responsibilities of a technical director; on his training program to become a technical director

On working as a technical director in live television and working on Philco-Goodyear Television Playhouse;  on working on Philco-Goodyear Television Playhouse with Delbert Mann and Fred Coe

On the technical aspects of putting on Philco-Goodyear Television Playhouse; on bloopers on live television he witnessed

On being technical director for Lights Out and Your Hit Parade; on being technical director for Chevrolet on Broadway;  on creating early color cameras

On experimenting with different color television systems; on David Sarnoff's involvement in the development of color television; on becoming a color coordinator for NBC

On how the advent of color affected television production; on the challenges of getting early television colors correct; on acting as color coordinator for The Perry Como Show

On going to work for the United States Information Agency at the behest of Robert Kennedy under agency director Edward R. Murrow; on returning to NBC in 1967 as a technical director and acting as technical director on the Miss America Pageant and Super Bowl telecasts;  on going to China to act as technical director for NBC News' coverage of President Richard Nixon's historic visit 

On going to China to act as technical director for NBC News' coverage of President Richard Nixon's historic visit; on going to work covering NASA for NBC

On the legacy of Philo T. Farnsworth; on career highlights and regrets; on working with various people though his career

On B-roll pictures from his career- with Philo T. Farnsworth and his team; working an early television camera circa 1947

On B-roll pictures from his career- studio 3H at 30 Rock circa 1947; bomb with camera mounted on it circa 1942; rear part of bomb with camera mounted on it circa 1947; in Atlantic City working on the Miss America Pageant  circa 1969