Mel Tolkin

On his early life and influences; on his hobbies as a kid; on radio he listened to growing up and movies he enjoyed

On realizing he wanted to be a writer; on his accent, and on his earliest experiences with television

On life in New York City in 1945, and on Camp Tamiment; on meeting Max Liebman and Lucille Kallen

On Admiral Broadway Revue and later Your Show of Shows producer Max Liebman; on what Liebman saw in Tolkin's talents when he worked at the Poconos resort Camp Tamiment; on his first impressions of Sid Caesar, whom he met on Admiral Broadway Revue, and on their relationship

On the talents of Imogene Coca on Admiral Broadway Revue and later on Your Show of Shows; on the format of Admiral Broadway Revue, and the use of previously written material from when he and co-writer Lucille Kallen worked at Camp Tamiment; on writing for Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca on Admiral Broadway Revue

On the creation of Your Show of Shows; on how Your Show of Shows was different from Admiral Broadway Revue and on discovering Sid Caesar's talents; on writers Carl Reiner and Howard Morris

On his mother visiting him on Your Show of Shows; on his writing partner Lucille Kallen working on Your Show of Shows; on working with Mel Brooks on Your Show of Shows

On working with Tony Webster and Joe Stein on Your Show of Shows; on Danny and Neil Simon writing for Your Show of Shows; on the most memorable sketches on Your Show of Shows and the types of sketches they did

On how much of Your Show of Shows was improvised on-camera, and on the "This is Your Story" sketch; on the pantomime segments of Your Shows of Shows

On Your Show of Shows being sued over their satire of "From Here to Eternity"; on the pressure of working on Your Show of Shows; on the end of Your Show of Shows

On the Hollywood Blacklist; on splitting up with Lucille Kallen when she went to write for The Imogene Coca Show and he went to write for Caesar's Hour; on the writing staff of Caesar's Hour, and on being the show's head writer

On Mel Brooks writing for Caesar's Hour; on the Caesar's Hour writers Sheldon Keller, Selma Diamond, Gary Belkin, and Mike Stewart; on Caesar's Hour writers Larry Gelbart and Woody Allen

On the talent of the writing staff of Caesar's Hour, and on comparing it to Your Show of Shows; on writing for Nanette Fabray on Caesar's Hour, and comparing her to Imogene Coca; on classic sketches from Caesar's Hour, and on the end of the show

On how television changed and evolved from the 1950s to the 1980s; on writing for The Danny Thomas Show, and on working with producer Sheldon Leonard; on how writing sketches differed from writing a sitcom like The Danny Thomas Show

On writing specific episodes of The Danny Thomas Show; on writing for I'm Dickens ... He's Fenster and for The Danny Kaye Show with Larry Gelbart; on writing The Sid Caesar, Imogene Coca, Carl Reiner, Howard Morris Special and on his deal with Universal Television

On writing The Good Guys, starring Bob Denver and Alan Hale, Jr.; on writing for Bob Hope

On writing for All in the Family with writing partner Larry Rhine and on working with Norman Lear; on the challenges of writing for the "Archie Bunker" character on All in the Family, and on story ideas he had for the show; on Norman Lear's day-to-day involvement with All in the Family, and on the shooting schedule of the show

On writing the controversial All in the Family episode "Edith's 50th Birthday"; on how All in the Family changed over the years, and on dealing with cast members leaving; on writing for Archie Bunker's Place, starring Carroll O'Connor

On writing Joe's World with Norman Lear; on writing for Love, Sidney, starring Tony Randall in which the lead character was homosexual; on teaching comedy writing at UCLA and on the then-current state of television comedy

On his desire to continue working, and on then-current projects; on his accomplishments and his regrets; on the benefits of writing with a partner, and on the best of television

On attending a reunion of the writers of Your Show of Shows; on how he'd like to be remembered; on various people he's worked with in his career

On various people with whom he's worked in his career; on his sons and wife

On b-roll pictures from his career- with a nightclub band; with a marching band; Tamiment Playhouse program; with Lucille Kallen; headshot of Sid Caesar; with Sid Caesar on the set of Your Show of Shows; the entire creative team of Your Show of Shows; the writing team of Caesar's Hour; reunion of Sid Caesar's writers; with Neil Simon, Nathan Lane, Sid Caesar, and Carl Reiner; on the set of The Danny Kaye Show; with Jerry Lewis; Bob Hope writers; posing with his awards; bit of wisdom