Steve Allen

    Steve Allen on sketches on The Tonight Show - The Question Man

    03:46

    Steve Allen on bringing his Tonight Show staff to his prime-time Steve Allen Show and adding some writers

    00:40

    Beatrice Arthur with Emerson College

    Beatrice Arthur on working with Bill Dana when he played "Uncle Angelo" on The Golden Girls

    01:23

    Reza Badiyi

    Reza Badiyi on Bill Dana guest starring on Get Smart

    00:44

    Shelley Berman

    Shelley Berman on coming up with a comedy routine after riffing with Bill Dana backstage at the Hungry i in San Francisco, which became "The Traveling Man's Nightmare"

    02:03

    Sam Bobrick

    Sam Bobrick on working on The Bill Dana Show

    00:47

    Elias Davis

    Elias Davis and David Pollock on writing for Bill Dana as "Jose Jimenez"

    02:17

    Sam Denoff

    Sam Denoff on meeting Bill Dana

    00:22

    Sam Denoff on writing for The Steve Allen Show on ABC in 1961, with head writer Bill Dana

    01:07

    Sam Denoff on writing for The Bill Dana Show

    00:34

    Barbara Feldon

    Barbara Feldon on Get Smart writer/performer Bill Dana

    01:06

    Dean Hargrove

    Dean Hargrove on writing for Bill Dana

    02:33

    Jonathan Harris

    Jonathan Harris on playing "Mr. Phillips" on The Bill Dana Show

    05:04

    Jonathan Harris on the writing The Bill Dana Show and Sheldon Leonard's direction

    04:18

    Don Knotts

    Don Knotts on co-star/writer Bill Dana (and on the weatherman sketch on The Steve Allen Show

    01:33

    Norman Lear with Emerson College

    Norman Lear on Bill Dana running errands for The Martha Raye Show and on Dana and Lear's early years getting to know each other

    05:35

    Norman Lear on Bill Dana writing the "Sammy's Visit" episode of All in the Family -- and the script not being submitted for an Emmy award for Bill Dana

    03:47

    Howard Morris

    Howard Morris on various people he worked with in his career: Bill Dana

    00:33

    Gary Owens with Emerson College

    Gary Owens on Bill Dana, Spike Jones, and Doodles Weaver

    01:40

    Bill Persky

    Bill Persky on Bill Dana, who hired him and partner Sam Denoff to be writers on The New Steve Allen Show and how they got him their 10 pound spec script

    09:17

    David Pollock

    Elias Davis and David Pollock on writing for Bill Dana as "Jose Jimenez"

    02:17

    Tom Poston

    Tom Poston on working with Bill Dana on The Steve Allen Show

    01:23

    Ted Rich

    Ted Rich on editing The Bill Dana Show

    01:05

    George Shapiro

    George Shapiro and Bill Dana on Andy Kaufman at the first American Comedy Awards

    00:53

    George Shapiro on clients Bill Persky and Sam Denoff getting hired by Bill Dana on The Steve Allen Show

    02:10

    Leonard Stern

    Bill Dana's "Jose Jiminez" character on The Steve Allen Show ; how it came about

    32:26

    Leonard Stern on the origin of Bill Dana's "Jose Jimenez" character

    00:49

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