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Tom Fontana's interview is now online!

 Mon, 10/19/2009 Show creator, writer, and producer Tom Fontana was interviewed by the Archive in June, 2009. His full interview is available for the first time online, here ! Interview Description: In his Archive interview, Tom Fontana talks about his work as an Emmy Award-winning writer of St. Elsewhere , as well as the writer/producer of such series as Homicide: Life on the Street and Oz . Tom Fontana was interviewed in New York, NY on June 30, 2009; Karen Herman conducted the three-hour interview.

"The Twilight Zone" Celebrates Its 50th Anniversary

 Fri, 10/02/2009 The Twilight Zone debuted on October 2, 1959 and has become one of the crown jewels of classic television over the last fifty years. Series creator Rod Serling won two Emmy Awards for the series, for which he wrote a staggering 92 episodes. The Archive of American Television has interviewed many of the contributors to The Twilight Zone , including writers Richard Matheson , Earl Hamner, Jr., and George Clayton Johnson; associate producer Del Reis man ; directors Lamont Johnson, Richard L. Bare...

Longtime Publicist Frank Liberman Has Died-- Archive Interview Online

 Tue, 09/22/2009 Frank Liberman, who represented Bob Hope and Nat King Cole, among others during his long career, died at age 92. He was interviewed for the Archive by Reba Merrill, in a joint venture with the Publicists’ Guild of America, on February 21, 2001. Click here to view Frank Liberman's entire four-part Archive of American Television Interview. Interview Description: Mr. Liberman chronicled his early career at the New York Daily News and then at Warner Bros. in New York and Chicago where he began in...