Bill Dana

The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation Presents

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Bill Dana with Emerson College

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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

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

00:49

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