Bill Dana


The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation Presents

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Steve Allen

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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

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Beatrice Arthur on working with Bill Dana when he played "Uncle Angelo" on The Golden Girls
01:23

Reza Badiyi

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Reza Badiyi on Bill Dana guest starring on Get Smart
00:44

Shelley Berman

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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

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Sam Bobrick on working on The Bill Dana Show
00:47

Elias Davis

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Elias Davis and David Pollock on writing for Bill Dana as "Jose Jimenez"
02:17

Sam Denoff

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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

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Barbara Feldon on Get Smart writer/performer Bill Dana
01:06

Dean Hargrove

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Dean Hargrove on writing for Bill Dana
02:33

Jonathan Harris

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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

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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

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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

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Howard Morris on various people he worked with in his career: Bill Dana
00:33

Gary Owens with Emerson College

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Gary Owens on Bill Dana, Spike Jones, and Doodles Weaver
01:40

Bill Persky

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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

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Elias Davis and David Pollock on writing for Bill Dana as "Jose Jimenez"
02:17

Tom Poston

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Tom Poston on working with Bill Dana on The Steve Allen Show
01:23

Ted Rich

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Ted Rich on editing The Bill Dana Show
01:05

George Shapiro

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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

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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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