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Fred Silverman on becoming head of daytime programming at CBS in New York and changing and fine-tuning the Saturday morning schedule starting with "superhero adventure" programs which included Underdog, the animated Superman, Space Ghost, and Mighty Mouse. He describes in detail developing the long-running Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! and other comedy-adventure and "pure-comedy" programs, and touches on developing spin-off concept at during this time 15:57
Interview: Fred Silverman | Genre: Children's Programming
Fred Silverman on Mike Dann's career at NBC and CBS, on his influence over the move from single program sponsorship to selling parts of programs on a participating basis, and on his role in Silverman's career 02:33
Interview: Fred Silverman | Person: Michael Dann
Fred Silverman on his association with Joesph Barbera of Hanna-Barbera and developing the shows Space Ghost and Frankenstein Jr. and the Impossibles for CBS 01:39
Interview: Fred Silverman | Person: Joseph Barbera
Fred Silverman on CBS president Frank Stanton's initial resistance to the first incarnation of Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! 03:07
Interview: Fred Silverman | Profession: Executives
Fred Silverman on the call-in cartoon puzzle contest "Oobie-Doobie" he created on WPIX in New York, where he had been hired to "turn the kid's block around." This contest title would later play a part in naming Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! 03:40
Interview: Fred Silverman
Fred Silverman on creating Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!, on trying to sell it to the CBS network executives, and coming up with the title of the show 02:30
Interview: Fred Silverman
Fred Silverman on programming Saturday mornings on CBS in the 1960s and the training ground this experience provided 00:21
Interview: Fred Silverman
Fred Silverman on developing the long-running Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! and on solving initial network resistance to the "scary" concept of kids in a haunted house by centering on a goofy dog 03:43
Interview: Fred Silverman | Show: Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!
Fred Silverman on his association with Joesph Barbera of Hanna-Barbera and developing the shows Space Ghost and Frankenstein Jr. and the Impossibles for CBS 01:39
Interview: Fred Silverman | Show: Space Ghost and Dino Boy
Fred Silverman on becoming head of daytime programming at CBS in New York and changing and fine-tuning the Saturday morning schedule to "superhero adventure" programs which included Underdog, the animated Superman, Space Ghost, and Mighty Mouse. He describes in detail developing the long-running Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! and other comedy-adventure and "pure-comedy" programs, and touches on developing spin-off concept during this time 15:59
Interview: Fred Silverman | Topic: Studio and Network Management
Fred Silverman on making CBS the "serial network." 02:01
Interview: Fred Silverman | Genre: Daytime/Primetime Serials
Fred Silverman on going up against NBC's game shows starting with scheduling Joker's Wild , Gambit and bringing back The Price is Right 02:14
Interview: Fred Silverman | Genre: Game Shows
Fred Silverman on Goodson-Todd, Heatter-Quigley, Monty Hall, and Chuck Barris. 01:36
Interview: Fred Silverman | Genre: Game Shows
Fred Silverman on working with Irna Phillips, the writer of one of CBS's serials As the Worlds Turns, on creating the serial for CBS Love is a Many Spendored Thing 04:56
Interview: Fred Silverman | Person: Irna Phillips
Fred Silverman on Irna Phillips and her background in radio, and her ability to survive and thrive creating and writing television serials, and her influence on her fellow serial creators and writers, like All My Children creator Agnes Nixon 01:25
Interview: Fred Silverman | Person: Irna Phillips
Fred Silverman on bringing Jack Barry game show host and producer "out of the wilderness" in developing the game shows The Joker's Wild and Gambit at CBS. He also describes an incident in which Barry was attempting to fix equipment on the set. 03:44
Interview: Fred Silverman | Person: Jack Barry
Fred Silverman on creating two shows with Bob Stewart at CBS, Face is Familiar and The Hollywood Squares. 01:43
Interview: Fred Silverman | Person: Bob Stewart
Fred Silverman on Mark Goodson of Goodson-Todd, the hugely successful game show production company, and on Heatter-Quigley and Chuck Barris. 00:51
Interview: Fred Silverman | Person: Mark Goodson
Fred Silverman on the management style of CBS president, later board chair, William S. Paley including an anecdote about keeping Paley's favorite show, Gunsmoke, on the air 01:54
Interview: Fred Silverman | Person: William S. Paley
Fred Silverman on the management style of CBS president, later board chair, William S. Paley including an anecdote about keeping Paley's favorite show, Gunsmoke, on the air 01:54
Interview: Fred Silverman
Fred Silverman on CBS's daytime programming just before competitor ABC started airing The Newlywed Game, and on CBS's programming response which included expanding and developing daytime serials 01:33
Interview: Fred Silverman | Show: Newlywed Game, The