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The Archive is sad to report that director John Rich passed away yesterday at the age of 86. Rich was one of the most respected and prolific directors in all...

Actress Mary Tyler Moore received the Screen Actor's Guild Lifetime Achievement Award at Sunday's SAG Awards. Dick Van Dyke presented the award. In her 1997 Archive interview, Moore reflects on...

Phil Rosenthal wanted to be an actor. He and several friends in New York wrote a show called "Tony and Tina's Wedding", in which he acted, and an agent saw...

Ernest Borgnine turns the big 9-5 today! One of the most prolific, well-respected character actors of all time, Borgnine has appeared in over 200 films. He's starred in/been an ensemble...

John Frankenheimer (1930-2002) directed some of television’s most acclaimed productions on Playhouse 90, Climax! and Danger. In his interview from 2000, Frankenheimer speaks in detail about his craft, techniques, and...

Wishing a very happy birthday to actress Jean Stapleton!! The New York City native is best known for playing "Edith Bunker" on the '70s sitcom All in the Family, but...

The Archive recently had the pleasure of conducting an interview with Mr. Danny Devito. Interviewer Amy Harrington of the Pop Culture Passionistas shares a few thoughts about the experience: I...

Based on the BBC's Steptoe and Son, Sanford and Son is the creation of producers Bud Yorkin and Norman Lear. Comedian Redd Foxx starred as widower and junk dealer, "Fred...

"When The Today Show started in the morning, every station manager in the country objected to it because they said, 'who’s gonna get up that early to watch television?'”- Former...

After 43 years on daytime, soap opera One Life to Live will broadcast its final episode today. The creation of Agnes Nixon (who also created All My Children), One Life...

Bo and Hope, John and Marlena, Tom and Alice – some of the most beloved soap opera couples stem from Days of Our Lives. In his Archive interview, Days’ Executive...

With her success on Everybody Loves Raymond and now The Middle, Patricia Heaton is a household name. But that wasn't always so. Heaton spent years as a struggling actress in...

60 years ago today, on January 6, 1957, Elvis Presley's hips were deemed too hot for TV by The Ed Sullivan Show. Elvis had already appeared on the program twice...

Though The Academy Awards celebrate movies, the ceremony also makes for one of television's biggest events: the Oscars are "one big TV show" according to Archive interviewee Ron Howard. The...

He's responsible for those seven strangers, picked to live in a house and have their lives taped, to find out what happens when people stop being polite, and start getting...

It's been called "the kiss of infamy." Sure, there have been many great on-screen kisses over the years -- Scarlett and Rhett in Gone with the Wind, Milton and Karen...

It started as a series of shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show in 1987. It's now the winner of 27 primetime Emmys, has been licensed in more than 100 countries...

Phylicia Rashad is currently directing a production of Lorraine Hansberry's "A Raisin in the Sun" at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City, CA. Rashad is quite familiar with the...

The world is mourning the passing of singer Whitney Houston, who died this past Saturday, February 11, 2012. Radio stations are playing medleys of her hit songs, and last night's...

The 54th Grammy Awards air tonight at 8 p.m. PT/ET on CBS. Performers will include Adele, Jason Aldean, Kelly Clarkson, Foo Fighters, Bruno Mars, Nicki Minaj, Bruce Springstein, and Taylor...