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The Archive has now posted its interview with Roger Ebert, conducted in 2005 on the set of Ebert & Roeper in Chicago. Click here to access his entire interview. Roger...

Multi-Emmy Award-winning actor Dennis Franz's 2-1/2 hour interview is now online. Franz was awarded four Emmy Awards for playing "Andy Sipowicz" on NYPD Blue. In part 4 of his interview...

Kitty Carlisle Hart, best known for her long run as a regular panelist on To Tell The Truth (from 1957 to 1991 in its various runs), and who acted in...

Here's a fun site, courtesy of WIRED magazine, with photos of televisions and television technology from the 1920s to today. You can access it by clicking the link below. From...

Actress Ruby Dee's Archive of American Television interview is now online. Interview Description: In her 4-part (each 30-minute segment is posted separately) oral history interview, actress Ruby Dee describes her...

Last night's episode of Boston Legal found William Shatner flashing back to a role he played during television's Golden Age. "The Defender," shown on the dramatic anthology series Studio One...

Archive interviewee Tom Moore, former program chief of ABC (1957-63), ABC president (1963-68) and independent producer ( The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, the Body Human series), died at the...

'70s/'80s hit-maker Garry Marshall's 6-part Archive interview is now available online. Click here to access the entire interview. Excerpt: Marshall on the initial concept of "Fonzie" on Happy Days from...

Walter: Maude, did you wreck the car again? Maude: Did you hear that, everybody? Did you hear that? Not "Maude, are you sick?" Or "Maude, are you unhappy?" Or even...

Sterling Quinlan, who helped build station WBKB-TV (now WLS) in Chicago, has died at age 90. Quinlan is pictured here at right (in brown jacket) with Archive interviewer Roy Leonard...

Director James Sheldon's Archive of American Television Interview is now online. In part 4 of his interview, Sheldon talks about working with James Dean in "live" television. James Dean appeared...

We're happy to report that legendary television executive Fred Silverman's interview is now online. At almost 6-1/2 hours, this amazing interview encompasses over three decades of television history and gives...

Students: Just a reminder that the deadline applications for the Television Academy Foundation's Student Internship Program -- Summer 2007 is March 15th. Even if you've watched just one Archive interview...

Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve celebrates its 35th anniversary with the Dec 31, 2006-January 1, 2007 special. Dick Clark spoke about his first New Year's special in 1959 and...

Dr. Frank Stanton, who served as President of CBS from 1946 to 1973, died Sunday, December 24th at the age of 98. He granted the Archive of American Telev ision...

“ It’s a Wonderful Life shows that every human being on this earth matters—and that’s a very powerful message.” --Steven Spielberg by guest blogger Stephen Cox What was on the...

Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Hall of Fame Honoree and Archive Interviewee Joseph Barbera has died at the age of 95. Barbera was interviewed by Leonard Maltin for the...

The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation, in association with Ernst & Young LLP, is offering two scholarships in honor of Fred Rogers, the creator and host of Mister...

Peter Boyle, who played Ray's Dad on Everybody Loves Raymond (and voice to the show's only catchphrase— "Holy crap!") has died at the age of 71. Boyle was also beloved...

Commercial television was in its infancy in the United States when Pearl Harbor was attacked on December 7, 1941. NBC and CBS had gone on the air with commercial television...