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Last night, the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation hosted a star-studded celebration honoring its 500 interviewees on the Archive's 10th Anniversary. More info to follow, but we thought...

From 1951-57, I Love Lucy was a popular and critical hit. It was the #1 rated network show during most of its run and won Emmys for Best Sitcom and...

Garry Simpson worked on some of American television's earliest productions in the pre-World War II era, and then continued following the war. He directed the 1946 Joe Louis-Billy Conn World...

Jerry Falwell, whose earliest television appearances date back to the 1950s, has died at the age of 73. Rev. Falwell was interviewed by the Archive of American Television on October...

Norman Lloyd, best known for portraying St. Elsewhere 's kindly "Dr. Auschlander," was also a producer and one of the directors of Alfred Hitchcock Presents , and directed the famous...

Producer-director Alan Neuman directed innumerable “live” on-location dramatic, variety, and documentary productions, including NBC’s first televised presidential election coverage and the first show that ever linked four countries together. Click...

Tom Poston, who was a regular on The Steve Allen Show , Mork & Mindy , and Newhart , has died at the age of 85. Poston was interviewed by...

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...