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Warren Littlefield
"'The Cosby Show' changed the face of NBC. 'Cosby' leading off the night, 'Family Ties,' 'Cheers,' 'Night Court' behind it, with 'L.A. Law' at ten o'clock. Thursday night became a night of bests for NBC - the finest comedy and drama that we had as a network. Thursday became the destination for the best television had to offer."  
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Norman Felton
"I wanted to do a medical show. I hadn't been able to do it because CBS said, as the other networks did, 'who wants to go to a hospital?  That's the last place...a person comes home from their job and they're going to turn on television and see sick people?' But in radio, I did plenty of them."
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Charlie Andrews

"In the early days of television, we said the way to get that audience is to offer the people good stuff. They'll come up to it. The result was 'Goodyear Playhouse' and 'Armstrong Theater' by great writers like Paddy Chayefsky and Horton Foote. The audience got interested. And they watched it. Later, other guys came in and they said, 'No, the audiences are not going to come up. Give them crap.' Then you got 'Beverly Hillbillies' and 'Gilligan's Island,' things like that. Those guys were absolutely right. As the ratings proved. But it sure didn't help television. It's too bad that there wasn't a longer period of trying to come up."

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Bob Banner

"In early television, had we been afraid that we didn't know how to do the medium, it would never have started. We weren't trained, we were just thrust into it and had to do it."

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Studs Terkel
"I know I'd like to have this epitaph: 'Curiosity did not kill this cat.' I'm curious. What is it like to be that person, in that circumstance at that time? It's the Depression, what's it like to be a kid the day he saw his father come home at one o'clock and not work for the next five years? What's it like to be black?  What's it like to be old?  What's it like doing this kind of job? How different would you be? How would you behave?"
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Sherman Hemsley
"...once you find the rhythm of the character, for me anyway...the words just fall right into place."