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Rue McClanahan

"This was funny. These were great characters. We had a great hit on our hands I knew it. Betty White was always astounded.  She'd say, 'we got picked up for another 13!'  I'd say, 'Betty, join the real world.  This is a big hit.'" 

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Jack Lemmon
"Truthfully, you can't be remembered as the best actor. Because you never are going to be the best, there is also no such thing as the best. What there is, is a lot of very good actors, which I hope to be one of, that at the right time in their life, with the right part, can give a performance that nobody else can give. There's a lot of them. And it happens."
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Gavin MacLeod

"You think about this guy that tried to commit suicide during 'McHale's Navy' and is now with his wife trying to save peoples' lives. What a change, huh?"      

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Allan Burns

"Stick to your guns, because each time we did, we succeeded. And each time you gave up, if you gave a little, the networks sort of would view it as weakness and jump into that area, and make you do work that was less good. You shouldn't compromise." 

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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."