Blog Post April 17, 1967... Fifty Years Ago Today "The Joey Bishop Show" Debuted On ABC ABC's conversations about getting serious in late-night programming began in the fall of 1966. Coincidentally, or not, that was around the time they bought the great 1313 Vine Street studio facility that Don Lee had built. There were four huge audience studios and plenty of room for lots of new...
Blog Post Reiner on Reiner We're so excited that talented father-son duo Carl Reiner and Rob Reiner are being honored by getting their hand and footprints imprinted in the sidewalk in front of Hollywood's TCL Chinese Theatre. The pair already has adjoining stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. While having a parent in the...
Blog Post Growing Up with Dan Wilcox When we were first offered the chance to interview TV writer Dan Wilcox we immediately got a vision, a very familiar screenshot of the credits rolling during an episode of one of our favorite ‘70s/’80s TV shows — M*A*S*H . Close your eyes, you can see it, too — the yellow, stencil font that reads “...
Blog Post From Yankees Batboy to "Roots: The Next Generations" - Thad Mumford Broke New Ground If you had asked a young Thad Mumford what he wanted to be when he grew up, he would not have predicted that he’d one day become the prolific writer of television shows like M*A*S*H and A Different World . As a kid, Mumford wanted nothing more than to be a New York Yankees’ player. While he never...
Blog Post Forgotten Lines, Laughing Fits, and Wrong Envelopes: A Brief History of the Television Blooper LA LA-gate! On February 26, 2017, if you were watching the end of the broadcast of the 89th Academy Awards, you were rewarded with seeing a bit of history. If you’re reading this I can’t imagine you don’t know, but Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway were handed the wrong envelope, and thus announced...
Blog Post Presidents' Day! Celebrate Presidents' Day with our Google Cultural Institute exhibit: American Presidential Inaugurations!
Blog Post Mary, Rhoda, and Phyllis: TV's First Realistic Female Friends Hearing the news of Mary Tyler Moore’s passing in January really stung. Her contributions to the art forms of television and comedy are incalculable. The characters from The Mary Tyler Moore Show (and The Dick Van Dyke Show , for that matter) are as familiar as family. Mary Richards and her friends...
