Blog Post Ben Wolf's Archive of American Television Interview Is Now Online Cameraman Ben Wolf's four-hour Archive of American Television interview has been added to the online collection at Google Video. This is tape 6 of his interview in which he talks about working on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour . Click here to view the entire 8-part interview. Ben Wolf worked on...
Blog Post Carroll O'Connor's Archive of American Television Interview is Now Online Actor Carroll O'Connor's 4-hour Archive of American Television interview has been added to the online collection at Google Video. This is tape 4 of Carroll O'Connor's interview in which he talks about Archie Bunker and All in the Family . Click here to access all eight parts of the interview...
Blog Post Charles Fox's Archive of American Television Interview Is Now Online Composer Charles Fox's two-and-a-half hour Archive of American Television interview has been added to the online collection at Google Video. This is tape 2 of Charles Fox's interview in which he talks about the early days of electronic music. Click here to view the entire 7-part interview. Charles...
Blog Post Fifty years ago today... The Last Original Episode of "The Honeymooners" Aired The Honeymooners was a sketch on Jackie Gleason's variety series before and after it ran for a single season as its own half-hour series. The episodes from that season, known to fans as the "Classic 39," ended their run on September 22, 1956. Actress Joyce Randolph ("Trixie Norton") reminisces...
Blog Post The Bob Newhart Book Bob Newhart has written his first book, "a hilarious combination of stories from his career and observations about life." Read the book and watch Bob Newhart's Archive of American Television Interview. This is part 3, where he talks about The Bob Newhart Show . Click here to watch the entire three-...
Blog Post Students: Be All That You Can TV! Although we usually highlight things from television's past, we thought we'd pass on this terrific opportunity for television's future.... Each year, hundreds of students from all across the nation enter the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation's College Television Awards...
Blog Post Don Hastings' Archive of American Television Interview Is Now Online This is part two of Don Hastings's six part interview, where he talks about Captain Video and his Video Rangers . Click here to watch the entire interview. Don Hastings has played "Dr. Bob Hughes" on As the World Turns since 1960. Interview Description: Hastings begins by talking about his early...
Blog Post Longtime Jack Benny Radio and TV Writer George Balzer Has Died George Balzer (pictured above with interviewer Dan Pasternack), who spent twenty-five years writing for Jack Benny, was interviewed by the Archive of American Television for two hours on January 25, 2001. Balzer died on September 28, at the age of 91. Here are some excerpts from his Archive of...
Blog Post "Playhouse 90" Celebrates Its 50th Anniversary! In Americ an television in the 1940s and 50s, one of the staple genres of the day was the "live" drama tic anthology series. Productions within these series featured the writing of such luminaries as Paddy Chayefsky, Rod Serling, and Horton Foote and defined what has been termed the "golden age of...
Blog Post Happy 60th ATAS! The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences celebrated its 60th anniversary yesterday with a gala event hosted by Beau Bridges. The event was held at Academy Headquarters in North Hollywood at the Leonard H. Goldenson Theatre. The nostalgic evening offered clips from television's past and...
