Blog Post Remembering Hal Needham We're sad to hear of the passing of stuntman Hal Needham , who died this morning at the age of 82. Needham worked on several Western series, including Have Gun, Will Travel (doubling star Richard Boone), Rawhide , The Virginian , and The Wild, Wild West . He also doubled for Burt Reynolds...
Blog Post And The Nominees Are... The 2013 Primetime Emmy Award season began today with the official nomination announcement at 5:40 AM PT. Congratulations to all the nominees for The 65th Primetime Emmy Awards ! The Archive of American Television would also like to congratulate our interviewees who were nominated this year: Paris...
Blog Post Remembering James L. Loper We're sad to hear of the passing of executive James L. Loper , who died on Monday, July 8, 2013 at the age of 81. Loper rose through the ranks of public television, serving as President and CEO of KCET through 1982. He also served as Executive Director of The Academy of Television Arts &...
Blog Post The Archive's Interview with Stephen J. Cannell Featured in the Latest Issue of EMMY Magazine Readers of the latest issue of emmy magazine are being treated to excerpts from the Archive of American Television's terrific 4-1/2 hour interview with television legend Stephen J. Cannell . Loyal Archive blog readers, however, can see the whole interview (by clicking here) any time on Google Video...
Blog Post Elma "Pem" Farnsworth, widow of TV Inventor Philo Farnsworth dies at 98 Elma "Pem" Farnsworth, the widow of Philo Farnsworth, has died at the age of 98. She was one of the first honorees interviewed by the Archive of American Television. Interview Description: Elma Farnsworth was interviewed for seven hours in Salt Lake City, UT. Farnsworth discussed at length Philo's...
Blog Post Puppeteer (and Archive Interviewee) Carroll Spinney Honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award Archive interviewee Caroll Spinney, the puppeteer who plays the roles of Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch on Sesame Street , was honored with this year’s Lifetime Achievement Award at the 33rd Annual Daytime Craft Emmy Awards. Spinney was chosen for his work entertaining and educating children for...
Blog Post Comedy Writer/Producer Harvey Bullock has died Legendary comedy writer/producer Harvey Bullock passed away on October 6, 2005. Although his Archive interview is not currently available online, videos can be screened at the Archive's office at the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences headquarters in North Hollywood. Below is a link to his...
Blog Post Who's Your Favorite TV Mom? In honor of Mother's Day (next Sunday, May 14th), the Archive of American Television is featuring its online collection of TV Moms! Check out our full-length interviews with: Barbara Billingsley -- Beaver and Wally's mom June Cleaver on "Leave it to Beaver" Diahann Carroll -- Corey's mom Julia...
Blog Post The Archive is 10! Today (Sunday, May 14th) is the 10th Anniversary of the Archive of American Television (that’s right, 10 years of quizzing TV legends about their life stories, their career highlights, and anything else we can think of). On this date in 1996, the pilot project for the Archive taped its first...
Blog Post The Archive Scores Its One Millionth Video Stream! ... 999,989... 999,990... 999,991... 999,992... 999,993... 999,994... 999,995... 999,996... 999,997...999,998...999,999... Today marks another big moment in Archive of American Television history -- we've reached our ONE MILLIONTH stream on Google Video. That means over 1,000,000 segments have been...
