Blog Post Rod Serling's "A Town Has Turned To Dust" Presented at Ithaca College Before Rod Serling was immortalized as the creator, main writer, and host of The Twilight Zone , he contributed teleplays to several of the "live" and filmed anthologies of the 1950s that defined the "Golden Age of Television." Among his most significant teleplays were ones he wrote for Playhouse...
Blog Post Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Hall of Fame Honorees 2008 Are Announced The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences' Hall of Fame Committee has selected Beatrice Arthur, Dan Burke, Larry Gelbart, Merv Griffin, Thomas Murphy and Sherwood Schwartz to be inducted into the Television Academy’s Hall of Fame, it was announced yesterday by John Shaffner, Chairman/CEO of the...
Blog Post Emmy magazine features interviewee Robert Johnson Pick up the latest copy of emmy magazine to read an excerpt from our interview with network executive and BET founder Robert Johnson, where he discusses his early years in Washington, DC as vice president of Government Relations for the National Cable & Telecommunications Association (NCTA),...
Blog Post Jack Larson, TV's Jimmy Olsen, Turns 75 Today! Jack Larson played everyone's favorite cub reporter from 1952-58 on the syndicated The Adventures of Superman , which starred George Reeves. He recently made a cameo appearance in the 2006 big screen Superman Returns . Last year, Larson attended the Archive's 10th Anniversary Party, which honored...
Blog Post Archive Interviewee Ruby Dee Gets Her Due Actress Ruby Dee won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role for American Gangster and has received her very first Oscar nomination for the role as well. Dee's acting career spans over sixty years. The Archive interviewed both Dee and her...
Blog Post "Howdy Doody" Celebrates 60 Years On December 27, 1947 one of TV's first success stories debuted, Howdy Doody , which began as Puppet Playhouse , seen three times a week on NBC. Through 1948 and 1949, with its title change to Howdy Doody , and now airing five times a week, every child with a television set knew the answer to "Say...
Blog Post An Archive Christmas Special: Andy Williams To celebrate the season, the Archive has posted our interview with Andy Williams. Williams hosted his network primetime variety series from 1958-71. The best-known version ran on NBC from 1962-71 and featured "Moon River" as its theme song. Through his variety series, Williams began hosting a...
Blog Post Archive's interview with Patricia Heaton featured in Emmy magazine The latest issue of Emmy magazine (Issue No. 6, 2007, with Law & Order: Special Victims Unit's Mariska Hargitay on the cover) includes selections from our Archive of American Television interview with actress Patricia Heaton, star of Everybody Loves Raymond and the current hit series Back to...
Blog Post Blast from the Past: Electronic TV Inventor Philo Farnsworth on "I've Got a Secret" Here's a little 8-minute gem we found on YouTube -- electronic television inventor Philo Farnsworth's full 1957 appearance on the panel show I've Got a Secret . Garry Moore’s show, and I don’t know, it just hit him right I guess and so he agreed. That was a very great experience because that night...
Blog Post TV Exec Roger King Dies - Interview Online Roger King, CEO of CBS Television Distribution, has died at the age of 63. King was interviewed by the Archive of American Television in 2004. His interview is now online. Click here to access his 3-part interview. Interview description: King talked about his early years in television, including...