Blog Post Peanuts Animator Bill Melendez Has Died Bill Melendez, who was the animator for the classic Peanuts television specials, including A Charlie Brown Christmas and It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown , has died at the age of 91. In his early career, he worked on numerous Walt Disney animated features from the 1940s. His Archive interview...
Blog Post Vote for your Favorite TV moment! Carol Burnett channels Scarlett O'Hara, Sammy Davis Jr. plants a kiss on Archie Bunker.. as does Mulder on Scully.. Who Shot JR is finally revealed.. and it's Suzanne Pleshette at a B&B in Vermont...! Vote for your favorite TV moment! Visit emmys.abc.com to cast your ballot for the most...
Blog Post Producer/Director E. Roger Muir Has Died-- Interview Online E. Roger Muir, who produced Howdy Doody (as well as such other early NBC series as Geographically Speaking , I Love to Eat , and The Chesterfield Club ), has died at the age of 89. In part four, below, he talks about Howdy Doody :
Blog Post Art Director/Graphic Designer Louis Dorfsman Has Died -- Interview Online Louis Dorfsman, who designed every aspect of CBS's branding for forty years until his retirement in 1991, has died at the age of 90. In his later years he was the creative director for the Museum of Broadcasting (now the Paley Center for Media). Mr. Dorfsman was interviewed by the Archive in May of...
Blog Post NEWSFLASH: "The Archive of American Television Presents" DVD Series Launches with "Studio One" On sale November 11th , KOCH Vision and the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation officially launches " The Archive of American Television Presents " with the release of 17 digitally-remastered episodes from the distinguished “Westinghouse Presents Studio One” series, which ran on...
Blog Post Archive Interviewee Edie Adams has Died We're sad to report that legendary stage, screen and television performer Edie Adams died Wednesday at the age of 81. She was interviewed by the Archive of American Television in 1999. We last saw her in June of 2007 when she helped us celebrate the Archive's 10th Anniversary. Edie truly supported...
Blog Post The World Needs More Ernest Borgnine! Today the Archive interviewed film and television icon Ernest Borgnine at his home in Beverly Hills. It was a fun trip down merriment lane, as Ernie reminisced about his theatrical beginnings at the Barter Theater, to his Broadway turn in "Harvey", which led to bookings on early live dramatic...
Blog Post "Philco TV Playhouse" Celebrates 60th Anniversary The Philco TV Playhouse , which ran from 1948-55, establishing itself as one of the shining examples of the best of the dramatic anthologies during the Golden Age of Television, aired its first production on October 3, 1948. That production was an adaptation of the famed "Dinner at Eight," and...
Blog Post "My Three Sons" Debuts on DVD Today My Three Sons , the popular sitcom starring Fred MacMurray, which, following its long 1960-72 run, found a further audience in syndication, has been released in a Volume One DVD. Although it never cracked the top ten in yearly ratings, this wholesome series received consistently high ratings...
Blog Post 40 Years Times "60 Minutes" The stopwatch still ticks for 60 Minutes , which first aired forty years ago today. The newsmagazine has not only been a critical success, but also a popular one. According to The Complete Directory to Primetime Network and Cable TV Shows by Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh, 60 Minutes was the #1 rated...
