Blog Post Art Linkletter's Archive Interview is Now Online Take a look at one of the newest interviews online -- show host Art Linkletter . He's truly an engaging and a exceptional storyteller. Here's one of our favorite little-known anecdotes from the interview: On the opening of Disneyland in 1956 (Part 4 at 16 minutes in): Walt Disney asked me if I...
Blog Post Students: The Television Academy Foundation's 2007 Summer Internships Application Deadline is Approaching Students: Just a reminder that the deadline applications for the Television Academy Foundation's Student Internship Program -- Summer 2007 is March 15th. Even if you've watched just one Archive interview, you know how life-changing a mentor or on-the-job experience can be. The Academy Foundation's...
Blog Post TV Set Photos From Bakelite to Plasma: TV Through the Ages Here's a fun site, courtesy of WIRED magazine, with photos of televisions and television technology from the 1920s to today. You can access it by clicking the link below. From Bakelite to Plasma: TV Through the Ages
Blog Post Actress Ruby Dee's Interview is Now Online Actress Ruby Dee's Archive of American Television interview is now online. Interview Description: In her 4-part (each 30-minute segment is posted separately) oral history interview, actress Ruby Dee describes her start in feature filmsand on Broadway. She describes the experience of being an...
Blog Post "Boston Legal" Flashes Back to a 50-Year-Old Dramatic Television Classic Last night's episode of Boston Legal found William Shatner flashing back to a role he played during television's Golden Age. "The Defender," shown on the dramatic anthology series Studio One , in two parts on February 25 and March 4, 1957, starred Ralph Bellamy and William Shatner as a father-son...
Blog Post TV Executive Thomas W. Moore Has Died Archive interviewee Tom Moore, former program chief of ABC (1957-63), ABC president (1963-68) and independent producer ( The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman , the Body Human series), died at the age of 88 on March 31. Here are some excerpts from his interview: On ABC’s Monday Night Football . We...
Blog Post Garry Marshall's Archive of American Television Interview Is Now Online '70s/'80s hit-maker Garry Marshall's 6-part Archive interview is now available online. Click here to access the entire interview. Excerpt: Marshall on the initial concept of "Fonzie" on Happy Days from Part 4 "We created this character Fonzie who was originally called Arthur Masharelli, but M*A*S*H...
Blog Post And Then There's Maude Season One Walter : Maude, did you wreck the car again? Maude : Did you hear that, everybody? Did you hear that? Not "Maude, are you sick?" Or "Maude, are you unhappy?" Or even, "Maude, are you pregnant?" No, "Maude, did you wreck the car again?" Walter : You're right, darling. You're absolutely right. I'm...
Blog Post Chicago TV Pioneer Sterling "Red" Quinlan Has Died Sterling Quinlan, who helped build station WBKB-TV (now WLS) in Chicago, has died at age 90. Quinlan is pictured here at right (in brown jacket) with Archive interviewer Roy Leonard (on left). Quinlan was interviewed by the Archive of American Television on July 20, 1999. Interview description:...
Blog Post James Sheldon's Interview is Online Director James Sheldon's Archive of American Television Interview is now online. In part 4 of his interview, Sheldon talks about working with James Dean in "live" television. James Dean appeared in about twenty television productions in the early 1950s before embarking on his feature film career...
