Blog Post Lee Grant's Archive of American Television Interview is Now Online! Actress/Director Lee Grant's interview is now posted on Google Video. Click here to access all interview segments. Interview Description: In her seven-part (each 30-minute segement is posted separately) oral history interview, actress/director Lee Grant discusses her long and distinguished career...
Blog Post A New Book by the Author of "The Box" Anyone interested in the history of television, has undoubtedly come across the book, The Box: An Oral History of Television, 1929-1961 by Jeff Kisseloff, published in 1995 (Penguin Books). For the book, Jeff interviewed over 300 individuals involved in all aspects of early television -- the...
Blog Post Happy Thanksgiving! The Archive of American Television can't help you in the kitchen, but we can entertain you with an interview with one of American's top television chefs! As you wait for your turkey to be done, take a look at legendary TV chef Julia's Child's Archive of American Television Interview. Click here to...
Blog Post "Mary Kay and Johnny," American Network TV's First Sitcom, Celebrates its 60th Anniversary! Archive Interviews Now Online Mary Kay and Johnny was a live domestic comedy that centered around a young couple that lived in Greenwich Village: he worked at a bank and she was a homemaker. It debuted on November 18, 1947. Mary Kay and Johnny (1947-50) originally ran on the Du Mont network (for nearly a year), then (except for...
Blog Post "The Jetsons" Turns 45! On September 23, 1962, following the success of The Flintston es, Hanna-Barbera's animated sitcom The Jetsons premiered as one of the first color television programs on ABC. Hard to believe, but only 24 "classic" episodes were made at that time -- another 50+ episodes were later created in the...
Blog Post 30 Years Ago Today: Fonzie and "Happy Days" Jumped the Shark On September 20, 1977, in part three of the "Hollywood" episode , Fonzie, in bathing suit and leather jacket, faced jumping a caged shark on water skis. This moment in television history prompted the phrase "jump the shark" inaugurated by the website jumptheshark.com to describe "a defining moment...
Blog Post The Bob Newhart Show Celebrates 35 Years! Join the Archive and TV Land in celebrating the 35th anniversary of the iconic series The Bob Newhart Show , which debuted on September 16, 1972. In an on-air and online tribute, TV Land is paying tribute to this Emmy Award-winning series that set the tone for a generation of TV shows. The network...
Blog Post 80 Years Ago Today...Inventor Philo Farnsworth Transmits His First Electronic Television Image 80 years ago today, on September 7, 1927, 21-year-old television inventor Philo Farnsworth transmitted his first electronic television image using an image dissector camera tube created in his laboratory at 202 Green Street in San Francisco . The first image, a single straight line (on a glass...
Blog Post Archive Interviewee Jerry Lewis Discusses the MDA Telethon The 42nd annual Jerry Lewis Labor Day Telethon to benefit the Muscular Dystrophy Association will be broadcast live from Las Vegas on Monday, September 3rd. “I’ll never wave the white flag in the fight against muscular dystrophy and other muscle-wasting diseases,” Lewis says on the MDA website. “...
Blog Post Archive Interviewee Brad Garrett Talks About "'Til Death" -- Now Out on DVD FOX comedy 'Til Death : Season One comes out on DVD today; the series has been renewed for its second season for 2007-08. Series star Brad Garrett is best known for playing Ray Romano's brother, policeman "Robert Barone" on Everybody Loves Raymond . He's also the voice of "Gusteau" in the current...
