Blog Post Archive of American Television in the News Last night, the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation hosted a star-studded celebration honoring its 500 interviewees on the Archive's 10th Anniversary. More info to follow, but we thought you'd enjoy this clip from CBS' local affiliate, KCAL9 in Los Angeles. Click here to watch the...
Blog Post 50 Years Ago: "I Love Lucy" Ended Its Run From 1951-57, I Love Lucy was a popular and critical hit. It was the #1 rated network show during most of its run and won Emmys for Best Sitcom and Acting Awards for Lucille Ball and Vivian Vance. Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz continued the Lucy format in a series of hour-long specials in the late...
Blog Post Producer-director Garry Simpson's Interview Is Now Online Garry Simpson worked on some of American television's earliest productions in the pre-World War II era, and then continued following the war. He directed the 1946 Joe Louis-Billy Conn World Championship boxing match, episodes of American television's first sitcom: Mary Kay and Johnny , and the...
Blog Post Televangelist Jerry Falwell Has Died Jerry Falwell, whose earliest television appearances date back to the 1950s, has died at the age of 73. Rev. Falwell was interviewed by the Archive of American Television on October 16, 2003 at Liberty University in Lynchburg, VA. Click here to access his two hour oral history interview. Interview...
Blog Post Norman Lloyd's Interview Is Now Online! Norman Lloyd, best known for portraying St. Elsewhere 's kindly "Dr. Auschlander," was also a producer and one of the directors of Alfred Hitchcock Presents , and directed the famous "Man From the South" episode in which Steve McQueen bets Peter Lorre that he can light his Zippo lighter ten times...
Blog Post Producer/Director Alan Neuman's Interview Is Now Online Producer-director Alan Neuman directed innumerable “live” on-location dramatic, variety, and documentary productions, including NBC’s first televised presidential election coverage and the first show that ever linked four countries together. Click here to access the entire six-part videotaped...
Blog Post Beloved Character Actor Tom Poston Leaves A Legacy of Comedy Tom Poston, who was a regular on The Steve Allen Show , Mork & Mindy , and Newhart , has died at the age of 85. Poston was interviewed by the Archive of American Television on February 2006 (pictured here with interviewer Stephen J. Abramson). His entire two-hour interview (part 2 of 4 can be...
Blog Post Roger Ebert, Celebrating his 40th Anniversary as a Film Critic, Returns to Action The Archive has now posted its interview with Roger Ebert, conducted in 2005 on the set of Ebert & Roeper in Chicago. Click here to access his entire interview. Roger Ebert, the first person to win the Pulitizer Prize for Film Criticism, is celebrating his 40th anniversary as film critic for...
Blog Post We'll Miss You Bob Barker! Bob Barker has retired after 50+ years in television and 35 years as the host of The Price Is Right . The Archive wishes Bob a happy retirement! Barker was interviewed by the Archive of American Television in 2000 and inducted into the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Hall of Fame in 2004...
Blog Post Ron Howard's Archive of American Television Interview Is Now Online Ron Howard's interview, the Archive's 500th , is now available for viewing online. Fittingly, Howard's career spans a fifty-year history of television from his first roles as a child actor in such '50s shows as Playhouse 90 and The Red Skelton Show to his role as narrator and executive producer of...
