Blog Post Andy Rooney at 91 Andy Rooney is profiled in today's USA Today , on his 91st birthday. There doesn't seem to be any retirement in sight for the nonagenarian. "I can't stop writing," he says. "I like to sit at the typewriter." The Archive of American Television interviewed Andy Rooney in 1999. When asked how he'd...
Blog Post "Gumby" Creator Art Clokey Has Died-- Archive Interview Online Soon Art Clokey's claymation TV classics include The Gumby Show and Davey and Goliath . He died at the age of 88. The Archive of American Television interviewed Mr. Clokey on July 19, 2001. Interview Description: Art Clokey was interviewed for three-and-a-half hours in Los Aptos, CA. Mr. Clokey spoke of...
Blog Post Elvis at 75 Elvis Presley would have been 75 years old today. TV made a great impact on Elvis' career, when, in 1968, he appeared on Singer Presents Elvis , which would become known as his "comeback special." Variety noted in their review of the show that this special was "loose and sometimes interesting," a...
Blog Post Trailblazing Cinematographer Joseph M. Wilcots Has Died The first African American to join the International Cinematographers Guild, Joseph Wilcots was nominated for an Emmy for his work on Roots . The Archive of American Television interviewed Wilcots on December 5, 2007; his over three-hour Archive interview is now online. Link to his L.A. Times...
Blog Post TV Producer and Studio Executive David Gerber has Died Archive interviewee David Gerber passed away Saturday at the age of 86. His prolific TV work includes overseeing such classic series as Police Woman , Batman , Room 222 , and thirtysomething . A multiple Emmy Award nominee, he won the Emmy as the producer of Police Story in 1976. His interview will...
Blog Post "All My Children" Celebrates 40 Years in Pine Valley All My Children debuted on January 5, 1970. Created by legendary Agnes Nixon (her other soaps include One Life to Live and Loving ), AMC helped contemporize the daytime serial by incorporating social themes into the storylines, covering race, sex, and medical issues. The Vietnam War was featured in...
Blog Post Alfred Hitchcock in the Schoolyard Fifty years ago, Alfred Hitchcock Presents offered up the episode “Man from the South,” which adversely inspired some impressionable young viewers. In the story, a gambler makes an unusual bet with a sinister man— that he can light his Zippo lighter ten times in succession, without fail. If the...
Blog Post "Andy Griffith Show" Producer Aaron Ruben Has Died Aaron Ruben, who produced The Andy Griffith Show and was Emmy-nominated for Sanford and Son , has died at the age of 95. Ruben began his career as a writer in radio, transitioning to television with series and specials that included Caesar's Hour ; in his early career he also directed for...
Blog Post The Best Sitcom Episode of All-Time The credo of a clown— 'A little song, a little dance, a little seltzer down your pants' — Chuckles the Clown Voted at one time the #1 best TV episode by TV Guide * and also the #1 ranked sitcom episode in TV Land To Go: The Big Book of TV Lists, TV Lore, and TV Bests , the classic Mary Tyler Moore...
Blog Post "Days of Our Lives" Matriarch Frances Reid Has Died Frances Reid, who played "Alice Horton" on Days of Our Lives from its inception in 1965, has died at the age of 95. She also starred in the soap opera Portia Faces Life in 1954 and was an early cast member of the long-running soap As the World Turns . Reid was awarded a Daytime Emmy for Lifetime...
