Blog Post Classic "All in the Family" episode given the "Simpsons" Treatment On the recent Simpsons episode "Stealing First Base" (airdate: 3/21/10) Sarah Silverman guest-starred as a girl who plants a kiss on Bart, leading to a Cinema Paradiso -inspired montage of famous movie & TV kisses. The last kiss seen in the montage is, unusually, and hilariously, from the All...
Blog Post Chet Simmons, the First President of ESPN, Has Died Chet Simmons, who served as ESPN's first President when the network started in 1979, has died at the age of 81. Simmons began in sports programming in the 1950s and was instrumental in the development of ABC's Wide World of Sports in the 1960s. He became the first President of NBC Sports in 1977...
Blog Post Producer-director Ira Skutch ("Match Game," "Philco Television Playhouse") Has Died-- Archive Interview Online Ira Skutch, a producer-director and a television historian, has died at the age of 88. Skutch worked as a stage manager on some of the earliest regularly scheduled shows on NBC, including the landmark variety series Hour Glass (1946-47), the first hour-long entertainment series produced for network...
Blog Post "I Spy" Star Robert Culp Has Died-- Archive Interview Online Robert Culp, an Emmy nominee for both writing and starring in I Spy , has died at the age of 79. Culp's considerable TV credits include the classic sci-fi anthology The Outer Limits , the comedy-adventure series The Greatest American Hero , and the sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond . The Archive of...
Blog Post "T.A.M.I. Show" on DVD-- Archive Interviewee Steve Binder Describes the Landmark Concert 1964's historic two-day rock/r&b concert, the T.A.M.I. Show , comes out on DVD today. Although the acronym T.A.M.I. was used inconsistently, it stood for either Teen Age Music International or Teenage Awards Music International-- with free tickets to the concert distributed to high school...
Blog Post "Battlestar Galactica" Ended Its Run 30 Years Ago Today Technically, the original Battlestar Galactica ended its run 31 years ago, when ABC pulled the plug on the show in 1979. But when the fans protested, a ten-episode version entitled Galactica 1980 , resulted, with just Lorne Greene remaining from the original cast. However, for what would be the...
Blog Post Betty White Triumphs on "SNL" The reviews and ratings are golden for Betty White 's turn as guest host on Saturday Night Live . With Betty's latest TV success, the Archive looks back on her Emmy-winning role as Sue Ann Nivens- the Happy Homemaker, on The Mary Tyler Moore Show . Before her continued (and possibly greatest) fame...
Blog Post Don Knotts' Only Dramatic Role-- on '50s Soap Opera "Search for Tomorrow" Don Knotts will forever be know as the comic sidekick "Barney Fife" on The Andy Griffith Show , as Mr. Furley on Three's Company , and as the star of a series of funny family friendly '60s films including The Incredible Mr. Limpet and The Ghost and Mr. Chicken . His first TV series role, however,...
Blog Post Anne Beatts' Archive Interview Now Online— Original "Saturday Night Live" Writer and Creator of "Square Pegs" “I remember once at Saturday Night Live having spent the night in my office. There was a heavy snowfall overnight, and I looked out the window onto 5th Avenue and I saw that the entire street was covered with pristine fresh snow. I just felt very joyful and I thought the eight-year-old me always...
Blog Post Florence Henderson on "Coke Time with Eddie Fisher" in 1954 One of future "Mrs. Brady" Florence Henderson's earliest TV appearances was on Eddie Fisher's popular 15-minute music show Coke Time (sponsored by Coca-Cola). Appearing on Broadway at the time in "Fanny," she sang songs from that show. Watch Florence Henderson on the show (from the internet archive...
