Blog Post "Bewitched" Creator Sol Saks' Interview Now Online “Writer’s block is when you think your ideas aren’t good and you get stumped. And I figured out… that you write it the way you would write badly, the way you wouldn’t turn it in. And as soon as you start, your writing becomes better. Because you‘ve tackled the subject.” Sol Saks was interviewed by...
Blog Post Here's Lucy: Season Three on DVD The complete season three of Here's Lucy comes out on DVD tomorrow. This season featured some of the show's most well-known episodes, including "Lucy the Skydiver," "Lucy Cuts Vincent's Price," and "Lucy Goes Hawaiian, Parts One and Two." The third season opener, "Lucy Meets the Burtons" featuring...
Blog Post "A-Team" Hits Theaters & DVD Shelves This Week It's A-Team week, with the complete season now out on DVD and the feature film coming out tomorrow. The original series found the team of freelance soldiers-of-fortune succeeding in mission after mission from 1983-87 and landing in the top ten of the year-end Nielsens for its first two seasons...
Blog Post "Glee" Season Finale Tonight-- Check Out New Archive Show Page As the first season of Glee comes to an end, the Archive posts its new show page on the series, chock full of clips from the press line as the series cast and stars appeared for the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences' event "An Evening with Glee " on April 28th. Hear about the cast's first...
Blog Post Happy 100th Arthur Gardner! Noted producer Arthur Gardner ( Rawhide , The Big Valley ) turns 100 years old today. He becomes the Archive of American Television's first interviewee centenarian. Arthur Gardner's full Archive interview is currently posted on the emmytvlegends.org. In this segment from his interview, Gardner...
Blog Post Rue McClanahan, The Golden Girls' "Blanche" & Maude's Best Friend "Viv," Has Died Rue McClanahan's forty year TV career began with a regular role on soap opera Another World and guest roles on such series as All in the Family and Mannix . She's best known for her work on the series Maude , Mama's Family , and The Golden Girls . She won the Emmy Award in 1987 for Outstanding Lead...
Blog Post "Law & Order" Ends its Long Run on May 24 NBC announced last week that Law & Order will end its 20-year run this season. Law & Order is the longest running crime drama on American prime time television and is tied with Gunsmoke for longest-running drama series. (Technically, Law & Order [Sept. 13, 1990 to May 24, 2010]...
Blog Post Bob Newhart Has a Dream: 20 Years Ago Today Considered one of the finest moments in scripted TV history, Newhart ended its eight season run with a brilliant TV in-joke. TV Land to Go: The Big Book of TV Lists, TV Lore, and TV Bests by Tom Hill describes the episode as "a bizarre final chapter in the strange tale of Bob's life in Vermont, and...
Blog Post "The Virginian" Season One on DVD The Virginian was one of the last of the early classic adult TV westerns. Airing from 1962-71, the epic 90-minutes-per-episode color series starred James Drury as the mysterious defender of law and order. Although Variety 's review of the series opener was unenthusiastic at best, particularly in...
Blog Post "The Adventures of Robin Hood" -- Classic 1950s TV, served Blacklisted Writers With a new Robin Hood in theaters, the Archive has created a show page for the classic 1950s TV series The Adventures of Robin Hood . Produced in England, the series ran on CBS from 1955 to 1958 and starred Richard Greene in the title role. Harry and Wally's Favorite TV Shows describes the series...
