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...
Blog Post Art Linkletter, TV Legend and "Pied Piper to Kids" Has Died Art Linkletter became a television icon in the 1950s, for his famed interactions interviewing children, and as the host of a string of successful series including Art Linkletter's House Party and People Are Funny . Linkletter has died at the age of 97. Art Linkletter was interviewed by the Archive...
Blog Post This Is CNN's 30th Anniversary The 24-hour news network began broadcasting at 5 PM EST on June 1, 1980. The network came into its own with the outbreak of the Persian Gulf War in January 1991, and has since become the go-to breaking news source. In his Archive of American Television interviewed Ted Turner talks about the "open...
Blog Post Bill Moyers on JFK, LBJ, and PBS He's served as Deputy Director of the Peace Corps, White House Press Secretary, and host of Bill Moyers' Journal , a critically acclaimed news program on public television. In his 2001 Archive interview, Bill Moyers discusses his career in politics and public TV. He describes working with...
