Collection Living Television Collection Living Television was a special initiative of the Archive of American Television to collaborate with broadcast organizations, colleges and universities across the country to videotape in-depth interviews of local television pioneers. These are the people who built television stations from the...
Blog Post Larry Rhine's Archive of American Television Interview Is Now Online! Writer Larry Rhine wrote or co-wrote several of television's most classic sitcom episodes including The Brady Bunch 's "The Subject Was Noses," The Odd Couple 's "Felix Remarries" (the series finale), and All in the Family 's "Archie the Hero." His full interview is now posted online. Click here to...
Show Flying Nun, The The Flying Nun is an American sitcom produced by Screen Gems for ABC based on the 1965 book The Fifteenth Pelican, by Tere Rios, which starred Sally Field as Sister Bertrille, a nun in the Convent San Tanco in Puerto Rico. The winds around the convent were strong, allowing Sister Bertille to take...
Show My Three Sons Created by Don Fedderson and Leave it to Beaver alumnus George Tibbles, My Three Sons was one of television's longest running and most influential domestic comedies. The program was conceived originally as a television vehicle for Fred MacMurray, (who owned 50% of the program), when Fedderson was...
Show Colgate Comedy Hour, The For approximately five-and-a-half seasons, NBC's Colgate Comedy Hour presented big budget musical variety television as head-to-head competition for Ed Sullivan's Toast of the Town on CBS. Featuring the top names in vaudeville, theater, radio and film, this live Sunday evening series was the first...