Interview Martin Manulis In his five-hour interview, Martin Manulis (1915-2007) talks about the Golden Age of Television and the challenges of producing live television anthologies, especially his greatest contribution to television, the critically acclaimed anthology, Playhouse 90 . Manulis recalls celebrated teleplays...
Interview John Astin In this three-and-a-half-hour interview, John Astin talks about his childhood and how an early experience seeing a production of Our Town made him to decide to become an actor. He recalls moving to Los Angeles and appearing on the westerns Gunsmoke and Maverick. He describes being cast as "Harry...
Interview Ann Curry In her three-hour interview, Ann Curry talks about her childhood, and the impact her parents had on her worldview and her eventual career path, in particular her father’s advice to pick a career that would allow her to “be of service” to others. She discusses studying journalism at the University...
Show Shield, The On March 12, 2002, the traditional TV cop drama was reinvented when The Shield premiered on FX. Not your typical good cop chasing bad guys show, The Shield featured a cast of morally ambiguous characters who constantly had the viewers asking, “Do the ends justify the means and will good triumph...
Show Tales of Wells Fargo Tales of Wells Fargo was a scripted Western anthology series set in the 1870s and 1880s which starred Dale Robertson as special agent “Jim Hardie.” The traveling detective known as the “Left-handed Gun” went from town to town to protect the stagecoach and freight wagon lines from bandits,...
Show T.J. Hooker T.J. Hooker , a mid-season replacement that premiered on ABC on March 13, 1982, was the last in a string of hits from production company Spelling-Goldberg, owned by Aaron Spelling and Leonard Goldberg . The show premiered in an era when Aaron Spelling shows dominated the airwaves. He had nine...
Show Mark Twain Tonight! Mark Twain Tonight! was a 1967 broadcast of Hal Holbrook ’s acclaimed one-man Broadway show of the same name. In the 90-minute special, Holbrook portrayed the legendary humorist "Mark Twain," pulling directly from his writings to discuss topics like religion, slavery, and politics. The format was...
