Interview Sid Caesar Sid Caesar (1922-2014) emphasizes the challenge of doing live TV in the early days of the medium: "Doing a show live on television is a different animal altogether than doing TV today. I mean on tape, that's like relaxing. That's like going on vacation!" Caesar is a seminal figure in early TV...
Interview Les Flory In his 75-minute interview, Les Flory (1907-2002) describes his time as a television engineer in the RCA laboratories in Camden and Princeton, NJ. Flory talks of joining the RCA team straight out of college, and discusses his work on early television pickup tubes. He recalls working for RCA...
Interview Betty White In her nearly two-and-a-half-hour interview, Betty White (1922-2021) talks about her start in television as a co-host, with Al Jarvis, on L.A.'s local station KLAC in 1949. She also recalls her years as a guest host on Jack Paar's Tonight Show , and as a 20-year co-host for the Rose Parade. White...
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...
