Interview Barney McNulty In his nearly three-hour interview, "Cue Card King" Barney McNulty (1923-2000) recounts his early years and his first big break -- working for The Ed Wynn Show . He recalls creating the concept of cue cards for Wynn, who was getting on in age and having trouble remembering lines. He discusses his...
Interview Tony Charmoli In his five-and-a-half-hour interview, Tony Charmoli (1921-2020) speaks about choreographing television shows including Your Hit Parade, Alice in Wonderland, NBC Comedy Hour, The Dinah Shore Show , and T he Danny Kaye Show , among others. He describes the process of creating a dance routine and...
Show Kraft Television Theatre Kraft Television Theatre proved to be one of the most durable and honored programs of the Golden Age, airing on NBC from 1947 to 1958. Produced by the J. Walter Thompson advertising agency, this live anthology drama was designed to mesh with Kraft's overall marketing strategy, which stressed the...
Show Studio One Studio One was one of the most significant U.S. anthology drama series during the 1950s. Like other anthology series of the time-- Robert Montgomery Presents , Goodyear Television Playhouse , Philco Theatre , Kraft Television Theatre --the format was organised around the weekly presentation of a...
Show Playhouse 90 A relative latecomer to the group of live anthology dramas, Playhouse 90 was broadcast on CBS between the fall of 1956 and 1961. Its status as a "live" drama was short lived in any case, since the difficulties in mounting a ninety-minute production on a weekly basis required the adoption of the...
Show Caesar's Hour From Wikipedia : Caesar's Hour was a television program that aired on NBC from 1954 until 1957. The program starred, among others, Sid Caesar, Nanette Fabray, Carl Reiner, and Milt Kamen, and featured a number of cameo roles by famous entertainers such as Joan Crawford and Peggy Lee. Widely...
Interview Dick Van Dyke In his two-and-a-half-hour interview, Dick Van Dyke describes starting on Broadway, working into television, and the immediate success of The Dick Van Dyke Show, as well as The New Dick Van Dyke Show, regular appearances on The Carol Burnett Show , and his then-current hit Diagnosis Murder. Lee...
