Interview Robert Guillaume In his three-hour interview, Robert Guillaume (1927-2017) discusses his lengthy career in television, which began with guest appearances on the series Julia , All in the Family, and The Jeffersons . He describes originating the character of "Benson DuBois" in the series Soap and continuing to play...
Interview Mel Shavelson In his four-and-a-half-hour interview, Mel Shavelson (1917-2007) talks about starting out as a press agent with Milt Josefsberg in 1938 and moving to Los Angeles the following year, with Mr. Josefsberg, to write for the radio show The Pepsodent Bob Hope Show. He discusses writing for the first...
Interview Bob Vila In his one-and-a-half-hour interview, television host and "grandfather of home improvement" Bob Vila discusses growing up in Miami and Havana, studying architecture in college and graduate school, and serving in the Peace Corps before starting his own business renovating brownstones and converting...
Interview Bob Elliott In his one-hour-and-forty-five-minute interview, Bob Elliott (1923-2016) talks about his early experiences in radio in the wake of World War II and working for radio station WHDH in Boston. He recalls meeting Ray Goulding at the radio station and developing their "Bob and Ray" act, which was...
Interview Danny DeVito In his nearly three-hour interview, Danny DeVito talks about his early love of television and film, and reminisces about growing up in New Jersey. He speaks of early roles in films such as One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and early television roles on Starsky and Hutch . He discusses landing the...
Show Starsky and Hutch At first glance, Starsky and Hutch (1975-79, ABC) seems of a piece with Baretta , The Streets of San Francisco , or even producer Aaron Spelling's own Charlie's Angels --one more post-1960s police series with street smarts and social cognizance, that expresses at least a passing familiarity with...
