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Today is tax day, luckily there's classic TV to cheer us up. On a February 1965 episode of The Hollywood Palace, Carl Reiner interviews "tax expert" Mel Brooks' "Philip J...

What's the opposite of Rhoda Morgenstern? Answer: Tallulah Bankhead. Valerie Harper is playing Tallulah Bankhead in "Looped" on Broadway, and, as noted by The Hollywood Reporter's Frank Scheck "effectively bury[s]...

Leonard Nimoy was living hand-to-mouth in the 1950s and early 60s, as a struggling actor in TV and movies, before his stardom on Star Trek and Mission: Impossible. He landed...

John Forsythe, best known as oil tycoon Blake Carrington on the '80s prime time soap Dynasty, has died at the age of 92. Forsythe's TV career dates back to the...

The latest Archive of American Television newsletter is out. If you'd like to be on our mailing list, enter your e-mail information in the box on the right column of...

On the recent Simpsons episode "Stealing First Base" (airdate: 3/21/10) Sarah Silverman guest-starred as a girl who plants a kiss on Bart, leading to a Cinema Paradiso-inspired montage of famous...

Chet Simmons, who served as ESPN's first President when the network started in 1979, has died at the age of 81. Simmons began in sports programming in the 1950s and...

Ira Skutch, a producer-director and a television historian, has died at the age of 88. Skutch worked as a stage manager on some of the earliest regularly scheduled shows on...

Robert Culp, an Emmy nominee for both writing and starring in I Spy, has died at the age of 79. Culp's considerable TV credits include the classic sci-fi anthology The...

Legendary producer David Wolper, whose many documentaries and notable TV projects include Roots and The Thorn Birds — has died at the age of 82. Wolper was one of the...

" Cops is an existential variety show, with a criminal accent, and real décor." John Langley was interviewed in North Hollywood, CA on May 22, 2009; Karen Herman conducted the...

TV historians will tell you that "Felix the Cat" was one of the first images ever broadcast on television (when RCA broadcast a Felix doll in 1928 on experimental station...

Mitch Miller, who, through his TV show Sing Along with Mitch and a series of LPs, taught the public the lyrics to popular music in the '50s and '60s, has...

In his Archive interview, director Walter Grauman vividly recalls a story about one of the episodes he directed for the 1950s-60s detective series Peter Gunn. Despite TV’s short production schedules...

The first "official" Bugs Bunny cartoon was released by Warner Bros. on July 27, 1940— "A Wild Hare," featuring Elmer Fudd's hopeless pursuit of Bugs. Bugs' first line in this...

Daniel Schorr was a newsman for CBS from the 1950s to the 1970s, and famously found himself on live TV reading— to his surprise— his own name on President Nixon's...

The auction's live! Bid on unique television mementos, and support a great cause! The Television Academy Foundation is offering an array of exclusive items and experiences to bidders through a...

“I like the camera to be moving. I’ve gone to work on a couple of shows part time, and they get a little surprised when you say, ‘let’s lay down...

Welcome to the Emmy TV Legends Blog. Here you will find the latest news and information from the Archive of American Television. Check back often for classic quotes, pictures, audio...

With the 62nd Primetime Emmy Nominations, the Archive of American Television congratulates all of the nominees, including our interviewees: Paris Barclay (comedy series direction, Glee) Ken Burns (producer nonfiction series...