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“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...

With the release of Leave it to Beaver: The Complete Series this week, the Archive is posting Jerry Mathers' entire Archive interview. Jerry Mathers was interviewed by the Archive of...

The Vietnam War is known as the "first televised war" due to the graphic nature of the images seen by American viewers. Chronologically, however, the Korean War, which began on...

“I remember once at Saturday Night Live having spent the night in my office. There was a heavy snowfall overnight, and I looked out the window onto 5th Avenue and...

One of future "Mrs. Brady" Florence Henderson's earliest TV appearances was on Eddie Fisher's popular 15-minute music show Coke Time (sponsored by Coca-Cola). Appearing on Broadway at the time in...

“Writer’s block is when you think your ideas aren’t good and you get stumped. And I figured out… that you write it the way you would write badly, the way...

The complete season three of Here's Lucy comes out on DVD tomorrow. This season featured some of the show's most well-known episodes, including "Lucy the Skydiver," "Lucy Cuts Vincent's Price,"...

It's A-Team week, with the complete season now out on DVD and the feature film coming out tomorrow. The original series found the team of freelance soldiers-of-fortune succeeding in mission...

As the first season of Glee comes to an end, the Archive posts its new show page on the series, chock full of clips from the press line as the...

Noted producer Arthur Gardner ( Rawhide, The Big Valley) turns 100 years old today. He becomes the Archive of American Television's first interviewee centenarian. Arthur Gardner's full Archive interview is...

Frances Buss Buch, the first woman director at CBS, died at the age of 92 on January 19. She was an on-camera assistant on the very first TV game show—...

Burn Notice returns for the second half of season three with Sharon Gless' Cagney & Lacey co-star Tyne Daly in a guest role. After a few years off the small...

Tonight, seven new inductees will be added to the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences' Hall of Fame at a special ceremony at the Beverly Hills Hotel— actress Candice Bergen...

Bob Barker's full Archive interview is now online. The legendary game show host discusses his long career and his activism in his July 7, 2000 interview. "When we started The...

On January 18, 1975, The Jeffersons began its ten-year run on CBS. A spin-off, the series had its "pilot" episode air on All in the Family (on Jan. 11). The...

Andy Rooney is profiled in today's USA Today, on his 91st birthday. There doesn't seem to be any retirement in sight for the nonagenarian. "I can't stop writing," he says...

Art Clokey's claymation TV classics include The Gumby Show and Davey and Goliath. He died at the age of 88. The Archive of American Television interviewed Mr. Clokey on July...

Elvis Presley would have been 75 years old today. TV made a great impact on Elvis' career, when, in 1968, he appeared on Singer Presents Elvis, which would become known...