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Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin Eve reaches its 38th annual edition with the Dec. 31, 2009- January 1, 2010 special. Dick Clark and Ryan Seacrest will host the special starting...

Watch the Archive's fun and informative interview with David Letterman and early-SNL music guru Paul Shaffer. Among our favorite moments: he plays an impromptu theme song for his new memoir...

Sid Caesar's Archive of American Television Interview is now fully catalogued. Caesar is a seminal figure in early TV comedy and one of the first recipients of the Emmy Award...

The Archive has now posted a page for How the Grinch Stole Christmas, featuring animation producer/director Chuck Jones and the voice of Cindy Lou Who herself, June Foray. The perennial...

A pop culture moment in TV occurred when singer Tiny Tim married Victoria Mae "Miss Vicki" Budinger on December 17, 1969 on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. Tiny Tim...

Interview Description: Roy E. Disney was interviewed for two-and-a-half hours plus in Burbank, CA. He described the early history of the Disney company and the role that his father, Roy...

Tomorrow marks the 20th anniversary of The Simpsons. The Christmas-themed special "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire," was the first show to air (following the Simpsons earlier appearances on The...

Carl Reiner was Conan O'Brien's guest on The Tonight Show yesterday and as he was introduced Conan noted that Reiner had been on all the major versions of The Tonight...

Technical Director Heino Ripp, who worked at NBC for several decades, and served on such classic series as Your Show of Shows and The Perry Como Show, has died at...

The Make-Up Artists & Hair Stylists Guild periodical The Artisan reports that Ms. Kusely died on July 29, 2009. The Guild notes that she was the first hair stylist to...

Cossette died at the age 85. The Archive's two-hour interview with Pierre Cossette was conducted by Bonnie Datt on June 4, 2008. [video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvKZD40GIyA Interview Description:Pierre Cossette talked about his early...

From the Archive of American Television's Interview collection, Leonard Nimoy describes inventing the "Vulcan Salute," first seen on the original series episode "Amok Time." [video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmkDOzjfSSY "The Vulcan Salute" page on...

Daily Variety's Army Archerd wa seen in print and on television as part of the Hollywood scene for over 50 years. Below is Archerd's entire 5-part Archive interview. Interview Description:Army...

The 44th annual Jerry Lewis Labor Day Telethon to benefit the Muscular Dystrophy Association will be broadcast live from the South Point Hotel, Casino & Spa in Las Vegas, beginning...

Dick Berg served as the president of the Television Academy's Hollywood Chapter in the mid-60s; he distinguished himself in the industry as a writer and producer starting in the Golden...

Berle Adams, interviewed by the Archive in 2003, was an agent for many years at MCA, created a sports department at the William Morris Agency, and later distributed the Emmy...

Known for his journalism in such publications as Vanity Fair, Dunne's early career was spent in "live television" in New York and Los Angeles and later filmed TV and feature...

Where in the World is Emmy Magazine? | Emmys.com It's on! The TV Academy Foundation's auction benefiting the education and preservation programs of the Foundation has begun. Bid on celebrity-signed...

Don Hewitt, who created and executive produced 60 Minutes, and whose early credits include producing and directing the "Great Debates" in 1960 between Nixon and Kennedy, has died at the...

Howard Smit helped found IATSE Local 706 and had a fifty year career in the make-up field, starting in television in the mid-1930s at experimental station W6XAO. He was profiled...