Interview Garrett Morris In his two-hour interview, Garrett Morris discusses his early work as a singer with Harry Belafonte. He outlines his transition from singing to acting and recalls his first television appearance on the TV show Roll Out! He then details his years working on Saturday Night Live , first as a writer...
Interview JP Miller In his over four-hour interview, JP Miller (1919-2001) talks extensively about writing teleplays for live television dramas and his relationships with Fred Coe, Tad Mosel, Horton Foote, Delbert Mann, John Frankenheimer, and Paddy Chayefsky. Miller discusses writing many acclaimed television dramas...
Interview Loring Mandel In his three-hour interview, Loring Mandel (1928-2020) talks about his early life, and his beginning in local Chicago television working with the likes of Mike Wallace, Dave Garroway, and Irv Kupcinet. He discusses breaking into writing for live national television anthologies with the Studio One...
Interview Art Linkletter In his three-hour interview, Art Linkletter (1912-2010) discusses his early years in radio and his business partnership with John Guedel, which resulted in many popular programs including Groucho Marx's You Bet Your Life. He talks about his first television series, Life with Linkletter . Linkletter...
Show Howdy Doody The Howdy Doody Show was one of the first and easily the most popular children's television show in the 1950s and a reflection of the wonder, technical fascination, and business realities associated with early television. While Howdy and his friends entertained American children, they also sold...
Show Super Circus From Wikipedia: Super Circus was an American television program which aired live on Sunday afternoons from 5 to 6pm Eastern Time, from 1949 to 1956, on the American Broadcasting Company television network. The show originally was produced in Chicago, but production later moved to New York City. The...
