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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...

Walter Cronkite received the moniker, “the most trusted man in America” when he served as the anchorman and managing editor of the CBS Evening News from 1962 to 1981, due...

Executive Producer of this year's Primetime Emmy Awards & Archive Interviewee, Don Mischer, was interviewed this morning at the nomination ceremony (at 6am!). He was happy to discuss the upcoming...

Composer and Music Producer Quincy Jones was interviewed for the Archive in 2002. In this excerpt from his 2 hour interview, he remembers when MTV first formed and how influential...

Gale Storm became America's sweetheart, playing free-spirited "Margie Albright" on the sitcom My Little Margie, forever trying to keep her widowed father (Charles Farrell) out of (romantic) troubles. She followed...

"...I shudder to think how close we came to not having that moment ever happen." Although not yet online, here's a striking interview excerpt from the Archive of American Television's...

The Archive interviewed make-up artist Rick Baker in 2003 about his work in film and television. Baker also worked on Michael Jackson's infamous Thriller music video, and talks about the...

Anne Nelson, who worked at CBS for over sixty years, died at the age of 86. In her Archive interview, conducted on July 25, 1999, she discussed the many shows...

Ed McMahon will forever be associated with The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson and his trademark "Herrrrrre's Johnny" introduction, but in a career that spanned nearly 60 years, he was...

Sidney M. Katz, who received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Cinema Editors in February, has died at the age of 91. His career spanned over sixty years, and...

The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences celebrated TV Dads on Thursday June 18th and the Archive of American Television was there to catch a few of the "adored and...

One of the most highly-rated shows of the '80s/early '90s, Murder, She Wrote has endured in syndication and on DVD. Murder, She Wrote made its debut on September 30, 1984...

The Archive has posted an interview with Producer-Director Bill Melendez, who is best know for his work on the classic "Peanuts" specials. Take a look at Melendez's interview and find...

Daniel Boone is getting a special release today: Fess Parker's favorites, featuring eight series episodes. Following Fess Parker's success as "Davy Crockett" on ABC's Disneyland, he starred as Daniel Boone...

A classic example of the "Chicago School of Broadcasting," which featured intimate, improvisational entertainment in the early days of TV, Studs' Place starred Studs Terkel as the proprietor, with his...