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Soupy Sales was interviewed by the Archive in 2002. Click here to read highlights from his interview. [video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsjwZtiEru0 Detailed Interview Description:Soupy Sales (1926-2009) was interviewed for one hour at the...

Composer Vic Mizzy died on Saturday at age 87. Mizzy composed the theme songs for " The Addams Family" and " Green Acres", possibly two of the most recognizable theme...

Show creator, writer, and producer Tom Fontana was interviewed by the Archive in June, 2009. His full interview is available for the first time online, here ! Interview Description: In...

The Twilight Zone debuted on October 2, 1959 and has become one of the crown jewels of classic television over the last fifty years. Series creator Rod Serling won two...

New interviews are up today on emmyTVlegends.org with Marla Gibbs, Marion Ross, and Tom Bosley! Keep checking back for more updates!

Actor/Writer Robert Culp on the creation of I Spy. [video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lh83ghG0BGc Click here to watch the premiere episode, "So Long, Patrick Henry" (airdate: 9/15/65; written by Robert Culp) and other season...

Frank Liberman, who represented Bob Hope and Nat King Cole, among others during his long career, died at age 92. He was interviewed for the Archive by Reba Merrill, in...

New interviews are up today with LeVar Burton, Bill Dana, Bob McGrath, Rue McClanahan, John Moffitt, Ted Turner... and many more! Check back often as we'll be adding more interviews...

BIG NEWS The Archive of American Television has officially launched http://EMMYTVLEGENDS.ORG, the new online home of the Archive's interview collection. Visit the free site to see many interviews in the...

Ernest Borgnine was nominated for guest actor in a drama for ER and Betty White was nominated for guest actress in a comedy for My Name Is Earl. Here they...

Hank McCune is a forgotten name in TV comedy. His TV series, The Hank McCune Show, however, has found its way into the history books. This filmed series was the...

David Dortort, executive producer of the classic TV westerns Bonanza and The High Chaparral, has died at the age of 93. When asked in his Archive of American Television interview...

The 45th 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...

Stan Chambers started in television at the dawn of the medium. He's been a fixture of KTLA's news team and its historic coverage of breaking news since he first reported...

Eddie Kean, the sole writer for the first seven years of the classic children's show Howdy Doody, has died at age 85. Kean also wrote the songs for the show...

Humphrey Bogart was one of the screen's biggest stars in the 1950s, when TV was considered a rival medium. Bogart made relatively few appearances on TV before his death in...

The TV Academy Foundation's Archive of American Television website EMMYTVLEGENDS.ORG has won an Outstanding Achievement in Website Development Award from the Interactive Media Council's 2010 Interactive Media Awards! The honor...

Variety announced today that As the World Turns will end its run in September 2010. When Guiding Light aired its last episode on September 18, 2009 after a 57-year run...

Larry Gelbart, whose career in television spans from the Golden Age to award-winning television movies on HBO, has died at the age of 81. Gelbart was inducted into the Academy...

We're sad to hear of the passing of writer Lorenzo Semple, Jr., who died this morning at the age of 91 in Los Angeles, CA. Semple served as a journalist...