Interview Alan Young In his three-hour interview, Alan Young (1919-2016) discusses his Scottish and Canadian upbringing and starting his show business career as a teenager on radio. He speaks of The Alan Young Show radio program and the television version, and recalls his experiences doing a "live" television series...
Interview George Balzer In his nearly two-hour interview, George Balzer (1915-2006) recalls his start in comedy writing, first for Bing Crosby's Kraft Music Hall radio program, and then on the radio show Burns and Allen where he first teamed up with writer Sam Perrin. He talks about the duo next working on The Jack Benny...
Interview Frank Liberman In his two-hour interview, Frank Liberman (1917-2009) chronicles his early career at the New York Daily News and then at Warner Bros. in New York and Chicago, where he began in the publicity department. He talks about moving to Hollywood, where he left Warner Bros. and began his own publicity firm...
Interview Esme Chandlee In her two-hour interview, Esme Chandlee (1918-2012) discusses her first job at MGM working in the fan mail department and how this led to her role as the head of the script department on the lot. She then discusses her move to the studio's publicity department and details what led to her becoming...
Interview Beatrice Arthur Beatrice Arthur (1922-2009) declares her higher ideals for television: "I was bringing my theater training to television. I remember somebody said— and it's true— that I was trying to turn sitcom into an art form." In her over two-hour interview, Arthur relates the origins of her stage name and...
Interview Fred Silverman Fred Silverman (1937-2020), who served as the programming head at ABC, CBS, and NBC, attests to the quirks of inspiration in developing television programs: "I had always thought that kids in a haunted house would be a big hit, played for laughs, in animation. And [I] developed a show with Hanna-...
