Interview Bob Newhart In his two-and-a-half-hour interview, Bob Newhart discusses his upbringing and early roots in comedy. He talks of his early job as an accountant and the boredom that accompanied the position, from which sprung his idea of ad-libbed phone call comedy and his first comedy album. He describes the bits...
Interview Jonathan Harris In his two-and-a-half-hour interview, Jonathan Harris (1914-2002) talks about his early career on the New York stage and his first appearances on television. He recalls appearing on various classic anthology series, including Omnibus, Lights Out, Schlitz Playhouse, and General Electric Theatre. He...
Interview Dwight Hemion In the two-and-a-half-hour solo portion of his interview, Dwight Hemion ( 1926–2008) talks about his early television career at ABC in the late 1940s. He discusses in detail the beginnings of the ABC network and his early directing work on the television series The Rootie Kazootie Club and The...
Interview Gary Smith In the three-hour solo portion of his interview, Gary Smith talks about his early years and his college career in set design. He describes his professional set designing and the stars of the television series The Kraft Music Hall and The Judy Garland Show . He touches on producing Hullabaloo and...
Interview Arthur Schneider In his three-and-a-half-hour interview, Arthur Schneider (1930-2009) reminisces about his early days in television, beginning as an assistant editor at NBC in Hollywood (and later NBC Burbank), where he quickly became a full-fledged editor. He talks about his experiences editing numerous Bob Hope...