Topic Censorship / Standards & Practices CENSORSHIP Conceptions of censorship derive from Roman practice in which two officials were appointed by the government to conduct the census, award public contracts and supervise the manners and morals of the people. Today the scope of censorship has been expanded to include most media and...
Topic Characters & Catchphrases Interviewees discuss the origins of some of television's most popular characters and sayings.
Profession Writers A commonplace in the television industry is that "it all begins with the script." In part, this notion recognizes the centrality of writers in the early days of live television, when authors such as Reginald Rose, Paddy Chayevsky and Rod Serling established the medium as an arena for the...
Profession Animation Professionals This category consists of animators, inkers, animation directors, executives and other personnel involved in the production of shows wherein the main images are created by hand, stop-motion, or computer.
Show Simpsons, The The Simpsons , longest-running cartoon on American prime-time network television, chronicles the animated adventures of Homer Simpson and his family. Debuting on the FOX network in 1989, critically acclaimed, culturally cynical and economically very successful, The Simpsons helped to define the...
Show Charlie Brown Specials Peanuts characters have appeared in animated form on television numerous times. This started when the Ford Motor Company licensed the characters in 1961 for a series of black and white television commercials for the Ford Falcon. The ads were animated by Bill Meléndez for Playhouse Pictures, a...