Interviewees discuss television's "Golden Age" of comedies.
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“You had to have your wits about you. It was a little bit like summer stock…I think the thing that made it the golden age of television is most of us were from Broadway.” - Jayne Meadows, Actress
Highlights
Jayne Meadows on the challenges of working in live television
05:00
Carl Reiner on Your Show of Shows and Caesar's Hour
16:37
Hazel Shermet on appearing on The Morey Amsterdam Show
10:05
Mary Kay and Johnny Stearns on the challenges of acting in live television; on sets and locations on Mary Kay and Johnny
04:12
Stewart MacGregory on being stage coordinator for NBC Television starting in 1948
05:16
Howard Morris on co-starring on Admiral Broadway Revue, Your Show of Shows, and Caesar's Hour, along with Sid Caesar, Imogene Coca, and Carl Reiner
16:48
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Paul Bogart
Paul Bogart briefly on being a stage manager on Your Show of Shows
01:12
Hume Cronyn
Hume Cronyn on appearing in the series The Marriage with wife Jessica Tandy
08:53
Jamie Farr
Jamie Farr on Sherwood Schwartz writing for The Red Skelton Show
01:19
Larry Gelbart
Larry Gelbart on the rigorous work ethic and camaraderie of the writers of Caesar's Hour
02:04
Sheila Kuehl
Sheila Kuehl on playing "Jackie Erwin" on The Stu Erwin Show aka Trouble With Father
11:14
Norman Lear
Norman Lear on the challenges of working all day and night in the days of live television
04:50
Stewart MacGregory
Stewart MacGregory on being stage coordinator for NBC Television starting in 1948
05:16
Chuck McCann with Emerson College
Chuck McCann on live television in the 1950s
03:10
Barney McNulty
Barney McNulty on doing cue cards for The Ed Wynn Show
28:30
Barry McNulty on doing cue cards for I Love Lucy with Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz
04:21
Jayne Meadows
Jayne Meadows on the challenges of working in live television
05:00
Jayne Meadows on her sister Audrey Meadows as "Alice Kramden" on The Honeymooners
05:39
Howard Morris
Howard Morris on co-starring on Admiral Broadway Revue, Your Show of Shows, and Caesar's Hour, along with Sid Caesar, Imogene Coca, and Carl Reiner
16:48
Don Pike
Don Pike on being technical director for Lights Out and Your Hit Parade
04:31
Carl Reiner
Carl Reiner on Your Show of Shows and Caesar's Hour
16:37
Gene Reynolds
Gene Reynolds on the M*A*S*H episode "Point of View"
01:26
Gene Reynolds on killing off "Henry Blake" on M*A*S*H
04:53
Hazel Shermet
Hazel Shermet on appearing on The Morey Amsterdam Show
10:05
Hazel Shermet on appearing on The Fred Allen Show
02:57
Hazel Shermet on doing Songs You've Never Heard for WOR
03:17
Johnny Stearns
Mary Kay and Johnny Stearns on the challenges of acting in live television; on sets and locations on Mary Kay and Johnny
04:12
Mary Kay Stearns
Mary Kay and Johnny Stearns on the challenges of acting in live television; on sets and locations on Mary Kay and Johnny
04:12
Gale Storm
Gale Storm on how My Little Margie impacted television
01:43
Mel Tolkin
Mel Tolkin on writing for Your Show of Shows
08:55
Mel Tolkin on classic sketches from Caesar's Hour featuring Sid Caesar
07:54