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The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation Presents

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Interviewees discuss television's "Golden Age" of comedies.

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

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Paul Bogart briefly on being a stage manager on Your Show of Shows
01:12

Chuck McCann with Emerson College

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Chuck McCann on live television in the 1950s
03:10

Hume Cronyn

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Hume Cronyn on appearing in the series The Marriage  with wife Jessica Tandy
08:53

Jamie Farr

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Jamie Farr on Sherwood Schwartz writing for The Red Skelton Show
01:19

Larry Gelbart

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Larry Gelbart on the rigorous work ethic and camaraderie of the writers of Caesar's Hour
02:04

Sheila Kuehl

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Sheila Kuehl on playing "Jackie Erwin" on The Stu Erwin Show aka Trouble With Father
11:14

Norman Lear

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Norman Lear on the challenges of working all day and night in the days of live television
04:50

Stewart MacGregory

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Stewart MacGregory on being stage coordinator for NBC Television starting in 1948
05:16

Barney McNulty

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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

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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

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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

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Don Pike on being technical director for Lights Out  and Your Hit Parade 
04:31

Carl Reiner

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Carl Reiner on Your Show of Shows and Caesar's Hour
16:37

Gene Reynolds

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Gale Storm on how My Little Margie impacted television
01:43

Mel Tolkin

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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

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