Health and Medicine

Debbie Allen on how A Different World was the first network show on TV to broach the subject of AIDS

Army Archerd on breaking the story of Rock Hudson's AIDS

Paris Barclay on directing a pivotal episode of ER in which a main character is revealed to have AIDS, and seeing the power of television's reach

Sharon Bialy on submissions for a show like Better Call Saul, and on how the casting process works -- and how casting was impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic

Sharon Bialy on casting a lot of theater actors during early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, and on how the pandemic impacted casting protocols

Yvette Lee Bowser on balancing serious subject matter within the context of a comedy on A Different World -- including the episode "If I Should Die Before I Wake"

Yvette Lee Bowser on running the first season of Run the World, which shot in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic, and on the show getting a second season

Yvette Lee Bowser on how pandemic production operated on Unprisoned and on the Zoom writers' room on the show

Frances Buss Buch on directing "Telecolor Clinics" for The American Cancer Society

Margaret Cho on what the COVID-19 pandemic experience has been like for her, on the violence against Asian Americans during the pandemic, and on the many streaming services she's been watching

Margaret Cho on doing remote shows and connecting with fans during the COVID-19 pandemic

Margaret Cho on what production has been like during the COVID-19 pandemic

Margaret Cho on COVID protocols for TV production during the COVID-19 pandemic

Margaret Cho on shooting and traveling during the COVID-19 pandemic

Margaret Cho on what she's most looking forward to when the COVID-19 pandemic ends

Ron Cowen and Daniel Lipman on the research they did when writing the 1985 made-for-television movie An Early Frost, which depicted the AIDS crisis, by visiting AIDS patients at Santa Monica Hospital

Ron Cowen and Daniel Lipman on how they approached the storyline where Swoosie Kurtz's character, "Alex Reed", had breast cancer on Sisters

Ron Cowen and Daniel Lipman on the depiction of people living with HIV/AIDS on Queer as Folk

Ane Crabtree on where she was when the COVID-19 pandemic occurred and how it impacted production

Ramin Djawadi on scoring The Eternals during the COVID-19 pandemic

Jeffrey Hayden on Quincy's plots, including the episode "Seldom Silent, Never Heard," that influenced the passing of the Orphan Drug Act (ODA)

Producer Paul Henning on ending cigarette ads on The Beverly Hillbillies

Suzuki Ingerslev on production design for the Amazon special Yearly Departed, shot during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic

Kim Kimble on working as a hair stylist during the COVID-19 pandemic, and on having to shut down her salon due to the pandemic

Kim Kimble on working as a hair stylist on set during the COVID-19 pandemic

Dr. John Leverence on the role television has played during the COVID-19 pandemic

Dr. John Leverence on how the COVID-19 pandemic might impact the television industry, moving forward

Eryn Krueger Mekash on how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted makeup for television and what the then-current production conditions were like

Donald A. Morgan on how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted production on Last Man Standing and The Conners

Donald A. Morgan on the challenges of shooting the live episodes of The Conners -- one shot during the COVID-19 pandemic

Soledad O'Brien on where she was at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic and what pandemic production has been like

Lyn Paolo on reuniting with the cast and crew of The West Wing to work on a pre-election benefit special in 2020 "A West Wing Special to Benefit When We All Vote" and how it came about, and on working on the special during the COVID-19 Pandemic and how that impacted production

Lyn Paolo on the shoot for Inventing Anna starting right before the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City in 2020, on working as a costume designer on various shows during the pandemic including working in full hazmat suits, and on the impact of the pandemic on production

Director David Pressman on some of the social issues covered on One Live to Live

Sally Jessy Raphael on having Ryan White and Cleve Jones as guests on her show Sally aka The Sally Jessy Raphael Show to discuss the AIDS crisis

Sally Jessy Raphael on Patty Duke's appearance on Sally aka The Sally Jessy Raphael Show, where she discussed her bipolar diagnosis

Tim Reid on missing international travel during the COVID-19 pandemic

Tim Reid on production during the COVID-19 pandemic

Maria Riva on appearing on a series of cerebral palsy telethons in the 1950s at the request of Yul Brynner (the airtime donated by ABC President Leonard Goldenson), and trying to dispel the stigma of the disease

Fatima Robinson on choreographing the halftime show for Super Bowl LVI (Dr. Dre and West Coast hip-hop All-Stars) and how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted the show

Glenda Rovello on her experience of production during the COVID-19 pandemic

Yeardley Smith on production on The Simpsons during the COVID-19 pandemic -- moving from recording like a radio play with everyone together, to recording in her home, to recording solo at the studio

Ruth Warrick on All My Children's  groundbreaking AIDS storyline

Ellen Wheeler on working with All My Children  creator Agnes Nixon and public reaction to the AIDS storyline

Ellen Wheeler on working with All My Children  creator Agnes Nixon and public reaction to the AIDS storyline

Alan Zweibel, interviewed from home during the Coronavirus pandemic, on how he has been coping during the Stay at Home mandate