Memorable Moments on Television

The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation Presents

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About

“I remember where I was when I heard John F. Kennedy was assassinated. I remember where I was when I heard that Martin Luther King had been shot. People remember where they were when they watched Roots. It’s one of those milestones that’s embedded in our consciousness - one of those things by which we measure time and measure ourselves.” - LeVar Burton, Actor

Interviewees discuss memorable moments on television.

Highlights

LeVar Burton on how Roots was a seminal event in people's lives and has become part of history

01:12

Mitzi Gaynor on singing "Georgy Girl" on the 1967 Academy Awards - the most heralded performance on an Oscar broadcast

05:26

Tom Freston on the launch of MTV and the MTV logo

02:27

Sonia Manzano on the Sesame Street episode "Farewell, Mr. Hooper" (airdate: November 24, 1983)

03:08

Walter Cronkite on announcing the assassination of President Kennedy; the emotional impact of that day

02:23

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Andy Ackerman

Andy Ackerman on the Cheers finale, "One for the Road"

00:49

Andy Ackerman on directing his first episode of Seinfeld, "The Chaperone," and on working with the cast

03:01

Andy Ackerman on the Seinfeld finale penned by Larry David

08:30

Edie Adams

Edie Adams on how Ernie Kovacs would tune a television

00:54

Edie Adams on memorable moments from Ernie Kovacs' acts and shows - playing the giant piano

00:44

Alan Alda

Alan Alda on the M*A*S*H episode "Sometimes You Hear the Bullet"-- its dramatic significance and Alda's critique of a scene in which he cries on camera

01:23

Jason Alexander

Jason Alexander on shooting the finale of Seinfeld

04:14

Debbie Allen

Debbie Allen on the episode of A Different World that dealt with the L.A. riots

01:47

Steve Allen

Steve Allen on his early recollections of TV - Kathy Fiscus falling down the well and the idea of event television

02:08

Steve Allen on announcing wrestling for ABC television

03:22

Steve Allen on announcing wrestling for ABC television and how his gift for ad-libbing helped

02:32

Steve Allen on Kim Novak as a guest on Tonight

01:23

Steve Allen on the openings of The Tonight Show

01:07

Steve Allen on dressing as a cop and going out onto the street for The Tonight Show

01:35

Steve Allen on sketches outside the studio on The Tonight Show

01:52

Steve Allen on the fake car accident stunt on The Tonight Show

00:45

Steve Allen on musical guests on The Tonight Show - Duke Ellington

01:48

Steve Allen on sketches on The Tonight Show - The Question Man

02:21

Steve Allen on sketches on The Tonight Show - Crazy Shots

03:59

Steve Allen on a tug-of-war with an elephant on The Steve Allen Westinghouse Show

02:00

Steve Allen on a tea-bag sketch on The Steve Allen Westinghouse Show

00:57

Steve Allen on funny phone call sketches on The Steve Allen Westinghouse Show

04:13

Robert G. Anderson

Robert G. Anderson on the 60 Minutes piece on Dr. Kevorkian and the issue of doctor-assisted suicide

06:44

Robert G. Anderson on the 60 Minutes piece "The Archbishop" (Robert Sanchez) of New Mexico who was accused of molesting children

11:23

Robert G. Anderson on a 60 Minutes story he produced with Mike Wallace, "Smoke but no Fire" about the dangers of smoking

01:32

Julie Andrews

Julie Andrews on Julie and Carol at Carnegie Hall

03:39

Edward Asner

Ed Asner on "Lou Grant"'s "I hate spunk!" from The Mary Tyler Moore Show

01:22

Ed Asner on the classic The Mary Tyler Moore Show episode "Chuckles Bites the Dust"

04:23

Ed Asner on The Mary Tyler Moore Show episode "Chuckles Bites The Dust"

06:36

Larry Auerbach

Larry Auerbach on the final episode of M*A*S*H: "Goodbye, Farewell, and Amen"

01:49

Thomas Azzari

Thomas Azzari on designing the bedroom set for the final Newhart episode

01:49

Thomas Azzari on set designing for the Seinfeld episode "The Finale"

01:52

Reza Badiyi

Reza Badiyi on creating the iconic title sequence for The Mary Tyler Moore Show - he came up with her famous hat toss

02:21

Paris Barclay

Paris Barclay on directing Jimmy Smits' last episode of NYPD Blue

05:05

Donald P. Bellisario

Donald P. Bellisario on the final episode of Quantum Leap

03:28

Donald P. Bellisario on Dean Stockwell's difficulty with the Quantum Leap episode "The Leap Home"

02:36

Harve Bennett

Harve Bennett on the importance of the made-for-TV movie A Woman Called Golda

01:16

Shelley Berman

Shelley Berman on the night Jack Paar walked off The Jack Paar Show

03:45

Ken Berry

Ken Berry's long F Troop tracking shot

01:28

Steve Binder

Steve Binder on directing Diana Ross in Central Park (1985)

04:02

William Blinn

William Blinn on the then-new miniseries format that Roots was presented in, and on the "My name is Toby" scene

04:17

George Bodenheimer

George Bodenheimer on ESPN televising the America's Cup sailing event for the first time in 1987

06:49

Mili Lerner Bonsignori

Mili Lerner Bonsignori on the See It Now episode "The Case Against Milo Radulovich A0589839"

05:09

Mili Lerner Bonsignori on the See It Now episode on Senator McCarthy and McCarthy's response

03:59

Mili Lerner Bonsignori on the See It Now episode on Annie Lee Moss

02:46

Ernest Borgnine

Ernest Borgnine on winning the Oscar for Marty and having a bet with Jerry Lewis

02:05

Anthony Bourdain

Anthony Bourdain on the Haiti episode of Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations

04:51

Anthony Bourdain on the Beirut episode of Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations

06:56

Yvette Lee Bowser

Yvette Lee Bowser on the series finale of Living Single

04:56

Yvette Lee Bowser on the Black-ish episode "Hope"

04:26

Yvette Lee Bowser on discussions with Justin Simien that led to the "Chapter V" episode of Dear White People in which "Reggie" has a gun pulled on him by campus police

05:34

Bernie Brillstein

Bernie Brillstein on Jim Henson as Muppet Ralph on The Jimmy Dean Show

00:48

Manager Bernie Brillstein on The Muppets appearance on Saturday Night Live

00:44

Bernie Brillstein on the creation of The Blues Brothers

05:45

Alton Brown

Alton Brown on favorite episodes of Good Eats

02:50

Carol Burnett

Carol Burnett on her appearance on The Paul Winchell and Jerry Mahoney Show and the beginning of the ear tug

01:18

Carol Burnett on the famous "Went with the Wind!" sketch on The Carol Burnett Show

00:49

Carol Burnett on her Tarzan laugh

00:44

Allan Burns

Allan Burns on being a page on "The Battler" starring Paul Newman and James Dean - an episode of Playwrights '56

01:51

Show co-creator Allan Burns on Mary Tyler Moore's expertise as an actress that allowed her to play the first part 'serious' of famed The Mary Tyler Moore Show episode "Chuckles Bites the Dust," even when she had trouble keeping a straight face during dress rehearsal

02:10

LeVar Burton

LeVar Burton on one of his favorite scenes in Roots

01:35

LeVar Burton on how Roots was a seminal event in people's lives and has become part of history

01:12

Sid Caesar

Sid Caesar on his Pagliacci take-off ("Galipacci") on Caesar's Hour and an ad lib he did "live" when his make-up pencil broke

01:36

Vince Calandra

Vince Calandra on the Beatles' arrival in America for their appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1964

01:21

Vince Calandra on security for the Beatles' appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1964

02:35

Vince Calandra on how he booked the Beatles' appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1964

10:51

Vince Calandra on the Beatles' historic performance on The Ed Sullivan Show and the backstage scene, getting them through the crowd into the studio

23:06

Glenn Gordon Caron

Glenn Gordon Caron on Orson Welles introducing the classic Moonlighting episode "The Dream Sequence Always Rings Twice"

03:00

Marcy Carsey

Marcy Carsey and Tom Werner on when they realized that The Cosby Show would be a hit (the Monopoly scene in the pilot)

02:05

Dick Cavett

Dick Cavett on interviewing John Lennon and Yoko Ono and problems with the network

02:54

Dick Cavett on interviewing friend Groucho Marx

02:31

Richard Chamberlain

Richard Chamberlain on how the forbidden love story of The Thorn Birds made it so popular

01:47

Glen Charles

Glen and Les Charles on the series finale of The Bob Newhart Show

01:58

Glen and Les Charles on the title sequence of Taxi

01:38

Glen and Les Charles on the series finale of Cheers

00:37

Les Charles

Glen and Les Charles on the series finale of The Bob Newhart Show

01:58

Glen and Les Charles on the title sequence of Taxi

01:38

Glen and Les Charles on the series finale of Cheers

00:37

Tony Charmoli

Tony Charmoli on receiving a Dance Magazine Award on The Tonight Show for his choreography on Hit Parade and walking off The Tonight Show

03:55

Tom Cherones

Tom Cherones on the Seinfeld episode "The Junior Mint"

01:32

Tom Cherones on the Seinfeld episode "The Parking Garage"

03:01

Tom Cherones on the Seinfeld episode "The Contest"

01:41

Tom Cherones on the Seinfeld episode "The Finale"

00:31

Tom Cherones on the Seinfeld episode "The Bubble Boy"

01:13

Nick Clooney

Nick Clooney on appearing with sisters Rosemary and Betty on The Mike Douglas Show

01:13

Andy Cohen

Andy Cohen on announcing the death of Osama bin Laden on Watch What Happens Live

00:57

Robert Conrad

Robert Conrad on his Eveready Battery commercial

01:32

Bill Conti

Bill Conti on playing Julia Roberts off when her speech went long at the Academy Awards

02:52

Tim Conway

Tim Conway and Harvey Korman on "Carol and Sis" on The Carol Burnett Show

00:39

Tim Conway on his favorite sketches on The Carol Burnett Show

00:49

Hal Cooper

Hal Cooper on Allan Sherman insisting Bill Cosby be a guest on the Tonight show

02:00

Hal Cooper on directing the Maude episode "Maude's Dilemma, Part II"

03:18

Jeanne Cooper

Jeanne Cooper on fond memories of working with Morey Amsterdam

02:23

Bob Costas

Bob Costas on covering the 1986 World Series when the Red Sox almost beat the curse, and the Red Sox finally beating it in 2004

02:35

Bob Costas on Kirk Gibson hitting the home-run off Dennis Eckersley in the 1988 World Series

01:36

Bob Costas on the Centennial Park bombing at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics

01:54

Warren Cowan

Publicist Warren Cowan on the televised Kathy Fiscus tragedy

00:48

Ane Crabtree

Ane Crabtree on "Tony Soprano's" robe in The Sopranos pilot and on "Tony" feeding the ducks

03:04

Ane Crabtree on transforming "William" into "The Man in Black" on Westworld and how far in advance she knew they were the same character

06:26

Bill Dana

Bill Dana on the famous kiss between "Archie Bunker" and Sammy Davis Jr. on the All in the Family episode he wrote

00:46

Ramin Djawadi

Ramin Djawadi on using a version of the Stark theme, "Goodbye Brother," during "Hodor's" death in season 6 of Game of Thrones

01:34

Ramin Djawadi on character themes for Game of Thrones -- the Lannister theme "The Rains of Castamere" and hearing it at the Red Wedding

04:09

Ramin Djawadi on character themes for Game of Thrones - "Cersei Lannister's" theme and "Light of the Seven" - the first use of piano in Game of Thrones

04:16

Ramin Djawadi on scoring the Battle of the Bastards sequence in Game of Thrones

02:21

Ramin Djawadi on scoring the sequence leading up to "Arya" killing the Night King in Game of Thrones -- and on bringing back the piano

02:55

Ramin Djawadi on "Jaime" knighting "Brianne" in the Game of Thrones episode, "A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms" and the theme used for them

00:46

Ramin Djawadi on the music for "Jenny of Oldstones" in the Game of Thrones episode, "A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms"

01:07

Ramin Djawadi on scoring "Shireen Baratheon's" death on Game of Thrones

00:53

Ramin Djawadi on the music in the Game of Thrones series finale

03:41

Elinor Donahue

Elinor Donahue on singing with Andy Griffith on a Christmas episode of The Andy Griffith Show

02:07

Dick Ebersol

Dick Ebersol on how Muhammed Ali came to be involved with the Atlanta Olympics

05:34

Roger Ebert

Roger Ebert on discussing colorization and a black and white episode of Siskel & Ebert & the Movies

02:46

Kevin Eubanks

Kevin Eubanks on Jay Leno's 2009 exit from The Tonight Show and move to a 10pm show (The Jay Leno Show)

03:44

Jeff Fager

Jeff Fager on a conflict between then-CEO of CBS Laurence Tisch and 60 Minutes creator Don Hewitt over the story of tobacco industry whistleblower Jeffrey Winger, who alleged that the tobacco industry knew the addictive and deadly nature of cigarettes

04:02

Jeff Fager on the Abu Ghraib story on 60 Minutes II

09:00

Elma Farnsworth

Elma Farnsworth on her husband Philo T. Farnsworth's camera tube being a part of the Apollo mission to the moon in 1969

01:04

Jamie Farr

Jamie Farr on cross-dressing as "Klinger" on M*A*S*H and reaction from fans from the "Big Mac" episode

02:45

Jamie Farr on the final episode of M*A*S*H

02:37

June Foray

June Foray on providing the voice for "Talky Tina" on The Twilight Zone: "Living Doll"

02:04

Ray Forrest

Ray Forrest on the advent of commercial television -- July 1, 1941

00:31

Ray Forrest on announcing at TV's first political convention in 1940 - the Republican convention in Philadelphia

06:05

Ray Forrest on the coming of commercial television and announcing the very first commercial (for Bulova) - July 1, 1941, and the first on-camera commercial

01:57

Ray Forrest on announcing that NBC was now a commercial station, WNBT, and no longer W2XBS

00:31

Ray Forrest on a photo of the first on-air, live commercial for television -- for Adam Hats on July 4, 1941

00:57

Tom Freston

Tom Freston on the launch of MTV and the MTV logo

02:27

Mitzi Gaynor

Mitzi Gaynor on singing "Georgy Girl" on the 1967 Academy Awards - the most heralded performance on an Oscar broadcast

05:26

Mitzi Gaynor on appearing on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1964, the same night The Beatles were on

06:52

Mitzi Gaynor on performing "I Can Cook, Too" on her television special Mitzi ... A Tribute to an American Housewife

02:26

Larry Gelbart

Larry Gelbart on what to him represented the best of television -- those moments when it brought the country together as a family, as in the Kennedy funeral, or the Challenger launch

02:10

Frank Gifford

Frank Gifford on securing an exclusive pre-game interview for CBS with Vince Lombardi before the first Super Bowl in 1967

04:42

Frank Gifford on working on Wide World of Sports and memories of the terrorist attack in Munich at the 1972 Olympics

04:00

Gary David Goldberg

Gary David Goldberg on the Emmy-winning "A My Name is Alex" episode of Family Ties

03:16

Leonard Goldberg

Leonard Goldberg on William Blinn adding narration to the TV movie Brian's Song

02:31

Leonard Goldberg on the episode of Charlie's Angels where we finally see "Charlie"

01:35

Leonard Goldberg on the people helped by the TV movie Something About Amelia (which dealt with incest)

02:53

Leonard H. Goldenson

Leonard H. Goldenson on airing the McCarthy Hearings in their entirety on ABC

01:16

Julian Goodman

Julian Goodman on NBC's coverage of JFK's assassination

08:17

Julian Goodman on NBC's coverage of Lee Harvey Oswald's death - TV's first live murder

02:48

Julian Goodman on news coverage of the 1968 Democratic Convention

03:06

Curt Gowdy

Curt Gowdy on Ted Willams last game

02:58

Walon Green

Walon Green on the live episode of ER, "Ambush," and on George Clooney getting nervous as the airdate drew near

02:23

Everett Greenbaum

Everett Greenbaum on the death of "Col Henry Blake" on M*A*S*H

01:45

Marge Greene

Marge Greene on Ernie Kovacs nailing her in a coffin on Kovacs on the Corner

06:11

Hal Gurnee

Hal Gurnee on Jack Paar walking off the set of Tonight Starring Jack Paar during a broadcast, forcing Hugh Downs to take over

04:36

Jon Hamm

Jon Hamm on going to dark places while playing "Don Draper" on Mad Men and how "Don's" journey ends in the final episode (the Coca-Cola commercial)

05:48

Earl Hamner, Jr.

Earl Hamner on working on the TV version of Heidi and the broadcast's memorable interruption of a football game

04:58

Ellen Holly

Ellen Holly on being at the 1963 March on Washington with her aunt Anna Arnold Hedgeman

06:03

Monica Horan

Monica Horan on finding out that the characters of "Robert" and "Amy" were getting married on Everybody Loves Raymond

02:45

Monica Horan on some of her favorite episodes of Everybody Loves Raymond, "Robert's Wedding" and the "Italy" episode with Ray Romano

02:34

Monica Horan on meeting Tim Conway and his comments on the episode of Everybody Loves Raymond, "Robert Moves Back" and her memories of performing in that episode

01:28

Louis J. Horvitz

Louis J. Horvitz on Adrien Brody's acceptance speech at the Academy Awards

00:48

Louis J. Horvitz on Cuba Gooding Jr.'s acceptance speech at the Academy Awards

01:10

Ron Howard

Ron Howard on using the death of a pet in real life to reach the emotions needed in The Andy Griffith Show episode "Opie the Birdman"

01:56

Suzuki Ingerslev

Suzuki Ingerslev on "Sookie" and "Eric's" first time making love on True Blood -- on a bed, in the snow

01:10

Suzuki Ingerslev on the True Blood finale

00:42

Suzuki Ingerslev on her designs for the time jumps in the Six Feet Under finale, and on Alan Ball fighting to get a helicopter for that episode

02:16

David Jacobs

David Jacobs on the "Who Shot J.R.?" storyline on Dallas

03:48

David Jacobs on the Bobby out of the shower/last season was all a dream storyline on Dallas

02:43

Chuck Jones

Chuck Jones on How the Grinch Stole Christmas

09:05

Quincy Jones

Quincy Jones on MTV and Michael Jackson's "Thriller" video

03:39

Irma Kalish with Emerson College

Rocky and Irma Kalish on writing for Good Times and the classic All in the Family episode "Edith's Christmas Story" where Edith deals with a breast cancer scare

04:16

Rocky and Irma Kalish on writing for Good Times and the classic All in the Family episode "Edith's Christmas Story" where Edith deals with a breast cancer scare

04:16

Bob Keeshan

Bob Keeshan on "Lucky", the puppet before "Howdy Doody" and "Howdy Doody" running for President

04:54

Bob Keeshan on remaining in character as "Clarabell the Clown", and his opinion on the Howdy Doody finale where "Clarabell" spoke for the only time

01:26

David E. Kelley

David E. Kelley on writing the L.A. Law episode "Good to the Last Drop" (with the famous elevator shaft scene)

03:32

David E. Kelley on favorite episodes or issues on Boston Legal - the finale

00:48

Barry Kemp

Barry Kemp on the Newhart series finale

02:28

Michael Patrick King

Michael Patrick King on Carrie ending up with Big, and revealing his name

00:41

William Klages

William Klages on working on JFK's inauguration, which Frank Sinatra produced

03:59

Jack Klugman

Jack Klugman on "The Blacklist" episode of The Defenders and winning an Emmy for the role

04:59

Don Knotts

Don Knotts on Andy Griffith Show co-star Howard McNear ("Floyd, the Barber") and the episode "Convicts-at-Large"

02:00

Buz Kohan

Buz Kohan on working on Bing Crosby's Merrie Olde Christmas, featuring the famous "Little Drummer Boy" duet with Bing Crosby and David Bowie

04:58

Buz Kohan on Jack Palance's memorable moment at an Academy Awards show

00:13

Buz Kohan on a moment with Sir Laurence Olivier at the Academy Awards

01:13

Harvey Korman

Tim Conway and Harvey Korman on "Carol and Sis" on The Carol Burnett Show

00:39

Norman Lear with Emerson College

Norman Lear on Bill Dana writing the "Sammy's Visit" episode of All in the Family -- and the script not being submitted for an Emmy award for Bill Dana

03:46

Eugene Lee

Eugene Lee on preparing for the very first Saturday Night Live show with host George Carlin, and lessons learned from that experience

01:48

Eugene Lee on production design for the "Les Miserables" Saturday Night Live sketch with lobsters in a tank and on working up until the last second

06:03

Sheldon Leonard

Sheldon Leonard on the classic Dick Van Dyke Show episode "That's My Boy?"

02:13

Steve Levitan

Steve Levitan on his favorite episodes of Just Shoot Me ! - including "Slow Donnie"

03:41

Judith Light

Judith Light on her One Life to Live character "Karen Wolek" and her famous courtroom scene

10:18

Kurt Loder

Kurt Loder on MTV's coverage of Live Aid

01:26

Chuck Lorre

Chuck Lorre on how Janet Jackson's wardrobe malfunction at the Superbowl changed things on Two and Half Men; on dealing with censorship

01:57

Susan Lucci

Susan Lucci on breaking her Emmy losing streak in 1999

04:09

A.C. Lyles

A.C. Lyles on the early years of KTLA and the impact of the Kathy Fiscus tragedy

04:03

Gavin MacLeod

Gavin MacLeod on "The Last Show," the final episode of The Mary Tyler Moore Show

02:08

Bob Mackie

Bob Mackie on designing the Queen Elizabeth gown for Whoopi Goldberg for the 1999 Academy Awards

01:23

Bob Mackie on the famous curtain-rod dress he made for Carol Burnett in "Went With the Wind," a spoof of Gone With the Wind on The Carol Burnett Show

02:17

Bob Mackie on dressing Cher for her presentation of an award to Don Ameche at the Academy Awards

01:03

Delbert Mann

Delbert Mann on Paddy Chayefsky's production "Marty" on Philco-Goodyear Television Playhouse

07:18

Bob Markell

Bob Markell on an extraordinary scene for Stage 67, now saved in the Academy archives

01:28

Dick Martin

Dick Martin on Richard Nixon's cameo on Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In

01:47

Dick Martin on directing the series finale of Newhart and its surprise ending

04:10

Bob McGrath

Bob McGrath on how Will Lee's passing was handled on Sesame Street - the famous "Farewell, Mr. Hooper" episode

01:36

Bob McGrath on filming the emotional scene of episode "Farewell, Mr. Hooper" when "Big Bird" comes to understand that "Mr. Hooper" has died

00:47

Bob McGrath on memories working with guest star Linda Bove on Sesame Street and the far-reaching impact of an episode about hearing impairment

01:31

Jim McKay

Jim McKay on the Israeli hostage crisis during the 1972 Munich Olympics

20:52

Ed McMahon

Ed McMahon on the famous Ed Ames tomahawk throwing incident on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

03:00

Ed McMahon on the second-to-last show for The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, featuring Bette Midler and Robin Williams

05:48

Emily Meisler

Emily Meisler on The Beatles' first performance on The Ed Sullivan Show

01:10

Eryn Krueger Mekash

Eryn Krueger Mekash on the makeup for the "Theatricality" episode of Glee

02:46

Burt Metcalfe

Burt Metcalfe on the death of "Col Henry Blake" on M*A*S*H

04:39

Producer Burt Metcalfe on the most effective line in M*A*S*H: "The Interview"

03:01

Burt Metcalfe on the M*A*S*H finale "Goodbye, Farewell, and Amen"

09:54

Burt Metcalfe on the next-to-last M*A*S*H episode "As Time Goes By"

04:17

Burt Metcalfe on the reception of the M*A*S*H finale "Goodbye, Farewell, and Amen"

02:04

Al Michaels

Al Michaels on his experience of calling U.S. Hockey team defeating the Soviets at the Winter Olympics and on coming up with "Do you believe in miracles?"

06:40

Al Michaels on reporting the earthquake during the 1989 World Series Game 3 in San Francisco

09:55

Walter C. Miller

Walter C. Miller on Eminem and Elton John's duet on The Grammys

00:41

Don Mischer

Don Mischer on Super Bowl 49 - how Janet Jackson's "wardrobe malfunction" led him back to the halftime show

01:57

Don Mischer on producing the 1996 Atlanta Olympics with Muhammad Ali carrying the torch

02:53

Don Mischer on Super Bowl 49 - how Janet Jackson's "wardrobe malfunction" led him back to the halftime show

01:57

John Moffitt

John Moffitt on The Beatles' appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show (cont.)

06:50

Mary Tyler Moore

Mary Tyler Moore on The Mary Tyler Moore Show episode "Chuckles Bites the Dust" (airdate: October 25, 1975)

03:48

Bill Moyers

Bill Moyers on the "Daisy" ad for the 1964 Presidential campaign

05:31

Roger Mudd

Roger Mudd on reporting on the passage of the Civil Rights Bill

01:29

Roger Mudd on covering Bobby Kennedy's Presidential bid and standing next to Ethel Kennedy when Bobby was assassinated

07:30

Diana Muldaur

Diana Muldaur on the death of her L.A. Law character "Rosalind Shays" from falling down an elevator shaft

06:00

Jonathan Murray

Jonathan Murray on Kevin and Julie's fight on the first season of The Real World

00:42

Bob Newhart

Bob Newhart on the surprise ending of the Newhart series finale and the "red herring" ending that was written to elude the press

04:24

Soledad O'Brien

Soledad O'Brien on her interview with FEMA director Michael Brown

02:30

Soledad O'Brien on her thoughts on the coverage of the January 6, 2021 Capitol Insurrection

00:48

Don Pardo

Don Pardo on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, and having to read the announcement of his death

03:22

Marty Pasetta

Marty Pasetta on Vanessa Redgrave's infamous protest speech at the Academy Awards

01:48

Marty Pasetta on Charlie Chaplin appearing on the first Academy Awards he directed

01:26

Marty Pasetta on the Academy Awards infamous streaking incident

01:34

Marty Pasetta on Marlon Brando refusing his Oscar

01:20

Suzanne Pleshette

Suzanne Pleshette on her cameo on the series finale of Newhart

03:41

Tom Poston

Tom Poston on the final episode of Newhart

01:12

Hector Ramirez

Hector Ramirez on working on Elvis Presley's concerts for television

01:53

Tim Reid

Tim Reid on the WKRP in Cincinnati episode "In Concert" about The Who concert in Cincinnati that resulted in the deaths of several attendees

04:09

John Rich

John Rich on the live broadcast of the opening of Disneyland ("Dateline: Disneyland")(airdate: July 17, 1955)

05:44

John Rich on Procter & Gamble and CBS having issues with the "That's My Boy?" episode of The Dick Van Dyke Show

03:51

Director John Rich on Sammy Davis Jr.'s suggestion, as a guest on The Tonight Show, that he would make a funny guest star on All in the Family (leading to his appearance on the classic episode "Sammy's Visit")

01:04

Lee Rich

Lee Rich on the "House Divided" episode of Dallas which generated the question, "Who Shot J.R.?"

01:50

Lee Rich on Patrick Ewing leaving and returning to Dallas - the previous season was all a dream

01:30

Hank Rieger

Hank Rieger on "the Heidi incident" -- when NBC aired the beginning of Heidi instead of the end of a football game

02:59

Geraldo Rivera

Geraldo Rivera on airing the Zapruder film on his news series Good Night America

02:48

Geraldo Rivera on hosting The Mystery of Al Capone's Vault

04:42

Geraldo Rivera on getting his nose broken on The Geraldo Rivera Show

04:18

Fred Rogers

Fred Rogers on addressing the assassinations of President Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, and Martin Luther King, Jr. on Mister Rogers' Neighborhood

04:40

Phil Rosenthal

Phil Rosenthal on the "Wallpaper" episode of Everybody Loves Raymond

01:34

Phil Rosenthal on the series finale of Everybody Loves Raymond

13:26

Marion Ross

Marion Ross on the final episode of Happy Days, which featured the marriage of "Joanie" and "Chachi," and the return of Ron Howard as "Ritchie Cunningham"

01:24

Glenda Rovello

Glenda Rovello on production design for the Will & Grace episode "We Love Lucy" which recreated sets from the I Love Lucy episodes "Job Switching," "Lucy Does a TV Commercial," and "Lucy's Italian Movie"

03:16

Tim Russert

Tim Russert on the Meet the Press broadcast following 9/11 and the tribute to Father Mychal Judge

02:09

Jay Sandrich

Jay Sandrich on the I Love Lucy episode "Lucy Does the Tango" (1957) in which Lucy dances and crushes the eggs she's trying to hide from Ricky

01:22

Jay Sandrich on the episode of The Mary Tyler Moore Show that won Mary Tyler Moore an Emmy

01:28

Jay Sandrich on a favorite episode of The Mary Tyler Moore Show: "Toulouse-Lautrec is one of my Favorite Artists"

01:28

Bob Schiller

Bob Schiller and Bob Weiskopf on the "Lucy Does the Tango" episode of I Love Lucy

02:00

Bob Schiller and Bob Weiskopf on the final episode of The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour, "Lucy Meets the Mustache" with Ernie Kovacs and Edie Adams

01:08

Bob Schiller and Bob Weiskopf on the famous two-part abortion episode on Maude

02:20

Thomas Schlamme

Thomas Schlamme on watching the 1968 Chicago Democratic Convention with his father

00:50

George Schlatter

George Schlatter on Richard M. Nixon's appearance on Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In

01:53

Paul Shaffer

Paul Shaffer on Sonny and Cher's reunion (November 13, 1987) on Late Night with David Letterman

03:01

Jack Shea

Jack Shea on "George Jefferson's" walk on The Jeffersons

00:39

Jack Shea on directing Leonardo DiCaprio on Growing Pains

00:33

Cybill Shepherd

Cybill Shepherd on memorable episodes of Moonlighting: "The Dream Sequence Always Rings Twice" (the black and white episode, introduced by Orson Welles)

01:28

David Shore

David Shore on House coming to an end

05:29

John Silva

John Silva on early KTLA news broadcasts, including the Kathy Fiscus story

08:49

Garry Simpson

Garry Simpson on Frank Lloyd Wright appearing on Wide Wide World

01:52

Robert Smigel

Robert Smigel on "Triumph the Insult Comic Dog" roasting Jennifer Lopez and Eminem at the MTV Video Music Awards

08:37

Robert Smigel on one of the funniest sketches he was involved in on The Dana Carvey Show about Gerald Ford, which was never aired until Smigel and Dana Carvey revived it later for Saturday Night Live

08:06

Sid Smith

Sid Smith on Jimmy Durante's Mrs. Calabash line on The Jimmy Durante Show

00:33

Jean Stapleton

Jean Stapleton on how All in the Family used comedy to expose social issues, including bigotry

00:37

Jean Stapleton on the decision to have the character of "Edith Bunker" die, in the Archie Bunker's Place episode "Archie Alone"

03:27

Ben Starr

Ben Starr on writing the episode of the Brady Bunch ("The Personality Kid") which includes the famous line "pork chops and apple sauce"

03:35

Ben Starr on writing the All in the Family episode in which "Gloria " has a baby

01:38

Jerry Stiller

Jerry Stiller on working with Michael Richards on the Festivus episode of Seinfeld

01:52

Stanford Tischler

Stanford Tischler on the classic M*A*S*H episode "Abyssinia, Henry" and when he was informed about the show's ending

01:13

Neil Travis

Neil Travis on how being on location for Roots helped inform his editing, leading to his Emmy win

01:23

Ret Turner

Ret Turner on dressing Cher in her infamous Academy Awards dress

01:02

Leslie Uggams

Leslie Uggams on her relationship with her Roots character, "Kizzy" and on the impact of Roots around the world

01:17

Leslie Uggams on the success of Roots and what it taught Americans about their own history

01:30

Leslie Uggams on the impact of Roots when it aired in 1977

01:14

Bruce Vilanch

Bruce Vilanch on writing jokes for the Academy Awards on the fly, and on Billy Crystal's Jack Palance jokes f-- or which they won an Emmy

03:24

Clint Walker

Clint Walker on guest-starring on The Jack Benny Show

01:45

James Wall

James Wall on stage-managing CBS's coverage of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s funeral

03:54

Keenen Ivory Wayans

Keenen Ivory Wayans on improv on In Living Color; on the sketch "Driving Miss Daisy"; every second take would be improvised and that was usually the take selected for the show

00:59

Keenen Ivory Wayans on Public Enemy's appearance on In Living Color and what it meant to have them appear on TV

00:38

Keenen Ivory Wayans on the In Living Color sketch "Brother's Brothers" being based on Tom and Dick Smothers

00:51

Keenen Ivory Wayans on the In Living Color character "Homie the Clown" based on comedian/writer Paul Mooney

01:18

Bob Weiskopf

Bob Schiller and Bob Weiskopf on the "Lucy Does the Tango" episode of I Love Lucy

02:00

Bob Schiller and Bob Weiskopf on the final episode of The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour, "Lucy Meets the Mustache" with Ernie Kovacs and Edie Adams

01:08

Bob Schiller and Bob Weiskopf on the famous two-part abortion episode on Maude

02:20

Tom Werner

Marcy Carsey and Tom Werner on when they realized that The Cosby Show would be a hit (the Monopoly scene in the pilot)

02:05

Tucker Wiard

Tucker Wiard on funny moments on The Carol Burnett Show

02:02

Tucker Wiard on Dan Quayle's comment about the character of "Murphy Brown"

03:42

Joseph M. Wilcots

Joseph M. Wilcots on staging the Roots scenes in which "Kunta Kinte's" foot is cut off and where "Kissy" is taken from her family

04:16

Terence Winter

Terence Winter on the series finale of The Sopranos

03:27

Bud Yorkin

Bud Yorkin on the All in the Family episode "Sammy's Visit"

01:15

Kim Zimmer

Kim Zimmer on the infamous Guiding Light fountain scene

02:11

Jeff Zucker

Jeff Zucker on the first episode of Saturday Night Live following 9/11

01:26

Alan Zweibel

Alan Zweibel on the first episode of Saturday Night Live hosted by George Carlin, and on how Lorne Michaels handled it

04:58

Alan Zweibel on Gilda Radner's cancer, and on her guest-starring on It's Garry Shandling's Show

07:53

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