Dick Berg on writing for Kraft Television Theater and Studio One
04:58
Dick Berg on writing "Hollywood Award Winner" for Kaiser Aluminum Hour and "The Clay Pigeon" for Robert Montgomery Presents
03:42
Dick Berg on writing "The Right Hand Man" for Playhouse 90
03:51
Dick Berg on writing "Man Under Glass" for Studio One
01:27
Walter Cronkite on how the news went live in 1950 with no script
04:05
Walter Cronkite on replacing Douglas Edwards on the CBS Evening News, at that time the news broadcast was only 15 minutes long
03:56
Walter Cronkite on some of the bloopers that happened when filming live television for the program You Are There involving a historical re-creation of the Hindenburg disaster
06:15
Hume Cronyn on directing live television in the '50s
08:02
Hume Cronyn on directing Jessica Tandy in "Portrait of a Madonna" for Actors Studio
03:12
Hume Cronyn on appearing as John Quincy Adams on Ominbus
02:19
Hume Cronyn on appearing in the series The Marriage with wife Jessica Tandy
08:53
Hume Cronyn on appearing in Studio One's presentation of "A Member of the Family"
02:40
Imero Fiorentino on lighting The U.S. Steel Hour at ABC
02:24
Imero Fiorentino on a shadow thrown on the actors from a microphone on live TV, during the first U.S. Steel Hour production "P.O.W." with Richard Kiley
03:05
Imero Fiorentino on Paul Whiteman's Goodyear Revue, with Glenn Osser (conducting) and Paul Whiteman and a story about an opera singer who refused to sing the show's finale
04:26
Arthur Hiller on the schedule for producing NBC Matinee Theater and the excitement of directing for live television
02:17
Arthur Hiller on dealing with an athlete who couldn't act appearing on NBC Matinee Theater, and his love of doing "live" television
02:32
Arthur Hiller on camera tricks and fast changes he had to make while directing Playhouse 90
02:29
Arthur Hiller on the excitement of "live" television
01:04
Jack Lemmon on acting on Kraft Television Theatre and appearing on live television
04:06
Jack Lemmon on working on Studio One
03:27
Jack Lemmon on appearing on Ford Television Theatre's "The Day Lincoln Was Shot"
01:42
Jack Lemmon on appearing on the Playhouse 90 production of "Face of a Hero"
04:07
Jayne Meadows on the challenges of working in live television
05:00
Jayne Meadows on getting a job as a panelist on I've Got a Secret and meeting Steve Allen
06:37
Jayne Meadows on being a panelist on I've Got a Secret
17:23
Jayne Meadows on her sister Audrey Meadows as "Alice Kramden" on The Honeymooners
05:39
Jayne Meadows on how television has changed since the '50s
02:05
JP Miller on what made great live television
03:04
JP Miller on drinking in live television
04:55
JP Miller on the writers of the classic anthology series in the '50s, including Paddy Chayefsky and Horton Foote
06:36
JP Miller on his experience being a writer during the Golden Age of Television
03:59
JP Miller on working with the actors of TV's Golden Age including Broderick Crawford
03:09
JP Miller on working with the directors of TV's Golden Age
01:03
JP Miller on the importance of the writer during TV's Golden Age
01:59
JP Miller on the end of TV's Golden Age, and how the advent of videotape changed television
04:30
JP Miller on what was the key to the Golden Age of Television
04:04
Tad Mosel on writing for Ominbus
06:48
Tad Mosel on writing for Medallion Theater
06:48
Tad Mosel on writing "The Haven" for Philco-Goodyear Television Playhouse produced by Fred Coe and on Coe's contribution to television
05:24
Tad Mosel on writing for Philco-Goodyear Television Playhouse
10:47
Tad Mosel on writing for Philco-Goodyear Television Playhouse
21:16
Tad Mosel on writing for Studio One
04:09
Tad Mosel on writing "The Waiting Place" for Playwrights '56
03:35
Tad Mosel on writing for Philco-Goodyear Television Playhouse
10:31
Tad Mosel on working with Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, and Henry Fonda on Producers' Showcase: "The Petrified Forest"
13:05
Tad Mosel on working with Martin Manulis on Playhouse 90
01:50
Tad Mosel on writing "The Five Dollar Bill" for Studio One
07:16
Tad Mosel on writing for Playhouse 90
21:51
Tad Mosel on watching Playhouse 90 and other live dramas of his be performed
10:14
Tad Mosel on what the Golden Age of Television means to him
04:13
Tad Mosel on the camaraderie among writers during the Golden Age of Television
03:23
Actress Maria Riva on making costume changes in "live" TV in the 1950s
01:14
Maria Riva on how she became a contract player for CBS in the early 1950s, along with actress Mary Sinclair, John Newland, and (possibly) John Forsythe all of whom then worked on such CBS series of the day as Studio One and Danger
01:43
Maria Riva on establishing herself as a TV star in the 1950s, and how little TV demanded of acting "talent" in the early days of the medium
01:28
Maria Riva on a gaffe that happened on "live" TV in the 1950s when the prop gun that actor Rod Steiger was using didn't fire— prompting him to instead say "bang" (possibly on Lux Video Theater: "Cafe Ami" [their only confirmed co-starring TV show])
01:26
Maria Riva on the Golden Age of "live" TV in New York in the 1950s, exemplified by such classic anthology series as Studio One
01:04
William Schallert on working on Matinee Theater
04:30
William Schallert on working in live TV on Matinee Theater
02:13
William Schallert on appearing on The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show
03:02
William Schallert on appearing on The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show
03:02
Ellen M. Violett on writing Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" for Cameo Theater
09:18
Ellen M. Violett on writing "Breakdown" for Suspense
03:21
Ellen M. Violett on writing for Omnibus
15:04
Ellen M. Violett on writing for Producer's Showcase
09:48
Max Wilk on writing "Joy to the World" for Ford Television Theatre, and on the moments before going on-air
04:10
Max Wilk on actors improvising on live television broadcasts like Ford Television Theatre
03:59
Max Wilk on the phrase "The Golden Age of Television" and on the end of that era and on politics on television in that era
03:48
