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The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation Presents

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“One of my favorite episodes was when Rob's character brought home a friend who had gone to Canada to avoid the draft. There was an explosion at that dinner table when Archie Bunker finds out that he's a draft dodger. They reconciled and finished the dinner, but it was an explosive drama. Very effective, and went right to the heart of the discourse regarding the draft dodger and their motives and the enlisted man.” - Jean Stapleton, Actress

Interviewees discuss memorable moments on televsion that gave us pause.

Highlights

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

00:37

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

01:12

Phylicia Rashad about her interaction with fans of The Cosby Show, including Nelson Mandela who informed her that he watched it while incarcerated at Robben Island Prison

01:09

Ed Bradley on the role television played in shaping public opinion about Vietnam

01:46

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

05:09

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Robert G. Anderson

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

11:24

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

01:32

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

Lewis Bernstein

Future executive producer Lewis Bernstein on his impressions of Sesame Street upon seeing the show for the first time circa 1970

00:26

Executive producer Lewis Bernstein on the Sesame Street shows produced immediately following 9/11 that addressed children's fears and on tolerance

03:07

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

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

Ed Bradley

Ed Bradley on the role television played in shaping public opinion about Vietnam

01:46

LeVar Burton

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

01:12

Philip Carey

Phil Carey on guest starring on the All in the Family episode "Judging Books by Covers" -- where he plays a homosexual character

Hal Cooper

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

03:18

Walter Cronkite

Walter Cronkite on the pressures on the press by the White House over the Watergate story, specifically one broadcast of the CBS Evening News

04:00

Walter Cronkite on his on-air editorial that he felt the country should get out of Vietnam; what this meant to the country and the Johnson administration

05:11

Roger Ebert

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

02:46

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

John Frankenheimer

John Frankenheimer on the Hollywood Blacklist and The Senator McCarthy episode of See It Now

03:38

Leonard H. Goldenson

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

01:16

Ellen Holly

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

06:03

Quincy Jones

Quincy Jones on the impact of Roots

01:28

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

Nancy Malone

Nancy Malone on how she came to produce and direct There Were Times, Dear about Alzheimer's disease and the impact it had

Bob McGrath

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

Roger Mudd

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

01:29

Carroll O'Connor

Carroll O'Connor on his contribution to the All in the Family episode "Two's a Crowd," and the ad-libbing by he and co-star Rob Reiner

02:43

Marty Pasetta

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

01:48

Phylicia Rashad

Phylicia Rashad about her interaction with fans of The Cosby Show, including Nelson Mandela who informed her that he watched it while incarcerated at Robben Island Prison

01:09

Bob Schiller

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

Jean Stapleton

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

00:37

Neil Travis

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

01:23

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 impact of Roots when it aired in 1977

01:14

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

01:30

Bob Weiskopf

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

02:20

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