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Television: The First Fifty Years

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Release Date:
Jan 01, 1999

Runtime:
2h 0m

Genres:
Documentary

Description

Trace the history of television and its impact on American culture with clips, newsreels, and exclusive interviews from television greats like Walter Cronkite, Carol Burnett, and Jay Leno.

Director: Kent Hagen

Writer: Barry ZeVan, Jeff Miller

Stars: Walter Cronkite, Carol Burnett, Jay Leno

Production: Passport International Productions

Cast

Walter Cronkite

Walter Cronkite

Carol Burnett

Self (archive footage)

Jay Leno

Phyllis McGuire

Phyllis McGuire

Dick Van Patten

Dick Van Patten

Ed McMahon

Self (archive footage)

Alan Young

Self / Wilbur Post (archive footage)

Dick Powell

Self (archive footage)

Sheree North

Patrick Macnee

Self / John Steed (archive footage)

Ron Howard

Self / Opie Taylor / Ritchie Cunningham (archive footage)

Frank Gorshin

The Riddler (archive footage)

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Self (archive footage)

Sid Caesar

Self (archive footage)

Ringo Starr

Self – The Beatles (archive footage)

John Lennon

Self – The Beatles (archive footage)

George Harrison

George Harrison

Self – The Beatles (archive footage)

Paul McCartney

Self – The Beatles (archive footage)

Linda Ellerbee

Eddie Albert

Self / Oliver Douglas (archive footage)

David Hasselhoff

David Hasselhoff

Self / Mitch Buchanon (archive footage)

Ethel Merman

Self (archive footage)

Betsy Palmer

Desi Arnaz

Ricky Ricardo (archive footage)

Lucille Ball

Self / Lucy Ricardo (archive footage)

Imogene Coca

Self (archive footage)

Bob Hope

Self (archive footage)

Nancy Marchand

Self (archive footage)

Edward R. Murrow

Edward R. Murrow

Self (archive footage)

Victoria Principal

Victoria Principal

Self / Pamela Ewing (archive footage)

David Nelson

Self (archive footage)

Tony Randall

Self (archive footage)

Gene Siskel

Roger Ebert

Ray Walston

Adam West

Self / Batman (archive footage)

Burt Ward

Self / Robin (archive footage)

Efrem Zimbalist Jr.

Efrem Zimbalist Jr.

Stuart Bailey (archive footage)

George Burns

Self (archive footage)

Richard Nixon

Self (archive footage)

David McCallum

Illya Kuryakin (archive footage)

Kay Kyser

Self (archive footage)

Linda Gray

Self / Sue Ellen Ewing (archive footage)

Dick Elliott

Bartender (archive footage)

Buddy Ebsen

Jed Clampett (archive footage)

Jerry Mathers

Theodore 'Beaver' Cleaver (archive footage)

Diana Douglas

Elly May Clampett (archive footage)

Sammy Davis Jr.

Sammy Davis Jr.

Self (archive footage)

Jed Allan

Tom Arnold

Billy Barty

Milton Berle

William Boyd

Hopalong Cassidy (archive footage)

William Demarest

William Demarest

Charlie O'Casey (archive footage)

Bing Crosby

Self (archive footage)

Joyce Brothers

Wally Cox

Robinson J. Peepers (archive footage)

John Wayne

Self (archive footage)

Bob Crosby

Self (archive footage)

Charlton Heston

Charlton Heston

Arte Johnson

Self / Wolfgang (archive footage)

Allan Lane

Mister Ed (archive audio)

Dick Martin

Self (archive footage)

Barry Morse

Lt. Philip Gerard (archive footage)

Hugh O'Brian

Self (archive footage)

Donna Reed

Donna Stone (archive footage)

George Reeves

Superman (archive footage)

Red Skelton

Buffalo Bob Smith / Howdy Doody (archive footage)

Vivian Vance

Ethel Mertz (archive footage)

Henry Winkler

Crew

Dante J. Pugliese

Executive Producer