Television: The First Fifty Years

120 mins
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.

Walter Cronkite

Self

Carol Burnett

Self (archive footage)

Jay Leno

Self

Phyllis McGuire

Self

Doc Severinsen

Self

Dick Van Patten

Self

Ed McMahon

Self (archive footage)

Alan Young

Self / Wilbur Post (archive footage)

Dick Powell

Self (archive footage)

Sheree North

Self

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

Self (archive footage)

Sid Caesar

Self (archive footage)

Ringo Starr

Self – The Beatles (archive footage)

John Lennon

Self – The Beatles (archive footage)

George Harrison

Self – The Beatles (archive footage)

Paul McCartney

Self – The Beatles (archive footage)

Linda Ellerbee

Self

Eddie Albert

Self / Oliver Douglas (archive footage)

David Hasselhoff

Self / Mitch Buchanon (archive footage)

Ethel Merman

Self (archive footage)

Betsy Palmer

Self

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

Self (archive footage)

Victoria Principal

Self / Pamela Ewing (archive footage)

David Nelson

Self (archive footage)

Tony Randall

Self (archive footage)

Gene Siskel

Self

Roger Ebert

Self

Ray Walston

Self

Adam West

Self / Batman (archive footage)

Burt Ward

Self / Robin (archive footage)

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.

Self (archive footage)

Jed Allan

Self

Tom Arnold

Self

Billy Barty

Self

Milton Berle

Self

William Boyd

Hopalong Cassidy (archive footage)

William Demarest

Charlie O'Casey (archive footage)

Bing Crosby

Self (archive footage)

Joyce Brothers

Self

Wally Cox

Robinson J. Peepers (archive footage)

John Wayne

Self (archive footage)

Bob Crosby

Self (archive footage)

Charlton Heston

Self

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

Self

Barry ZeVan

Producer

Steve Edwards

Producer

Dante J. Pugliese

Executive Producer

Barry ZeVan

Writer

Jeff Miller

Writer

Kent Hagen

Director

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