Television: The First Fifty Years (1999)
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
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Walter Cronkite as Self |
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Carol Burnett as Self (archive footage) |
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Jay Leno as Self |
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Phyllis McGuire as Self |
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Doc Severinsen as Self |
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Dick Van Patten as Self |
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Ed McMahon as Self (archive footage) |
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Alan Young as Self / Wilbur Post (archive footage) |
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Dick Powell as Self (archive footage) |
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Sheree North as Self |
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Patrick Macnee as Self / John Steed (archive footage) |
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Ron Howard as Self / Opie Taylor / Ritchie Cunningham (archive footage) |
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Frank Gorshin as The Riddler (archive footage) |
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Dwight D. Eisenhower as Self (archive footage) |
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Sid Caesar as Self (archive footage) |
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Ringo Starr as Self – The Beatles (archive footage) |
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John Lennon as Self – The Beatles (archive footage) |
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George Harrison as Self – The Beatles (archive footage) |
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Paul McCartney as Self – The Beatles (archive footage) |
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Linda Ellerbee as Self |
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Eddie Albert as Self / Oliver Douglas (archive footage) |
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David Hasselhoff as Self / Mitch Buchanon (archive footage) |
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Ethel Merman as Self (archive footage) |
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Betsy Palmer as Self |
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Desi Arnaz as Ricky Ricardo (archive footage) |
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Lucille Ball as Self / Lucy Ricardo (archive footage) |
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Imogene Coca as Self (archive footage) |
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Bob Hope as Self (archive footage) |
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Nancy Marchand as Self (archive footage) |
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Edward R. Murrow as Self (archive footage) |
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Victoria Principal as Self / Pamela Ewing (archive footage) |
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David Nelson as Self (archive footage) |
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Tony Randall as Self (archive footage) |
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Gene Siskel as Self |
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Roger Ebert as Self |
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Ray Walston as Self |
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Adam West as Self / Batman (archive footage) |
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Burt Ward as Self / Robin (archive footage) |
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Efrem Zimbalist Jr. as Stuart Bailey (archive footage) |
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George Burns as Self (archive footage) |
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Richard Nixon as Self (archive footage) |
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David McCallum as Illya Kuryakin (archive footage) |
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Kay Kyser as Self (archive footage) |
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Linda Gray as Self / Sue Ellen Ewing (archive footage) |
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Dick Elliott as Bartender (archive footage) |
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Buddy Ebsen as Jed Clampett (archive footage) |
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Jerry Mathers as Theodore 'Beaver' Cleaver (archive footage) |
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Diana Douglas as Elly May Clampett (archive footage) |
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Sammy Davis Jr. as Self (archive footage) |
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Jed Allan as Self |
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Tom Arnold as Self |
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Billy Barty as Self |
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Milton Berle as Self |
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William Boyd as Hopalong Cassidy (archive footage) |
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William Demarest as Charlie O'Casey (archive footage) |
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Bing Crosby as Self (archive footage) |
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Joyce Brothers as Self |
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Wally Cox as Robinson J. Peepers (archive footage) |
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John Wayne as Self (archive footage) |
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Bob Crosby as Self (archive footage) |
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Charlton Heston as Self |
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Arte Johnson as Self / Wolfgang (archive footage) |
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Allan Lane as Mister Ed (archive audio) |
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Dick Martin as Self (archive footage) |
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Barry Morse as Lt. Philip Gerard (archive footage) |
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Hugh O'Brian as Self (archive footage) |
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Donna Reed as Donna Stone (archive footage) |
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George Reeves as Superman (archive footage) |
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Red Skelton as Buffalo Bob Smith / Howdy Doody (archive footage) |
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Vivian Vance as Ethel Mertz (archive footage) |
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Henry Winkler as Self |
| Production | Steve Edwards | Producer |
| Production | Barry ZeVan | Producer |
| Writing | Barry ZeVan | Writer |
| Directing | Kent Hagen | Director |
| Production | Dante J. Pugliese | Executive Producer |
| Writing | Jeff Miller | Writer |