Television: The First Fifty Years (1999)

Summary

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.

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Cast
Crew

Walter Cronkite

as Self
Carol Burnett

as Self (archive footage)
Jay Leno

as Self
Phyllis McGuire

as Self
Doc Severinsen

as Self
Dick Van Patten

as Self
Ed McMahon

as Self (archive footage)
Alan Young

as Self / Wilbur Post (archive footage)
Dick Powell

as Self (archive footage)
Sheree North

as Self
Patrick Macnee

as Self / John Steed (archive footage)
Ron Howard

as Self / Opie Taylor / Ritchie Cunningham (archive footage)
Frank Gorshin

as The Riddler (archive footage)
Dwight D. Eisenhower

as Self (archive footage)
Sid Caesar

as Self (archive footage)
Ringo Starr

as Self – The Beatles (archive footage)
John Lennon

as Self – The Beatles (archive footage)
George Harrison

as Self – The Beatles (archive footage)
Paul McCartney

as Self – The Beatles (archive footage)
Linda Ellerbee

as Self
Eddie Albert

as Self / Oliver Douglas (archive footage)
David Hasselhoff

as Self / Mitch Buchanon (archive footage)
Ethel Merman

as Self (archive footage)
Betsy Palmer

as Self
Desi Arnaz

as Ricky Ricardo (archive footage)
Lucille Ball

as Self / Lucy Ricardo (archive footage)
Imogene Coca

as Self (archive footage)
Bob Hope

as Self (archive footage)
Nancy Marchand

as Self (archive footage)
Edward R. Murrow

as Self (archive footage)
Victoria Principal

as Self / Pamela Ewing (archive footage)
David Nelson

as Self (archive footage)
Tony Randall

as Self (archive footage)
Gene Siskel

as Self
Roger Ebert

as Self
Ray Walston

as Self
Adam West

as Self / Batman (archive footage)
Burt Ward

as Self / Robin (archive footage)
Efrem Zimbalist Jr.

as Stuart Bailey (archive footage)
George Burns

as Self (archive footage)
Richard Nixon

as Self (archive footage)
David McCallum

as Illya Kuryakin (archive footage)
Kay Kyser

as Self (archive footage)
Linda Gray

as Self / Sue Ellen Ewing (archive footage)
Dick Elliott

as Bartender (archive footage)
Buddy Ebsen

as Jed Clampett (archive footage)
Jerry Mathers

as Theodore 'Beaver' Cleaver (archive footage)
Diana Douglas

as Elly May Clampett (archive footage)
Sammy Davis Jr.

as Self (archive footage)
Jed Allan

as Self
Tom Arnold

as Self
Billy Barty

as Self
Milton Berle

as Self
William Boyd

as Hopalong Cassidy (archive footage)
William Demarest

as Charlie O'Casey (archive footage)
Bing Crosby

as Self (archive footage)
Joyce Brothers

as Self
Wally Cox

as Robinson J. Peepers (archive footage)
John Wayne

as Self (archive footage)
Bob Crosby

as Self (archive footage)
Charlton Heston

as Self
Arte Johnson

as Self / Wolfgang (archive footage)
Allan Lane

as Mister Ed (archive audio)
Dick Martin

as Self (archive footage)
Barry Morse

as Lt. Philip Gerard (archive footage)
Hugh O'Brian

as Self (archive footage)
Donna Reed

as Donna Stone (archive footage)
George Reeves

as Superman (archive footage)
Red Skelton

as Buffalo Bob Smith / Howdy Doody (archive footage)
Vivian Vance

as Ethel Mertz (archive footage)
Henry Winkler

as Self

Production	Barry ZeVan	Producer
Production	Steve Edwards	Producer
Production	Dante J. Pugliese	Executive Producer
Writing	Barry ZeVan	Writer
Writing	Jeff Miller	Writer
Directing	Kent Hagen	Director