Television: The First Fifty Years

Television: The First Fifty Years (1999)


  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release Date: 1999-01-01
  • Runtime: 2h 0min
  • Language: English
  • Production Company: Passport International Productions
  • Production Country: United States of America
  • Director: Kent Hagen

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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  • 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

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