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Television: The First Fifty Years (Video 1999) Poster

(1999 Video)

Full Cast & Crew

Directed by 

Kent Hagen

Writing Credits (in alphabetical order)  

Jeff Miller
Barry ZeVan

Cast  

Eddie Albert ... Self - Interviewee / Oliver Wendell Douglas
Jed Allan ... Self - Interviewee
Dayton Allen ... Insp. John J. Fadoozle (archive sound)
Fred Allen ... Self (archive footage)
Gracie Allen ... Self (archive footage)
Marty Allen ... Self (archive footage)
Steve Allen ... Self - Interviewee
Fran Allison ... Self (archive footage)
Desi Arnaz ... Ricky Ricardo (archive footage)
James Arness ... Self - Interviewee
Tom Arnold ... Self - Interviewee
Max Baer Jr. ... Jethro Bodine (archive footage)
Lucille Ball ... Self - Interviewee / Lucy Ricardo
Billy Barty ... Self - Interviewee
The Beatles ... Themselves (archive footage)
Bea Benaderet ... Kate Bradley (archive footage)
Jack Benny ... Self (archive footage)
Milton Berle ... Self - Interviewee
Carl Betz ... Dr. Alex Stone (archive footage)
Amanda Blake ... Self - Interviewee / Kitty Russel
Dan Blocker ... Hoss Cartwright (archive footage)
Richard Boone ... Paladin (archive footage)
Grace Boyd Grace Boyd ... Self - Interviewee (archive footage)
William Boyd ... Hopalong Cassidy (archive footage)
Joyce Brothers ... Self - Interviewee / Dr. Brothers
Carol Burnett ... Self (archive footage)
George Burns ... Self - Interviewee
Edd Byrnes ... Self - Interviewee / Kookie
Sid Caesar ... Self (archive footage)
Bob Carroll Jr. ... Self - Interviewee
Johnny Carson ... Self (archive footage)
Imogene Coca ... Self (archive footage)
Bud Collyer ... Self (archive footage)
Chuck Connors ... Lucas McCain (archive footage)
Wally Cox ... Robinson J. Peepers (archive footage)
Walter Cronkite ... Self - Interviewee
Bing Crosby ... Self (archive footage)
Bob Crosby ... Self (archive footage)
Sammy Davis Jr. ... Self (archive footage)
Madelyn Davis ... Self - Interviewee
William Demarest ... Uncle Charlie O'Casey (archive footage)
Joyce DeWitt ... Self - Interviewee / Janet Wood
Diana Douglas ... Elly May Clampett (archive footage)
Fran Drescher ... Self - Interviewee
David Duchovny ... Self (archive footage)
Roger Ebert ... Self - Interviewee
Buddy Ebsen ... Jed Clampett (archive footage)
Barbara Eden ... Self (archive footage)
Dwight D. Eisenhower ... Self (archive footage)
Linda Ellerbee ... Self - Interviewee
Dick Elliott ... Bartender (archive footage)
Dale Evans ... Self - Interviewee
Shelley Fabares ... Mary Stone (archive footage)
Stanley Fafara ... Whitey Whitney (archive footage)
Norman Fell ... Self - Interviewee
Bob Finkel Bob Finkel ... Self - Interviewee
Frank Fontaine Frank Fontaine ... Crazy Guggenheim (archive footage)
Michael Forest ... Self - Interviewee
Fred Foy Fred Foy ... Self (archive sound)
Anne Francis ... Self - Interviewee
Arlene Francis ... Self (archive footage)
William Frawley ... Fred Mertz (archive footage)
Robert Fuller ... Self - Interviewee / Dr. Kelly Brackett / Cooper Smith / Jess Harper
Jackie Gleason ... Joe the Bartender / Ralph Kramden (archive footage)
Arthur Godfrey ... Self (archive footage)
Frank Gorshin ... The Riddler (archive footage)
Linda Gray ... Self - Interviewee / Sue Ellen Ewing
Lorne Greene ... Ben Cartwright (archive footage)
Shecky Greene ... Self - Interviewee
Larry Hagman ... Self - Interviewee / J. R. Ewing
Deidre Hall ... Self - Interviewee
Monty Hall ... Self - Interviewee
Jonathan Harris ... Self - Interviewee / Dr. Zachary Smith
David Hasselhoff ... Self - Interviewee / Mitch Buchanon
Goldie Hawn ... Self (archive footage)
Linda Henning ... Self - Interviewee / Betty Jo Bradley
Howard Hesseman ... Self - Interviewee
Charlton Heston ... Self - Interviewee
Dwayne Hickman ... Self - Interviewee
Bob Hope ... Self (archive footage)
Ron Howard ... Self - Interviewee / Opie Taylor / Ritchie Cunningham
Arte Johnson ... Self / Wolfgang (archive footage)
The June Taylor Dancers The June Taylor Dancers ... Themselves (archive footage)
Robert Keeshan ... Self - Interviewee / Original Clarabelle / Captain Kangaroo
Pert Kelton ... Alice Kramden (archive footage)
Dorothy Kilgallen ... Self (archive footage)
Tommy Kirk ... Self - Interviewee / Joe Hardy
Jack Klugman ... Oscar Madison (archive footage)
Kay Kyser ... Self (archive footage)
Bert Lahr ... Self (archive footage)
Michael Landon ... Joe Cartwright (archive footage)
Allan Lane ... Mr. Ed (voice) (archive footage)
Norman Lear ... Self - Interviewee
Jay Leno ... Self - Interviewee
Jerry Lewis ... Self (archive footage)
Liberace ... Self (archive footage)
Art Linkletter ... Self - Interviewee
Stanley Livingston ... Self - Interviewee / Chip Douglas
Peter Lupus ... Self - Interviewee / Willy Armitage
Gisele MacKenzie ... Self - Interviewee
Fred MacMurray ... Steve Douglas (archive footage)
Patrick Macnee ... Self - Interviewee / John Steed
Joe Mantell ... Angie (archive footage)
Randolph Mantooth ... Self - Interviewee / Paramedic John Gage
Nancy Marchand ... Self (archive footage)
The Marquis Chimps The Marquis Chimps ... Themselves (archive footage)
Dean Martin ... Self (archive footage)
Dick Martin ... Self (archive footage)
Jerry Mathers ... Theodore 'Beaver' Cleaver (archive footage)
Bob May Bob May ... Robot (archive footage)
David McCallum ... Illya Kuryakin (archive footage)
Joseph McCarthy ... Self - Senator McCarthy (archive footage)
Phyllis McGuire ... Self - Interviewee
Ed McMahon ... Self - Interviewee (archive footage)
The Men of Texaco Quartet The Men of Texaco Quartet ... Themselves (archive footage)
Ethel Merman ... Self (archive footage)
Clayton Moore ... Lone Ranger (archive footage)
Harry Morgan ... Officer Bill Gannon (archive footage)
Barry Morse ... Lt. Philip Gerard (archive footage)
Erin Murphy ... Self - Interviewee / Tabitha Stephens
Edward R. Murrow ... Self (archive footage)
David Nelson ... Self (archive footage)
Harriet Nelson ... Self / Harriet Nelson (archive footage)
Ozzie Nelson ... Self (archive footage)
Ricky Nelson ... Self (archive footage)
John Newland ... Self (archive footage)
Bobby Nicholson Bobby Nicholson ... J. Cornelius Cobb (archive footage)
Richard Nixon ... Self (archive footage)
Sheree North ... Self - Interviewee
Kim Novak ... Self (archive footage)
Hugh O'Brian ... Self - Interviewee
Carroll O'Connor ... Self - Interviewee
Greg O'Neil Greg O'Neil ... Narrator (voice)
Johnny Olson Johnny Olson ... Self (archive sound)
Betsy Palmer ... Self - Interviewee
Patty Petersen Patty Petersen ... Trisha Stone (archive footage)
Paul Petersen ... Self - Interviewee / Jeff Stone
Jo Ann Pflug ... Self (archive footage)
Paul Picerni ... Self - Interviewee
Tom Poston ... Self - Interviewee
Dick Powell ... Self (archive footage)
Victoria Principal ... Self - Interviewee / Pamela Barnes Ewing
Tony Randall ... Self - Interviewee / Harvey Weskitt
Donna Reed ... Donna Stone (archive footage)
George Reeves ... Clark Kent / Superman (archive footage)
Diana Rigg ... Emma Peel (archive footage)
Jeannine Riley ... Billie Jo Bradley (archive footage)
Pernell Roberts ... Adam Cartwright (archive footage)
Fred Rogers ... Self - Interviewee / Mr. Rogers
Roy Rogers ... Self (archive footage)
Steve Rossi ... Self - Interviewee
Dan Rowan ... Self (archive footage)
George Schlatter ... Self - Interviewee
Tom Selleck ... Self - Interviewee
Doc Severinsen ... Self - Interviewee
Jay Silverheels ... Tonto (archive footage)
Frank Sinatra ... Self (archive footage)
Gene Siskel ... Self - Interviewee
Red Skelton ... Sheriff Deadeye (archive footage)
Bob Smith ... Buffalo Bob Smith / Howdy Doody (voice) (archive footage)
Howard K. Smith ... Self - Interviewee
Roger Smith ... Jeff Spencer (archive footage)
Robert Stack ... Self - Interviewee / Eliot Ness
Rod Steiger ... Self - Interviewee / Marty Piletti
Jerry Stiller ... Self - Interviewee
Milburn Stone ... Doc Adams (archive footage)
Susan Strasberg ... Self - Interviewee
Ed Sullivan ... Self (archive footage)
Allen Swift ... Phineas T. Bluster (archive sound)
Burr Tillstrom ... Kukla / Ollie (archive footage)
Kam Tong ... Hey Boy (archive footage)
Doreen Tracey ... Self - Interviewee / Mouseketeer
Dick Tufeld ... Robot (archive sound)
Judy Tyler ... Princess Summerfall Winterspring (archive footage)
Dick Van Patten ... Self - Interviewee
Vivian Vance ... Ethel Mertz (archive footage)
Robert Vaughn ... Self - Interviewee / Napoleon Solo
Mike Wallace ... Self (archive footage)
Ray Walston ... Self - Interviewee
Burt Ward ... Self - Interviewee / Robin
John Wayne ... Self (archive footage)
Dennis Weaver ... Self - Interviewee / Chester Goode
Jack Webb ... Sgt. Joe Friday (archive footage)
Lawrence Welk ... Self (archive footage)
Adam West ... Self - Interviewee / Batman (archive footage)
Guy Williams ... Self (archive footage)
Van Williams ... Britt Reid / The Green Hornet (archive footage)
Henry Winkler ... Self - Interviewee
Pat Woodell ... Bobbie Jo Bradley (archive footage)
Jane Wyatt ... Margaret Anderson (archive footage)
Alan Young ... Self - Interviewee / Wilbur Post
Robert Young ... Jim Anderson (archive footage)
Efrem Zimbalist Jr. ... Stuart Bailey (archive footage)

Produced by 

Steve Edwards ... producer
Dante J. Pugliese ... executive producer
Barry ZeVan ... producer

Editing by 

Kent Hagen

Music Department 

Pat Britt ... music

Additional Crew 

Phillip Dye ... researcher
Robert Weaver ... researcher

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