WHEN TELEVISION WAS YOUNG {FIRST HALF ONLY} (TV)
Summary
Part one of this two-hour retrospective of the social history of television programming, circa 1948-1961. Host Charles Kuralt describes and illustrates the kinescope process. Excerpts include coverage of the following topics and people: Burns and Allen; news programs with Edward P. Morgan and Douglas Edwards; newsreels and propaganda; Art Carney and Jackie Gleason; children's programs, including "Captain Video"; the growth of television; performers Milton Berle, Ernie Kovacs, Red Skelton, Alan Young, Dick Van Dyke and Lucille Ball; reporter Edward R. Murrow; the Korean War; blacklisting; Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy; Mary Martin and Noel Coward; and the 1954 Army-McCarthy hearings. See T83:0222 for full program. Includes commercials.
Cataloging of this program was made possible by the CBS Foundation, 1998.
Details
- NETWORK: CBS
- DATE: April 28, 1977 9:00 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 1:02:22
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: T83:0221
- GENRE: Public affairs/Documentaries
- SUBJECT HEADING: Army-McCarthy Controversy, 1954; Blacklisting of entertainers; Comedy; Children's programs; Korean War; Propaganda; TV - History; TV - Social aspects; TV - Technology - Kinescope process
- SERIES RUN: CBS - TV, 1977
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- Perry Wolff … Executive Producer, Writer
- Max Wilk … Producer
- Judith Hole … Co-Producer
- John Dullaghan … Associate Producer
- Charles Kuralt … Reporter
- Gracie Allen
- Lucille Ball
- Milton Berle
- George Burns
- Art Carney
- Noel Coward
- Douglas Edwards
- Jackie Gleason
- Ernie Kovacs
- Don Larsen
- Douglas MacArthur
- Mary Martin
- Joseph R. McCarthy
- Morgan, Edward P
- Edward R. Murrow
- Red Skelton
- Dick Van Dyke
- Alan Young