Exploring forgotten TV from the 1920s to today.
Lauren Bacall made few appearances on television, including episodes of Dr. Kildare in 1963 and The Rockford Files in 1979. Her TV acting debut came in 1956 when she co-starred with Humphrey Bogart in an episode of NBC’s Producers’ Showcase.
Scriptwriter Rick Mittleman, who wrote for short-lived shows and one season wonders like My World and Welcome to It, Roll Out, Karen, Jennifer Slept Here, has died at the age of 84.
A Kickstarter campaign has been launched to preserve some 200 episodes of The David Susskind Show held by the University of Southern California.
CBS This Morning featured a look at The Peabody Awards Collection during today’s broadcast. Take a look at some of the 90,000 items in the collection, including 2″ videotapes and 16mm kinescopes.
The fourth season of Pioneers of Television premieres April 15th on PBS and will feature the following episodes: “Standup to Sitcom,” “Doctors and Nurses,” “Breaking Barriers” and “Acting Funny.”
The Internet Archive is working on cataloging and digitizing 40,000 videotapes of TV news recorded by a Philadelphia woman between 1977 and 2012.