Television: The First Fifty Years

Television: The First Fifty Years (1999)

Documentary

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.

  • Release Date: 1999-01-01
  • Runtime: 2h 0min
  • Director: Kent Hagen

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Cast

  • Walter Cronkite

    Self

  • Carol Burnett

    Self (archive footage)

  • Jay Leno

    Self

  • Phyllis McGuire

    Self

  • Doc Severinsen

    Self

  • Dick Van Patten

    Self

  • Ed McMahon

    Self (archive footage)

  • Alan Young

    Self / Wilbur Post (archive footage)

  • Dick Powell

    Self (archive footage)

  • Sheree North

    Self

  • Patrick Macnee

    Self / John Steed (archive footage)

  • Ron Howard

    Self / Opie Taylor / Ritchie Cunningham (archive footage)

  • Frank Gorshin

    The Riddler (archive footage)

  • Dwight D. Eisenhower

    Self (archive footage)

  • Sid Caesar

    Self (archive footage)

  • Ringo Starr

    Self – The Beatles (archive footage)

  • John Lennon

    Self – The Beatles (archive footage)

  • George Harrison

    Self – The Beatles (archive footage)

  • Paul McCartney

    Self – The Beatles (archive footage)

  • Linda Ellerbee

    Self

  • Eddie Albert

    Self / Oliver Douglas (archive footage)

  • David Hasselhoff

    Self / Mitch Buchanon (archive footage)

  • Ethel Merman

    Self (archive footage)

  • Betsy Palmer

    Self

  • Desi Arnaz

    Ricky Ricardo (archive footage)

  • Lucille Ball

    Self / Lucy Ricardo (archive footage)

  • Imogene Coca

    Self (archive footage)

  • Bob Hope

    Self (archive footage)

  • Nancy Marchand

    Self (archive footage)

  • Edward R. Murrow

    Self (archive footage)

  • Victoria Principal

    Self / Pamela Ewing (archive footage)

  • David Nelson

    Self (archive footage)

  • Tony Randall

    Self (archive footage)

  • Gene Siskel

    Self

  • Roger Ebert

    Self

  • Ray Walston

    Self

  • Adam West

    Self / Batman (archive footage)

  • Burt Ward

    Self / Robin (archive footage)

  • Efrem Zimbalist Jr.

    Stuart Bailey (archive footage)

  • George Burns

    Self (archive footage)

  • Richard Nixon

    Self (archive footage)

  • David McCallum

    Illya Kuryakin (archive footage)

  • Kay Kyser

    Self (archive footage)

  • Linda Gray

    Self / Sue Ellen Ewing (archive footage)

  • Dick Elliott

    Bartender (archive footage)

  • Buddy Ebsen

    Jed Clampett (archive footage)

  • Jerry Mathers

    Theodore 'Beaver' Cleaver (archive footage)

  • Diana Douglas

    Elly May Clampett (archive footage)

  • Sammy Davis Jr.

    Self (archive footage)

  • Jed Allan

    Self

  • Tom Arnold

    Self

  • Billy Barty

    Self

  • Milton Berle

    Self

  • William Boyd

    Hopalong Cassidy (archive footage)

  • William Demarest

    Charlie O'Casey (archive footage)

  • Bing Crosby

    Self (archive footage)

  • Joyce Brothers

    Self

  • Wally Cox

    Robinson J. Peepers (archive footage)

  • John Wayne

    Self (archive footage)

  • Bob Crosby

    Self (archive footage)

  • Charlton Heston

    Self

  • Arte Johnson

    Self / Wolfgang (archive footage)

  • Allan Lane

    Mister Ed (archive audio)

  • Dick Martin

    Self (archive footage)

  • Barry Morse

    Lt. Philip Gerard (archive footage)

  • Hugh O'Brian

    Self (archive footage)

  • Donna Reed

    Donna Stone (archive footage)

  • George Reeves

    Superman (archive footage)

  • Red Skelton

    Buffalo Bob Smith / Howdy Doody (archive footage)

  • Vivian Vance

    Ethel Mertz (archive footage)

  • Henry Winkler

    Self