The EMMY Awards: Part 1 In the video below from the 1953 Emmy Awards show, we see the independent station, KHJ’s cameras bringing us great scenes of Vivian Vance (Ethel) and Lucille Ball (Lucy) accepting their awards on this local broadcast. Interestingly, all 3, including Desi Arnaz push for a ‘writer’ category that soon was […]
Time To ‘Cowboy’ Up…Remember These Greats? Left to right, Clint Walker ‘Cheyenne’, James Arnes ‘Gunsmoke’, Richard Boone ‘Have Gun Will Travel’, Robert Horton ‘Wagon Train’, James Garner ‘Maverick’ and John Payne ‘Restless Gun’. Source
Lawrence Welk…Television’s First “Stereo” Sound Show Twenty years before television was able to broadcast high quality stereo sound, ABC had broadcast ‘The Lawrence Welk Show’ in “stereo”…sort of. The year was 1958. Now, due to the fact that stereophonic television had not yet been invented you would think this was impossible, but if you have […]
‘All In The Family’…Some Interesting History Well, these pictures of the cast arriving at Television City settles one thing…it was definitely after September of 1973 when the set moved to Metro Media Studios. I can’t find a firm date, but I think the show moved at the end of the 1975 season. I understand the […]