Television: The First Fifty Years

Name: Television: The First Fifty Years
Released: 1999
Cast: Henry Winkler, Vivian Vance, Red Skelton, George Reeves, Donna Reed

1999

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.

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Critics Contributing

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Adam West

as Self / Batman (archive footage)

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Alan Young

as Self / Wilbur Post (archive footage)

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Allan Lane

as Mister Ed (archive audio)

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Arte Johnson

as Self / Wolfgang (archive footage)

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Barry Morse

as Lt. Philip Gerard (archive footage)

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Betsy Palmer

as Self

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Billy Barty

as Self

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Bing Crosby

as Self (archive footage)

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Bob Crosby

as Self (archive footage)

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Bob Hope

as Self (archive footage)

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Buddy Ebsen

as Jed Clampett (archive footage)

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Burt Ward

as Self / Robin (archive footage)

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Carol Burnett

as Self (archive footage)

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Charlton Heston

as Self

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David Hasselhoff

as Self / Mitch Buchanon (archive footage)

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David McCallum

as Illya Kuryakin (archive footage)

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David Nelson

as Self (archive footage)

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Desi Arnaz

as Ricky Ricardo (archive footage)

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Diana Douglas

as Elly May Clampett (archive footage)

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Dick Elliott

as Bartender (archive footage)

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Dick Martin

as Self (archive footage)

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Dick Powell

as Self (archive footage)

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Dick Van Patten

as Self

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Doc Severinsen

as Self

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Donna Reed

as Donna Stone (archive footage)

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

as Self (archive footage)

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Ed McMahon

as Self (archive footage)

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Eddie Albert

as Self / Oliver Douglas (archive footage)

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Edward R. Murrow

as Self (archive footage)

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Efrem Zimbalist Jr.

as Stuart Bailey (archive footage)

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Ethel Merman

as Self (archive footage)

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Frank Gorshin

as The Riddler (archive footage)

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Gene Siskel

as Self

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George Burns

as Self (archive footage)

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George Harrison

as Self – The Beatles (archive footage)

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George Reeves

as Superman (archive footage)

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Henry Winkler

as Self

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Hugh O'Brian

as Self (archive footage)

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Imogene Coca

as Self (archive footage)

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Jay Leno

as Self

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Jed Allan

as Self

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Jerry Mathers

as Theodore 'Beaver' Cleaver (archive footage)

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John Lennon

as Self – The Beatles (archive footage)

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John Wayne

as Self (archive footage)

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Joyce Brothers

as Self

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Kay Kyser

as Self (archive footage)

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Linda Ellerbee

as Self

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Linda Gray

as Self / Sue Ellen Ewing (archive footage)

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Lucille Ball

as Self / Lucy Ricardo (archive footage)

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Milton Berle

as Self

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Nancy Marchand

as Self (archive footage)

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Patrick Macnee

as Self / John Steed (archive footage)

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Paul McCartney

as Self – The Beatles (archive footage)

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Phyllis McGuire

as Self

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Ray Walston

as Self

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Red Skelton

as Buffalo Bob Smith / Howdy Doody (archive footage)

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Richard Nixon

as Self (archive footage)

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Ringo Starr

as Self – The Beatles (archive footage)

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Roger Ebert

as Self

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Ron Howard

as Self / Opie Taylor / Ritchie Cunningham (archive footage)

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Sammy Davis Jr.

as Self (archive footage)

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Sheree North

as Self

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Sid Caesar

as Self (archive footage)

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Tom Arnold

as Self

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Tony Randall

as Self (archive footage)

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Victoria Principal

as Self / Pamela Ewing (archive footage)

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Vivian Vance

as Ethel Mertz (archive footage)

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Wally Cox

as Robinson J. Peepers (archive footage)

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Walter Cronkite

as Self

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William Boyd

as Hopalong Cassidy (archive footage)

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William Demarest

as Charlie O'Casey (archive footage)