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Television: The First Fifty Years
Television: The First Fifty Years
Release: 1999-01-01
·Runtime: 120m
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.
Production Countries
United States of America
Production Companies
Passport International Productions
Cast
George Reeves
as Superman (archive footage)
Bing Crosby
as Self (archive footage)
Imogene Coca
as Self (archive footage)
Walter Cronkite
as Self
Doc Severinsen
as Self
Lucille Ball
as Self / Lucy Ricardo (archive footage)
Joyce Brothers
as Self
Allan Lane
as Mister Ed (archive audio)
Ron Howard
as Self / Opie Taylor / Ritchie Cunningham (archive footage)
Linda Ellerbee
as Self
Adam West
as Self / Batman (archive footage)
Richard Nixon
as Self (archive footage)
Dick Elliott
as Bartender (archive footage)
Henry Winkler
as Self
Betsy Palmer
as Self
Linda Gray
as Self / Sue Ellen Ewing (archive footage)
Buddy Ebsen
as Jed Clampett (archive footage)
Dick Van Patten
as Self
Dwight D. Eisenhower
as Self (archive footage)
Billy Barty
as Self
Gene Siskel
as Self
Ray Walston
as Self
Charlton Heston
as Self
Frank Gorshin
as The Riddler (archive footage)
Burt Ward
as Self / Robin (archive footage)
Jay Leno
as Self
Tony Randall
as Self (archive footage)
Jerry Mathers
as Theodore 'Beaver' Cleaver (archive footage)
Sheree North
as Self
Patrick Macnee
as Self / John Steed (archive footage)
Desi Arnaz
as Ricky Ricardo (archive footage)
David Nelson
as Self (archive footage)
William Boyd
as Hopalong Cassidy (archive footage)
Barry Morse
as Lt. Philip Gerard (archive footage)
Ed McMahon
as Self (archive footage)
Paul McCartney
as Self – The Beatles (archive footage)
David Hasselhoff
as Self / Mitch Buchanon (archive footage)
George Burns
as Self (archive footage)
Kay Kyser
as Self (archive footage)
Sammy Davis Jr.
as Self (archive footage)
Dick Powell
as Self (archive footage)
John Lennon
as Self – The Beatles (archive footage)
Diana Douglas
as Elly May Clampett (archive footage)
Jed Allan
as Self
Tom Arnold
as Self
Arte Johnson
as Self / Wolfgang (archive footage)
Dick Martin
as Self (archive footage)
Ringo Starr
as Self – The Beatles (archive footage)
Wally Cox
as Robinson J. Peepers (archive footage)
Hugh O'Brian
as Self (archive footage)
Carol Burnett
as Self (archive footage)
Ethel Merman
as Self (archive footage)
David McCallum
as Illya Kuryakin (archive footage)
Milton Berle
as Self
William Demarest
as Charlie O'Casey (archive footage)
John Wayne
as Self (archive footage)
Vivian Vance
as Ethel Mertz (archive footage)
Phyllis McGuire
as Self
Alan Young
as Self / Wilbur Post (archive footage)
George Harrison
as Self – The Beatles (archive footage)
Eddie Albert
as Self / Oliver Douglas (archive footage)
Bob Hope
as Self (archive footage)
Edward R. Murrow
as Self (archive footage)
Victoria Principal
as Self / Pamela Ewing (archive footage)
Roger Ebert
as Self
Efrem Zimbalist Jr.
as Stuart Bailey (archive footage)
Donna Reed
as Donna Stone (archive footage)
Red Skelton
as Buffalo Bob Smith / Howdy Doody (archive footage)
Sid Caesar
as Self (archive footage)
Nancy Marchand
as Self (archive footage)
Bob Crosby
as Self (archive footage)