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