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