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Product Details:
Format:
Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Language:
English
Number of Discs:
1
Studio:
PBS Paramount
Run Time:
240 minutes
DVD Release Date:
February 21, 2008
Average Customer Rating:
based on 3 reviews
Description:
Nearly 100 stars from television's formative years bring their stories to PBS in a revealing documentary series, PIONEERS OF TELEVISION. Featuring sitcoms, late-night, variety and game shows -- the film melds compelling new HD interviews with archival clips to offer a fresh take on television's first celebrities, with fascinating stories, never-before-seen images and timeless clips that still entertain decades later.
Customer Reviews:
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Very InformativeOct 31, 2008 As a child of the 60's, growing up watching television, I found this DVD to be very entertaining and informative. Lot's of trivia in this progam. I would recommend it to anyone under 50 for a better understanding of what good television was, and the people who made it.
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
My Childhood Makes More Sense NowApr 11, 2008 I wasted a lot of time when I was young watching re-runs of these shows. I felt, watching this DVD, like I was looking through an old family photo album.
This DVD explains a lot of stuff I could never have figured out on my own. "Family secrets", explained 30 years later.
These actors, shown in color and black & white clips, never seem to get any older. Their faces are so familiar. It's kind of freaky to realize that none of them have the slightest idea who I am.
4 of 4 found the following review helpful:
Outstanding insight and background informationFeb 12, 2008 This series is among the finest documenting television's early history. Complete with interviews from those involved with the earliest broadcasts and programs, this series reveals the inside story behind the quiz show scandal, the Smother's Brothers cancelation, the popularity of Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, as well as the various talk shows to grace late-night television. Each program discusses one facet of television's history: game shows, talk shows, comedy, etc...
A must for those interested in the history of the medium.
based on 3 reviews
