George Clooney at the 2010 Primetime Emmys

Backstage interviews from the Emmys!

George Clooney, Al Pacino, Tom Hanks, Ann-Margret, and more at the 62nd Primetime Emmy Awards

Remembering Eddie Kean

REMEMBERING EDDIE KEAN

Eddie Kean wrote the children's classic Howdy Doody inventing the exclamation "cowabunga!"

Interactive Media Award

Newsflash: Archive website wins top honors at 2010 Interactive Media Awards!

Humphrey Bogart on TV

HUMPHREY BOGART on '50s TV

Bogie appeared on "The Jack Benny Show," "Person to Person," & "Producers' Showcase"

John Langley Interview Now Online

John Langley's Interview is now online

Langley created and is the executive producer of the long-running reality series Cops

60th Anniversary of Crusader Rabbit

60th Anniversary of "Crusader Rabbit"

TV's first Animated Series

Animator Alex Anderson and voice artist Lucille Bliss discuss the show

Stanwyck DVD

The Barbara Stanwyck Show Volume 2

New from "The Archive of American Television Presents" DVDs

Capturing TV History Through Video Interviews

Browse Our Interviews

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Welcome to EMMYTVLEGENDS.ORG, the online home of the TV Academy Foundation’s ARCHIVE OF AMERICAN TELEVISION.

The Archive collects in-depth video interviews with TV's greatest legends and pioneers -- now available online. Browse the interviews by person, show, topic or profession. Enjoy the site and be sure to visit often -- new interviews are added regularly.

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Trivia

What 1960s primetime soap opera was considered so racy that editor Stanford Tischler admits his daughter lost one of her friends, whose parents forbid her from associating with a girl whose father worked on it?

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