Torrential

Television: The First Fifty Years

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.

Documentary

Walter Cronkite

(Self)

Carol Burnett

(Self (archive footage))

Jay Leno

(Self)

Phyllis McGuire

(Self)

Doc Severinsen

(Self)

Dick Van Patten

(Self)

Ed McMahon

(Self (archive footage))

Alan Young

(Self / Wilbur Post (archive footage))

Dick Powell

(Self (archive footage))

Sheree North

(Self)

Patrick Macnee

(Self / John Steed (archive footage))

Ron Howard

(Self / Opie Taylor / Ritchie Cunningham (archive footage))

Frank Gorshin

(The Riddler (archive footage))

Dwight D. Eisenhower

(Self (archive footage))

Sid Caesar

(Self (archive footage))

Ringo Starr

(Self – The Beatles (archive footage))

John Lennon

(Self – The Beatles (archive footage))

George Harrison

(Self – The Beatles (archive footage))

Paul McCartney

(Self – The Beatles (archive footage))

Linda Ellerbee

(Self)

Eddie Albert

(Self / Oliver Douglas (archive footage))

David Hasselhoff

(Self / Mitch Buchanon (archive footage))

Ethel Merman

(Self (archive footage))

Betsy Palmer

(Self)

Desi Arnaz

(Ricky Ricardo (archive footage))

Lucille Ball

(Self / Lucy Ricardo (archive footage))

Imogene Coca

(Self (archive footage))

Bob Hope

(Self (archive footage))

Nancy Marchand

(Self (archive footage))

Edward R. Murrow

(Self (archive footage))

Victoria Principal

(Self / Pamela Ewing (archive footage))

David Nelson

(Self (archive footage))

Tony Randall

(Self (archive footage))

Gene Siskel

(Self)

Roger Ebert

(Self)

Ray Walston

(Self)

Adam West

(Self / Batman (archive footage))

Burt Ward

(Self / Robin (archive footage))

Efrem Zimbalist Jr.

(Stuart Bailey (archive footage))

George Burns

(Self (archive footage))

Richard Nixon

(Self (archive footage))

David McCallum

(Illya Kuryakin (archive footage))

Kay Kyser

(Self (archive footage))

Linda Gray

(Self / Sue Ellen Ewing (archive footage))

Dick Elliott

(Bartender (archive footage))

Buddy Ebsen

(Jed Clampett (archive footage))

Jerry Mathers

(Theodore 'Beaver' Cleaver (archive footage))

Diana Douglas

(Elly May Clampett (archive footage))

Sammy Davis Jr.

(Self (archive footage))

Jed Allan

(Self)

Tom Arnold

(Self)

Billy Barty

(Self)

Milton Berle

(Self)

William Boyd

(Hopalong Cassidy (archive footage))

William Demarest

(Charlie O'Casey (archive footage))

Bing Crosby

(Self (archive footage))

Joyce Brothers

(Self)

Wally Cox

(Robinson J. Peepers (archive footage))

John Wayne

(Self (archive footage))

Bob Crosby

(Self (archive footage))

Charlton Heston

(Self)

Arte Johnson

(Self / Wolfgang (archive footage))

Allan Lane

(Mister Ed (archive audio))

Dick Martin

(Self (archive footage))

Barry Morse

(Lt. Philip Gerard (archive footage))

Hugh O'Brian

(Self (archive footage))

Donna Reed

(Donna Stone (archive footage))

George Reeves

(Superman (archive footage))

Red Skelton

(Buffalo Bob Smith / Howdy Doody (archive footage))

Vivian Vance

(Ethel Mertz (archive footage))

Henry Winkler

(Self)