What a tragic life.

Personally, I liked Gary Coleman. I first knew him back in the days of his hit TV series Diff’rent Strokes. There were issues even then, all well documented publicly … health scares, health challenges, followed later by battles with his parents over control over money he had earned from that very [...]

Sad to hear the news of the death of TV pioneer Art Linkletter yesterday, in Los Angeles, at age 97.
Anyone younger than 45 doesn’t seem to have a clue who Linkletter was. Too bad. For us baby boomers, he helped define our childhoods.
In the bigger picture of his legacy, Art will [...]

It was 35 years ago today that “The Jeffersons” became a part of the American (now global) television landscape. We first met Louise and George Jefferson (Isabel Sanford and Sherman Hemsley) on Norman Lear’s grounding breaking 1970’s television series “All in the Family.” The characters proved to be so popular, that Lear and his team [...]

I was very sadden this afternoon to learn about the death of a true Hollywood icon. Army Archerd covered stars and the business like no other journalist. His access to the movers and shakers of the industry was unprecedented. His power could also not be denied. For over 50 years, his Daily Variety column (in [...]

Bonnie Franklin is a TV pioneer.
In her role as Anne Romano, single mother of two teenage girls struggling to get her life back on track after a divorce, she gave a voice and she gave hope to millions of other women who were in the same position. That was in 1975 when CBS-TV premiered another [...]

I loved interviewing Robert Reed. The three interview segments with him that you can now watch on-demand were lifted from a much longer chat we had. So, more segments will be coming in the future.
One on the things that I remember the most about about our early 1990’s interview was sensing how conflicted Robert was [...]

It was becoming a crowded universe in the 1960’s. In between weekly episodes of both “Lost in Space” and “Star Trek,” space had to be made for NASA to do its thing. We were a space-curious people then - and, even today, given the huge numbers of sci-fi fans who attend conventions and gatherings all [...]

Isabel Sanford was having a blast on “All in the Family.” Originally, she was hired for just one episode, as Lionel’s aunt, to help establish the Jefferson family’s move into the Bunker’s Queens, New York neighborhood. When she received a call a few weeks later to come back to the show, she was a bit [...]

For a generation of us baby boomers, TV pioneer Art Linkletter was our hero. He gave away bicycles … and what kid wouldn’t line up for a shot at that? Still active today in his 90’s, Art helped define the first generation of “reality” television. In fact, he was the first person in broadcasting history [...]

I was a huge “Lost in Space” fan. I am a huge “Lost in Space” fan. When the series premiered in 1965, it was a must-see for me on Wednesday nights on CBS. I was thrilled to have the opportunity, in the early 1990’s, to sit and chat with series co-star Bill Mumy, a/k/a Will [...]