> how did you survive? >> i really just cried. i cried and cried and cried and cried. and cried and cried and cried. >> you know, i think my mom early on, and maybe still to this day, doesn't refer to it so much as a suicide. she has the impression i think a hoft people do, that the term suicide implies there's some sort of intent, that this was a cautious intentious act. i don't know if he knew what he was doing and wanted to end his life. i believe he had some impulse, perhaps he'd had it before, or some overwhelming fear or whatever it was. >> it was just an unbearable loss. and a crazy senseless one.

>> it is inconceivable that he would have jumped off the roof in front of his mother. >> i thought the worst thing that would ever happen to me was. you know, when i was 9. but that wasn't the worst. the worst is to lose a child. ♪ i thought of going over with him. almost did really.

except i thought of you. you know, i feel so -- i mean, i failed so much in my life. i just, you know -- ♪ >> i don't think we've been out

here since -- >> the funeral. >> i think since the funeral. >> that does it.

he picked up the thing in the fireplace and hit him on the head when he started running up the stairs. but it happened so quickly. >> it's nice to see them side by side. >> yes, it is. you know, i think it's sort of one thing i was able to give him. do you know? >> uh-huh. >> i mean, if it had to happen.

it would be inconceivable to him, you know. i mean, as it was to all of us really. you know. ♪ maybe we'll come here in the spring sometime. it's really pretty then.

♪ >> you know, the thing i ultimately came to is that sometimes there isn't any why or sometimes there is no -- you can't get an answer exactly why something happened. there's no way to actually get a final answer. and you just have to be able to kind of live in a world without why. ♪

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>> say not of beauty she is good or ought but beautiful. or sleek to doves' wings of the wood, her wild wings of a gull. call her not wicked, that word's touch consumes her like a curse. but love her not too much too much for that is even worse. oh, she is neither good nor bad but innocent and wild. enshrine her and she dies, who had the hard heart of a child. >> what does that mean to you? >> what does it mean to you? >> what does it mean to you? >> it means to me that i had the hard heart of a child from then on. >> uh-huh. >> and that i could survive things. and i did.

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stand by. here we go. >> take one. >> the average time spent watching television is five to six hours per day. >> holy residuals. >> there's a reason for calling it the boob tube and the idiot box. >> let's change the channel. >> bonzai! >> we want to rap about our scene. >> yeah. >> we must give the american viewer the kind of television he both desires and deserves. >> let's try it again and see what it comes out this time. >> television has grown faster than a teenager, and now it is

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house. i don't remember a time without tv. >> by 1960, essentially every household in america had a television. it was a new way of bringing the world to you. >> when something big happened on television, it really did happen to the entire country and impacted the entire country at the same time. >> keep an awakened eye on the world. >> suddenly television was the main event. everything else changed, even the way in which you went about the business of getting someone elected president. >> sold out. >> david, will you hit the one-minute button, please. 30 seconds and the cut please. >> in 1960 the nixon/kennedy debate was a first in television.

a lot of people were watching that night, and it introduced a lot of people to kennedy. >> the tight shot on camera one. >> hear me now speaking? is that about the right tone of voice? >> good evening, the television and radio stations of the united states and their affiliated stations are proud to provide -- >> when the networks offered a debate, kennedy immediately said yes because he was sure he could do better than nixon. >> i think mr. nixon is an effective leader of his party. i hope he would grant me the same. the question before us is which point of view and which party do we want to lead the united states. >> mr. nixon, would you like to comment on that statement? >> i have no comment. >> if you are live on television and there is a camera right here, there is really no place to hide. once you see a guy sweating when asked a question, are you sure he is the leader for you? >> that's the question before the american people, and only you can decide what you want. what you want this country to

be, what you want to do with the future. i think we're ready to move. >> if you saw it on television, clearly kennedy had won that debate. >> gentlemen, thank you very much for permitting us to present the next president of the united states on this unique program. >> it was the beginning of a new form of political craftsmanship. you could structure the message appropriately for the tv camera you could have a huge impact. and if you couldn't, you were toast. >> i would like you now to give a real tonight welcome to the senator from massachusetts, mr. john kennedy. [ applause ] may i ask you, so that i don't look too naive, a tough question right off the bat? >> whether i'm a democrat or republican? >> people recognized that television was now the medium that mattered. it wasn't before 1960 and it was every day after 1960 in those presidential debates.

>> honey, dent don't watch that. try to find a western. >> all right. >> once everyone had a tv set in their living room and advertisers had fully gotten a grip on how effective this is a way to sell products, the definition of what you were doing was to create entertainment that would appeal to as many people as possible. >> beaver, eat your brussels sprouts. >> gee, mom, i can't. my stomach's filled up to my throat. >> now, no excuses. >> "leave it to beaver" was something that a lot of families understood. it's the first show that was ever shot from the perspective of a child. >> beaver. >> most people have had a lot of the experiences that the beaver or wally had and everyone in their life has an eddie haskell. >> hey, wally, some dumb kid fell in the soup. good evening, mr. cleaver. some poor unfortunate child is trapped up there. >> everyone has that moment when they were so embarrassed and they thought they'd never get over it, but they did. >> tonight's special report from

the scene of the 1961 emmys. >> whether it's a situation comedy or western or drama, i think it's the quality of the show itself that's important. >> the "andy griffith show," mayberry, it's just a kinder, gentler place. it would be hard not to want to live in mayberry. >> hi, barn. hi, pop. >> the core of the "andy griffith show" was this rock at the center of it. calm wisdom. >> i have taken the best parts of myself and people i've known all my life and put them into andy taylor. ope, there comes a time when you have to stop the play acting and tell the truth. >> don't you believe me, pa? don't you, pa? >> people appreciate emotional honesty. they appreciate it more than laughs. it's great if you can achieve both simultaneously and the "andy griffith show" actually

did that very often. for a sitcom, it shows unexpected depth. >> the second dance number should come before the big sketch. >> gee, i don't know. >> i like it. >> now i like it. >> me, too. >> yeah, i like it, too. >> what do you know? look at that tie you're wearing. >> i only wrote what i knew about, which was my life. and if you're writing about that, nobody can say that's not true. it is true. i'm living it. >> on the "dick van dyke show" we could believe the actions of the characters because we could relate to them. this wasn't a genie in a bikini in someone's bottle on their mantel. these were real people. >> women are more -- more -- >> honest and direct? >> no. they're more -- >> courageous? >> we all have the same needs, feelings, relationships with husbands and wives. that was the kind of comedy we did, the problems of living.

>> honey, how much do you like that baby? >> oh, rob, don't tell me you're jealous already. >> the season opening episode for the 1963 season was seared into my head. >> our wives had a baby on the same day in the same hospital and the hospital was very busy, mr. peters. what am i getting at? >> they thought they got the wrong baby from the hospital. so he calls the parents of the other kid and thinks, you know, we may have your kid and you may have our kid. >> hi, we're mr. and mrs. peters. >> come in. [ laughter ] >> mrs. peters, won't you come in? >> it was beautiful. absolutely beautiful. here they're tackling a subject without tackling it. >> why didn't you tell me on the phone? >> and miss the expression on

your face? >> the network worried about the fact that the african-americans might be upset by it. the network was always a little behind. there's always somebody back there who doesn't have b-a double l-s, balls. >> in hollywood, the co-writer, carl reiner, "dick van dyke." >> i wish somebody had told me. i would have worn my hair. [ laughter ] ♪ after walking six miles at an amusement park...

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and informed personality. it made for great television. >> how much time have i done? i don't have a watch either. how much? has it been charming? i'll quit now, then. >> here's johnny! >> johnny carson inherited "the tonight show," but he made it his own. >> it's going to be wild tonight. i can always tell. >> he hosted a nightly party. >> are you married? >> oh. >> and if his buddies came, and they started playing together, you felt like what it must have felt like to go to vegas at 3:00 in the morning and have the rat pack come on. >> no, but where is the guy you talk to? >> it was a beautiful thing to watch a guy working at his best. >> okay. bingo. >> get your ax and let's go. ♪

[ laughter ] >> if you watch it closely, he is gauging how much longer he can wait to let the laugh die before what he says will be irrelevant to what happened. and he gets it just on the nose. it's beautiful to watch. >> i didn't even know you were jewish. [ laughter ] >> johnny was the best audience in the world. and he loved comedy. >> the woman is watching him. she's watching him from the corner of her eye. he says to him, what are you looking at? the guy says i'm looking at that ugly baby. that's a bad-looking baby, lady.

>> johnny was there listening for you. he wanted you to score. and when you scored, he scored. >> i said now calm down. he said, madam, the pennsylvania railroad will go to any length to avoid having differences between the passengers. perhaps it would be more to your convenience if we were to rearrange your seating. and as a small compensation from the railroad if you'd accompany me to the dining car we'll give you a free meal. maybe we'll find a banana for your monkey. [ laughter ] >> i'm dick cavett. funnier than chet huntley, taller than mickey rooney and as pure and honest as newark, new jersey. >> the dick cavett show was amazing because you could get people like norman mailer and woody allen. >> my only new year's resolution this year, i think i'm going to try to sleep through the nixon administration.

>> you would have authors on. you would have heavyweight boxers. there were conversations. >> when you mentioned the national anthem and talk about playing it in any unorthodox way, you immediately get a guaranteed percentage of hate mail from people who say how dare -- >> that's not unorthodox. >> it isn't unorthodox? >> no, no, i thought it was beautiful. there you go. >> i just thought anything that is interesting ought to have a place on a talk show rather than young pretty actresses who use the word "excited" in every sentence. you're not frequently seen on television. is that by choice? >> well, of course, it is the most impressive medium of all. it's the medium that will either save america or send it down into demise, there's no question about it. >> i'm getting out of it myself. >> really? >> we'll be back after this. >> what you do is book the best possible guests from different kinds of businesses, maybe not everybody in show business, some politics, some newspaper people.

get them all on the stage together and hope that something works. but it's a great show. it's a great platform for people who have something to say. >> the point is they take these scripts out of the drawers. they change the things around. maybe it doesn't work with "green acres," but with many of these shows, that's why night after night you turn on these serials and they all seem as if they came out of the same bread box. >> back then you had lots and lots of copycats. you have "the addams family" and then "the munsters," you have "bewitched." and then "i dream of jeanie." the old saying is imitation is the sincerest form of television. so if one person is doing this fantastical hit, we're going to do that. >> now, is that considered a crime? >> i'm afraid not. there aren't any laws to protect us against bad tv shows yet. so you're safe. >> well, thank you. >> what i'm surprised by are some of the shows i can't even imagine the pitch meetings for. like "hogan's heroes." >> it's a story about american prisoners of war in a nazi

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cbs presents this program in color. >> i didn't have color television until i was 16 years old. yes, i lived like an animal. >> the following program is being brought to you in living color on nbc. >> getting the color tv was huge because suddenly we could watch "walt disney's wonderful world of color" on sunday nights, which was like just an acid trip of a show. we just could not believe it. tinkerbell going bing, bing, bing. and it was like special effects par excellence.

♪ the world is a carousel of color ♪ ♪ >> it also happened just coincidentally at the time when what we think of as the mod '60s came in. colors were all over the place just as tv could start to take advantage of them. >> hi. >> well, glad you could make it. >> i remember saying stay tuned for "gidget" next, in color. >> wednesday nights at 10:15, in color, on abc. >> it was a big marketing thing. >> color tv was a huge step forward as far as the technology went. and yet, i think of "lost in space." "lost in space" started off as a black-and-white show and then went to color. it didn't get any better when it went to color. >> dr. smith, you're alive. >> of course, i'm alive. do i look like a corpse? >> the period has a reputation for being tv as a kind of candy. sometimes it felt like there was

in really aggressive innocence to it. >> you're only to blow that in an emergency. >> this is an emergency, you're standing on my foot! >> "gilligan's island" makes no sense whatsoever logistically. >> going to make a spider drunk. >> how is the professor able to build all this stuff but not build a damn raft? >> this stick of true dynamite that i made. >> it makes no sense if you pull any single thread on it, but it was just like the kind of show designed to live forever in syndication. >> who are you looking for? >> the nun. who else? >> are you kidding? >> "flying nun" is the most -- it's a crazy show. like what is that about? >> look, carlos, it's very simple. you see, i only weigh 90 pounds and the combination of my cornet and the wind lifts me. >> it was just complete nonsense, let's face it. it was the height of the '60s, and everyone was eating granola

and dropping out and doing god knows what else, and i wasn't. >> hello, central? i'm switching to my eyeglasses. put a hold on my wallet but keep my shoe open. >> television more than ever in the '60s was a place to escape to. >> let's go. ♪ >> seemed like it was sort of willful respite from the stuff going on out in the world in real life. >> here's a bulletin from cbs news. there has been an attempt as perhaps you know now on the life of president kennedy. he was wounded in an automobile driving -- >> until the early '60s television was by and large seen as something of a backwater to print journalism and even to radio. but the kennedy assassination was the moment that television journalism came of age. >> we'll continue full-day coverage of the presidential funeral and final procession.

>> more and more people were depending on television to give them the headline news of the day. >> 330 americans were killed in combat last week in vietnam. but the number of wounded, 3,886 was the highest of any week in the war. >> most of the 1960s, the contrast between what you saw in your entertainment and what you saw on the news was, you know, planetary. >> never has this dissent been as emotional, as intense. >> in the '60s it was one thing after another. each year it was filled with important events. >> governor wallace has ordered 500 alabama national guardsmen into tuscaloosa. at the moment, they are under his control. >> whether it was the civil rights movement or it was the kennedy assassination or the space race, when there was a huge thing that happened it happened on tv. >> the witness to that violence said it seemed to be unprovoked on the part of the demonstrators.

>> television became the fire in which the whole tribe gathered around to listen to the elders tell them what was going on. >> police reinforcements moving down the street now. [ chanting "the whole world's watching" ]

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good evening, ladies and gentlemen. tonight, live from new york. >> from hollywood. >> from beautiful downtown burbank. >> here is the star of our show, bob hope! >> variety was the backbone of television back then. one year there were like 18 different variety shows. everybody had a variety show. ♪ it's the jimmy dean show

>> everyone was different because of who was helming the show. ♪ everybody loves somebody sometime ♪ >> dean martin was just so loose, he acted as though he was doing the whole show drunk without a rehearsal. >> this is a real international show. now, where else could you see a smooth italian and a slippery pole? >> he was funny. he was really, really funny. ♪ >> he always looked as if he was a bit lost. people thought that it was because he was tiddly.

but that was part of the charm. >> here he is, ed sullivan! ♪ >> thank you. >> no matter who controlled the tv set the night other nights of the week, sunday night at 8:00, you were going to watch ed sullivan. >> now, ladies and gentlemen, a very fine novelty act. >> ed sullivan was a phenomenon. he was a powerful force. >> quiet, please. >> the beauty of the sullivan kind of variety show is that if you didn't like something, something else would be around in four minutes. >> no, johnny, no. >> no? >> no. >> why? >> it is very difficult. >> easy. >> advertisers wanted everybody. and so they got everybody. a little kid and his grandparents will watch the same show. >> they would have an elephant on, and then the next thing somebody doing shakespeare, and the next thing a comic. there would be an acrobat and then an opera singer the next bit, which was true variety. ♪ downtown ♪ things will be great when you're ♪ ♪ downtown >> anything that was current was on "the ed sullivan show." >> a young richard pryor.

>> thank you. >> joan rivers. >> rodney dangerfield. >> everybody wanted a showcase. if you got on sullivan, you knew you could talk about it. did you see sullivan? >> my whole life i don't get no respect. no respect from anyone. >> as a performer you couldn't get a better place to sell your product. >> when i started out, they would say variety is a man's game. it's dean, it's milton berle, it's jackie gleason, you know, it's the guys. but variety is what i know. i felt it was in my genes to do this. >> oh! [ yelling like tarzan ] >> she had been so good on the garry moore show, she always knew she could sing and dance and be funny. >> honey, where re --

>> on my show, i would do pratfalls and jump out of windows and get pies in the face, and it was heaven. >> i think it's going -- oh! >> you know, i still see a rerun of "carol burnett show" and i think, goddamn, they're funny. there has never been a better three-wall sketch show ever. >> she was great in bed, too, dickey, remember? >> you never went to bed with -- >> well. >> not supposed to curtsy, you're supposed to bow. well, i get dizzy when i bend over. >> when tim conway came on his goal in life was to destroy harvey. >> here's tim with our own harvey korman as a brand new dentist with his very first patient. we used to have a pool back stage, not as to whether harvey was going to break up, but how far he could get along in the sketch before he broke up. >> novocaine. okay here. novocaine. take a firm hold of the hypodermic needle. right. [ laughter ]

>> they never knew what he was going to do. but they knew it was not going to be what they expected. >> when they did the dentist sketch, none of that was rehearsed. >> yeah, be right with you. >> poor harvey was helpless, tears coming down. and tim swears that harvey wet his pants during that sketch. >> i don't know why that worked so well. watching two actors break character and just crack each other up should not be as entertaining, but somehow when it's tim conway and harvey korman doing it, i could watch that stuff forever. >> i just thought if we have fun, the audience will. we're going to go out there and do what we do best, and it worked. >> you can plan it and write it and rehearse it. but you hope for some magic. it was carol, carol, the magic of carol burnett.

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♪ >> you unlock this door with the key of imagination. beyond it is another dimension. >> there was desire on the part of writers and producers to push the envelope and stretch the medium. you certainly saw that with the "twilight zone." it was a very cinematic show. >> this is not a new world. it has patterned itself after every dictator who has ever planted the rippling implant of a boot on the pages of history since the beginning of time. >> rod serling who created "the twilight zone" came to the realization that through a lens of fantasy or science fiction he could tell stories about racism, he could tell stories about fascism. >> tonight, i shall talk to you about glorious conformity. >> it was a way to deal with a lot of the issues that america was starting to go through at that time but in a fantastic setting so that there's some divide between you and the show. >> they sent four people, a mother and father and two kids who looked just like humans, but

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>> in a lot of ways, television was showing slices of the world that people may have never seen before. "route 66" was an innovative show because it was actually filmed on location. so the audience was being exposed to things that just weren't part of their local orbit. >> space, the final frontier. ♪ >> you know, there's a little bit of the mayberry aspect to the world of "star trek." that will sound like an odd analogy. but follow me here. people want to believe that such a place can exist. the idea of a future in which a lot of the biases and the fears of the past has evolved out of us. >> where i come from, size, shape or color makes no difference. >> there's one episode where some of the members of the crew were taken over by these mental giants. >> this psychokinetic power of yours, how long have you had it? >> they forced captain kirk and and lieutenant uhura to kiss.

it was the first interracial kiss on television. ♪ >> nbc asked me if i would do my own special. and i had always adored harry belafonte. we decided to do one duet called "the path of glory." it was an anti-war song, and we both felt very strongly about it. i just touched his arm. the sponsor went crazy. my star doesn't touch a black man's arm. >> petula clark said, i'm not doing it over, and it's my show and it's going in that way. >> we weren't having any of that nonsense, no way. so it went out the way we wanted it to go out. i didn't really have any other problems with sponsors, but that sort of gave me a taste of what could happen.

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>> bobby and i tried to put forth an example of the way it should be racially in this country. we need more people in this industry to put forth that message and let it be known that the bigots and the racists, that they don't count. thank you. >> as television changed, it was helping all americans to understand that this is what america looks like. >> frankly, you're not exactly what i expected. >> no? >> no, not from what i read yet. >> did you expect me to be older or younger? >> julia was going to be the first time a black woman starred in her own television show. >> has mr. colton told you? >> told me what? >> i'm colored. >> what color are you?

>> she was a young black woman who had been educated, raising her son alone. it had a universality that is just something new. >> and you keep out of mischief. >> i'll just watch the old tv. >> good. >> in the '60s, america was exploding in a way that needed to be reflected on tv. ♪ >> stand still! >> "dragnet" came back in the late '60s and friday was now in a very different world than he had been in in the black and white days. and suddenly there were the damn, dirty hippies. >> i bet he's been dropping that acid we've been hearing about. >> jack webb would lecture you about the dangers of marijuana smoking and crazy drug culture. >> they're trying to deal with the counterculture, but they don't understand it. so it is basically the stereotypes of what the hippies were like. and it plays exactly like that. >> keep your nose out of my purse. >> keep yours out of the acid. next time i will.

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