johnson or broadway starmaker julian marsh. >> hewitt: i thought, "oh, my god, in television, you can be both of them." and i got hired. >> safer: soon, he was producing douglasner of "the cbs evening news." no satellites, no computers, nothing much except huge, bulky cameras and don's manic enthusiasm. >> hewitt: it wasn't very good, but it was respectable. i always thought it was kind of the infancy of television, like we were making those shows out of play-doh. >> safer: don has described those early days as playing with play-doh, kind of making it up as you go along. >> scheffler: no question about that. there were no signposts, no rules. >> safer: no rules. >> scheffler: nobody had any experience in this before, and so he really was the inventor of the kind of television news that we do now. >> safer: in the summer of 1956, the ocean liner "andrea doria" collided with a ship off nantucket. don, doug edwards and a cameraman flew off to have a look. the other networks had already come and gone, beating them to the first pictures of the crippled ship, dead in the water. >> hewitt: i said, "well, what the hell, we're here. let's go anyway." we're flying over