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Peabody Award
The George Foster Peabody Awards (Peabody Awards) are annual, international awards for excellence in radio and television broadcasting. First awarded in 1941 for programs from the previous year, they are one of the oldest honors in electronic media. Lambdin Kay, public-service director for WSB...
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Green Eyes
Green Eyes was a made for television movie about a Vietnam veteran who journeys back to Southeast Asia to search for the son he left behind.
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The University of Chicago Round Table
"The University of Chicago Round Table" was broadcast nationally by NBC Radio from 1933 until 1955. The show, which was the first regular network program to be produced without a script, featured University professors and others discussing issues...
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We Hold These Truths
The Bill of Rights Special, We Hold These Truths, was commissioned by FDR to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Bill of Rights, the hour-long program was aired over the combined national networks eight days after pearl Harbor. Norman Corwin, ...
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Against the Storm
Against the Storm was a radio daytime drama which had three separate runs over a 13-year period on NBC and ABC. It ran in the years 1939 to 1942, 1949 and finally in 1951-52. Created and written by Sandra Michael, the drama was the only daytime...
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The Man Behind the Gun
The Man Behind the Gun was a half hour radio show about the war time experiences of the men in the armed forces. It starred Art Carney and it won a Peabody Award in 1942.
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Afield with Ranger Mac
Afield with Ranger Mac was a radio program that started in 1933 and broadcast on WHA for over 20 years. Ranger Mac taught children about nature through songs, poems and stories.
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Lux Radio Theater
Lux Radio Theater, a long-run classic radio anthology series [NBC Blue Network (1934-1935); CBS (1935-1954); NBC (1954-1955)] which first adapted Broadway stage works, and then films to hour-long radio programs performed live before studio audiences...
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Let's Pretend
Let's Pretend, created and directed by Nila Mack (1891-1953), was a long-run CBS radio series for children.
It had several different early formats and titles. Aunt Jymmie and Her Tots in Tottyville began October 27, 1928. Aunt Jymmie was the host of...
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An Open Letter to the American People
An Open Letter to the American People is a Charles Foster Peabody award winning play that examined and interpreted the riots that broke out in Detroit on June 20, 1943.
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Music and the Spoken Word
Music and the Spoken Word is a weekly 30-minute radio and television program of inspiring messages and music produced by Bonneville Communications with music performed by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir (often accompanied by the Salt Lake Tabernacle...
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Philharmonic Young Artists Series
The Philharmonic Young Artist Series was a radio program.
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Cavalcade of America
Cavalcade of America is an anthology drama series that was sponsored by the DuPont Company. It was initially broadcast on radio from 1935 to 1953, and later on television from 1952 to 1957. Originally on CBS the series pioneered the use of anthology...
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The Bell Telephone Hour
The Bell Telephone Hour, aka The Telephone Hour, is a long-run concert series which began April 29, 1940 on NBC radio and was heard on NBC until June 30, 1958. Sponsored by Bell Telephone, it showcased the best in classical and Broadway music,...
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America's Town Meeting of the Air
America's Town Meeting was a popular long running radio program on NBC. It began on radio in 1935 and moved to television in 1948. It was a current events show that took on controversial subjects. The panel took questions from the audience in the...
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The NBC Symphony of the Air
The NBC Symphony of the the Air was a weekly radio concert broadcast by the NBC Symphony which served as house orchestra for the network, beginning November 13, 1937 and continuing until 1954. The show won a Peabody award in 1945 for outstanding...
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Columbia Workshop
Columbia Workshop was a radio series that ran on on the Columbia Broadcasting System from 1936 to 1943, returning in 1946-47.
The series began as the idea of Irving Reis. Reis had begun his radio career as an engineer and developed a fascination...
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The Orchestras of the Nation
The Orchestra of the Nation was a radio show designed by NBC to acquaint listeners to orchestras from various regions in the country. This show won a peabody award in 1948.
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Weekly Press
Weekly Press was a radio show broadcast out of Ithaca NY that featured news and comments from local newspapers.
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Theatre Guild on the Air
Theatre Guild on the Air was an anthology radio series that aired on ABC Radio in the 1940s.
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Boston Symphony Orchestra
Boston Symphony Orchestra was a radio concert Broadcast from the Berkshires Festival.
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CBS Views the Press
CBS Views the Press was a fifteen-minute radio program aired weekly over WCBS in New York City from 1947 to 1950 and won a Peabody, a George Polk and other major journalism awards. Don Hollenback's show was one of the first to become a critic of...
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CBS is There
"CBS is There" was a series that began in 1947 that brought past historical events to the radio audience. The events were presented as new broadcasts complete with an on-the-scene team of reporters. It won a Peabody award in 1947.
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Cosmos
Cosmos: A Personal Voyage is a thirteen-part television series written by Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan, and Steven Soter, with Sagan as global presenter. It was executive-produced by Adrian Malone, produced by David Kennard, Geoffrey Haines-Stiles and...
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Animaniacs
Steven Spielberg Presents Animaniacs, usually referred to as Animaniacs, is an American animated series, distributed by Warner Bros. and produced by Amblin Entertainment. The cartoon was the second animated series produced by the collaboration of...
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Ally McBeal
Ally McBeal is an American television series which ran on the Fox network from 1997 to 2002. The series was created by David E. Kelley, who also served as the executive producer, along with Bill D'Elia. The series starred Calista Flockhart in the...
Car Talk
Car Talk is a radio talk show broadcast weekly on National Public Radio stations throughout the United States and elsewhere. Its subjects are automobiles and repair, and it often takes humorous turns. The hosts of Car Talk are brothers Tom and Ray...
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Frasier
Frasier is an American sitcom broadcast on NBC for eleven seasons, from September 16, 1993 to May 13, 2004. The program was created and produced by David Angell, Peter Casey, and David Lee (as Grub Street Productions) in association with Paramount...
Mystery Science Theater 3000
Mystery Science Theater 3000, often abbreviated MST3K, is an American cult television comedy series created by Joel Hodgson and produced by Best Brains, Inc. that ran from 1988 to 1999.
The series features a man and his robot sidekicks who are...
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South Park
South Park is an American animated sitcom created by Trey Parker and Matt Stone for the Comedy Central television network. Intended for mature audiences, the show has become infamous for its crude, surreal, satirical, and dark humor that lampoons a...
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Seinfeld
Seinfeld is an American television sitcom that originally aired on NBC from July 5, 1989, to May 14, 1998, lasting nine seasons, and is now in syndication. The eponymous series was created by Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld, with the latter starring...
The Simpsons
The Simpsons is an American animated television sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series is a satirical parody of a middle class American lifestyle epitomized by its eponymous family, which consists of Homer,...
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The X-Files
The X-Files is an American cult science fiction television series and a part of The X-Files franchise, created by screenwriter Chris Carter. It first aired in September 1993 and ended in May 2002. The show was a hit for the Fox network, and its...
Wallace and Gromit
Wallace and Gromit are the main characters in a series consisting of four British animated short films and a feature-length film by Nick Park of Aardman Animations. All the characters were made from moulded plasticine modelling clay on metal...
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60 Minutes
60 Minutes is an American investigative television newsmagazine, which has run on CBS since 1968. The program was created by long time producer Don Hewitt who set it apart by using a unique style of reporter-centered investigation. It has been among...
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The Muppet Show
The Muppet Show was a television program featuring a cast of Muppets, which was produced by Jim Henson and his team from Sesame Street. The show stars Kermit the Frog as a showrunner who tries to keep control of the antics of the other Muppet...
Sesame Street
Sesame Street is an American educational children's television series and a pioneer of the contemporary educational television standard, combining both education and entertainment. Sesame Street is well known for its Muppets characters created by...
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Captain Kangaroo
Captain Kangaroo is a children's television series which aired weekday mornings on the American television network CBS from 1955 until 1984. After a year of absence, in 1986 it moved to public television when the American Program Service (now...
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The West Wing
The West Wing is an American television serial drama created by Aaron Sorkin that was originally broadcast from September 22, 1999 to May 14, 2006. The series is set in the West Wing of the White House—where the Oval Office and offices of...
A Prairie Home Companion
A Prairie Home Companion is a live radio variety show created and hosted by Garrison Keillor. The show runs two hours on Saturdays from 6 to 8 p.m Eastern Time, and 5 to 7 p.m. Central Time, and usually originates from the Fitzgerald Theater in St....
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The Mary Tyler Moore Show
The Mary Tyler Moore Show (also known as Mary Tyler Moore as seen in the opening titles) is an American television sitcom created by James L. Brooks and Allan Burns that aired on CBS from September 19, 1970 to March 19, 1977. The program was a...
The Sopranos
The Sopranos is an American television drama series created and produced by David Chase. It premiered on premium cable network HBO in the United States on January 10, 1999 and ended its original run of six seasons and 86 episodes on June 10, 2007....
The Waltons
The Waltons is an American television series created by Earl Hamner, Jr., based on his book Spencer's Mountain, and a 1963 film of the same name, starring Henry Fonda and Maureen O'Hara. The show centered on the titular family growing up in a rural...
That Was The Week That Was
That Was The Week That Was, also known as TW3, is a satirical television comedy programme on BBC Television in 1962 and 1963, devised, produced and directed by Ned Sherrin and presented by David Frost.
It was first broadcast on Saturday 24 November...
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Roseanne
Roseanne is an American sitcom broadcast on ABC from 1988 to 1997 starring Roseanne Barr.
The series reached #1 in the Nielsen Ratings becoming the most watched television show in the United States from 1989 to 1990, and remained in the top four for...
Late Night with David Letterman
Late Night with David Letterman is a nightly hour-long comedy talk show on NBC hosted by David Letterman. It premiered in 1982 and went off the air in 1993, after Letterman left NBC and moved to The Late Show on CBS. Late Night with Conan O'Brien...
Arthur
Arthur is an American-Canadian educational television series for children, that airs on PBS in the United States; Radio-Canada, Knowledge and TVOKids in Canada; ABC2 in Australia and BBC One/ CBBC in the UK. It is aired internationally in 82...
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A Charlie Brown Christmas
A Charlie Brown Christmas is the first of many prime-time animated TV specials based upon the comic strip Peanuts, by Charles M. Schulz. It was produced and directed by former Warner Bros. and UPA animator Bill Meléndez, who also supplied the voice...
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Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood or Mister Rogers is an American children's television series that was created and hosted by Fred Rogers. Mister Rogers' Neighborhood was produced by Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA public broadcaster WQED and Rogers' non...
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The Ed Sullivan Show
The Ed Sullivan Show was a popular American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from June 20, 1948 to June 6, 1971, and was hosted by New York entertainment columnist Ed Sullivan.
The program ran on CBS every Sunday night from 8-9 p.m. ET ...
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The Wonder Years
The Wonder Years is an American television dramedy created by Carol Black and Neal Marlens. It ran for six seasons on ABC, from 1988 through 1993. The pilot aired on January 31, 1988 after ABC's coverage of Super Bowl XXII.
The show achieved a spot...
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The Larry Sanders Show
The Larry Sanders Show is a satirical television sitcom that originally aired from August 1992 to May 1998 on the HBO cable television network in the United States. It starred stand-up comedian Garry Shandling as vain, neurotic talk show host Larry...
Shoah
Shoah is a nine-hour film completed by Claude Lanzmann in 1985 about the Holocaust (or Shoah). Though Shoah is conventionally classified as a documentary film, director Lanzmann considers it to fall outside of that genre, as, unlike most historical...
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Nickelodeon
Nickelodeon (previously known as Pinwheel from 1977 until 1981) is an American cable television channel owned by Viacom. Since the early-1990s and early 2000s, Nickelodeon as a brand has expanded into other territories including Europe, the Middle...
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Masterpiece Theatre
Masterpiece (formerly known as Masterpiece Theatre) is an anglophilic drama anthology television series produced by WGBH Boston. It premiered on PBS on January 10, 1971, making it America's longest-running weekly primetime drama series. The series...
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M*A*S*H
M*A*S*H is an American television series developed by Larry Gelbart, adapted from the 1970 feature film MASH (which was itself based on the 1968 novel MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors, by Richard Hooker). The series is a medical drama/black...
Band of Brothers
Band of Brothers is a 2001 ten-part television World War II miniseries based on the book of the same title written by historian and biographer Stephen Ambrose. It was executive produced by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks after their collaboration on...
