Two fine comedians couldn’t make television lighting strike twice in the early 1960s. Groucho Marx spent more than a decade wisecracking wi...

Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In went into its second season with producer George Schlatter adding to the cast. Among the newcomers were a pair ...

At the end, the producers of Get Smart tried to squeeze every last ounce of satiric comedy out of the show, but there was nothing left, and...

His name will always be joined together with Lucy’s. “The same old booze and broads” finally broke up Desi Arnaz’s marriage with Lucille Ba...

There are two transitions in show business that can prove difficult, and Robert Francis Hastings made both of them successfully. He jumped ...

What makes a TV show a success? There’s no one, specific answer. In 1963, one columnist looked at three shows that had been on the air for...

She played opposite Clark Gable and a host of dramatic stars on the big screen for more than two decades. But you know her for being married...

Some seasonal satire came from the typewriter of entertainment columnist Erskine Johnson 60 Christmases ago. Johnson (photo, right) “was k...

All the stock company players on the first season of Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In had been kicking around for a while, but when I tuned for ...

Something didn’t seem right. It was 1986. La Cage aux Folles was in performance at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre in Vancouver and the ads pr...

Kids watch TV for the same reason their parents do—to be entertained. They don’t watch it to be lectured to or educated. But there were par...