In the summer of 1950, a booklet called "Red Channels" shook up the East Coast media structure -- radio and TV networks as well as advertising agencies. "Red Channels" listed the "subversive" activities of over 150 writers, directors and performers, from Orson Welles to Lena Horne. If you were named in the book, you were guilty until proven innocent and you ran the serious risk of being unemployable on radio or TV. The blacklist triggered by "Red Channels" lasted for much of the 1950s, seriously affecting and even ruining the lives of innocent people. In the first of two parts, we look at how the blacklist began and how it was abetted by cowardly TV and radio producers and advertisers.
Life According to "Hey, Arnold!"
It's the "Are You Afraid of the Dark?" Halloween Special!
Elvis Presley -- Year One
When Louis Met Dolly
The World Accordion to Lawrence Welk
What We Watched: Cartoons and Kids' Shows
Orson Welles's Radio Days
A Short, Unhappy "Life with Lucy"
Raymond Burr's Secrets and Lies
Variations on a Theme Song (1966 Edition)
Silverman's Travels
What We Laughed At
Sid Caesar and His Demons
The Miracle of "A Charlie Brown Christmas"
Sonny and Cher's Long, Strange TV Trip
Seven and a Half Things You (Probably) Didn't Know About "The Dick Van Dyke Show"
The Marlon Brando-Wally Cox Connection
What We Saw at the Movies
A Very Short History of TV Shows with Very Short Histories
The 1960s: What We Listened To
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