Early TV Pioneer and Author Studs Terkel Has Died-- Interview Online

Interview Excerpt:

Studs Terkel was a pioneer in what became known as the "Chicago School" of early television broadcasting. His show, Studs' Place, is described by Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh's The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows as an "affable program of songs and stories." The shows was, in part, improvised by the cast to the point that Terkel says they would run a credit at the end of the show that read "dialogue by the cast." Terkel died at age 96.

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Interview description:

Studs Terkel was interviewed for one-and-a-half hours in Chicago, IL. Mr. Terkel related the history of the “Chicago School” of television (including his relationships with Burr Tillstrom, Fran Allison and Dave Garroway) and spoke in detail about his own program, Stud’s Place and efforts to keep the show on the air after he was blacklisted. After the program went off the air, Terkel became one of America’s premier oral historians and radio interviewers. The interview was conducted by Karen Herman on July 19, 1999.