Those Were the Days: The Golden Age of Television, Part 3
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This is the ultimate nostalgia class with more trivia that any retiree’s brain can handle. You think you know 50’s TV trivia? We’ll see! Highlights in Part 3 will include Twenty-One and the quiz show scandals, anthology series like Playhouse 90 and The Twilight Zone, the birth of infomercials, westerns like Maverick, Have Gun Will Travel, Wagon Train, The Rifleman, Rawhide, Zorro, and Bonanza, sitcoms like Leave It to Beaver, The Donna Reed Show, The Real McCoys, and Dobie Gillis, variety shows like American Bandstand, animated shows like Beany & Cecil and Rocky & Bullwinkle, and dramatic shows like Perry Mason, Peter Gunn, Naked City, 77 Sunset Strip, Sea Hunt, and The Untouchables. You won’t just be teased by a few seconds of clips of each series but will see anywhere from a few minutes to 30 minutes or more of these series. For about half the series we will be playing Name that Series to see if you can identify the series from its theme music; and for just about every series, we will be asking trivia questions regarding the characters, the performers who played them and the like.
After graduating from Harvard Law School, Steve was an entertainment lawyer in Los Angeles for 30 years, specializing in the motion picture and TV industries, first with the firm of Silverberg, Rosen, Leon, and Behr and then as the senior founding partner of the boutique entertainment law firm of Silverberg, Katz, Thompson, and Braun, which morphed over the years into the current firm of Katz, Golden, and Lerner. During his career, he represented writers, directors, producers, and actors (such as Quinn Martin, Rod Steiger, and Jack Palance in the early years and Dick Clark, Cher, Donald Sutherland, and Michael Crichton in the later years) as well as numerous production and distribution companies. He hired and mentored scores of LA entertainment attorneys, including Lloyd Braun and Marc Graboff, who became Presidents of ABC and NBC, respectively.