Tad Mosel

Writer

"It's hard for young people today to realize what it was like to grow up before television. Television, I think, is the most revolutionary event of the 20th century....The television camera reduced the world to your living room, literally. You knew things when you were six that I didn't know till I was 40."

About This Interview

Noted playwright and teleplay writer Tad Mosel (1922-2008) speaks about the challenges and thrills of writing for Fred Coe and David Susskind on live "Golden Age" dramas including The Philco/Goodyear Playhouse, Playhouse 90, and Studio One. He speaks about many of his plays including his first original television play, "Ernie Barger is 50," which appeared on Philco and his work on The Adams Chronicles. The six hour interview was conducted October 18, 1997 by Michael Rosen.