TV Land Legends: The 60 Minutes Interviews - Season 2
1 - Jay Leno
Air Date: June 22, 2003
Jay Leno talks about replacing Johnny Carson (he has since 1992 hosting longer than Steve Allan 1st host Jack Parr 2nd host) Recently Katie Couric filled in for Jay in May 2003 as part of ""Today"" trading places week. He then filled in for her on ""Today"" In this episode Jay shows us how his jokes will work with his writers.
2 - Jon Stewart
Air Date: June 22, 2003
3 - Larry King
Air Date: June 22, 2003
4 - George Burns
Air Date: June 22, 2003
George Burns was married to Gracie Allen for 39 years and would make history by making the Burns & Allen Show from 1950-58 on CBS. Bea Benaderet Played Blanche Morton on the Radio & TV Show. George was the straight man (he would leave the laughs to Gracie) which made the show a hit. Later Gracie left the show to spend time with family. In This episode George teaches Ed Bradley how to sing a tune and we take a trip to the place where his wife is buried see George telling Gracie about being on 60 Minutes.
5 - Donny & Marie
Air Date: September 28, 2003
6 - Harry Belafonte
Air Date: October 12, 2003
Harry Belafonte was the first African American to get an Emmy & Tony Award. He was first seen on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1953. Harry works for UNICEF as an ambassador for children in Africa. He did an anthology of African music that took 40 years to finish.
7 - Charles Schultz
Air Date: October 19, 2003
Charles Schultz tells ""60 Minutes"" about his self doubts and which Peanuts character he wouldn't like to be around. The Peanuts character he would like to be around is Charlie Brown.
8 - Bill Maher
Air Date: October 26, 2003
TV Land Legends: The 60 Minutes Interviews takes viewers behind the scenes of Politically Incorrect. We also find out why Bill Maher likes controversy. Bill Maher talks about being a headline and why PI was dropped by ABC in June 2002.
9 - Angela Lansbury
Air Date: November 2, 2003
Angela tells 60 Minutes why she left film and went on to Broadway (to get leading parts) Angela went on to TV (30 years before Murder She wrote!) She only did TV (in the 1950's) hoping for bigger parts in movies.
10 - David Wolper
Air Date: November 9, 2003
In this episode David Wolper talks about his career which began by selling educational films to TV stations. He also bought Alex Haley'sRoots to TV.
11 - Phil Donahue
Air Date: November 23, 2003
Mike Wallace talks to Phil Donahue about his talk show and why he isn't crazy about interviewing Celebrities. Marlo Thomas tells 60 Minutes what the fight about.
12 - Judge Judy
Air Date: November 30, 2003
Judge Judy talks about how she went from being a Family Court Judge to TV star and how she deals with fame.
13 - Bill Parcells
Air Date: January 25, 2004
The NFL coach discusses his coaching strategies, money, players and more.