TV History

Need to send a message to a friend 50 miles away? Today, you’ve got plenty of options—whether it’s SMS, email,…

It’s hard to imagine that a franchise with such an important history as Doctor Who doesn’t have a complete archive…

HBO’s new miniseries Chernobyl has gotten a lot of attention for its gory realism. Radiation from a nuclear power…

Richard Erdman, a character actor whose amazing career dates back to the 1940s and includes over 170 acting credits,…

The Twilight Zone episode “The Eye of the Beholder” is one of the greatest TV episodes of all time. And now you can…

Back in 1938, TV wasn’t really a thing yet. But that didn’t stop people from already dreaming about the wild future…

Have you ever seen a kid take a marker or crayons to a phone or iPad? If so, you might be able to imagine what it…

This TV set was the futuristic vision of illustrator Frank R. Paul in 1922. And I absolutely love it.

History was made when the first in-flight movie was screened over Chicago in 1921. But it wasn’t until 1939 that…

The living room of the future was supposed to be interactive. It was supposed to have all the world's media at your…

On March 10, 1933 the movie The Crooked Circle became the first feature-length film ever broadcast on TV. What might…

Visitors to the National Radio Show at Earls Court in 1961 got a peek at the future of TV. Far from the enormous…

Futurist-minded weirdos were dreaming up 3D movies as early as the 1910s, back when feature-length films were still…

In 1939, the first Major League Baseball game was broadcast on TV—a double-header between the Cincinnati Reds and…

Television was hardly a reliable broadcast medium in the early 1930s. But that didn't stop companies from…

Only about half a dozen people in the Los Angeles area owned a TV in 1933. But those handful of early adopting TV…

Today advertisers use futuristic tech like jetpacks and robots in their TV ads so that potential consumers think of…

The March 1931 issue of The Country Gentleman magazine included this advertisement for Timken bearings. With the…

Congrats to Thomas Kash on winning the 37-inch Aquos TV from Sharp. The Super Bowl party is at his house this year.…