15. Interesting that you mention television productions...
Menotti's opera "Amahl and the Night Visitors" was commissioned by NBC in 1951. The fine arts programming that our school system cable station plays late at night often uses clips from Firestone Theater and the Bell Telephone Hour. And I wonder how many people remember that Itzakh Perlman performed on Ed Sullivan when he was a child. My first exposure to Thornton Wilder's Our Town was on the Hallmark Hall of Fame.
I wonder what the hell happened to quality network programming? What made corporate television sponsors turn their backs on the Arts?
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