Posts Tagged ‘David Silver’
Boston’s most radical TV show: What’s Happening Mr. Silver?
If you were watching WGBH on February 7, 1968, in a house with two TVs, you were in luck.
Read MoreFred Barzyk’s Snapshots: Scene 2
I was asked to produce and direct a program for college kids during the summer of 1967. The show featured a young Englishman who was lecturing at Tufts University. His name was David Silver and he looked a lot like Mick Jagger.
Read MoreDavid Silver on Bud Collins, Julia Child, Fred Barzyk, and more
As a 23 year old on-camera TV neophyte, watching Julia’s completely honest and wonderfully natural television presentations, actually helped me in my own slightly panicky weekly approach to hosting a television show.
Read MoreThe Making of “The Lathe of Heaven”
Fred Barzyk: It is still amazing to me how many people of a certain age remember watching this TV movie. I mean it was 1979 when it aired!
Read MoreReunion 2015: Here’s your invitation!
We now have a formal invitation and final agenda for the reunion!
Join us at the new WGBH Studios on Saturday, May 2, at One Guest Street in Allston.
Moments: At an early WGBH auction
From Bill Francis: David Atwood on camera, David Silver in the foreground. What else can you tell us about this image?
Read MoreNat Johnson: My Early Radio Days
I aired, for the first time in America, a stereo broadcast of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. Listeners were astounded – and generally seemed quite captivated.
Read MoreWhat’s (Still) Happening Mr. Silver?
From WGBH Quicknooz (used by permission) David Silver, who hosted and wrote his own WGBH talk show, What’s Happening Mr. Silver?, and produced PBS’s first weekly magazine series, Great American Dream Machine, will debut his one-man show, From Mod to G-D, at the Ars Nova Theater in New York City on 8/29. The show incorporates…
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