The Clay Cole Show was a rock music television show based in New York City, hosted by Clay Cole.
First broadcast on WNTA-TV in September 1959 as Rate the Records, within two months the format was changed, and an hour-long Saturday-night show was added. In the summer months, the show was expanded to an hour, six nights a week, live from Palisades Amusement Park, where Chubby Checker first performed and danced "The Twist". When WNTA-TV was sold in 1963, the show moved to WPIX-TV, where for five years it was successful, thanks to first-time guest appearances of the Rolling Stones, Neil Diamond, Dionne Warwick, Simon & Garfunkel, Richie Havens, Tony Orlando, Blood, Sweat & Tears and The Rascals. In 1965, the show was renamed Clay Cole's Discotek. Clay produced a full hour with just one guest, Tony Bennett. Clay's all-star, ten-day Christmas Show at the Brooklyn Paramount Theater holds the all-time box-office record for that theater.
Cole was the first to introduce stand-up comics such as Richard Pryor, George Carlin,
VD Blues was a one-hour PBS Special of the Week that aired in 1972 about the dangers of venereal disease. The show consisted of a series of skits and sketches that were hosted by Dick Cavett and starred well-known performers such as James Coco and Marcia Rodd. It was underwritten by the 3M Company. The show featured the Shel Silverstein song "Don't Give a Dose" performed by Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show.
The Fitness Show is an educational television program, hosted by Colin Hoobler. The series, filmed in Portland, Oregon. is the first medically based fitness program to apply science to exercise. This is in the likeness of the series’ producers’ Emmy Award-winning program Bill Nye the Science Guy.
Like Bill Nye, Hoobler hosts the program as part motivator and part science teacher. Sensors and 3-D image-capturing technology show viewers in real time what goes on underneath the skin during exercise.
As a licensed physical therapist with two master’s degrees, Hoobler’s methods have been taught through the American Physical Therapy Association. Both medical doctors and physical therapists make guest appearances on The Fitness Show. Techniques demonstrated in episodes combine elements of anatomy, neuroscience, physics and sports medicine. The educational content is intended to help viewers save time, avoid invasive medical treatments and reduce chronic pain.
Horizonte is a current events television program produced by KAET in Phoenix, Arizona. It is one of the two locally produced news program for KAET, the other being its sister program, Horizon. The show is produced at KAET's studios in the Cronkite Building on Arizona State University's downtown Phoenix campus.
Universe: The Infinite Frontier was a 26 episode television series explaining all the stars and planets and having a look at the entire universe. It was first broadcast in 1994 in the United States by PBS.
Rebop is an American children's television series that aired from 1976 to 1979 on PBS stations and produced by WGBH Boston. The premise was to promote social understanding and diversity among young people. LeVar Burton hosted for the final season.
This dramatic series tells stories of 20th century world events, revealing unexpected aspects of some of the pivotal moments of modern history. Each episode focuses on one major event and the 100 days that give context to the events leading up, during or at the close. The narrative of each episode will unearth little-known incidents and characters and gives a sense of what lies ahead.
Three-part series exploring the impact that photography has had on American life in the twentieth century. The story of pictures we have taken and where they have taken us.
Maria Loi, executive chef of the critically acclaimed Loi Estiatorio restaurant in Manhattan, shares thousands of years of knowledge baked into Mediterranean cuisine. Maria takes us island hopping across Greece – from Athens to Naxos to Evia – while learning about local ingredients and serving up the secrets to making some of the region's most classic dishes.
The program visit the remarkably beautiful places where the lighthouses are located and offers viewers the opportunity to rediscover the romance and history of these fabled structures.
The Shakori Hills Concert Series brings you performances from American & international music artists live from the Shakori Hills Community Arts Center in Pittsboro, North Carolina. Each week brings a new genre and a new musical experience.
Barbecue America is a cooking show on public television. In this show, host and series creator Rick Browne, makes everything on a grill. He wears a "table cloth" shirt, actually made from a red and white checked table cloth.
Browne travels to a variety of barbecue cook-offs, and exotic locales to bring the best of barbecue to the viewer.
He has published several cookbooks on the subject of grilling.