FLASHBACK: Bob Newhart, Who Has Passed Away At 94, Attends The 1986 Emmy Awards Ceremony

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On Thursday, comedian and actor Bob Newhart passed away at the age of 94.

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00:00Has there been a golden era of TV?

00:07Oh yeah, I think there have been several.

00:11Burl and Sid Caesar and then The Honeymooners and Mary Tyler Moore and All in the Family.

00:23And I think we're going through one right now.

00:27TV's come out of the doldrums and it's kind of back to what it used to be, which was good entertainment, good writing.

00:34I mean, the good writers left for a couple of years. I don't know where they went, but they're back and they're writing and that's great.

00:40If you were in charge of a network, what would be the first thing you would do?

00:46The first thing I would do would be to fire me because I'm absolutely the wrong person to be in charge of a network.

00:52The shares would go from $70, $80 to $2.

00:57I would have threats upon my life by people who'd sold their homes and put the money in the network.

01:03No, I mean, performers, we have no business doing that kind of thing.

01:08That's done by a whole different kind of person than we are.

01:12What shows do you watch now?

01:14I watch Cosby, I enjoy Bill. I watch Cheers, Gaten Alley, all MTM shows.

01:24It's a requirement. We're required to watch and people check on us if we don't.

01:32What shows did you watch when you were a kid? Did they have TV back then?

01:37No, they didn't have. We had gas TV then. They didn't have electricity.

01:44You'd be watching a show on a window come along and blow out the pilot light and then you couldn't watch the rest of them.

01:53No, I don't know. I watched what everybody watched.

01:56I watched Lucy, I watched Honeymooners, I watched Pearl, I watched all those great shows.

02:02Show shows, we all grew up on them.

02:05If you were to change programming today, what would you do? What would you change?

02:14I'd pay the performers more, I think.

02:23Television is doing a pretty good job. They're making a pretty good comeback.

02:27Cable made a run at them and hurt them there for a while, but now I think part of that audience is coming back.

02:34And it's good. I've made my living in television. I'm very proud of it.

02:38It does some incredible things. As you saw tonight, some of the shows are in early frost and shows like that.

02:46It's pretty good. It gets knocked around a lot, but it's pretty good.

02:51It's been good to me and I think it's good.

FLASHBACK: Bob Newhart, Who Has Passed Away At 94, Attends The 1986 Emmy Awards Ceremony

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