The Backstory of East Side/West Side

From April 2011: Stephen Battaglio, author of David Susskind: A Televised Life, talks to Ed about how East Side/West Side (CBS, 1963-1964) was one of several network shows that were developed in direct response to then-FCC chairman Newton Minow's famous "vast wasteland" speech; why George C. Scott was amenable to doing the series, even though he was a major movie star at the time; and how the casting of Cicely Tyson as Scott's administrative assistant on East Side/West Side was both groundbreaking and controversial, given the backdrop of the Civil Rights movement.

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