Charlie Andrews

Producer

"Learn the basics of how to put a show together and establish a level of taste for the kind of material you want to do. Meet as many other producers that you can because so they can help you, too. A lot of it has to do with the people you worked with before. That's the way I've gotten a lot of my jobs: having done a good job for these people, they wanted to hire me for something else."

About This Interview

Charlie Andrews (1916-2004) was interviewed for four hours in West Hampton, NY. Andrews created the groundbreaking Chicago-based shows Studs’ Place with Studs Terkel and Garroway at Large with David Garroway, both of which he discussed in detail. He talked about his later move to New York were he had a long successful career as a producer of the popular series: The Arthur Godfrey Show, Today, and Candid Camera. The interview was conducted by Henry Colman on October 20, 1998.