It’s a Man’s World Interview with Randy Boone and Ted Bessell (1962)

Duration: 2:45

Year Published: 1962

Sound: sound

Description: In this news segment for Houston’s KPRC-TV, broadcast on October 14,1962, reporter Tom Jerriel interviews actors Randy Boone and Ted Bessell about their campaign to save their show, It’s a Man’s World, from cancelation by NBC. It’s a Man’s World depicted the restlessness and idealism of American youth at the time and notably included themes of premarital sex, feminism, and the generation gap. In the footage, the two actors discuss traveling across the country to find out whether people watched their program and ask fans to write NBC expressing their desire to keep it on the air. Whatever support Boone and Bessell solicited was not enough; the network ended It’s a Man’s World after 19 episodes.