Above, we fea­ture Frank Lloyd Wright, who appeared on What’s My Line?, Amer­i­ca’s longest-run­ning game show, back in June 1956. Dur­ing its eigh­teen sea­sons, the show fea­tured many cul­tur­al VIPs, includ­ing Alfred Hitch­cock, Sal­vador Dali, Grou­cho Marx, Carl Sand­burg and oth­ers.

Along sim­i­lar lines, it’s worth not­ing that YouTube now hosts a series of old-time tele­vi­sion shows. With­in this archive, you’ll find the com­plete episodes of The Lone Ranger, Bonan­za, You Bet Your Life, Burns and Allen, and Star Trek.

Relat­ed Con­tent:

Vin­tage Radio Archive: The Lone Ranger, Abbott & Costel­lo, and Bob Hope

Here Bill Moy­ers sits down with David Simon, exec­u­tive pro­duc­er of The Wire, the stun­ning HBO pro­duc­tion. As any­one who has watched the show knows, The Wire is not just a splen­did dra­ma. It is, as Simon has once called it, “a polit­i­cal tract mas­querad­ing as a cop show.” It takes a pen­e­trat­ing and aes­thet­i­cal­ly rich look at some of Amer­i­ca’s most vex­ing social issues. And it’s why Moy­ers says, “What Edward Gib­bon was to the decline and fall of the Roman Empire, or Charles Dick­ens to the smokey, mean streets of Vic­to­ri­an Lon­don, David Simon is to Amer­i­ca today.” To access this 40 minute inter­view, you can watch it on the web or on iTunes. You can also grab an audio mp3 here.

Final­ly, as a quick aside, the video below recaps The Wire’s 5 sea­sons in 5 min­utes. It hard­ly does the show jus­tice, but it gives you a quick feel for things. If you haven’t watched the show, do your­self a big favor and get your­self a Net­flix sub­scrip­tion and spend the new few months watch­ing it from begin­ning to end.

A light (and, for me, nos­tal­gic) way to ease into the week­end…

Over at Marvel.com, they’re stream­ing episodes from the orig­i­nal Spi­der-Man TV series that hit the air­waves back in 1967. A new episode will be post­ed every Thurs­day. Above, you’ll find Episode 1, and see where it all began.