Andrew Solt
Encyclopedia
Andrew Solt is a producer, director, writer and documentary filmmaker. He has done numerous television specials and series for both broadcast and cable television and also movies. Solt owns the rights to the The Ed Sullivan Show
library and has produced over 100 hours of new programming from the archive. A frequent focus of his documentaries is rock and roll
music, its history and star performers. Included are feature films about rock icons Elvis Presley
(This is Elvis
, 1981) and John Lennon
(Imagine: John Lennon
, 1988).
and spent his early years in South Africa
before moving to Los Angeles
in 1958. Solt graduated from Hollywood High School
before attending University of California, Los Angeles
where he received a B.A. in Spanish. He also earned a mastersdegree in broadcast journalism from U.C.L.A. Solt is married to Claudia Falkenburg. She is the daughter of 1948 Wimbledon
men’s singles tennis champion Bob Falkenburg and the niece of 1950s actress-model-TV personality Jinx Falkenburg. He and his wife have two children, Joshua and Dakota. Solt is the nephew of Hungarian-born screenwriter Andrew P. Solt (The Al Jolson Story, Joan of Arc, In a Lonely Place).
In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Solt worked on television projects with Jacques-Yves Cousteau
, the pioneer underwater explorer. He wrote and produced Oasis in Space (1976–77), a six-part half-hour series executive produced by Cousteau and his son Philippe
. Solt received the first of nine Emmy nominations for the show’s "Calypso's Search for Atlantis" episode. He also produced Cousteau Odyssey (1977–78), four one-hour specials about deep-sea explorations shot in the waters off Greece
. Movie and film review from Answers.com; and The Mississippi—Reluctant Ally. (1984) The two-hour documentary about the nation’s longest river won the 1985 Emmy for Outstanding Informational Special. The award was shared by Solt, Cousteau and his son, Jean-Michel Cousteau
.
In 1979 Solt teamed with producer/director Malcolm Leo on Heroes of Rock and Roll. One of the first comprehensive documentaries to be made about rock music, the two-hour television special was broadcast on ABC
. Time Magazine music critic Jay Cocks
called the show “a first-rate primer of rock history” and said the producers had paid “particular attention to getting the roots—in country and rhythm and blues—right.”
Solt again examined rock and roll in 1995 as executive producer of The History of Rock and Roll (Time-Life). The series, divided into 10 one-hour episodes for home video, was also syndicated and later shown on PBS
and cable. It chronologically documents rock music from its roots in the early 1950s to Nirvana
and U2
in the 1990s. Other music-themed Solt productions include 25 x 5: The Continuing Adventures of the Rolling Stones (1989) and Elvis: The Great Performances (1989).
’s daughter Elizabeth and her husband Bob Precht, paying between $5 and $10 million. The collection consists of 1,087 hours of kinescopes and videotapes broadcast by CBS on Sunday nights from 1948 to 1971. Solt bought the entirety of the one-hour shows believing he was “acquiring a priceless piece of Americana.”
Included are more than 10,000 live performances by virtually every popular entertainer of the post-war era. Best known are appearances by Elvis Presley and the Beatles that have become part of television and cultural history. Three Sullivan shows from the 1950s featured Presley. On the final one, he was only shown from the waist up because CBS censors viewed his pelvic gyrations as sexually suggestive. The American television debut of the Beatles on Feb. 9, 1964 attracted 73 million viewers. The Beatles also appeared the following two weeks and did a fourth Sullivan show on September 12, 1965.
Solt’s production company, SOFA Entertainment, catalogued, organized and cleared performance rights for the original shows. Over the years, they have been edited into various formats including network specials, half-hour series (airing on TV Land, PBS and VH1), and home video compilations. There are also video and audio downloads and an app on iTunes.
The first show produced by Solt, The Very Best of the Ed Sullivan Show, aired on CBS
Feb. 17, 1991, 20 years after the original series went off the air. The two-hour collection of highlights was the second highest-rated special of the year after the Academy Awards
and helped revive Sullivan’s reputation as one of the key figures from television’s golden age. “It was by almost any measure the last great TV show,” wrote New York Daily News television critic. David Hinckley, “one of our fondest, dearest pop culture memories.”
Following its success, Solt continued to mine the archive, producing sequel specials and thematically-organized broadcasts along with video and DVD releases such as Rock ‘n Roll Revolution, A Really Big Show: Ed Sullivan’s 50th Anniversary, Ed Sullivan’s Rock & Roll Classics, Great Moments in Opera, Rock 'n' Roll Forever, The Best of Broadway Musicals.
SOFA has brought out individual DVD sets of the Beatles and Elvis appearances: The Four Complete Ed Sullivan Shows Featuring the Beatles and Elvis—The Ed Sullivan Shows. Each consists of restored versions of the entire shows on which the Beatles and Elvis appeared, including all the other acts as well as commercials. The Ed Sullivan Show – The 4 Complete Shows Starring The Beatles was reissued in September 2010 with additional footage.
, Presley’s home. Janet Maslin
in a review for The New York Times said the film “offers dozens of memorable moments, some of them exciting, some sad, some bizarre.” This is Elvis was issued as a two-DVD set in 2007 to coincide with the 30th anniversary of Presley’s death, including both the original feature and a 1983 home-video version that has another extra 40 minutes of performance footage and more home movies. In 2007 the original theatrical version of the film was released on DVD by Warner Bros.
In 1982, Solt and Leo produced It Came from Hollywood
. The comic compilation of over 100 “golden turkey” movies features comedians Gilda Radner, Dan Aykroyd, John Candy and Cheech and Chong.
Imagine: John Lennon was released in 1988 by Warner Bros. The film, an intimate documentary about the most rebellious member of the Beatles was produced and directed by Solt and co-written with Sam Egan
. It spans Lennon’s life and career with an emphasis on Lennon’s post-Beatles years. The core of the film is based on some 240 hours of previously unseen film and video footage, most of it from an archive kept by Yoko Ono
, Lennon’s widow. She made the footage available and cooperated but agreed to play no role in creative decisions. The film is narrated by Lennon utilizing 100 hours of audio tape interviews including recollections he made in the weeks before his assassination in December 1980.
The film came out just after a negative biography by Albert Goldman
, The Lives of John Lennon, hit bookstores. Some critics viewed the movie as a deliberate effort to counter the sensationalistic book with a more positive view of Lennon. Solt denied this was the goal: “We were out to create a balanced portrait of John Lennon, not an idealized vision of ‘St. John of Liverpool.’ Our film leaves it to the audience to decide who the real John Lennon was.”
He won a Grammy in 2001 for Best Long-Form Music Video for producing and directing Gimme Some Truth – The Making of John Lennon’s Imagine Album, shared with Yoko Ono, Greg Vines and Leslie Tong.
MacMillan Publishing,1988.
http://www.amazon.com/Imagine-Lennon-written-foreword-preface/dp/B0026Q37UG/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1297370409&sr=1-3
Claudia Falkenburg and Andrew Solt, editors; text by John Leonard.
Viking Studio Books, 1992.
http://www.amazon.com/Really-Big-Show-Entertainment-1948-1971/dp/B000R9ZUOU/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1297370231&sr=8-2
The Ed Sullivan Show
The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948 to Sunday June 6, 1971, and was hosted by New York entertainment columnist Ed Sullivan....
library and has produced over 100 hours of new programming from the archive. A frequent focus of his documentaries is rock and roll
Rock and roll
Rock and roll is a genre of popular music that originated and evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s, primarily from a combination of African American blues, country, jazz, and gospel music...
music, its history and star performers. Included are feature films about rock icons Elvis Presley
Elvis Presley
Elvis Aaron Presley was one of the most popular American singers of the 20th century. A cultural icon, he is widely known by the single name Elvis. He is often referred to as the "King of Rock and Roll" or simply "the King"....
(This is Elvis
This Is Elvis
This Is Elvis is a 1981 documentary film directed by Andrew Solt and Malcolm Leo, based on the life of Elvis Presley. It combined archival footage with reenactments, and narration by pop singer Ral Donner. It was screened out of competition at the 1981 Cannes Film Festival...
, 1981) and John Lennon
John Lennon
John Winston Lennon, MBE was an English musician and singer-songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles, one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music...
(Imagine: John Lennon
Imagine: John Lennon
Imagine: John Lennon is a soundtrack album of popular music composed by John Lennon for the 1988 documentary film, Imagine: John Lennon...
, 1988).
Personal life
Solt was born in LondonLondon
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
and spent his early years in South Africa
South Africa
The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...
before moving to Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...
in 1958. Solt graduated from Hollywood High School
Hollywood High School
Hollywood High School is a Los Angeles Unified School District high school located at the intersection of North Highland Avenue and West Sunset Boulevard in the Hollywood district of Los Angeles, California.-History:...
before attending University of California, Los Angeles
University of California, Los Angeles
The University of California, Los Angeles is a public research university located in the Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, USA. It was founded in 1919 as the "Southern Branch" of the University of California and is the second oldest of the ten campuses...
where he received a B.A. in Spanish. He also earned a mastersdegree in broadcast journalism from U.C.L.A. Solt is married to Claudia Falkenburg. She is the daughter of 1948 Wimbledon
The Championships, Wimbledon
The Championships, Wimbledon, or simply Wimbledon , is the oldest tennis tournament in the world, considered by many to be the most prestigious. It has been held at the All England Club in Wimbledon, London since 1877. It is one of the four Grand Slam tennis tournaments, the other three Majors...
men’s singles tennis champion Bob Falkenburg and the niece of 1950s actress-model-TV personality Jinx Falkenburg. He and his wife have two children, Joshua and Dakota. Solt is the nephew of Hungarian-born screenwriter Andrew P. Solt (The Al Jolson Story, Joan of Arc, In a Lonely Place).
Career
In 1970, Solt began working at David Wolper’s production company. He worked on National Geographic and various other network specials (1972-74) while there, beginning a longer-term collaboration with the award-winning producer. Wolper executive-produced This is Elvis and Imagine: John Lennon. Solt speaking at the memorial service for Wolper, who died Aug. 10, 2010, described the many producers who cut their teeth there as having attended "Wolper U."In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Solt worked on television projects with Jacques-Yves Cousteau
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
Jacques-Yves Cousteau was a French naval officer, explorer, ecologist, filmmaker, innovator, scientist, photographer, author and researcher who studied the sea and all forms of life in water...
, the pioneer underwater explorer. He wrote and produced Oasis in Space (1976–77), a six-part half-hour series executive produced by Cousteau and his son Philippe
Philippe
Philippe may refer to:* Philip , a given name* Philippe's, a restaurant...
. Solt received the first of nine Emmy nominations for the show’s "Calypso's Search for Atlantis" episode. He also produced Cousteau Odyssey (1977–78), four one-hour specials about deep-sea explorations shot in the waters off Greece
Greece
Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....
. Movie and film review from Answers.com; and The Mississippi—Reluctant Ally. (1984) The two-hour documentary about the nation’s longest river won the 1985 Emmy for Outstanding Informational Special. The award was shared by Solt, Cousteau and his son, Jean-Michel Cousteau
Jean-Michel Cousteau
Jean-Michel Cousteau is a French explorer, environmentalist, educator, and film producer. The first son of ocean explorer Jacques Cousteau, he is the father of Fabien Cousteau and Celine Cousteau.-Biography:...
.
In 1979 Solt teamed with producer/director Malcolm Leo on Heroes of Rock and Roll. One of the first comprehensive documentaries to be made about rock music, the two-hour television special was broadcast on ABC
American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...
. Time Magazine music critic Jay Cocks
Jay Cocks
Jay Cocks is a film critic and motion picture screenwriter.He is a graduate of Kenyon College. He was a critic for Time, Newsweek, and Rolling Stone, among other magazines, before moving into film writing....
called the show “a first-rate primer of rock history” and said the producers had paid “particular attention to getting the roots—in country and rhythm and blues—right.”
Solt again examined rock and roll in 1995 as executive producer of The History of Rock and Roll (Time-Life). The series, divided into 10 one-hour episodes for home video, was also syndicated and later shown on PBS
Public Broadcasting Service
The Public Broadcasting Service is an American non-profit public broadcasting television network with 354 member TV stations in the United States which hold collective ownership. Its headquarters is in Arlington, Virginia....
and cable. It chronologically documents rock music from its roots in the early 1950s to Nirvana
Nirvana (band)
Nirvana was an American rock band that was formed by singer/guitarist Kurt Cobain and bassist Krist Novoselic in Aberdeen, Washington in 1987...
and U2
U2
U2 are an Irish rock band from Dublin. Formed in 1976, the group consists of Bono , The Edge , Adam Clayton , and Larry Mullen, Jr. . U2's early sound was rooted in post-punk but eventually grew to incorporate influences from many genres of popular music...
in the 1990s. Other music-themed Solt productions include 25 x 5: The Continuing Adventures of the Rolling Stones (1989) and Elvis: The Great Performances (1989).
Ed Sullivan Library
In 1990 Solt purchased the exclusive rights to the complete library of The Ed Sullivan Show from Ed SullivanEd Sullivan
Edward Vincent "Ed" Sullivan was an American entertainment writer and television host, best known as the presenter of the TV variety show The Ed Sullivan Show. The show was broadcast from 1948 to 1971 , which made it one of the longest-running variety shows in U.S...
’s daughter Elizabeth and her husband Bob Precht, paying between $5 and $10 million. The collection consists of 1,087 hours of kinescopes and videotapes broadcast by CBS on Sunday nights from 1948 to 1971. Solt bought the entirety of the one-hour shows believing he was “acquiring a priceless piece of Americana.”
Included are more than 10,000 live performances by virtually every popular entertainer of the post-war era. Best known are appearances by Elvis Presley and the Beatles that have become part of television and cultural history. Three Sullivan shows from the 1950s featured Presley. On the final one, he was only shown from the waist up because CBS censors viewed his pelvic gyrations as sexually suggestive. The American television debut of the Beatles on Feb. 9, 1964 attracted 73 million viewers. The Beatles also appeared the following two weeks and did a fourth Sullivan show on September 12, 1965.
Solt’s production company, SOFA Entertainment, catalogued, organized and cleared performance rights for the original shows. Over the years, they have been edited into various formats including network specials, half-hour series (airing on TV Land, PBS and VH1), and home video compilations. There are also video and audio downloads and an app on iTunes.
The first show produced by Solt, The Very Best of the Ed Sullivan Show, aired on CBS
CBS
CBS Broadcasting Inc. is a major US commercial broadcasting television network, which started as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System. The network is sometimes referred to as the "Eye Network" in reference to the shape of...
Feb. 17, 1991, 20 years after the original series went off the air. The two-hour collection of highlights was the second highest-rated special of the year after the Academy Awards
Academy Awards
An Academy Award, also known as an Oscar, is an accolade bestowed by the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors, and writers...
and helped revive Sullivan’s reputation as one of the key figures from television’s golden age. “It was by almost any measure the last great TV show,” wrote New York Daily News television critic. David Hinckley, “one of our fondest, dearest pop culture memories.”
Following its success, Solt continued to mine the archive, producing sequel specials and thematically-organized broadcasts along with video and DVD releases such as Rock ‘n Roll Revolution, A Really Big Show: Ed Sullivan’s 50th Anniversary, Ed Sullivan’s Rock & Roll Classics, Great Moments in Opera, Rock 'n' Roll Forever, The Best of Broadway Musicals.
SOFA has brought out individual DVD sets of the Beatles and Elvis appearances: The Four Complete Ed Sullivan Shows Featuring the Beatles and Elvis—The Ed Sullivan Shows. Each consists of restored versions of the entire shows on which the Beatles and Elvis appeared, including all the other acts as well as commercials. The Ed Sullivan Show – The 4 Complete Shows Starring The Beatles was reissued in September 2010 with additional footage.
Feature Films
This is Elvis, the first in-depth film biography of Presley, was produced, written and directed by Solt and directed by Leo. The documentary uses four actors to play Elvis at different ages, which drew some negative criticism, but also includes many live performances and rare home movie footage including the first public look inside GracelandGraceland
Graceland is a large white-columned mansion and estate that was home to Elvis Presley in Memphis, Tennessee. It is located at 3764 Elvis Presley Boulevard in the vast Whitehaven community about 9 miles from Downtown and less than four miles north of the Mississippi border. It currently serves as...
, Presley’s home. Janet Maslin
Janet Maslin
Janet Maslin is an American journalist, best known as a film and literary critic for The New York Times. She served as the Times film critic from 1977–1999.- Biography :...
in a review for The New York Times said the film “offers dozens of memorable moments, some of them exciting, some sad, some bizarre.” This is Elvis was issued as a two-DVD set in 2007 to coincide with the 30th anniversary of Presley’s death, including both the original feature and a 1983 home-video version that has another extra 40 minutes of performance footage and more home movies. In 2007 the original theatrical version of the film was released on DVD by Warner Bros.
In 1982, Solt and Leo produced It Came from Hollywood
It Came From Hollywood
It Came from Hollywood is a 1982 comedy film compiling clips from various B movies. Written by Dana Olsen and directed by Malcolm Leo and Andrew Solt, the film features wraparound segments and narration by several famous comedians, including Dan Aykroyd, John Candy, Gilda Radner, and Cheech and Chong...
. The comic compilation of over 100 “golden turkey” movies features comedians Gilda Radner, Dan Aykroyd, John Candy and Cheech and Chong.
Imagine: John Lennon was released in 1988 by Warner Bros. The film, an intimate documentary about the most rebellious member of the Beatles was produced and directed by Solt and co-written with Sam Egan
Sam Egan
Sam Egan is a journalist, and a writer/producer for television.His credits include writing and producing for such shows as: Quincy, M.E., The Incredible Hulk, The Fall Guy, Northern Exposure, The Outer Limits, Sanctuary and Jeremiah...
. It spans Lennon’s life and career with an emphasis on Lennon’s post-Beatles years. The core of the film is based on some 240 hours of previously unseen film and video footage, most of it from an archive kept by Yoko Ono
Yoko Ono
is a Japanese artist, musician, author and peace activist, known for her work in avant-garde art, music and filmmaking as well as her marriage to John Lennon...
, Lennon’s widow. She made the footage available and cooperated but agreed to play no role in creative decisions. The film is narrated by Lennon utilizing 100 hours of audio tape interviews including recollections he made in the weeks before his assassination in December 1980.
The film came out just after a negative biography by Albert Goldman
Albert Goldman
Albert Harry Goldman was an American professor and author.Born in Dormont, Pennsylvania, Albert Goldman wrote about the culture and personalities of the American music industry both in books and as a contributor to magazines...
, The Lives of John Lennon, hit bookstores. Some critics viewed the movie as a deliberate effort to counter the sensationalistic book with a more positive view of Lennon. Solt denied this was the goal: “We were out to create a balanced portrait of John Lennon, not an idealized vision of ‘St. John of Liverpool.’ Our film leaves it to the audience to decide who the real John Lennon was.”
Awards
Solt won an Emmy for The Mississippi -- Reluctant Ally sharing the Outstanding Informational Special award with Jacques-Yves Cousteau and Jean-Michel Cousteau.He won a Grammy in 2001 for Best Long-Form Music Video for producing and directing Gimme Some Truth – The Making of John Lennon’s Imagine Album, shared with Yoko Ono, Greg Vines and Leslie Tong.
Books
- John Lennon: Imagine.
MacMillan Publishing,1988.
http://www.amazon.com/Imagine-Lennon-written-foreword-preface/dp/B0026Q37UG/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1297370409&sr=1-3
- A Really Big Show: A Visual History of the Ed Sullivan Show.
Claudia Falkenburg and Andrew Solt, editors; text by John Leonard.
Viking Studio Books, 1992.
http://www.amazon.com/Really-Big-Show-Entertainment-1948-1971/dp/B000R9ZUOU/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1297370231&sr=8-2
Selected Credits
- The Explorers series, ABC, 1973
- 8 Wide World of Entertainment specials, ABC, 1975
- Oasis In Space – 6 Jacques Cousteau specials, PBS, 1976-77
- Cousteau Odyssey – 4 Jacques Cousteau specials, PBS, 1977-78
- Heroes of Rock ‘n Roll, ABC, 1979
- Bob Hope Special: Bob Hope’s Overseas Christmas Tours I & II (6 hours), NBC, 1980
- This Is Elvis, Warner Bros., 1981
- It Came From Hollywood, Paramount, 1982
- E.T. & Friends–Magical Movie Visitors, CBS, 1982
- Those Wonderful TV Game Shows, NBC, 1983
- Primetimes, 1983
- Donald Duck’s 50th Birthday, CBS, 1984
- Cousteau: Mississippi, Emmy winner, Turner 1985
- America Censored, CBS, 1985
- The Honeymooners Reunion, NBC, 1985
- The Muppets: A Celebration of 30 Years, CBS, 1986
- Great Moments in Disney Animation, ABC, 1986
- Disney’s Dtv Valentine (A.K.A. Romancin’), NBC, 1986
- Disney Goes To The Oscars (Academy Awards), ABC, 1986
- Great Moments In Disney Animation (Emmy nomination), ABC, 1987
- Disney’s Dtv Doggone Valentine, NBC, 1987
- Disney's DTV Monster Hits, NBC, 1987
- Remembering Marilyn (documentary), ABC, 1988
- Imagine: John Lennon, Warner Bros., 1988
- Learned Pigs & Fireproof Women, CBS, 1989
- 25 x 5: The Continuing Adventure of The Rolling Stones, Sony, 1989
- Elvis: The Great Performances, Buena Vista Home Video, 1990
- The Very Best of The Ed Sullivan Show, CBS, 1991
- Elvis: The Great Performances, CBS, 1992
- Holiday Greeting from The Ed Sullivan Show, CBS, 1992
- TV Guide: 40th Anniversary Special, FOX, 1993
- The Andy Griffith Show Reunion, CBS, 1993
- Sesame Street’s All-Star 25th Birthday: Star and Street Forever!, ABC, 1994
- The Best of Broadway Musicals from The Ed Sullivan Show, 1994
- Grammy’ s Greatest Moments, CBS, 1994
- All My Children’s 25th Anniversary, ABC, 1995
- The History of Rock ‘n Roll, Syndicated Series, 1995
- The Ed Sullivan All-Star Comedy Special, CBS, 1995
- The Hunt for Amazing Treasures, NBC, 1995
- Rock ‘n Roll Revolution: The British Invade America, CBS, 1997
- 50 Years of Television: A Celebration of the TV Academy Golden Anniversary, HBO, 1997
- Great Moments in Opera, PBS, 1997
- Elvis: From the Waist Up,VH1, 1997
- Rogues Gallery, TLC series, 1997
- Intimate Portrait- Mary Tyler Moore, 1998
- CBS: The First 50 Years, CBS, 1998
- A Really Big Show: Ed Sullivan’s 50th Anniversary, CBS, 1998
- Rock ‘n Roll Forever: Ed Sullivan’s Greatest Hits, CBS, 1999
- DJ Games (series), 2000
- Things That Go Bump: Facing Our Fears, 2000
- Ed Sullivan’s Rock ‘n Roll Classics, VH1 series, 1999–2001
- Gimme Some Truth: The Making of John Lennon’s Imagine, Grammy Winner, 2001
- Bellbottoms to Boogie Shoes: The 70's, 2001
- 50 Years of NBC Late Night, NBC, 2002
- NBC’s 75th Anniversary Special, NBC, 2002
- Las Vegas Then & Now, Destination: The Strip, 2002
- CBS 75th Anniversary Special, CBS, 2003
- The Complete Ed Sullivan Shows Featuring The Beatles, 2003
- "Smallville" Backstage Special, 2004
- Elvis: The Ed Sullivan Shows, 2006
- The Best of "The Temptations" on The Ed Sullivan Show, 2011
- Motown Gold from The Ed Sullivan Show, 2011
- The Best of "The Supremes" on The Ed Sullivan Show, 2011
- Ed Sullivan Presents: Rock 'N Roll Revolution, 2011
- Elvis: The Great Performances, 2011
- Four Ed Sullivan Shows Starring "The Rolling Stones", 2011