{"id":229,"date":"2016-06-03T13:53:37","date_gmt":"2016-06-03T18:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tvcrit.com\/sitcom\/?p=229"},"modified":"2016-06-03T13:54:47","modified_gmt":"2016-06-03T18:54:47","slug":"interview-with-the-creators-of-the-first-us-tv-sitcom-mary-kay-and-johnny-stearns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tvcrit.com\/sitcom\/2016\/06\/03\/interview-with-the-creators-of-the-first-us-tv-sitcom-mary-kay-and-johnny-stearns\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview with the Creators of the First US TV Sitcom: Mary Kay and Johnny Stearns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Archive of American Television conducted an interview in 1999 with Mary Kay and Johnny Stearns&#8211;the creators, writers, and stars of the first US network-TV sitcom,\u00a0<em>Mary Kay and Johnny<\/em>. The 15-minute weekly show debuted on November 18, 1947.<\/p>\n<p>The interview is described here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.emmytvlegends.org\/interviews\/people\/johnny-stearns\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.emmytvlegends.org\/interviews\/people\/johnny-stearns<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And the first video in the series is on YouTube here:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Mary Kay and Johnny Stearns Interview Part 1 of 4 - EMMYTVLEGENDS.ORG\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qSTeLtJs42w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Archive of American Television conducted an interview in 1999 with Mary Kay and Johnny Stearns&#8211;the creators, writers, and stars of the first US network-TV sitcom,\u00a0Mary Kay and Johnny. The 15-minute weekly show debuted on November 18, 1947. The interview<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tvcrit.com\/sitcom\/2016\/06\/03\/interview-with-the-creators-of-the-first-us-tv-sitcom-mary-kay-and-johnny-stearns\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,10,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-actors","category-creative","category-production","category-sitcoms","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tvcrit.com\/sitcom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tvcrit.com\/sitcom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tvcrit.com\/sitcom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tvcrit.com\/sitcom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tvcrit.com\/sitcom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tvcrit.com\/sitcom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":231,"href":"https:\/\/tvcrit.com\/sitcom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions\/231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tvcrit.com\/sitcom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tvcrit.com\/sitcom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tvcrit.com\/sitcom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}