14. The Generation Gap Widens, Even on TV
149 "While Tommy was talking": Ken Kragen. Interview with author, December 11, 2003.
149 "The first thing the show had to deal with": Mason Williams. Interview with author, March 2, 2000.
149 "We protected it with our lives": Ken Fritz. Interview with author, October 3, 2008.
150 "We ran through our own stuff very quickly": Dick Smothers. Interview with author, September 10, 2003.
150 "He was absolutely fucking brilliant": Allan Blye. Interview with author, July 18, 2001.
150 "Dickie is as good a straight man": Carl Reiner. Interview with author, August 14, 2003.
150 "Dick's very good": Tom Smothers. Interview with author, July 1, 1999.
150 "His insights and his ideas": Blye, Allan. Interview with author, July 18, 2001.
151 "When I wanted to get in": Dick Smothers. Interview with author, October 21, 2008.
151 "The Dickie solo": Dick Smothers. September 10, 2003.
151 "It's got to hurt his feelings": Tom Smothers. Interview with author, June 5, 2001.
151 "I wasn't really very important": Dick Smothers. Interview with author, September 10, 2003.
152 "Lots of times": Dick Smothers. Interview with author, October 21, 2008.
152 "And I think that stuff": Dick Smothers. Interview with author, September 10, 2003.
152 "Midway through the second season": Tom Smothers. Interview with author, June 5, 2001.
154 "We finally figured out": Saul Ilson. Interview with author, February 20, 2009.
155 "The doorbell rings": Stan Harris. Interview with author, April 19, 2001.
155 "I referred to it as": Ken Fritz. Interview with author, October 1, 2008.
155 "We got a lot of stuff by": Ken Kragen. Interview with author, December 11, 2003.
156 "Often Tommy would stick in sketches": Mike Dann. Interview with author, November 5, 1998.
156 Tom, trying to show off: original scripts, Appendix to Defendant's Memorandum, Smothers trial materials.
158 "They wouldn't let us touch that": Mason Williams. Interview with author, March 2, 2000.
158 "A lot more": Tom Smothers. Interview with author, June 5, 2001.
158 "I wrote a 'good night' once": Mason Williams. Interview with author, March 15, 2000.
163 "That was one notch more serious": Mason Williams. Interview with author, March 17, 200.