Equipment Quote by Thomas Dolby

I started working in the mid-to-late Seventies, when television was not what it is now.

— Kevin Bacon

I did a lot of ridiculous television. Between 1980 and '85 I had no confidence, so I did everything I was told to do.

— Dana Carvey

In the late '70s, maybe just before I started, there was still an attitude that if you did film you didn't do TV and…

— Robert Carlyle

I tended to do a lot of shows that were ahead of their time and didn't run very long.

— Brent Spiner

I think one of the reasons I'm successful as a musician is that the first like 30 shows I played, I played with no…

— Grimes

If I'd been doing the cabaret circuit or the club circuit or the Saturday night telly that was around in the 80s, I wouldn't…

— Les Dennis

Even when I started in 1970, I knew that television was having a negative effect on our society.

— Ted Turner

Television is much better crafted today then in the 70s. The content is less positive but I'm one of those that feel our entertainment…

— Christopher Knight

I call the '70s the "golden age of television"; in the early '70s there were sensationally good shows.

— Whit Stillman

I grew up in the world of bad television, on my dad's sets and then as a young schmuck on dating shows and so…

— George Clooney

Live television is always stressful and the more you do it, the more you realise what can go wrong.

— Alan Hansen

My perspective was always being on a number one show doesn't mean anything if I'm not still working consistently at 40 to 50 and 60 years old.

— Malcolm-Jamal Warner