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TO SNIPER KILLINGS


As a theater-obsessed middle school kid in
Santa Monica, Calif., Alexis Soloski
watched a 1991 recording of PBS’s “Ameri-
can Playhouse” broadcast of “Into the
Woods” so many times that her VHS tape
became nearly unplayable.
So when Lorne Manly, a senior editor on
The New York Times’s Culture desk, asked
her to interview a fellow theater lover,
Holland Taylor, as part of an article listing
50 reasons that fans cherish PBS for the
network’s 50th anniversary this month,
she hesitated exactly zero seconds.
“I was definitely a PBS kid,” Ms. Soloski,
a freelance culture writer, said. She loved
“Great Performances” and was a devoted
viewer of “Mystery!” though only its ani-
mated opening sequence. “I’d stay up and
watch the Edward Gorey cartoon before
anyone got murdered or anything scary
happened — it was the most fascinating,
elegant thing I’d ever seen.”
The list of 50 reasons, a who’s who of
beloved PBS shows that published recently
online and appears in print in this week-
end’s Arts & Leisure section, was compiled
with emotional connections like that in
mind. The article is part of a package on
PBS that touches on its past and future.
Jeremy Egner, the television editor for
The Times, said the Culture desk began
discussing how to commemorate the mile-
stone in April. “It seemed like a good op-
portunity to take a step back and look at
the impact PBS has had on TV, and cer-
tainly on American cultural life,” he said.
Mr. Manly, who edited the list and over-
saw the package, said the idea grew out of
a meeting among several Culture editors in
July. “We were interested in this idea of a
family tree,” he said. “That became the
concept of 50 programs over 50 years.”
Mr. Manly asked nearly two dozen writ-
ers inside and outside The Times to iden-
tify and reflect on their memories of the
system’s most iconic programs. He also
recruited notable names, like the cook

Rachael Ray and the Grammy-winning
singer Gary Clark Jr., to share reminis-
cences about programs that changed their
lives. “We tried to include shows from
every era to capture the impact on differ-
ent generations,” Mr. Manly said.
He and other editors emailed a Google
Doc to writers to collect ideas, which gen-
erated around 80 shows. Mr. Egner and
Meeta Agrawal, The Times’s Arts &
Leisure editor, helped to narrow them
down, and then Mr. Manly chose the final
50 based on writer interest and the desire
to represent different eras and genres.
(“There were no fisticuffs,” Mr. Egner
said.) Many writers had personal connec-
tions to the programs they wrote about.
“When someone has had a formative expe-
rience with a show, that makes for really
engaging writing,” Mr. Manly said.
But Mr. Manly would like to be clear:
This is not a case of one man determining
the 50 best shows. “It’s definitely not sup-
posed to be a ranking,” he said. He added
that he sought out programs that were well
known, of course, such as “Mister Rogers’
Neighborhood” and Ken Burns’s documen-
taries. But, he said, “we also wanted to
introduce some surprises in there.”
This is hardly the first list Mr. Manly
has edited, and he said he had learned that
it is better to represent a wide range of
programs than to try to be definitive. “I
haven’t seen anyone yet who’s outraged
that we left something out,” he said.
Much has changed since PBS broadcast
its first program, an episode of “The
French Chef,” on Oct. 4, 1970. But the origi-
nal mission remains the same: education.
“PBS created TV as we know it,”
Mr. Egner said. “They dealt with issues
like censorship, funding and political prior-
ities while airing some really formative
programming. Now the challenge is to
figure out how to survive and thrive over
the next 50 years.”

Inside The Times


THE STORY BEHIND THE STORY

One of the Culture desk’s 50 reasons why PBS is treasured: “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood.”

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A Beautiful Day to Ponder a List


By SARAH BAHR

The list and other articles on PBS are in this
weekend’s Arts & Leisure section.

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