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Detroit Television (Images of America) (Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)) ReviewLooks like something for the library along with Dick Osgood's Wyxie Wonderland, but I'm not fond of the photo caption identifying my talented and elegant father, WXYZ's program director, as "John Lee, who executed Pivall's ideas," because my father had a lot of ideas of his own. You make him sound like some kind of bag man or yes-man.
Dad left Detroit and by 1961 was in L.A. as unit director on some of ABC-TV's most popular comedy series as well as serving on ABC's Standards and Practices Board. He had come from directing avant-garde legit theatre-in-the-round in Detroit, was the son of a Toronto-born Shakespearean actor, as well as graduate of the Jesuits' Univ. of Detroit, interrupted for two years by the university of WWI's Asia-Pacific campaign with the 312 Bomb Group, A.F., winning one silver star and three bronze among other medals for his work in cryptography on advance missions in the Pacific before returning to Detroit to get in on the ground floor of television. He also spent time working on the ground-breaking "Today" program out of Philadelphia.
He was on his paternal grandfather's side a Powell and more than once he was mistaken for the debonair actor William Powell on the street--the resemblance in both expression and voice was striking. He made a strong impression on people who worked with him on the West Coast. I went back to work a few days after his funeral in August 1968 and the Hollywood producer Selig Seligman of Selmur Productions stopped me in the lobby of ABC's Fountain Street offices and said, "Are you John Lee's daughter? Your dad was the only real gentleman I ever met in this entire business."
This was not a man who merely executed some other guy's ideas. He was the first one to invite Soupy Sales to come on board with a children's program, intitated Wixi Wonderland and oversaw Auntie Dee, the variety show.
He also was the only person to direct Eleanor Roosevelt for live television, in a pilot he conceived and wrote, called, "As Others See Us,' in which Mrs. Roosevelt chaired a weekly panel of foreign correspondents who would review the week's events from an international perspective, a la Meet the Press. It's still a damn good idea that nobody yet has dared to put on air. Just think of the television we lost when his pilot wasn't picked up.
Thanks for listening,
Dinah Lee Kung
[...]Detroit Television (Images of America) (Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)) OverviewDetroit broadcasting history is rich with character . . . and characters. It began atop the Penobscot Building on October 23, 1946, when WWDT shot a signal to the convention center, part of a "New Postwar Products Exposition." WWJ-TV offered scheduled programming in June 1947, and WXYZ-TV and WJBK-TV jumped in a year later. The medium has influenced the city's personality and social agenda ever since. Soupy Sales turned getting a pie in the face into an art form. Mort Neff celebrated the state's outdoor charms. George Pierrot showed Detroiters the world. Other beloved personalities include: Milky the Clown, Ed McKenzie, Sonny Eliot, John Kelly, Marilyn Turner, Robin Seymour, Bill Bonds, Dick Westerkamp, Jingles, Bill Kennedy, Lou Gordon, Captain Jolly, Johnny Ginger, Auntie Dee, and many more.

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