About This Stamp
With these stamps, the U.S. Postal Service commemorates 20 great shows from TV’s golden age. For more than half a century, Americans have turned to television for entertainment and information. To those watching in its early days, TV offered the additional excitement of the new. Whether laughing at the first situation comedies, tingling at crime dramas, or identifying with ordinary people who had their day in the spotlight on game shows, audiences were charmed by the novelty of the young medium. Today, memories from television’s “childhood” — often especially vivid — are a pure pleasure.
Art director Carl Herrman designed the stamps and worked with twenty2product, a San Francisco-based studio, to give the archival photos used in the stamp art a suitably “retro” look.
Howdy Doody Photo by: NBC Universal Photo Bank. THE RED SKELTON SHOW © CBS Broadcasting Inc. I LOVE LUCY TM/® & © 2007 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. Image of Lucille Ball used with the permission of Desilu, too, LLC. Unforgettable Licensing. Texaco Star Theater Photo by: NBC Universal Photo Bank. You Bet Your Life Photo by: NBC Universal Photo Bank. Groucho Marx™ Groucho Marx Productions, Inc., Los Angeles, CA. Hopalong Cassidy is a registered trademark of U.S. Television Office, Inc. LASSIE TM & © Classic Media, Inc., an Ent. Rights co. Dragnet is a trademark and copyright of Universal Studios. Licensed by Universal Studios Licensing LLLP. All rights reserved. THE PHIL SILVERS SHOW © CBS Broadcasting Inc. KUKLA FRAN & OLLIE is a trademark used under license. © 2009 EML Library Partnership. All rights reserved. “The Ed Sullivan Show”® is a registered trademark of SOFA Entertainment, Inc. All rights reserved. Image of Ed Sullivan used with the permission of Sullmark Corp. The Dinah Shore Show licensed by the Dinah Shore Living Trust, Beverly Hills, California and Jaffe Partners Limited Partnership, Beverly Hills, California. Alfred Hitchcock and the Hitchcock likeness are trademarks and copyrights of The Hitchcock Trust. PERRY MASON used with permission. THE LONE RANGER TM & © Classic Media, Inc., an Ent. Rights co. THE HONEYMOONERS is a trademark used under license. © 2008 jaglea VIP Corp. All Rights Reserved. Unforgettable Licensing. THE HONEYMOONERS © CBS Broadcasting Inc. THE TWILIGHT ZONE © 2007 CBS Broadcasting Inc. The Tonight Show Photo by: NBC Universal Photo Bank. The rights to the Steve Allen name and likeness is licensed by Meadowlane Enterprises. The rights to Ozzie and Harriet name and likeness is co-owned by David Nelson and the Rick Nelson LLC.
Stamp Art Director, Stamp Designer
Carl T. Herrman
As an art director for the U.S. Postal Service® for more than 15 years, Carl T. Herrman designed more than 50 stamps and guided more than 250 stamp projects, including Marilyn Monroe, James Dean, Humphrey Bogart, and Comic Strip Classics. He also served as art director for five of the Celebrate the Century stamp panes. He has won more than 260 awards for design and design management, including two gold medals from the Society of Illustrators.
Herrman’s career has included positions as Director of Creative Services and adjunct professor at the University of North Florida in Jacksonville, and Director of Marketing and Publications for the University of California at Irvine. He has provided consulting services for the Smithsonian Institution, the National Trust for Historic Preservation, and numerous academic institutions. Herrman lives in Carlsbad,California.