Daytime Television at the Smithsonian: Alex Trebek, Susan Lucci and Barney
The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History in Washington D.C. on Thursday May 9 2013, added artifacts from daytime television programming to it's national entertainment collection in a special ceremony to mark a new partnership with the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS). The donation from All My Children actress Susan Lucci, Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek and Barney creators Kathy and Phil Parker, represent three of the primary Daytime Entertainment Emmy categories: daytime dramas, game shows and children’s programming. The objects range from show scripts and original art to set props and other memorabilia, including a pink gown and shoes worn by Lucci when she appeared on a national magazine cover after winning her 1999 Daytime Emmy, a 1984 Jeopardy! script with handwritten notes by Trebek and a script from the first video to be released in the Barney & the Backyard Gang series along with a plush toy of the purple dinosaur. The ceremony officially launched a three-year collecting initiative by the museum in partnership with NATAS to help the museum expand its capacity to tell the story of daytime television and the Daytime Emmys.
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