Regarded by his contemporaries as one of television's premier
comedy creators, Nat Hiken was the driving creative force behind
the classic 1950s and 1960s series Sgt. Bilko and the hilarius Car
54, Where Are You?
King of the Half Hour, the first biography of Hiken, draws
extensively on exclusive first-hand interviews with some of the
well-known TV personalities who worked with him, such as Carol
Burnett, Fred Gwynne, Alan King, Al Lewis, and Herbert Ross. The
book focuses on Hiken's immense talent and remarkable career, from
his early days in radio as Fred Allen's head writer to his multiple
Emmy-winning years as writer-producer-director on television.
In addition to re-establishing Hiken's place in broadcast
history, biographer, David Everitt places him in the larger story
of early New York broadcasting. Hiken's career paralleled the rise
and fall of television's Golden Age. He embodied the era's best
qualities -- craftsmanship, a commitment to excellence and a
distinctive, uproariously funny and quirky sense of humor. At the
same time, his uncompromising independence prevented him from
surviving the changes in the industry that brought the Golden Age
to an end in the 1960s. His experiences bring a flesh and until now
unknown perspective to the medium's most extraordinary period.
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