Said media columnist Charles Mercer of the initial network broadcast, “The concept of Camera Three, as aptly expressed by its moderator James Macandrew, is that ‘television is more than an engineering miracle.’ In the past, it has revealed the artistic dimensions of the medium in multipart dramatizations of Moby Dick, The Red Badge of Courage and Crime and Punishment.
Pioneer African-American actress Paulene Myers performed a one-woman show incorporating famous addresses and quotations, including Ain't I a Woman?
[3] Noteworthy guests on the program included Buddy Guy, Son House, Alan Watts, Richard Burton, Melissa Hayden, Carlos Montoya, Agnes Moorehead, Ogden Nash, Nina Simone, Katherine Anne Porter, Christopher Plummer, and Thornton Wilder.
[2] During Clare Roskam's tenure as producer of the show, he did an episode that focused on the work of Salvador Dalí and purposely omitted an interview with the painter.
The attempt to adapt Isak Dinesen's Deluge at Norderney resulted in "a deadeningly talky" episode dismissed by WCBS-TV program director Dan Gallagher as "a real failure.