Saudek's Harvard College roommate for all four years was James Agee, who wrote A Lincoln Portrait and other Omnibus scripts.
Among the artists appearing were Leonard Bernstein (seven shows), John F. Kennedy, Joseph Welch, Paul Robeson, James Dean, Orson Welles, Marion Anderson, Sugar Ray Robinson, Mickey Mantle, Frank Lloyd Wright, Nichols and May, Gene Kelly, Glen Gould, Igor Stravinsky and Agnes DeMille.
[3] The Road to the Wall, which Saudek produced for the United States Army's television show The Big Picture, was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.
[4] He served on the Carnegie Commission, which worked to establish both PBS and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
Saudek founded the Museum of Broadcasting (now known as the Paley Center for Media) and later headed the Library of Congress's motion picture division.