Morash's many educational television programs including The French Chef, The Victory Garden, This Old House, and The New Yankee Workshop, were produced through WGBH and aired on PBS.

[4] In 1961, as a cameraman, Morash met Julia Child when she appeared on a WGBH program called I've Been Reading, while promoting her cookbook Mastering the Art of French Cooking.

[6] Morash's theater-inspired directorial style and the technology of the day, required that the staff and host—all collected in a makeshift studio cobbled together with equipment that had escaped a massive station fire in the case of The French Chef—would shoot each episode in one take.

Morash himself had stated that he emulated the organic behavior of the human eye rather than use abstract "conventional television techniques," the former which gave the viewer the realist perception that they were in the scene of the action themselves.

[2] On June 20, 2024, WGBH announced that Russell, leaving behind a legacy as the founding "commanding father" of the how-to genre of educational television, had died.