He’s been gone a long time, but one of television’s most original talents is having a renaissance month
and her husband after Kovacs, Martin Mills, runs the Kovacs estate when not handling duties for his It’s Alive! Media & Management firm. His mother was instrumental in rescuing tons of Kovacs materials that would otherwise have been destroyed.After his death in 1962, Adams bought all existing Kovacs materials, including the masters that the television networks were planning to destroy because of the cost of storage.
Not everyone knows the massive Kovacs legacy. He was on four TV networks, had a radio show, and was on mornings, afternoon, evenings, and late night. Still, it’s been a long time since he was in the public eye, and even institutions devoted to television don’t get it. One such academy has a statue of Kovacs outside its office, yet turned down the opportunity to work with the estate on a 100th anniversary tribute.
Despite the estate and Edie Adams’s efforts, there remains some Kovacs material that’s still missing.or the Dumont Network shows from the early 1950s, and are always hoping someone will discover them in a barn or an attic,” Mills said. “But likely the Dumont stuff is gone forever – dumped in the bottom of the Hudson River by a penny pinching network exec who said, “I know what to do with them.”Things still turn up.
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