Before The Mike Wallace Interview was televised nationally on prime-time in 1957, Wallace had risen to prominence a year earlier with Night-Beat, a television interview program that aired in New York City.On November 4, 2007, the School of Information at the University of Texas at Austin hosted online 65 of the interviews from 1957 to 1958.Sixty of the interviews in the Ransom Center's collection are kinescopes, 16mm recordings of the television programs made by filming the picture from a video monitor, with the remaining five on audio tape.The interviews hosted by The Ransom Center Collection include:[1] In December 1957, ABC Film Syndication acquired 26 episodes of the series to distribute in Canada and Great Britain.The company also planned to dub those episodes in French, German, and Spanish for distribution in other countries.