Prime Time, Prime Movers: From I Love Lucy to L.A. Law--America's Greatest TV Shows and the People Who Created Them
(Part of the Television and Popular Culture Series)
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Book Overview
This is a guide to the most important creators of big-time TV over the past 45 years. For dominant performers like Jackie Gleason and Carol Burnett to powerhouse producers like Norman Lear and Stephen Bocho, the book reviews the style, story and impact makers of prime-time TV and their influence on the largest industry of all the mass media. Covering the old-time variety shows and sit-coms, the book's cast of characters includes Milton Berle, Jack Webb and Red Skelton.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0316545899
ISBN13:9780316545891
Release Date:January 1992
Publisher:Little Brown and Company
Length:336 Pages
Weight:1.65 lbs.
Dimensions:1.2" x 6.5" x 9.5"
Customer Reviews
2 ratings
Excellent Second-Hand History Source of TV Producers
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 17 years ago
This is an excellent second-hand source for media history about several big-name TV producers. I bought it to obtain an overview of Roy Huggins' career in television and this helpful text provided a lot of insight on Huggins as well as other big-name TV producers from the past. If you are into media history from the 1950s to the 1980s, then the chapters on Huggins as well as Glen A. Larson and Michael "Miami Vice" Mann should fascinate and inform you.
Simply marvelous! Now I understand why I loved I love Lucy.
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 27 years ago
It was like remembering my childhood all over again. If Robert Thompson could only explain the love for the Three Stooges
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