Television is a unique medium in that both its dramas and its comedies have the ability to tell their stories over real time, with characters developing over years rather than just the two hours allowed in a movie or the few hundred pages of a book. Despite this, very few authors have attempted to look at television from this vantage point. Prime-Time Television provides an essential resource for anyone interested in the history of television. The focus here is on programming: the shows, the producers, the genres, the trends, and the influences. Everyone interested in the questions of why the programs look the way they do, why they're scheduled as they are, why some shows air while others are cancelled, and what has shaped and influenced the shows we see, will want this book.
The chapters are organized chronologically, beginning with an examination of radio's influence on early television, and cover all major developments―technological, aesthetic, and to some extent cultural―in the medium. Concise sidebars cover more concise topics, such as the quiz show scandals, and the introduction of the three-camera filmed sitcom with I Love Lucy, a model that has remained the standard for over 50 years.

Prime-Time Television: A Concise History

Humor & Entertainment

MOORE, BARBARA

Bensman, Marvin R.

Dyke, Jim Van

Television

Praeger

While vacationing at Vail, Colorado, young veterinarian Gordon Christy and his faithful canine companion, Gala, discover a corpse guarded by a Doberman and find themselves involved in a case of double murder

The doberman wore black

St.Martin's Press

Gordon Christy travels with his faithful Doberman to a Navajo reservation to help track down a vicious killer wolf and finds himself involved with stolen Hopi idols, supernatural happenings, and murder

The Wolf Whispered Death

Literature & Fiction

United States

St Martins Pr

Hard on the Road

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

DOUBLEDAY

A black-and-white sheep dog and two red mules journey from Arizona to Colorado to rejoin their master, enduring exhaustion, hunger, thirst, and other dangers of travel through the untamed West of the 1880s

Something on the Wind

A behind-the-scenes look at the National Gallery of Art including its private spaces, workshops, offices, and labs where visitors rarely enter.

The Nine-Ton Cat and Other True Tales of an Art Museum

Children's Books

Thomson, Peggy

Arts, Music & Photography

Houghton, mifflin, harcourt

It's never an ordinary day for art. Hanging on the wall of a large museum like the National Gallery in Washington, a painting cannot know what to expect. One day you might be a famous portrait by Leonardo da Vinci, comfortable in a glass case with admirers all around, and the next you might be carted away for a bath. In a museum, the staff is busy night and day. Guards patrol around the clock to make sure that each work of art is safely in its place. During the day, staff members study works of art, move them from one place to another, and plan shows of paintings and sculpture from around the world. The Nine-Ton Cat takes you along on a day's journey inside the National Gallery, from dawn to dusk, revealing everything from why a museum needs eight hundred keys to how to hoist a nine-ton cat.

The Nine-Ton Cat Behind the Scenes at an Art Museum

Arts & Photography

The Doberman Wore Black

Dell Pub. Co.]

Gordon Christy travels with his faithful Doberman to a Navajo reservation to help track down a vicious killer wolf and find himself involved with stolen Hopi idols, supernatural happenings, and murder

The Wolf Whispered Death (A Gordon Christy, D.V.M. Mystery)

Dell

Fever Called Living

Manor Books

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