The TV Tidbits Classic Television Book of Lists

The TV Tidbits Classic Television Book of Lists
Author: Michael Karol
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2007-06
Genre:
ISBN: 9780595453931

ENJOY THESE UNIQUE LISTS, PACKED WITH TV TRIVIA AND TIDBITS ON SUCH TOPICS AS: TV REPLACEMENTS * All-TIME FEMALE SITCOM EPISODE CHAMPS * STATUES HONORING CLASSIC TV * MOST REGULAR ROLES IN PRIME TIME * TV'S TOP MOMENTS * THE LONGEST-RUNNING SHOWS * STAR TREK MEMORIES * IT SEEMED LIKE A GOOD IDEA AT THE TIME * LIVE-ACTION SHOWS THAT WERE ANIMATED * SUPERMAN AND LOIS ON TV * EMMY ESSENTIALS * AND MORE!

The Lucy Book of Lists

The Lucy Book of Lists
Author: Michael Karol
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2010-12-28
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1450274161

Best-selling author Michael Karol (Lucy A to Z: The Lucille Ball Encyclopedia) is at it again, with a book of lists honoring Lucy’s 100th birthday and the 60th anniversary of I Love Lucy — both of which occur in 2011! Chapter titles include Headline News, Lucy by the Numbers, The Lucy Show Mystery, Mam’selle Mame, and many more...with an exclusive list by Lucille Ball’s and Desi Arnaz’s good friend, comedian Kaye Ballard (The Mothers-In-Law). You’ll laugh, learn and love this unique peek into the Lucyverse.

The ABC Movie of the Week Companion

The ABC Movie of the Week Companion
Author: Michael Karol
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 213
Release: 2008
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1605280232

Movies made for television were in their infancy when ABC came up with a novel idea: a weekly series of films made exclusively for the small screen. The ABC Movie of the Week became a great success and a cultural touchstone for a generation of Americans. In this loving tribute to the classic series of TV films, more than two hundred films in the series are reviewed, including well-remembered titles such as Duel, Tribes, The Six Million Dollar Man, Go Ask Alice, Brian's Song, The Night Stalker, Bad Ronald, Starsky and Hutch, Trilogy of Terror, That Certain Summer, and Killdozer. In addition, choice bits of trivia about the actors and films and exclusive pictures are sprinkled throughout the book. So bit back, relax, and return to a time when the counterculture was in full swing and you could tune in every week for one or more original films made just for you.

KISS KILL

KISS KILL
Author: Michael Karol
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2009-11-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1440184194

Ray Abreu just met his forever guy: a handsome New York detective who's a cool, hot piece of man candy. But someone — or something — else is after Ray, and he’s not used to losing. He's killer. And he'll redefine the meaning of forever.

TV (The Book)

TV (The Book)
Author: Alan Sepinwall
Publisher: Hachette+ORM
Total Pages: 456
Release: 2016-06-28
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1455588202

Is The Wire better than Breaking Bad? Is Cheers better than Seinfeld? What's the best high school show ever made? Why did Moonlighting really fall apart? Was the Arrested Development Netflix season brilliant or terrible? For twenty years-since they shared a TV column at Tony Soprano's hometown newspaper-critics Alan Sepinwall and Matt Zoller Seitz have been debating these questions and many more, but it all ultimately boils down to this: What's the greatest TV show ever? That debate reaches an epic conclusion in TV (THE BOOK). Sepinwall and Seitz have identified and ranked the 100 greatest scripted shows in American TV history. Using a complex, obsessively all-encompassing scoring system, they've created a Pantheon of top TV shows, each accompanied by essays delving into what made these shows great. From vintage classics like The Twilight Zone and I Love Lucy to modern masterpieces like Mad Men and Friday Night Lights, from huge hits like All in the Family and ER to short-lived favorites like Firefly and Freaks and Geeks, TV (THE BOOK) will bring the triumphs of the small screen together in one amazing compendium. Sepinwall and Seitz's argument has ended. Now it's time for yours to begin!

Unofficial Doctor Who

Unofficial Doctor Who
Author: Cameron K. McEwan
Publisher:
Total Pages: 259
Release: 2015-04-06
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1631060422

Unofficial Doctor Who covers the past fifty years of Doctor Who, including doppelgangers, regenerations, Gallifrey adventures, highest-rated episodes, behind-the-scenes info, and loads more.

Do You Remember TV?

Do You Remember TV?
Author: Michael Gitter
Publisher:
Total Pages: 150
Release: 1999-04
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN:

You will never forget the Brady Bunch double episode in Hawaii. But do you remember Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway? Can you recite the Oscar Mayer Wiener jingle or win at Name That Tune? Have you seen every Love Boat episode with Charo in it? Take a Technicolor journey back to the days when cable and satellite were science fiction and the boob tube had three channels that signed off at 1:00 am to the national anthem. Do You Remember TV? resuscitates the most vivid moments of our couch-potato youth with 144 pages crammed full of television tidbits from the late '50s, '60s, '70s, and early '80s. From Good morning, angels to Good night, John Boy, from the Oscar Night streaker to Oo! Oo! Mr. Kotter! this tiny tribute to the great days of TV brings back the favorite moments that are forever lodged in our collective TV unconscious.

Tinker in Television

Tinker in Television
Author: Grant Tinker
Publisher:
Total Pages: 288
Release: 1994
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

The quintessential insider's account of network television, from the man who founded the industry's most successful independent production company, MTM Enterprises, then rescued a struggling NBC. Leaving an indelible imprint on American TV, Tinker's triumphs, including The Mary Tyler Moore Show, proved that profitability need not preclude quality programming. Photos.

Syndicated Television

Syndicated Television
Author: Hal Erickson
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 433
Release: 2024-10-09
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1476613818

Here is an excellent reference book on "first run" syndication--the distribution of programs either made exclusively for non-network play, or of programs intended for network telecasts but ultimately making their debuts in syndication. Bringing together information not easily found, this work covers the classics such as Sea Hunt, Highway Patrol, The Merv Griffin Show and the Muppet Show, as well as such once-popular but now obscure productions as China Smith, Ripcord and The Littlest Hobo. Coverage goes back to 1947 and the book includes a number of series ignored in other works. The first section is an overview of the concept of syndication from its earliest application in the newspaper world to the attempt by Fox Television to become a fourth network. The next four sections each cover ten years of syndication, listing the shows (with full background--who produced them and why, who liked them and why, etc.) alphabetically by title under the following genres: Adventure/Mystery, Children's, Comedy, Drama, Game/Quiz, Informational, Music/Variety, Religious, Sports, Talk/Interview, Travel/Documentary, Westerns, and Women's.

Bad TV

Bad TV
Author: Craig Nelson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 364
Release: 1995
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN:

The ultimate in the genre of funny TV nostalgia books, Bad TV celebrates the amazingly bad shows that have made it onto TV--from My Mother, the Car and Pink Lady & Jeff to Manimal and Cop Rock--and into our psyches, and hands out awards to the bad classics in every category. 45 photos.