Total Television: The Comprehensive Guide to Programming from 1948 to the Present

Alex McNeil

Penguin Group USA, 1996 - Performing Arts - 1251 pages

More than 5,400 daytime and prime-time series on the three major networks, plus Fox, UPN, WB, NET/PBS, DuMont, and syndicated shows Prime-time fall schedules for every season More than 1000 noteworthy specials More cable series than ever Nielsen's Top Twenty, season by season Emmy and Peabody Award winners Program descriptions, including running dates, producers, directors, casts of characters, and other essential information Index of more than 19,000 TV personalities, on and off the screen And much more

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Review: Total Television: A Comprehensive Guide to Programming from 1948 to the Present

User Review  - Kirk - Goodreads

Well. 'TOTALLY' got to say it: This singular book CHANGED MY LIFE. Got it at a book sale in local mall when maybe in my early teens. I was ALWAYS very much into television and this opus MIGHT be why ...

Review: Total Television: A Comprehensive Guide to Programming from 1948 to the Present

User Review  - Paul - Goodreads

It's as big as the industry. Every show is documented in this encyclopedia. CPO Sharkey, eat your heart out.

Contents

• ON AND OFFa look at 5400 series from: 28
• PRIME TIMESthe networks primetime fall 987: 815
• THE HIT PARADEtoprated series from 1949 1141: 856

Bibliographic information

• Title: Total Television: The Comprehensive Guide to Programming from 1948 to the Present; A Penguin book; TOTAL TELEVISION
• Author: Alex McNeil
• Edition: 4, revised
• Publisher: Penguin Group USA, 1996
• Original from: the University of Michigan
• Digitized: May 20, 2008
• ISBN: 0140249168, 9780140249163
• Length: 1251 pages
• Subjects: Performing Arts / Television / Guides & Reviews