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

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If you're a fan or student of American TV, you must have this book, which provides descriptions of 5,400 series and their major participants from 1948 to 1995. The information is presented in alphabetical order in entries up to several pages long. Special broadcasts are also listed chronologically in an appendix. Thankfully, the index is comprehensive, so you can easily trace the mayfly-like flitting of stars, personalities, and lesser deities from show to show. And, I don't usually say this, but it's really a heck of a bargain.


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There are other guides to television, but nothing so vast, so thick, so comprehensive as this one.


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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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