Written out of Television: A TV Lover's Guide to Cast Changes 1945-1994

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Every day millions of Americans invite familiar strangers into their living rooms by turning on their televisions. From the A-Team to Zorro, these guests are important daytime and prime-time presences. An actor written out of a series leaves a void on the screen which the audience anxiously waits to see filled. In this authoritative guide to fifty years of cast changes, Steven Lance has collected the fascinating stories behind character transitions in television series. Written Out of Television will tell you why actors were replaced, how their replacements were chosen, the difficulties of playing a character created by another actor, and how these switches were explained to the audience. Channel surfers and popular culture fans will find hundreds of new and intriguing television and motion picture facts in the nearly four hundred meticulously researched, quick-reading entries in Written Out of Television. This authoritative volume includes more than seventy photos and dozens of exclusive and never-before-published interviews with actors, actresses, writers, and producers.

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