Television Studies

This has a chapter on the rise and fall of television westerns.

A carefully curated collection of the surviving transcripts of the Beatles' appearances on BBC Radio and Television from 1962 to 1970, featuring commentary from author and Beatles expert Kevin Howlett and rare photographs and memorabilia from the BBC.

This book has a chapter on crimes shows of the 1960's.

Throughout its history, British television has found a place, if only in its margins, for programmes that consciously worked to expand the boundaries of television aesthetics. Even in the present climate of increased academic interest in television history, its experimental tradition has generally either been approached generically or been lost within the assumption that television is simply a mass medium. Experimental British Television uncovers the history of experimental television, bringing back forgotten programmes in addition to looking at relatively more privileged artists or programme strands from fresh perspectives. ...

Housework and Gender in American Television: Coming Clean examines representations of housework and their relationships with gender in sixty of the most popular television shows of the 1950s through the 1980s, searching for trends, similarities, inconsistencies, and meaning.

Eccentric, ironic and fantastic series like The Avengers and Danger Man, with their professional secret agents, or The Saint and The Persuaders, featuring flamboyant crime-fighters, still inspire mainstream and cult followings. Saints and Avengers explores and celebrates this television genre for the first time. ...

Scenes from the City: Filmmaking in New York is a celebration of the rise of New York-shot films, particularly after the Mayor's Office of Film, Theatre and Broadcasting was formed in 1966.

Spyscreen is a genre study of English-language spy fiction film and television between the 1930s and 1960s. Taking as his focus many well-known films and television series, Toby Miller uses a wide range of critical approaches - from textual interpretation, audience studies, and cultural history, through auteurism, imperial history, class, and governmentality, to genre, cultural imperialism, and gender. ...

This book profiles characters who were featured in some of the most popular television shows of the 1960s.

Tales of Robin Hood and his band of Merry Men, who fought the forces of the evil Prince John, his local official the Sheriff of Nottingham and any aristocrat or ne'er-do-well who threatened the common people and loyal subjects of King Richard, whose return from the Crusades they awaited from their home in the shelter of Sherwood Forest.

Widower Sheriff Andy and his young son Opie live with Andy's Aunt Bea in Mayberry, NC. Since Mayberry has virtually no crimes to solve, most of Andy's time is spent chatting with the locals and calming down his cousin Deputy Barney.

Television series that combined elements of police procedural and courtroom drama. In the first half of each episode, Sgt. Nick Anderson of the LAPD tracked down and arrested a suspect. In the second half, Defense Attorney John Egan fought to exonerate the accused.

Dr. Richard Kimble is accused in the murder of his wife. When his train crashes en route to Death Row, Kimble breaks free from the custody of Lt. Philip Gerard, and runs for his life. Fleeing from town to town, switching identities and toiling at countless jobs fuels Kimble's obsession to catch the real killer - a one-armed man he saw leaving the crime scene. His obsession is matched only by Gerard's - who blames himself for Kimble's escape and who will stop at nothing to get him back.

A former Cavalry scout helps his grandson search for his missing father.

After inheriting her spying business from her late father, private eye Honey West outwits criminals and solves crimes using her unique arsenal of martial arts and scientific gadgets.

Different television pilots from the 1950's and 1960's.

Lucy Carmichael is a widowed mother to teenage daughter Chris and young son Jerry. She shares a large suburban home with her best friend, divorcée Vivian Bagley and Vivian's son Sherman. While Lucy and Viv generally get along, they constantly disagree over money, how to raise the kids, and how to escape whatever catastrophe Lucy has just caused!

All 29 episodes from the first season... plus more than 100 minutes of bonus footage and features all digitally remastered!

The "Impossible Missions Force" consists of a team of extraordinary spies who are experts in their fields: The Leader, The Tech Expert, The Muscle, The Master of Disguise and The Femme Fatale. Every day, this elite force risks failure, capture and death ... but nothing is more important than their mission.

Detective Adam Flint and Lt. Mike Parker fight crime the in gritty streets of New York City.

The entire first season (32 episodes) of the popular 1960s science fiction television program.

The spaceship U.S.S. Enterprise, with its 430 crew members captained by James T. Kirk, travels the universe "to boldly go where no man has gone before."

Scientists Tony Newman and Doug Phillips are the young heads of Project Tic-Toc, a multi-billion dollar government installation buried beneath the desert. They have invented a Time Tunnel, which will allow people to travel through time and space. While testing the tunnel for an impatient senator who wants to cancel the project, Newman and Phillips become trapped in time, and each week coincidentally find themselves at the site of an important historical event, be it the Siege of Troy, the sinking of the Titanic or an assassination attempt on President Lincoln.

Night of the Meek, Art Carney is a forlorn department store Santa who takes to drinking - only to find himself experiencing the nicest Christmas ever. The Invaders concerns an impoverished woman, living alone, who is stalked by sinister, tiny spacemen in her small cabin after a flying saucer crash lands on her roof. Nothing in the Dark concerns a paranoid old woman who has barricaded herself inside her home, afraid of letting Mr. Death in the door. When gunshots ring out and a police officer lies wounded outside her house she must decide whether or not to aid the victim.

The crew of the SSRN Seaview has been sent on a mission to discover the secrets of the ocean. However, their scientific work is often interrupted by monsters, evil scientists, spies and more.