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Television Studies

This guide is an introduction to library and internet resources for Television Studies.
  • Introduction
  • TV courses
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  • Finding books about television
  • Finding television shows
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  • History of television
  • Censorship
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  • Writing for television
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    • Shakespeare on television
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  • Quality television
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  • Women on/in/creating Television
    • Examples of women on television
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1970's Television shows

  • Antenna TV
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    The network features classic television programs and favorite movies.
  • Classic TV Database - 1970s
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  • Crazy about TV - 1970's
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  • Internet Movie Database (IMDb)
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    One of the most comprehensive sites for film and television.
  • Retro TV
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    A television network that specializes in showing classic television shows from 1950's to the early 1990's.
  • thisTV
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    This TV is a free premium channel that brings you award winning films, box office hits, cult classics, retro TV series and all your favorite Hollywood stars!
  • TV Party - 1970's
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Books on 1970's Television

  • Cover artAmerican culture in the 1970s by Will Kaufman
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry E 169.12 .K338 2009
    ISBN: 9780748621439
    The 1970s was one of the most culturally vibrant periods in American history. This book discusses the dominant cultural forms of the 1970s - fiction and poetry; television and drama; film and visual culture; popular music and style; public space and spectacle - and the decade's most influential practitioners and texts: from Toni Morrison to All in the Family, from Diane Arbus to Bruce Springsteen, from M.A.S.H. to Taxi Driver and from disco divas to Vietnam protesters. In response to those who consider the seventies the time of disco, polyester and narcissism, this book rewrites the critical engagement with one of America's most misunderstood decades.
  • Cover artThe classic serial on television and radio by Robert Giddings; Keith Selby
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1992.3 .G7 G44 2001
    ISBN: 9780333713884
    The classic serial, invented by BBC Radio Drama sixty years ago, survived and adapted itself to television, the arrival of colour and the global market in what has become a flood of classics with all channels competing for ratings and overseas sales. This richly detailed book traces these developments and analyses the genre's response to social, economic, technical and cultural changes, which have re-shaped it into the form we recognise today. The book contains considerable interview material with performers and media professionals.
  • Cover artThe Clint Eastwood westerns by James L. Neibaur
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 2287 .E37 N45 2015
    ISBN: 9781442245037
    While the western was a staple of cinema for many decades, the form began to fade as its greatest star, John Wayne, made fewer films of distinction toward the end of his career. In the mid-1960s, the genre was redefined by a handful of directors, including Don Siegel and Italian filmmaker Sergio Leone, who offered something edgier, bloodier, and more violent.
  • Cover artFilm and television scores, 1950-1979: a critical survey by genre by Kristopher Spencer
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    Call Number: ML 2075 .S72 2008
    ISBN: 9780786436828
    Hollywood film scores underwent a supersonic transformation from the 1950s through the 1970s. This genre-by-genre overview of film and television soundtrack music covers a period of tremendous artistic and commercial development in the medium. Film and television composers bypassed the classical tradition favored by earlier screen composers to experiment with jazz, rock, funk and avant-garde styles. ...
  • Cover artFright night on Channel 9: Saturday night horror films on New York's WOR-TV, 1973-1987 by James Arena
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    Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1992.77 .F764 A74 2012
    ISBN: 9780786466788
    From 1973 to 1987, Fright Night was a fixture of the late Saturday evening schedule on independent New York television station WOR-TV. ...
  • Cover artThe history of science fiction by Adam Roberts
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    Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 3433.8 .R55 2006
    ISBN: 9780333970225
    The History of Science Fiction traces the origin and development of science fiction from Ancient Greece up to the present day. The author is both an academic literary critic and acclaimed creative writer of the genre. Written in lively, accessible prose it is specifically designed to bridge the worlds of academic criticism and SF fandom.
  • Cover artStephen J. Cannell television productions: a history of all series and pilots by Jon Abbott
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    Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1992.4 .C24 A23 2009
    ISBN: 9780786441730
    The face of 1980s television was shaped by a man who stayed behind the scenes. Stephen Cannell's reluctant white knights--put-upon private eye James Rockford, World War II fly-boys the Black Sheep Squadron, hapless superhero Ralph Hinckley, fugitive mercenaries the A-Team, and maverick cop Hunter--traversed the television landscape from the 1970s to the 1990s. Cannell changed the face of the action-adventure genre, updating the crime-show format with a hybrid of rebellious morality, juvenile wit, intelligent sarcasm, and radical conservatism. ...
  • Cover artWallowing in sex: the new sexual culture of 1970s American television by Elana Levine
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    Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1992.8 .S44 L49 2007
    ISBN: 9780822339199
    Passengers disco dancing in The Love Boat's Acapulco Lounge. A young girl walking by a marquee advertising Deep Throat in the made-for-TV movie Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway. A frustrated housewife borrowing Orgasm and You from her local library in Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman. Commercial television of the 1970s was awash with references to sex. In the wake of the sexual revolution and the women's liberation and gay rights movements, significant changes were rippling through American culture. In representing--or not representing--those changes, broadcast television provided a crucial forum through which Americans alternately accepted and contested momentous shifts in sexual mores, identities, and practices. Wallowing in Sex is a lively analysis of the key role of commercial television in the new sexual culture of the 1970s. ...

1970's Television programs in the collections

This is a small selection of television shows we have produced in the 1970's. For more details about the individual shows listed below, check the record in the online catalog. If you are looking for a specific title, do a title search in the online catalog or contact Reference for assistance.

  • Cover artAll creatures great & small. The complete series 1 collection by Bill Sellars
    • DVD
    Call Number: Jones Media DVD #6680 discs 1 - 4
    ISBN: 9781419846267
    Set in the rugged beauty of the English countryside, this series begins with the arrival of James Herriot to the Yorkshire Dales in the late '30s. The newly qualified outsider from Scotland finds he still has much to learn if the country folk are ever to accept him as a vet on par with Siegfried Farnon, who established the Darrowby practice. As Herriot struggles with the native dialect, skeptical clients and ingrained rural superstitions, he must also learn how to weather the flare-ups between Siegfried and his younger brother, Tristan. Soon Herriot falls in love with Helen, a local farmer's daughter, only to suffer constant reminders that "the course of true love never did run smooth."
  • Cover artThe best of The Flip Wilson show by Clerow production
    • DVD
    Call Number: Jones Media DVD #6449 discs 1-3
    The Flip Wilson Show was an instant smash when it premiered on NBC in September 1970, becoming the highest-rated variety program on television. In a bold departure from the standard fare of the time, The Flip Wilson Show did without large production numbers, house band, regular cast, or elaborate sets. From a round stage in front of a studio audience, gifted comedian Flip Wilson entertained the country with nothing but his hilarious monologues, a stellar array of guest stars, and great sketch comedy.
  • The Bob Newhart show. Season one by David Davis and Lorenzo Music
    • DVD
    Call Number: Jones Media DVD #3014 discs 1-3
    Bob Newhart stars as Dr. Robert Hartley, a successful Chicago psychologist specializing in group therapy sessions. Bob's patience is often tested by his patients, who are all trying to "find themselves." Even at home with his wife Emily, Bob is surrounded by an assortment of nutty and neurotic neighbors.
  • Cover artThe Brady bunch. The complete second season by Sherwood Schwartz
    • DVD
    Call Number: Jones Media DVD #5936 discs 1 - 4
    ISBN: 9781415707395
    Includes all 24 funny and memorable episodes including fan favorites.
  • Cover artBuck Rogers in the 25th century: the complete epic series by Glen A. Larson
    • DVD
    Call Number: Jones Media DVD #9166 discs 1 - 5
    ISBN: 9781417007219
    A 20th century astronaut is revived out of 500 years of suspended animation to become the greatest hero of a future Earth.
  • Cover artThe greatest '70s cop shows
    • DVD
    Call Number: Jones Media DVD #1663
    ISBN: 9781404924567
    A collection of the first episodes of five 1970's cop shows. Contains the first episodes from: Starsky And Hutch, Charlie's Angels, The Rookies, S.W.A.T., and Police Woman.
  • Cover artIrmãos Coragem by Central Globo de Produção
    • DVD
    Call Number: Jones Media DVD #14208
    A telenovela set in Coroado, a village in the interior of Brazil's state of Goiás. Explores the struggle of the Coragem brothers, João, Duda, and Jerônimo. Plot lines include the love between Jerônimo and his foster sister, Potira, and the affair between João and the psychologically troubled Maria de Lara, who has three personalities. Other characters include the brothers' father, the feared Colonel Pedro Barros, absolute master of Coroado, and his brother Ricardo.
  • Cover artMary Hartman, Mary Hartman. Volume 1 by Gail Parent; Ann Marcus; Jerry Adelman; Daniel Gregory Browne
    • DVD
    Call Number: Jones Media DVD #5571 discs 1 - 3
    ISBN: 9781404986039
    Mass murders, kidnappings and a flasher may be troubling to the residents of Fernwood, Ohio. But pigtailed, gingham-frocked housewife Mary Hartman has a much more serious problem: waxy buildup on her kitchen floor. And while her husband Tom struggles in the bedroom and her best friend, country singer Loretta Haggers, struggles to make it big in Nashville, Mary teeters closer to the edge, desperate to save her marriage, keep her family together and give her kitchen floor a proper shine.
  • Cover artSanford and son. The first season by Norman Lear
    • DVD
    Call Number: Jones Media DVD #3059 discs 1 - 2
    ISBN: 9780767898768
    A father and son run a junkyard business together.
  • Sesame Street. Old School, 1974-1979. Volume 2 by Sesame Workshop
    • DVD
    Call Number: Jones Media DVD #7906 discs 1 - 3 + booklet
    This collection features favorite Sesame Street memories, including puppets Don Music and Roosevelt Franklin, Guy Smiley and Fat Blue and songs "Telephone rock," "What's the name of that song?" and more.
  • Cover artSNL. The complete first season, 1975-1976 by Lorne Michaels
    • DVD
    Call Number: Jones Media DVD #4769 discs 1 - 8 + booklet
    ISBN: 9781417012749
    A late-night comedy show featuring memorable short skits, hilarious sketches, parodies of television commercials, a live guest band featuring original musical performances, and a pop-cultural guest host each week.
  • Cover artSoap. The complete first season by Susan Harris
    • DVD
    Call Number: Jones Media DVD #5951 discs 1 - 3
    ISBN: 9781404934702
    The controversial sitcom that defined the late 70s and became an instant classic. Soap took viewers into the homes of two of the most dysfunctional families ever-- and we couldn't help but embrace every eccentric one of them!
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