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Storytellers to the nation : a history of American television writing

Stempel, Tom 1941- (Author).

Summary: Jam-packed with hundreds of anecdotes and quotes from in-depth interviews with over forty television writers, this is the first comprehensive history of writing for American television. These writers tell, often in wonderfully funny tales, of their experiences working with, and often fighting with, the networks, the censors, the sponsors, the producers, and the stars in trying to create shows that millions of Americans love (and sometimes hate - the flops are here, too).

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  • ISBN: 0826405622 (HardbacK : acid-free) :
  • ISBN: 9780826405623 (HardbacK : acid-free)
  • Physical Description: print
    307 p. : ill ; 24 cm.
  • Publisher: New York : Continuum, 1992.

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Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-298) and index.
Formatted Contents Note: 1. Radio to Television -- 2. Early Filmed Television -- 3. Early Live Television -- 4. A Golden Age -- 5. Enter the Major Studios -- 6. Reality/Documentary -- 7. Cowboys and Other Sixties Professionals -- 8. Small Towns, Talking Horses, and Related Galaxies -- 9. Comedy/Variety -- 10. Movies and Miniseries: The Early Years -- 11. Police Story -- 12. Lear and Marshall -- 13. MTM and M*A*S*H -- 14. Coroners and Other Seventies and Eighties Professionals -- 15. Movies and Miniseries: The Later Years -- 16. Professional Status -- 17. Unsold Pilots and Flops -- 18. Hill Street Blues -- 19. The Children of Hill Street -- 20. Yet Another Perspective -- 21. Maturity.
Additional Physical Form available Note:
Also issued online.
Subject: Television authorship History
Television plays, American History and criticism
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