| Description |
x, 210 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
Defining our television heritage I: traditional television values -- Jack Benny and the surrealism of the ordinary -- The boys of Benny and Burns: Dobie Gillis, Green acres, The Bob Newhart show and Newhart -- The Sennett tradition: I'm Dickens...he's Fenster, Camp Runamuck, Valentine's day, Occasional wife, and the Monkees -- I found it at the movies: Sid Caesar, Carol Burnett, and Don Adams -- ALF in the family: The people's choice, Topper, Bewitched, ALF -- The Granfaloon family: The Mary Tyler Moore show, The odd couple, and their idiot children -- Defining our television heritage II: this day and age -- Visit from a small planet: the comedy world of Ernie Kovacs -- "It's my show so who cares": Martin Mull, Julie Brown, and the stand-ups -- Ernie Kovacs' nastiest whelps: the comic strip and British "alternative comedy" -- French and Saunders: anatomy of a comedy team -- "I'm not sure what motivates them": the gorgeous ladies of wrestling. |
| Subject |
Television comedies -- United States.
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| ISBN |
0786400676 softcover alkaline paper |
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