Search results for “[subject: television-reference]”

• Author(s): Vincent Terrace • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - Reference Over the course of 80 years television has produced countless programs, many of which fit a particular ...

• Author(s): Moshe Moshkovitz • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - Reference With television programming broadcast worldwide 24/7, the industry needs a common language. Constantly...

• Author(s): Simon D. Beck • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Aviation - General Ever wondered how many aircraft were converted into Japanese Zeroes and torpedo bombers for Tora! Tora! Tora!...

• Author(s): Bruce R. Leiby | Linda F. Leiby • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - Reference Bonanza aired on NBC from September 12, 1959, to January 16, 1973, playing to 480,000,0...

• Author(s): Bill Van Heerden • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism In Only the Lonely (1991), Ally Sheedy appeases prospective mother-in-law Maureen O'Hara by go...

• Author(s): Vincent Terrace • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - History & Criticism Alice Kramden's (The Honeymooners) first job was as a jelly donut stuffer before she was ...

• Author(s): Vincent Terrace • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - Reference The first and only of its kind, this book is a straightforward listing of more than 25,000 trivia facts...

• Author(s): Vincent Terrace • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - Guides & Reviews This is a complete revision of the author's 1993 McFarland book Television Specials that not...

• Author(s): John Kenneth Muir • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - History & Criticism Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond made its television debut in 1959, nine months before R...

• Author(s): Harris M. Lentz • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Reference The entertainment world lost many notable talents in 2019, including television icon Doris Day, iconic novelist Toni...

• Author(s): Vincent Terrace • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - Reference On November 27, 1937, NBC presented TV's first pilot film, Sherlock Holmes (then called an "experiment"...

• Author(s): Mike Malloy • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General Cult film star Lee Van Cleef began his movie career in Hollywood, appearing as evil-eyed villains in such 1950s and...

• Author(s): Ed Andreychuk • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism This reference work presents useful information for every known film and television episode drawn...

• Author(s): James F. Broderick • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - History & Criticism How is the android Data like Shakespeare's character Hamlet? Is the vengeful Khan (ori...

• Author(s): Vincent Terrace • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General Superheroes and characters who fight crime by extraordinary means have populated the television airwaves from t...

• Author(s): Dale Robinson | David Fernandes • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - Guides & Reviews On the February 2, 1960, episode of The Danny Thomas Show, entertainer Dann...

• Author(s): Joan Baxter • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - Guides & Reviews In this reference work 222 musicals developed specifically for television are fully detailed, in...

• Author(s): Emily L. Newman | Emily Witsell • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - History & Criticism Launched in 1977 by the Christian Broadcasting Service (originally associ...

• Author(s): Karen A. Romanko • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - History & Criticism Emma Peel wearing her "kinky boots." Amanda King and her poppy seed cake. Julie Barnes a...

• Author(s): Doug Gelbert • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Reference It is often said that the greater Los Angeles area is the largest movie set in the world. Film and television se...

• Author(s): Wesley Hyatt • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - Guides & Reviews Remember the finales of M*A*S*H, Cheers and Seinfeld? Do you know who shot J.R. on Dallas? This...

• Author(s): Vincent Terrace • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - General Did you know that detective Adrian Mont (Monk) is afraid of milk? That Pinky's real first name on The Roa...

• Author(s): Alan Warren • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - General The late 1950s and early 1960s were the golden years of horror television. Anthology series such as Way Out a...

• Author(s): Everett Aaker • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - Reference Modeled after the Mack V. Wright 1920 film version, the 1949 western television series The Lone Ranger ma...

• Author(s): Mitchell E. Shapiro • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - General When did Queen for a Day air? How long did the soap opera The Edge of Night run? This reference work ...

• Author(s): David Fury • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Cast, production credits, release date, and running time are provided for each of the Tarzan films. ...

• Author(s): Vincent Terrace • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Radio - Reference This is an encyclopedic reference work to 1,802 radio programs broadcast from the years 1924 through 1984. E...

• Author(s): John T. Soister | Joanna Wioskowski • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts The career of Claude Rains is often, and unfairly, overshadowed by the...

• Author(s): Alvin H. Marill • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General Diminutive Mickey Rooney has been in show business for more than 80 years as actor, producer, writer, composer,...

• Author(s): William Hawes • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - History & Criticism The "live era" or "golden age"of television drama originating from New York, 1946 through 1...

• Author(s): Richard West • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism These heroes came riding into America's living rooms in one form or another from the earliest days...

• Author(s): Patrick Lucanio | Gary Coville • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - Guides & Reviews As Americans grappled with the real problems of the atomic age in the 1950s, ...

• Author(s): Wesley Hyatt • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - History & Criticism Since the early days of television, well before most households had a set, the Academy of Te...

• Author(s): Michael Klossner • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General From the early days of the movies, "cavemen" have been a popular subject for filmmakers--not surprisingly, sin...

• Author(s): Harris M. Lentz • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Reference The entertainment world lost many notable talents in 2018, including movie icon Burt Reynolds, "Queen of Soul" Areth...

• Author(s): Fraser A. Sherman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - History & Criticism In the three decades since the first SF film produced for television--1968's Shadow on ...