When it comes to 1950s TV sitcoms, if you caught them in reruns, you undoubtedly look at them as examples of classic TV. And if you were there the first time around, then… it's just TV. But in either ...

If these ring a bell—black-and-white TV test patterns, party lines, drive-in theaters, sock hops, milk deliveries, metal lunchboxes, Sunday best, mimeograph ink, rotary phones, and S&H Green ...

Seeing a modern flat-screen television on display reminded me of our family’s first TV set. Daddy bought a secondhand GE table model, with a 10-inch screen, in 1951. What a marvel of modern electronic ...

Television and political culture after World War Two -- Sponsors and citizens -- The politics of wooden acting -- The ends of the middlebrow -- Liberal media -- Labor goes public Summary This is the ...

In the days before Dick Van Dyke became a fixture of American pop culture- and before Bye Bye Birdie, The Dick Van Dyke Show or even Bert the chimney sweep of Mary Poppins-he was simply a lanky, 6'1" ...