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Mister Ed 269
Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood 270
The Mod Squad 271
The Monkees 272
Mr. Magoo 274
The Munsters 276
Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom 278
My Favorite Martian 279
My Three Sons 280
The Newlywed Game 281
The Outer Limits 282
The Patty Duke Show 283
Peyton Place 284
Playboy After Dark 285
The Prisoner 286
Rainbow Quest 288
The Rat Patrol 289
Room 222 290
Route 66 290
Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In 292
Run for Your Life 295
The Saint 295
Sesame Street 296
The 700 Club 298
The Shari Lewis Show 299
Shindig! 299
60 Minutes 301
The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour 303
The Soupy Sales Show 306
Spelling, Aaron 309
Star Trek 310
Supermarket Sweep 313
Tammy 314
Tarzan 315
That Girl 316
That Was the Week That Was 317
Then Came Bronson 318
Thriller 319
Top Cat 320
Twelve O’Clock High 321
Ward, Jay 322
Washington Week in Review 323
Where the Action Is! 324
The Wild, Wild West 326
Essays 329
The Anthology Series: Television Finds Its
Dramatic Form 329
Colonel Bleep, Kukla, Fran and Ollie, Romper
Room, and Children’s Programming in the
1950s and 1960s 332
Disseminating Discussions: Talk Shows in the
1960s 334
The Ethics and Frenzy of Game Shows during
the 1950s and 1960s 339
Ethnic Differences Portrayed on I Love Lucy 344
The (First) Golden Age of Television 348
How 1950s and 1960s Television Launched the
Careers of Notable Motion Picture
Directors 351
Law and Order in Police and Detective Programs
during the 1950s and 1960s 354
Let Us Entertain You: Variety Shows in the 1950s
and 1960s 358
Morality in 1950s and 1960s Television Westerns 363
Reality and Artifice in 1950s and 1960s Soap
Operas 365
The Roles of Women in Society as Portrayed on
Television in the 1950s and 1960s 368
The Effect of Social, Political, and Cultural
Upheavals on Television in the 1960s 375
Uncompromising Art: Experimental Television in
the 1960s 379
Watching Television as a Family and Familial
Representations on Television in the 1950s
and 1960s 381
Glossary 387
Index 391
