CBS / The First 50 Years
Chiu, Tony
Sold by Cat's Curiosities, Pahrump, NV, U.S.A.
AbeBooks Seller since 20 June 2007
Used - Hardcover
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Add to basketSold by Cat's Curiosities, Pahrump, NV, U.S.A.
AbeBooks Seller since 20 June 2007
Condition: Used - Very good
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketNumber line complete 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 -- the first printing. Well, the first 50 years as a TELEVISION network, anyway. (CBS had been producing RADIO shows as far back as the 1930s -- Jack Benny, Burns & Allen, Orson Welles, Edward R. Murrow?) A photo smorgasbord of the Walter Cronkite-Dan Rather network, touching briefly (lots of ground to cover) on Lucille Ball, Red Skelton (who made the Beach Boys dress up in sailor suits), Jackie Gleason, Gunsmoke and Sgt. Bilko, Captain Kangaroo, Perry Mason, Rawhide and "Have Gun Will Travel" (Rhode Island cowboy Victor De Costa, who invented the phrase, as well as the image of a black-clad horseman called "Paladin," had to fight for 34 years to get the network to finally agree to pay him a settlement -- dying at age 83 before he ever collected a dime.) Ed Sullivan (who would only show Elvis from the waist up, leading a generation of Americans to wonder if the first rock star for some reason performed without pants), Dick Van Dyke, the Twilight Zone, the Beverly Hillbillies, Dobie Gillis and Gilligan's Island. But the presence of the thoroughly juvenile Munsters can only remind us that CBS didn't have "The Addams Family." And are they really proud to have chosen "Lost in Space" (Lassie's mom in an aluminum-foil suit) over "Star Trek"? No one has a sense that things then started downhill with "Hee-Haw," "Laugh-In," and "Sonny and Cher"? We're not supposed to notice that by the time of Archie Bunker and "All in the Family" the network was firmly positioning itself well to the Left of the American political center? Was that really a good business decision? Don't look for a lot of analysis, here, though the parade of large format production stills, well reproduced, do effectively usher us down Memory Lane. 305 pp. including "Index to Photos." TV, Show Biz history.
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