Covers more than forty television weddings providing plots, dates of broadcast, and profiles of characters
Walk Down the Aisle with Television's Favorite BridesWalk Down the Aisle Again at Some of Television’s Most Memorable Weddings
The marriage – if you will – between television and the wedding ceremony has been a long and happy union. Now television fans and romantics alike can relive television’s most popular nuptials from the 1950s through the present in TV WEDDINGS: An Illustrated Guide by Marisa Keller and Mike Mashon.
Television weddings come in all forms: the fictional (Mike Stivic and Gloria Bunker, Michaela Quinn and Byron Sully), the actual (Charles and Diana, Tiny Tim and Miss Vicki), the surreal (we will never forget the weddings of Mork and Mindy and Morticia Frump and Gomez Addams) and the out-of-this world (Keiko Ishikawa and Miles O’Brien on Star Trek: The Next Generation). Yet just as most of us don’t enter into marriage lightly, neither do the writers of television shows haphazardly marry off characters without a great deal of thought and planning. Sometimes it is a ratings gimmick – along with the birth of a baby, weddings blow the Nielsens through the chapel’s roof. But more often than not, weddings are used as a narrative device that can give us new insight into old characters, revive a flagging show, or send the story into a different, perhaps delightful, direction.
TV WEDDINGS is arranged chronologically and includes photographs from more than 40 different prime-time and daytime weddings, such as the marriages of: Samantha and Darrin Stevens on Bewitched; Nancy Remington and Robinson Peepers of Mr. Peepers; Carol Ann Tyler Martin and Michael Paul Brady of The Brady Bunch; Laura Ingalls and Almanzo Wilder on Little House on the Prairie; Laura and Luke of General Hospital; and Lori Beth Allen and Richie Cunningham on Happy Days. Each highlighted wedding is accompanied by date, show, and character specifics, as well as fun facts about fashions, set designs, ratings earned, and later plot developments.
If you like to laugh or cry during a good TV wedding, then you will love this entertaining and fully illustrated book that toasts the best-of-the-best. # # # ABOUT THE AUTHORS Marisa Keller is the archivist at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. She holds a Masters in Library Science from the University of Maryland. Mike Mashon is a curator in the Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division at the Library of Congress. Both authors live in the Washington, D.C., area.
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