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Harper & Row, Publishers BOOK: Spine Bumped; Edges Lightly Soiled. DUST JACKET: Repaired; Lightly Creased; Moderately Chipped; Slight Yellowing Due to Age; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. SYNOPSIS: Television has been commented on, criticized, exhorted - even, occasionally, defended. About Television examines it, with the reportorial thoroughness and insight readers have come to expect from Martin Mayer. This is a big subject. No development since the mass production of the automobile in the 1920s has so greatly affected the daily lives of ordinary people. Yet there has been little exploration of how television happens, what the people who make the key decisions think about and why, who they are and how they work. About Television has gossip and theory; essential historical, geographic, technical and economic background; anecdote and personality; and even some suggestions about where we might go from here. There are set pieces on The Flip Wilson Show and The Selling of the Pentagon; a… Read More

New York: Harper Paperbacks a division of Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc. Light Creasing on Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped. A RIVETING LOOK BEHIND THE SCENES OF THE NATION'S #1 CRIME-BUSTING TV SHOW. SUB-TITLE: How Television Catches Crooks. CONTENTS: Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 "Okay, Next Stupid Idea..." 2 From Hollywood to Washington 3 Roberts: Charged, Convicted, Escaped 4 A Little Too Real 5 Will We Catch Somebody? 6 He Wasn't the Only One Surprised 7 Going National 8 The Dragnet Widens 9 Reaching Back Through Time 10 They Can Run, But They Can't Hide 11 The Critics 12 Helping the Victims 13 John Walsh 14 TV Crimefighting: Past, Present, Future; Appendix A; Appendix B. SYNOPSIS: Here is a thrilling look at the award-winning television program that is changing the face of broadcasting and criminal investigation, Fox Broadcasting Company's "America's Most Wanted." From the legwork to the studio, this is how television… Read More

Agincourt: Ramsay Business Systems Limited, 1994. Light Creasing on Front Cover; Front Cover, Spine Lightly Chipped; Edges Lightly Soiled. CONTENTS: Foreword; Summary; Introduction; A Reader's Guideline; The Statement of Claim; Photographs and Maps; Bibliography; Ranks and Acronyms; Biographical notes; Afterword; Index. SYNOPSIS: On Jan. 19, 1992, and again on March 28, 1992, the CBC broadcast over national television a mini-series entitled The Valour and the Horror that was said to record three elements of Canada's participation in the Second World War. The second episode of the series, Death by Moonlight: Bomber Command, was met by protests so widespread as to cause the whole series to be placed on the agenda of the Senate's Sub-Committee on Veterans' Affairs. The Senate hearings, at which historians and other witnesses testified to the film's inaccuracies and distortions, coincided with the CBC's request that its ombudsman, William Morgan, prepare a report. Released… Read More

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart Inc., 1997. Previous Owner Markings; Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Edges Lightly Soiled. SYNOPSIS: You've never seen the CBC like this before. In Cue the Elephant, Knowlton Nash, best-selling author and former anchor of "The National," presents thousands of unforgettable stories - some absurdly funny, others tearfully poignant - about what really goes on behind the scenes at CBC Radio and TV. Nash interviewed more than 120 past and present stars, who talk freely and candidly about the thrills, the disappointments, and the silliest moments of their glittering careers, and the charms - and shortcomings - of their colleagues.. First Thus 1st Printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Berkley Books - The Berkley Publishing Group, 1992. Previous Owner Markings/Ex-Library; First Page of Front Matter Missing; Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Light Moisture Damage; Edges Lightly Soiled; Heavy Yellowing Due to Age. SYNOPSIS: "Bo-ing! . . . K-chung!" With that memorable sound, A Current Affair premiered - and changed TV forever. With a lively new point of view, it cut to the heart of the day's hottest stories . . . with all the grit, sizzle, and raw emotion left intact. Now host Maury Povich goes even further behind the scenes - and reveals the facts about: the infamous "preppy murder" tape that shocked the nation; the controversial "Baby M" case; the practical joke that left Donald Trump with egg on his face; the suicide story that broke Maury's heart; how A Current Affair scooped Nightline on the Jessica Hahn story; the Rob Lowe sex scandal; and much more!… Read More

New York: Quill - William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1978. Repaired; Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Edges Lightly Soiled. SYNOPSIS: A total departure from previous writing about television, this book is the first ever to advocate that the medium is not reformable. Its problems are inherent in the technology itself and are so dangerous - to personal health and sanity, to the environment, and to democratic processes - that TV ought to be eliminated forever. Weaving personal experiences through meticulous research, the author ranges widely over aspects of television that have rarely been examined and never before joined together, allowing an entirely new, frightening image to emerge. The idea that all technologies are "neutral," benign instruments that can be used well or badly, is thrown open to profound doubt. Speaking of TV reform is, in the words of the author, "as absurd as speaking of the reform of a technology such as guns." Jerry Mander holds B.S. and M.S.… Read More

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1980. BOOK: Previous Owner Markings (Embossed Seal); Corners, Spine Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Light Moisture Damage; Boards Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. DUST JACKET: Missing. SUB-TITLE: The Rise of Network Broadcasting. CONTENTS: Acknowledgments; PART I SIBLING RIVALRY 1. High Hopes 2. Making Waves 3. Cats' Whiskers 4. E Pluribus Unum 5. Shoestring; PART II IN THE MONEY 6. Dialogue 7. Exhibit A 8. My Way 9. Monopoly 10. Color War 11. War and Peace at CBS; PART III THE LAST FRONTIER 12. Prelude: Rise of the Programmer 13. Operation Frontal Lobes 14. Quiz Kids 15. CBS Plus Thirty 16. The Aubrey Dictum 17. A Student of Television; PART IV SIGNS OF OBSOLESCENCE 18. A Problem of Succession 19. Resurrection of an Ideal 20. from Broadcasting to Narrowcasting; Notes on Sources; Bibliography; Index.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Don Mills: Collins Publishers, 1983. BOOK: Spine Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Edges Lightly Soiled. DUST JACKET: Repaired; Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; Heavy Sticker Pull; Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. SYNOPSIS: Now entering its seventeenth season, Man Alive remains the longest-running program of its type in the history of television. Host to more than a million viewing Canadians and many Americans each week, Roy Bonisteel has often been compared with that other superb interviewer, Edward R. Murrow. He is the deserving recipient of numerous awards for excellence in broadcasting and his approach is well summed up in the Hamilton Spectator's comment: "Man Alive is the only network show - Canadian or American - to table social and religious issues in an intelligent, non-preachy way." Man Alive: The Human Journey is Roy Bonisteel's second book and every viewer of the program will want to read it. By distilling the… Read More

New York: A Dell Trade Paperback - Dell Publishing a division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc., 1993. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Edges Lightly Soiled. Unauthorized! Unabridged! Uncensored! Six Seasons of Bloopers, Flubs, Technical Screw-ups, and Picayune Plot Discrepancies for Discriminating Fans of Star Trek: The Next Generation. SYNOPSIS: STARDATE 41153.7-46999.9; STARSHIP ENTERPRISE; REGISTRY NCC-1701D; WE'RE WATCHING YOU . . . IS THERE A CONTROL PANEL INSIDE THE TURBO LIFT? (NO . . . EXCEPT IN THE EPISODE BROTHERS). DO OR DON'T PERSONNEL HAVE TO TAP THEIR BADGE TO ACCESS THEIR COMMUNICATOR? (ONLY WHEN THE WRITERS FEEL LIKE IT). Yes, we're fans. But we're not unobservant. Some of us even have Vulcanlike logic. Author Phil Farrand figures that even if you love somebody, you can tell them about that dab of mustard on their upper lip. So here's a compendium for Trekkers who are unafraid of pointing… Read More

Montreal: Cardinal Edition - Pocket Books of Canada, Ltd., 1960. Repaired; Spine Missing; Moderate Creasing on Front Cover; Light Creasing on Rear Cover; Front, Rear Covers Lightly Chipped; Moderate Sticker Pull to Front Cover; Spine Moderately Cocked; Edges Moderately Soiled; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. Art Linkletter, Author of Kids Say the Darndest Things! And The Secret World of Kids, America's most popular M.C. tells the wonderfully funny story of his famous NBC show. A hilarious account of wacky people and events backstage, on stage and out front! BOOK NUMBER: C-384. INTRODUCTION BY: Bing Crosby. This Cardinal edition has been revised from the original hardbound edition and a new final chapter has been written by the author especially for Pocket Books, Inc. SYNOPSIS: Once every week, over NBC's national TV and radio network, some twenty million men, women and children become the audience for a show called People Are Funny. Five times every week, over the CBS TV and radio… Read More

New York: HarperSpotlight HarperPaperbacks - HarperCollinsPublishers, 1994. Light Creasing on Front Cover, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled. SYNOPSIS: LIFE ON THE SET OF A TELEVISION SHOW LIGHT-YEARS AHEAD OF ITS TIME. Starring in seventy-nine episodes and six feature films as Captain James T. Kirk, William Shatner is the leading man in the global cultural phenomenon known as Star Trek. In this in-depth, insider's expose, he reveals the backstage anecdotes, personal rivalries, and network politics that were carefully hidden behind the camera. Journey to the very beginning of the series, as the genius of Gene Roddenberry creates the first outlines of a science fiction show unlike anything produced before. Tour the set, where outrageous practical jokes bring much-needed breaks from an impossible shooting schedule. And hear members of the cast - Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, George Takei, Walter Koenig, Nichelle Nichols, and Majel… Read More

New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc. BOOK: Previous Owner Markings/Ex-Library; Front Free Endpaper Missing; Front, Rear Fixed Endpapers Pulled From Removal of Jacket Cover; Corners, Spine, Boards Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Edges Lightly Soiled. DUST JACKET: Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; Moderate Fading Due to Sun Exposure; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. The First Thirty-five Years. SUB-TITLE: An Anecdotal History. BOOK NUMBER: 24E3. SYNOPSIS: "Well, here we are, and good morning to you. The very first good morning of what I hope and suspect will be a great many good mornings between you and me. Here it is, January 14, 1952, when NBC begins a new program called Today and, if it doesn't sound too revolutionary, I really believe this begins a new kind of television." - Dave Garroway opening the first Today show. Since those historic words went on the air - for the past thirty-five years - millions of people each weekday morning have turned on their… Read More