Small screens, big ideas
by Janet Thumim
Essay topics include cable television, soap operas, Dinah Shore and her Chevrolet show, Milton Berle and other Jewish comedians,"This is Your Life," the BBC, "The Quatermass Experiment" and other British television shows. General themes are gender, ethnicity, sexuality and wholesomeness for postwar television audiences in the United States and England.
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