Prime Time, Prime Movers: From I Love Lucy to L.A. Law--America's Greatest TV Shows and the People Who Created Them

by Robert J. Thompson, David Marc, Robert J. Thompson

Book Overview

This is a guide to the most important creators of big-time TV over the past 45 years. For dominant performers like Jackie Gleason and Carol Burnett to powerhouse producers like Norman Lear and Stephen Bocho, the book reviews the style, story and impact makers of prime-time TV and their influence on the largest industry of all the mass media. Covering the old-time variety shows and sit-coms, the book's cast of characters includes Milton Berle, Jack...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0316545899
• ISBN13: 9780316545891
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Little Brown and Company
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.5" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Excellent Second-Hand History Source of TV Producers

This is an excellent second-hand source for media history about several big-name TV producers. I bought it to obtain an overview of Roy Huggins' career in television and this helpful text provided a lot of insight on Huggins as well as other big-name TV producers from the past. If you are into media history from the 1950s to the 1980s, then the chapters on Huggins as well as Glen A. Larson and Michael "Miami Vice" Mann should fascinate and inform you.

Simply marvelous! Now I understand why I loved I love Lucy.

It was like remembering my childhood all over again. If Robert Thompson could only explain the love for the Three Stooges