Stay Tuned: Televisions Unforgettable Moments [With 2 CD's and DVD]

by Joe Garner

Book Overview

For over 50 years, we have watched as television has entertained, informed, comforted, and thrilled us. We watched as sitcoms evolved from I Love Lucy to All in the Family: at first merely amusing,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0740726935
• ISBN13: 9780740726934
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 2.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 10.7" x 10.6"

Customer Reviews

Stay Tuned

Another great one from Joe Garner! Stay Tuned is a very good coffee table book (if you will) covering more than 50 years in TV from great shows like "I Love Lucy" and "Survivor" to Sports with Tiger Woods Win at the Masters and the beginning of Monday Night Football to the tragic events of the death of Princess Diana and 9/11.From cover to cover, it's a great book and the DVD that comes with the book is great as well! It also comes with 2 audio CD's with naration as well. Now some people (including myself at first) might not like this one because this book doesn't cover a somewhat important part of TV. The book does not cover anything from the long running cartoon "The Simpsons". Garner's reason was that there isn't that "one marquee" episode of the Simpsons. So again, you Simpsons fanatics might be a little mad at that.This is a great gift for all ages and all TV Viewers alike will enjoy this one as well. I will say there is a lot of narration on the DVD but even so, I think anyone can still appreciate the simplistic history of TV. Also, check out WE INTERUPT THIS BROADCAST. This is another great Garner book about radio and Tv and the shocking bulletins that have made us all go "what?" for example, the Kennedy assasination. Either way, a great buy and a great gift for anyone. Highly recommended!

How about a sequel?

I admit that I love TV, so I really liked Stay Tuned. I ignored the sports part for the longest time because I'm not into sports much, but when I finally paid attention to that part of the book and DVD, it was just as compelling as the entertainment and news sections. My favorite parts from each section are Saturday Night Live: The Early Years, The Fall of the Berlin Wall, and Black Power: The Protest at the 1968 Mexico City Games. There are too many memorable TV moments for there not to be a sequel to this book! If and when one is published, here are my picks for events to be included in each section: Michael Jackson's moonwalk during his performance of Billie Jean on the Motown 25 tv special in 1983, the 1989 protests at Tiananmen Square, and the 1983 Kansas City Royals-New York Yankees "Pine Tar Game."

A Class Act

Much as I've enjoyed some of Joe Garner's previous books, this one is in another class altogether. Not only are the stories in "Stay Tuned: Television's Unforgettable Moments" laid out elegantly with photographs and commentary, but the DVD which accompanies the book contains something like two and a half hours of original TV and film footage, with the story of each 'moment' arranged in the form of a mini-documentary. In addition, there are 'behind the scenes' type interviews with people who were directly involved with each episode. And the narration by Bob Costas, Dick Van Dyke, and Walter Cronkite is top notch. It's especially amazing to see Mr. Cronkite talking about events that he was so deeply involved in when they occurred. I liked the news pieces best, but watching the highlights and discovering the odd hidden nuggets behind classic TV shows like "I Love Lucy" and "The Fugitive" was a lot of fun, too. Both my dad and my teenage daughter liked watching it - that's saying something.

Compelling chronicle!

STAY TUNED is bound to be another success from Joe Garner. The addition of the DVD is incredible--it features 2 1/2 hours of actual clips, narration by Bob Costas (sports), Dick Van Dyke (entertainment), and Walter Cronkite (news), AND behind-the-scenes interviews with producers, newscasters and more. This is far more than a coffee table book.STAY TUNED has such broad appeal, covering moments from I Love Lucy to Survivor, Comaneci's perfect 10s to Tiger's Masters win, and Princess Diana's wedding (and death) to the 2000 election debacle.HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!