The Classic Television Reference

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The Classic Television Reference is a compendium that provides a focused context for avid classic TV collectors, pop culture scholars, fans and nostalgia buffs. It gives insights into corporate structures, creative programming output and social phenomena that punctuate our earliest memories of those golden black and white shows. It is intended to be analytical and nostalgia-inspiring, while including analysis of productions of studios and independent producers; the first 100-year chronology of events in the history of classic TV; values and teachings contained in the shows; overall themes and social significance of selected shows; applicability of classic shows and their teachings to modern life; strategies and case studies behind the programs and studios' body of work; media trends that created specific genres; and an annotated index of memorable quotes and not-so-memorable dialogue. The material contained in The Classic Television Reference was written between 1969 and 2005 by Hank Moore.