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By 1960, watching television had become the pastime of millions of viewers around the world. Week after week, audiences tuned in to watch their fav...

Superheroes and characters who fight crime by extraordinary means have populated the television airwaves from the beginning. This broad-ranging ...

In 1954 NBC President Pat Weaver introduced "spectaculars"--lavish entertainment shows designed to bring a new dimension to television. Though s...

Did you know that detective Adrian Mont (Monk) is afraid of milk? That Pinky's real first name on The Roaring '20s is Delaware? That on Charlie'...

This is an encyclopedic reference work to 1,802 radio programs broadcast from the years 1924 through 1984. Entries include casts, character rela...

Test films, pilots, trial series, limited runs, summer tryouts--by whatever name, televison networks have produced thousands of experimental sho...

A fun and accessible guide to foreign television series that were later broadcast in or adapted for the US, including popular favorites such as The...

Often regarded as the first golden era of television, the 1950s was a decade when many classic programs—from I Love Lucy and Gunsmoke to The Honeym...

Created around the world and available only on the Web, internet "television" series are independently produced, mostly low budget shows that of...

In November 1939, NBC's fledgling television station W2XBS broadcast the first known holiday special, The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Despite i...

The early years of television relied in part on successful narratives of another medium, as studios adapted radio programs like Boston Blackie a...

For the major broadcast networks, the heyday of made-for-TV movies was 20th Century programming like The ABC Movie of the Week and NBC Sunday Ni...

In 1936, as television networks CBS, DuMont, and NBC experimented with new ways to provide entertainment, NBC deviated from the traditional method ...

The first and only of its kind, this book is a straightforward listing of more than 25,000 trivia facts from 2,498 TV series aired between 1947 ...

This is a complete revision of the author's 1993 McFarland book Television Specials that not only updates entries contained within that edition,...

The openings and closings to radio programs of all types, from comedies (Blondie, The Jack Benny Program, Lum and Abner) to mysteries (Inner San...

Covering the years 1945-2018, this alphabetical listing provides details about 2,923 unaired television series pilots, including those that neve...

In November of 1937, NBC presented the first known pilot film, then called an "experimental." Over the years that followed, thousands of aired pilo...

This is a supplement to the author's Encyclopedia of Television Shows, 1925-2010. It covers 1,612 series broadcast between January 1, 2011, and...

Over the course of 80 years television has produced countless programs, many of which fit a particular profile. Did you know, for example, some pro...