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Defining our television heritage I: traditional television values
Jack Benny and the surrealism of the ordinary
The boys of Benny and Burns: Dobie Gillis, Green acres, The Bob Newhart show and Newhart
The Sennett tradition: I'm Dickens...he's Fenster, Camp Runamuck, Valentine's day, Occasional wife, and the Monkees
I found it at the movies: Sid Caesar, Carol Burnett, and Don Adams
ALF in the family: The people's choice, Topper, Bewitched, ALF
The Granfaloon family: The Mary Tyler Moore show, The odd couple, and their idiot children
Defining our television heritage II: this day and age
Visit from a small planet: the comedy world of Ernie Kovacs
"It's my show so who cares": Martin Mull, Julie Brown, and the stand-ups
Ernie Kovacs' nastiest whelps: the comic strip and British "alternative comedy"
French and Saunders: anatomy of a comedy team
"I'm not sure what motivates them": the gorgeous ladies of wrestling.
Jack Benny and the surrealism of the ordinary
The boys of Benny and Burns: Dobie Gillis, Green acres, The Bob Newhart show and Newhart
The Sennett tradition: I'm Dickens...he's Fenster, Camp Runamuck, Valentine's day, Occasional wife, and the Monkees
I found it at the movies: Sid Caesar, Carol Burnett, and Don Adams
ALF in the family: The people's choice, Topper, Bewitched, ALF
The Granfaloon family: The Mary Tyler Moore show, The odd couple, and their idiot children
Defining our television heritage II: this day and age
Visit from a small planet: the comedy world of Ernie Kovacs
"It's my show so who cares": Martin Mull, Julie Brown, and the stand-ups
Ernie Kovacs' nastiest whelps: the comic strip and British "alternative comedy"
French and Saunders: anatomy of a comedy team
"I'm not sure what motivates them": the gorgeous ladies of wrestling.