On television and comedy : essays on style, theme, performer, and writer / by Barry Putterman.
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Jefferson, N.C. :
McFarland & Co.,
©1995.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.