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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 384.550973
EAN: 9781401603274
ISBN: 1401603270
Label: Thomas Nelson
Manufacturer: Thomas Nelson
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 288
Publication Date: September 11, 2007
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Sales Rank: 295403
Studio: Thomas Nelson
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This is the first oral history of early television by those who made it happen. Reminiscences of the stars, the writers, the producers create a feeling of being there when television first came into America's homes.
Ed McMahon has known most of the entertainment icons of the last 50 years. He started his television career in Philadelphia and moved to New York in 1958 to appear on Who Do You Trust with Johnny Carson. Ed has interviewed writers, producers, cameramen and stars such as Annette Funicello, Dick Clark, Andy Griffith, Art Linkletter, Gale Storm, Barbara Billingsley, Walter Cronkite, Jerry Mathers, Soupy Sales, Ron Howard, Merv Griffin and more to provide not just a history of early television, but a history told by those who made it happen.
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In writing this review, I need to share a bit about myself. I was born in 1947 in Austria, then raised in Germany, and came to the United States in 1965 with my parents and my brother. My mother and my brother did not speak English very well, so a friend of ours brought us a TV set so that they could learn it. I did not watch too much TV until 1967 when I started to watch the CBS Evening News every day upon return home. My mother enjoyed CONCENTRATION and TO TELL THE TRUTH. My father's favorites ... Read More
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I really enjoyed reading this book. If you are a baby boomer or older, it will bring back some fond memories.
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