Demographic Vistas: Television in American Culture

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(NOTE: Author's names appear in parentheses next to the names of their fictional works. Fictional personae appear in parentheses next to the names of the actors with whom they are identified.) ABC television network, 83-85, 8690 ,93,97,122,125,126,147,158, 165 abolitionist television criticism, 2- 3 Absalom, Absalom!(Faulkner), 30, 148 Ace Trucking Company, 155 action/adventure series, 21, 93. See also crimeshow Adorno, T. W., 178 Age of Aquarius, 78 Albert, Eddie (Oliver W. Douglas), 59-60 AIda, Alan, 101 Alexander, Andrew, 159, 160 Alger, Horatio, 66 Allen, Dayton, 142 Allen, Fred, 106, 127 Allen, Gracie. See Burns, George, and Gracie Allen; Burns and Allen Show, The Allen, Steve, 23,112,132,141-43, 146-47 Main Index Allen, Woody, 146, 147 American Dream (Mailer), 67 American Medical Association, 50 Amsterdam, Morey, 23 Anders, Gunther, 30 Anderson, Eddie "Rochester," 100 Andy Hardy film series, 11, 54 Apartment Life magazine, 136 Aristotle, xiv, 98, 113 Arlen, Michael, xiii Armagedd0n, 4, 136, 148 Arnaz, Desi, 151-52 Arness, James, 70 Arnet, Peter, 170 Arnold, Danny, 93 Arquette, Cliff, 41 ART(cable TV service), 165 Astaire, Fred, 120 authorship of TV series, xv-xvi, xviii, 6, 40-41, 77-96 passim, 102, 108-10,131-32. Seealsounder "cosmology" in the Glossary Aykroyd, Dan, 119, 152-53, 154, 156, 159 "Ba-ba-lu," 151 baby-boom generation, 14,148-66 passim Baer, Max, Jr. (Jethro Bodine), 46 Baez, Joan, 27 221 * 222 Main Index Bailey, Raymond (Milburn Drysdale), 51 Bain, Conrad, 164 Ball, Lucille, 19,73, 122. See also Here sLucy; I Love Lucy; Lu(V Shaul, The "Ballad of jed Clampett," 44 Band, The, 155 Bankhead, Tallulah, III Barnouw, Erik, 3, 14, 56, 71, 75, 195n.5 Barrett, Rona, 162 Barthes, Roland, 6,9,21, 193n.17 Beckett, Samuel, 39 Beery, Noah (Rocky), 90 Bellamy, Ralph, 72 Bellow, Saul, 67 Belushi, john, 119, 152- 56, 159 Benadaret, Bea (Blanche Morton), 100; (Cousin Pear!), 59 Bendix, William, 105 Benjamin, Walter, 6 Bennett, Tony, 27, 169 Benny, jack, 20, 100-102, 110, 112 Bergman, Ingrid, 162 Berkely, Busby, 102 Berle, Milton, 24-26,73, 102, 104, 106-7, 142, 155 Bernstein, Cheryl, 28 "Big Bear of Arkansas" (Thorpe), 42-43 Billy the Kid, 67 biograph studio, 193n.19 Birch, Sammy, 103 Bishop, jim, 99, 104, 106, 120 Bishop, joey, 144-45, 163 blacklist, 76. Seealso McCarthyism Blackmur, R. P., 20 blackout sketch, 21, 24, 101, 119, 142, 150, 156-57 blacks on television, 18, 27,87,96, 156 Bloch, Ray, 108 Bob (Elliot), and Ray (Goulding), 76 Bochco, Steven, 94-98 Bogart, Humphrey, 162 Boone, Richard (Paladin), 71 bourgeois gentilbornme, Le (Moliere), 102 boxing, 71,104-5, 193n.17 Brecht, Bertholt, 32 Brennan, Walter, 55 Brenner, David, 156 Brinkley, David, 162 Brooks, Mel, 146 Brooks, Tim, and Earl Marsh, xiv, 25, 106 Brown, james, 156 Brown, Les, 124 Bruce, Lenny, 156 Buchanan, Edgar (Uncle joe), 61 Buhle, Paul, 35 Burbank, Luther, 61 Burden, Chris, 28 Burke, Kenneth, 153, 200n.35 Burns, George, and Gracie Allen, 100,102,110 Burr, Raymond (Ironside), 87 Burrows, Abe, 41 Buttram, Pat (Mf. Haney), 60 Buzzi, Ruth, 156 Byrnes, Edd (Kookie), 83 cable TV, 12,98, 164-66 Caesar, Sid, 24, 142, 150 Cain, james M., 3, 74 Calhoun, Haystacks, 9 C & W (country and western), 44, 136, 145 Cand~john, 161-64 Cannell, Stephen]., 91-92 Cantor, Eddie, 106 Capitol Records, III Capone, AI, 45, 66, 80 Capp, AI, 47 Captain and Tenille, 27 Carey, james, xii Carlin, George, 150 Carney, Art, 104, 110, 124 Carroll, Diahann (julia), 18 Carson, johnny, 23, 125, 140-42, 145-48,149,151 Carter, jack, 106 Cass, Peggy, 144 Castro, Fidel, 143 Cavett, Dick, 147 Cawelti, john, 33, 66, 70 CBS television network, 13, 40, 41, 44,63,71,97,109-10,116,117, 118,121,122,123,124,125,147, 165, 192n.6, 195n.5, 196n. 21 censorship of IT programming, 25, 27,80,96-97 Chagall, David, 31 Champagne Generation (Ebsen), 196n.13 Chandler, Raymond, 70, 74, 91 Chaplin, Charlie, 101, 119 Charles, Ray, 156 Chase, Chevy, 150-51 Chateaubriand, 42 Chayefsky, Paddy, 149 Chermak, Cy, 87 Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN), xiv, 165 Cid, The (Corneille), 113 cinema as IT market test, 138 Civil Disobedience (Thoreau), 88 CNN, 165, 170 Coca, Imogene, 150 Cole, Nat "King," 27 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 42 Columbus, Christopher, 131 comedy-variety show, 11,21-29,71, 100,107-12...