Synopses & Reviews
For over 50 years, we have watched as television has entertained, informed, comforted, and thrilled us. We watched as sitcoms evolved from I Love Lucy to All in the Family: at first merely amusing, then becoming reflections of society and pushing the cultural boundaries. We watched President Kennedy, the first-born of television and politics, unite us in the optimism of his "new frontier" and in the grief of his assassination. Television has taken us to the scene of mass celebrations, such as the wedding of Lady Diana to Prince Charles, to calamities in Munich and New York, and into frightening fields of battle in Vietnam and Iraq. Television exposed the imperfections of the jurors' box in the trial of O.J. Simpson and the ballot box in Election 2000. Television put us in the front row when Hank broke Babe's record, when the U.S. hockey team beat the Soviets in Lake Placid, and when the NFL spilled over from Sunday afternoons to Monday nights. Over 50 years of memories-the stars, the programs, and the events stored in our hearts and imaginations like treasured heirlooms-are found in this new hardcover multimedia book from veteran New York Times best-selling author Joe Garner. In Stay Tuned, he has gathered 36 landmark moments from news, sports, and entertainment in a riveting anthology. Each story comes to life through detailed, behind-the-scenes accounts and firsthand anecdotes, and is illustrated with hundreds of poignant black-and-white and color photographs. The book's accompanying CDs and DVD feature the corresponding clips, narrated by Walter Cronkite for news, Bob Costas for sports, and (TK) for entertainment.TV's Unforgettable Moments is certain to become an important and lasting chronicle of the medium-and a best-seller in the process.
Synopsis
Stay Tuned gathers 36 landmark moments from news, sports, and entertainment in a riveting anthology. Includes 1 DVD and 2 audio CDs.
About the Author
Joe Garner is the author of the New York Times best-sellers We Interrupt this Broadcast, The Crowd Goes Wild, And the Fans Roared, and Echoes of Notre Dame Football, all of which capture great media moments that shaped our lives. Like Stay Tuned, all have been multimedia packages. A 20-year veteran of the radio broadcast industry, Garner is president of Garner Creative Concepts in Los Angeles.
Table of Contents
Entertainment. I love Lucy, "Lucy does a TV commercial...Vitameatavegamin" ; The Ed Sullivan show, Elvis debuts ; The Dick Van Dyke show, "That's my boy" ; The fugitive, "The judgment" ; All in the family, "Sammy's visit" ; The Brady bunch, "The subject was noses" ; Saturday Night Live, The early years ; Dallas, "Who done it?" ; MxAxSxH, "Goodbye, farewell, and amen" ; Cheers, "I'll be seeing you" ; The Tonight show starring Johnny Carson, "Funny moments and a final farewell" ; Survivor, season one -- News. Nixon's Checkers speech ; The first great debate, Kennedy versus Nixon ; Four days in November ; Vietnam, Cronkite denounces the Vietnam War ; Television in Space ; Nixon, from Watergate to resignation ; The TV princess ; The rescue of Baby Jessica ; The fall of the Berlin Wall ; Chasing O.J. ; Presidential election night coverage, 2000 ; September 11th -- Sports. Wide world of sports ; Home run kings, Maris, McGwire, Bonds ; Black power, The protest at the 1968 Mexico City Games ; The Heidi game ; Monday night football ; 1972 Munich Olympics crisis ; The battle of the sexes ; The perfect 10s, Comaneci and Retton ; Lake Placid 1980, "Do you believe in miracles?" ; Ali lights the centennial torch ; Tiger's win for the ages.