The Penguin TV Companion (Penguin Reference Books S.)

by JeffEvans (Author)

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  Paperback
  2001

  $3.25

  Can you name the three original presenters of Magpie ? Who won the Eurovision Song Contest the year after Abba? What does a floor manager do? What is the longest-running programme still showing on UK television? The Penguin TV Companion answers all of these questions: it aims to be the most wide-ranging, fascinating and useful reference book about UK television. Not only does it give you full cast lists and lively plot synopses of nearly 1300 programmes broadcast in the UK since the BBC's first transmission in 1936 but there are also entries for around 1300 actors, writers, producers and directors. From Sooty to The Simpsons , Billy Bunter to Big Brother , Emergency-Ward 10 to ER , Leslie Mitchell to Davina McCall, and Richard Dimbleby to Charlie Dimmock, this companion gives you all you could wish to know about television: the programmes, the people, the companies and the history.

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  Paperback
  2006

  $3.25

  Take a nostalgic trip through 70 years of television with the third edition of The Penguin TV Companion . From Little House on the Prairie to Little Britain , The X Files to The X Factor , and Department S to Desperate Housewives , no other book on television is as comprehensive, or addictive. It covers 2,200 programmes with full cast lists, transmission dates and detailed lively synopses. There are more than 1,500 entries for major TV people - actors, writers, producers and others: from Lew Grade to Ricky Gervais, David Coleman to Simon Cowell, and Chris Tarrant to David Tennant. There are new star ratings, revealing the best, and the worst, of 70 years of viewing. DVD availability is included for the first time. So, whether you want to know whose singing made the customers in 'Allo 'Allo fill their ears with cheese, when was That Was The Week That Was or who Santa's Little Helper is - this is the book for you.