Review (PDF) Children's Television: The First Thirty-Five Years, 1946-1981- Part 1: Animated Cartoon Series (Children's Television: The First Thirty Years) (Pt. 1)

                
              
Review (PDF) 
Children's Television: The First Thirty-Five Years, 1946-1981- Part 1: Animated Cartoon Series (Children's Television: The First Thirty Years) (Pt. 1)
Grouped together for the first time in this encyclopedic work are more than 600 live-action series from the first 35 years of American television. Alphabetically listed, the series profiles include premiere and last program, running years, days and times; basic production credits; companies; distributors' sponsors; music themes; cast credits; and substansive descriptions. --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.
Series: Children's Television: The First Thirty Years (Book 1)
Hardcover: 386 pages
Publisher: Scarecrow Press; First Edition edition (August 1, 1991)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0810815575
ISBN-13: 978-0810815575
Product Dimensions:  5.8 x 1.4 x 8.8 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:  3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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CHILDREN'S TELEVISION: THE FIRST 35 YEARS, 1946-1981-GEORGE W. WOOLERY: George W. Woolery's 300-plus page encyclopedia on the history of cartoons, both highly treasured and long-forgotten, is an exhaustive tome of virtually every animated character created between 1946 and 1981. Each entry contains original air times, descriptive passages about the shows themselves and an invaluable list of the voice-over artists who breathed personality into WOODY WOODPECKER, DUDLEY-DO-RIGHT, SPEED RACER, MAGILLA GORILLA, COOL MCCOOL, DEPUTY DAWG and hundreds of others. Naturally, the latter is dominated by undisputed kingpins DAWS "YOGI BEAR" BUTLER and MEL "BUGS BUNNY" BLANC, but it's interesting to note the countless TV actors...HOWARD (ERNEST T. BASS) MORRIS, BEA (PETTICOAT JUNCTION) BENADERET and ALLAN (SAM THE BUTCHER) MELVIN...who also lent their talents. Names like BATFINK, CLUTCH CARGO, KIMBA THE WHITE LION, MILTON THE MONSTER and THE MIGHTY HEROES may not ring a bell with the general public anymore, but that's all the more reason for a fun-packed history book like this one. Although it lacks photos of the actual cartoon characters themselves, CHILDREN'S TELEVISION: THE FIRST 35 YEARS will serve as a colorful blast from the past for anyone who grew up watching these funny, fractured, flickering images in movie theaters, after school and every rainy Saturday morning.RATING: FIVE TOONS
Not the most accurate of reference works, and poorly formatted for a professionally-published book, Woolery's Children's Television books used to be the standard for the topic. Luckily, things have changed with the advent of the internet and, much like the Medveds' Golden Turkey Award books, one can see quite obviously that this author never watched most of the programs listed in the book (or read much of the source material for the pointlessly long addendums to the descriptions), and used WAY too many TV Guides for sources. Far too much time and page space is spent on distribution companies and syndication notes.You can more than likely find an example of nearly all of these shows on YouTube right now. Go get your information from there, rather than wasting your money on one of these EXTREMELY overpriced volumes - I luckily got my copy here recently for $1.02 plus shipping, but there are posted listings on  for hundreds of dollars. It is NOT worth it for a bunch of unverified information.
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