Pioneers Of “B” Television

In the 1950s television was in its infancy. 

At first TV programs were broadcast on somewhat erratic schedules, with low production values and budgets and were mostly confined to small studios. Many were broadcast live.

As the popularity of TV grew more and more people bought TVs and soon families gathered around small TV screens to watch the next episode of their favorite TV series.

The first TV my family had was an RCA 9 inch.  The TV was inset in the cabinet and below it were speakers and small shelf hidden by two swinging doors. 

Often described as “The Golden Age Of TV” the 1950s witnessed a phenomenal growth.

Movie actors and actresses (along with directors and production personnel), who at first shunned TV, soon realized that TV audiences numbered in the millions.

They, along with vaudevillian and radio comedians, clamored to work on their own TV programs.

In Pioneers Of “B” Television, author Richard Irvin and publisher McFarland & Company, Inc. Publishers, take a serious and fascinating look at the independent producers, series and pilots of the 1950s.

Each producer, along with their TV series and pilots, have individual chapters dedicated to them.

Readers learn about how TV series were conceived and produced and the inner workings of TV networks and studios.

Every conceivable type of TV program is examined from Westerns to Crime Dramas. Along with each show description comes a list of the cast of characters, a synopsis of the program and much more.

Find out who was behind such it shows as The Lone Ranger, Sea Hunt, Highway Patrol and dozens more.

For an captivating and fascinating examination of early TV this book delivers on all counts.

Ephesians 3:20-21 (KJV) “Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us, Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.”