Stay Tuned: Television’s Unforgettable Moments

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.

In Stay Tuned, Joe has gathered 36 landmark moments from 50 years of 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 memory-shaking black-and-white and color photographs. The book’s accompanying CDs and DVD feature the actual television clips, narrated by Walter Cronkite for news, Bob Costas for sports, and Dick Van Dyke for entertainment. Stay Tuned: Television’s Unforgettable Moments is a New York Times and USA Today best-seller and has become an important and lasting chronicle of the medium.

Garner…channel-surfs through decades of television productions, focusing on 36 landmark moments in news, sports and show business….The accompanying DVD and two audio CDs contain slickly edited clips and interviews. The package is neatly stitched together by a clever contents page that cross-references the book's page numbers with specific DVD and CD tracks. Few will be disappointed by this anecdote-laden compilation.

An entertaining overview of television and its effect on the second half of the 20th century.