One Foot on the Floor : The Curious Evolution of Sex on Television from "I Love Lucy" to "South Park"

by Louis Chunovic

• ISBN13: 9781575001265
• ISBN10: 1575001268
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-09-01
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Summary

Chunovic guides readers on a family-values-friendly trip down TV lover's lane, with peeks along the way into the private life of such favorites as Hot Lips and the M*A*S*H gang, and much more. 70 photos.

Author Biography

Louis Chunovic is the former television editor of the Hollywood Reporter, the former managing editor of On Production magazine, and the former on-air entertainment reporter for Fox Television in Los Angeles

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. 9
The Author's Apologia	p. 11
The Biz: What It Was, How It Is	p. 15
The Fifties: Plunging Necklines, Lucy, and the King of Rock and Roll	p. 27
The Sixties: The Great Wasteland, from Hooterville to Peyton Place	p. 45
The Seventies: All in the Family, M*A*S*H, and The Ugly George Hour of Truth, Sex, and Violence	p. 59
The Eighties: Hill Street, Cheers, Bickering P.I.s, and MTV Cops	p. 83
The Nineties: Jerry to Tony and Cicely to South Park	p. 125
The Future of Television: Liking to Look, Looking to Converge	p. 175
Afterword	p. 199
Citations	p. 201
Index	p. 205
About the Author	p. 215
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