For decades, British children's TV was surely the finest entertainment in the world. From Thunderbirds to The Clangers, Blue Peter to Magpie, Camberwick Green to Tiswas, and Captain Pugwash to The Magic Roundabout, there was a huge variety on offer for kids - and adults - to enjoy. Now, in The Golden Age of Children's TV, Tim Worthington brings back the joy of those times and the programmes we loved, sharing a deep-dive behind the scenes of key programmes, how they came about and the stories behind the shows. From Saturday morning telly to teatime favourites, discover everything you never knew about the programmes you loved as well as the gossip from behind-the-scenes. Written with affection but also with a wry appreciation of the shortcomings of the times, this is the hugely engaging and entertaining story of a key part of our pop culture, from a time long before streaming and the internet, when we sat down together to watch brilliant British telly.

From the late 1940's through the early 1970's, local TV stations created a golden age of children's television. These programs were rich in imagination, inventiveness, and devoted fans. This book tells the back stories and details of the special Chicago children's programming created during this period.

This book meets the needs of today's early childhood teachers, administrators, and community leaders who are seeking to become better acquainted with critical issues in early education and to develop their own advocacy and leadership skills. It provides the tools and knowledge necessary for early childhood professionals to advocate for and address the implications of child-related policies. KEY TOPICS: The book's articles and activities involve readers in an investigation of and reflection on issues and advocacy action. Readers are presented with various viewpoints that engage their critical thinking skills and expand their advocacy abilities, both inside and outside their immediate professional settings. Incorporated into the chapters are cases and vignettes, discussion questions, advocacy and leadership activities, advocacy strategy guidelines, fact sheets, and suggestions for additional resources and further readings. MARKET: For anyone interested in policy or issues in Early Childhood Education.

Scholars, artists in various media, and religious and political figures offer diverse but informed perspectives on the history of the English people, emphasizing the origins of England and the English. The project is part of the larger movement of British History, which recognizes the constituent peoples of Britain as well as the whole entity. Poem

She shows Kennedy making himself accessible to the public by appearing on the Tonight Show as a candidate in 1960, allowing documentary cameras to follow him in the Oval Office, and supporting Jacqueline's televised tour of the renovated White House. She examines FCC Chairman Newton Minow's campaign to uplift network programs (including his famous Vast Wasteland speech), and the outstanding documentaries, controversial dramas, and other innovative offerings that followed. In addition, The Expanding Vista offers an inside look at television's role in the epic events of these years, from the civil rights struggle, to the space race, to the Cuban Missile Crisis--when Kennedy broke diplomatic tradition by announcing on television that nuclear weapons were in Cuba, and when the Soviets transmitted their offer for a compromise through a television reporter.

"Informative and insightful, this book takes the convincing stance that TV's good old days are really today". -- Publishers Weekly

"This book takes a fond look at one of music's most enduring and most eccentric genres. From their roots in the raucous rhymes 'n' rhythms of Louis Jordan and the inspired lunacy of Spike Jones in the Forties to the musical madness of "Weird Al" Yankovic in the Nineties, novelty songs have always provided a titter, a chuckle, a groan, or a barrel of laughs."

More than 600 live-action series from the first 35 years of American television are alphabetically listed in this encyclopedic work.