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The Classic Serial on Television and Radio

By: Keith Selby, Robert Giddings

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Hardcover | 14 February 2001 | Edition Number 1

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The classic serial, invented by BBC Radio Drama sixty years ago, survived and adapted itself to television, the arrival of colour and the global market in what has become a flood of classics with all channels competing for ratings and overseas sales. This richly detailed book traces these developments and analyses the genre's response to social, economic, technical and cultural changes, which have re-shaped it into the form we recognise today. The book contains considerable interview material with performers and media professionals.

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Acknowledgments	p. vi
List of Plates	p. vii
Introduction	p. viii
Definitions, Early History: the Classic Drama Serial	p. 1
The 1970s: Signs of Change	p. 31
The Blockbusters	p. 54
The 1990s: Renaissance of the Classic Serial	p. 80
The 'Pride and Prejudice Factor'	p. 104
The 'Pride and Prejudice Effect': a Promising Future for the Past	p. 124
Boz Rides Again, and this is where we came in...	p. 151
The Albatross which was Really a Phoenix	p. 190
Notes	p. 211
Select Bibliography	p. 227
Index	p. 229
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