Are you curious to know: The 50 Greatest TV Shows of all time? The 50 Worst? The 25 Greatest Commercials? The 10 Strangest Moments in Sports? . . . Then you'll be reading the right book! Here's a trivia book as entertaining as the TV shows it celebrates. Get lost in the greatest moments from classic television, right up to the must-see TV of today. Enjoy 50 years and 175 lists of pure trivia gold that covers TV themes, episodes, stars, celebrities, and even commercials. TV Guide has covered them all, and now they open their vault to bring all the favorite lists they've written over the years to a single fun volume!

Television fans are fascinated by the history of their favorite shows -- past and present. Now for the first time, TV's bible, TV Guide has authorized the The TV GuideBook of Lists -- 147 fascinating lists featuring characters, celebrities, top shows from daytime and nighttime and famous episodes. From the bizarre to the brilliant, this one-of-a-kind collection of TV lists will have you watching your shows and their stars ina whole new way. In these pages you'll discover: How many movie stars got their first break on TV Who has stripped for Playboy The 50 greatest TV stars of all time Which child TV stars have a criminal record The 100 most memorable moments in TV history Rosie O'Donnell's favorite TV theme songs Chris Carter's scariest X-Files creatures Which stars sang their own TV theme songs And so much more!

This book looks at the origins and growth of television through the pages of TV Guide and covers the complete run of this American icon from the first guides in 1953 to the last issue in guide format on October 9, 2005. It includes full color reproductions of every cover ever printed, and is both a collector's guide with pricing included, and a retrospective view of the medium.

Imagine the greatest week of television ever. In celebration of its 50th anniversary, TV GUIDE has done just that. Picking and choosing from classic programs, unforgettable characters, hilarious moments and broadcast-interrupting tragedies, TV GUIDE has created in this deluxe and nostalgic history the ultimate week of programming. Here are fifty years of riveting innovation distilled into one unforgettable book. From Saturday morning cartoons through prime time and late night, "Fifty Years of Television pays tribute to hundreds of the most important shows of all time. More than 250 color and black-and-white photographs capture the giants of TV in their prime--from "The Great One," Jackie Gleason, to his latter-day descendant Homer Simpson, from Jack Webb of "Dragnet to James Gandolfini of "The Sopranos. The exciting, graphic covers of TV GUIDE offer a fantastic voyage through generations of pop culture. More than 400 collectible covers are included, featuring the work of artists such as Charles Addams, Salvador Dali, Al Hirschfield, Norman Rockwell and Andy Warhol. Landmark essays from the pages of TV GUIDE by Oprah Winfrey, John F. Kennedy, Alex Haley and other American icons shed light on the seductive power of the medium. In original interviews, some of TV's best known and most beloved personalities reminisce about the shows that made the country tune in. A sweeping appreciation of TV, this is the ultimate book of its kind.

The mixture of serious topics, tongue-in-cheek items, and outright silliness provides something to please everyone familiar with libraries, making a fun read and a wonderful gift.

Discusses some of the good and bad aspects of television and points out safety factors to observe while watching television, how to choose a suitable program, and how to adopt a critical approach to commercials.