Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Public servide and the popular: depates and developments "Neighbours to the nation": "Soap opera", the BBC (re)visiting The Grove family (1954-57)
  • "The 'give away' shows-but who is really paying": rethinking quiz and game shows on 1950s British television
  • The problem show "An ... unmarried mother sat in a wing-backed chair on TV last night": BBC Television asks Is this your problem? (1955-57)
  • From "serialitis" to "torture, treacle, tears and trickery" framing the television fame
  • Conclusion: "There's nothing really better that what you are used to, is there?"