All in the Decade: 70 Things About 70s TV That Turned Ten Years Into a Revolution - Paperback

by Jim McKairnes (Author)

At some point between Watergate and The Love Canal, between Nixon and Carter, between Vietnam and Afghanistan, between POWs and Americans Held Hostage, between Robert Altman and Steve Martin, between The Supremes and The Ramones, between Helen Reddy and Blondie, between Joe Namath and Pete Rose ... the 1970s happened. And TV tried to keep up. Or did the country try to keep up with TV?From Archie to Kunta Kinte and from "Helter Skelter" to Jiggle TV, ALL IN THE DECADE recounts ten years in the life of television.

Author Biography

Jim McKairnes spent his 1960s and 1970s Northeast Philadelphia rowhome childhood in front of the small family black-and-white in the basement. Thirty years later he somehow found himself an executive at CBS Television in its fabled Television City headquarters in Los Angeles, part of the team of people running the network. He's now a writer and teacher.