Encyclopedia of Television Miniseries, 1936-2020
Vincent Terrace, "Encyclopedia of Television Miniseries, 1936-2020"
English | ISBN: 1476687358 | 2021 | 254 pages | PDF | 20 MB
English | ISBN: 1476687358 | 2021 | 254 pages | PDF | 20 MB
In 1936, as television networks CBS, DuMont, and NBC experimented with new ways to provide entertainment, NBC deviated from the traditional method of single experimental programs to broadcast the first multi-part program, Love Nest, over a three-episode arc. This would come to be known as a miniseries. Although the term was not coined until 1954, several other such miniseries were broadcast, including Jack and the Beanstalk and . In the mid-1960s the concept was developed into a genre that still exists. While the major broadcast networks pioneered the idea, it quickly became popular with cable and streaming services. This encyclopedic source contains a detailed history of 878 TV miniseries broadcast from 1936 to 2020, complete with casts, networks, credits, episode count and detailed plot information.
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