Contents -- Introduction -- Installing the Television Set: Popular Discourses on Television and Domestic Space, 1948-1955 -- The Spectacularization of Everyday Life: Recycling Hollywood Stars and Fans in Early Television Variety Shows -- The Meaning of Memory: Family, Class, and Ethnicity in Early Network Television Programs -- Sit-coms and Suburbs: Positioning the 1950s Homemaker -- "Is This What You Mean by Color TV?": Race, Gender, and Contested Meanings in NBC's -- Defining Women: The Case of Cagney and Lacey -- Kate and Allie: "New Women" and the Audience's Television Archives -- All's Well That Doesn't End - Soap Opera and the Marriage Motif -- All that Television Allows: TV Melodrama, Postmodernism, and Consumer Culture -- Source Guide to TV Family Comedy, Drama, and Serial Drama, 1946-1970 -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.