Perry Mason, Ernie Kovacs, and The Electronic Mirror

TVC 527.2: Novelist, essayist, and TV historian Mitchell Hadley talks to Ed about the eternal appeal of Perry Mason; the genius of Ernie Kovacs; and how prime time game shows such as What's My Line? also serve as "inadvertent documentaries" about the culture of the early 1960s. Mitchell's latest book, The Electronic Mirror: What Classic TV Tells US About Who We Were and Who We Are (and Everything in Between), traces the evolution of the various genres that populated the first three decades of television, while also showing why the shared experience of television that marked the lives of so many of us who came of age in a three-network TV universe is often lost on contemporary viewers.

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