Here's the thing about television in the 1950s: most families didn't even own a set at the start of the decade. In the beginning of that decade, less than 10% of American households owned a television ...

Since the first televised broadcast in the first half of the 20th century, TV has helped describe, drive, and ultimately define our popular culture, and the culture at large. Go decade by decade, and ...

Following early decades in which it largely broadcast live programs, with most scripted drama and comedy playing out as something closer to theater than film, American television charged into a new ...