The magic box : viewing Britain through the rectangular window / presented by Rob Young.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Young, Rob, 1964- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Television--Great Britain--History.

Television.

Television programs--Great Britain--History.

Television programs.

National characteristics, British, on television.

History.

Great Britain--On television.

Great Britain.

Great Britain--Social conditions--1945-.

Social conditions.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

viii, 500 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Faber & Faber, 2021.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Two Great Leaps Forward (1953 and 1963)

Village of the Damned, Children of the Damned, The Damned, This Sporting Life, Doctor Who, World in Action, Billy Liar, Tom Jones

2. The Creeping Menace

The Changes, The Quatermass Experiment, X the Unknown, Quatermass II, Daleks - Invasion Earth 2150 A.D., Quatermass and the Pit, The Machine Stops, The Year of the Sex Olympics, Quatermass

3. This Nation's Undermind

Went the Day Well?, Nineteen Eighty-Four, It Happened Here, The Other Man, The Guardians, An Englishman's Castle, 1990, Years and Years

4. The Bomb Will Keep Us Together

The Road, Threads, The Bed Sitting Room, The War Game, Day of the Triffids, The Old Men at the Zoo, 28 Days Later, Z for Zachariah, Doomwatch, Stronger Than the Sun, Edge of Darkness

5. Return to the Rural

'Home Counties Horror', Dead of Night, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Droving

6. Fate the First: Evil Heritage

Masque of the Red Death, The Black Torment, The Tomb of Ligeia, The Plague of the Zombies, The Reptile, Witchfinder General, Cry of the Banshee, The Bloody Judge, Twins of Evil, The Devils, The Shout, A Field in England

7. Fate the Second: The Ghouls Are Among Us

Night of the Demon, Night of the Eagle, The Skull, The Blood on Satan's Claw, Psychomania, 'Baby'

8. Fate the Third: Pagans Rule OK!

The Witches, Eye of the Devil, The Owl Service, Robin Redbreast, Tam Lin, Doctor Who and the Daemons, The Wicker Man, Children of the Stones, 'The Breakthrough', 'Murrain', Kill List

9. Spooks and Stones

The Innocents, The Haunting, Symptoms, 'The Exorcism', The Stone Tape, Tarry-Dan Tarry-Dan Scarey Old Spooky Man

10. Ghosts of Christmas Past

Whistle and I'll Come to You, The Stalls of Barchester, The Tractate Middoth, A Warning to the Curious, Lost Hearts, The Ice House, The Treasure of Abbot Thomas, The Ash Tree, The Signalman, Stigma, The Woman in Black, 'The Devil of Christmas'

11. Imps in the Valves

'A Woman Sobbing', A Child's Voice, 'The Keeper', Ghostwatch, 'Dead Line'

12. Brush Off the Dust

Fingerbobs, Bagpuss, Dreamchild, Finding Neverland, Goodbye Christopher Robin, Mary Poppins Returns

13. Flickers in the Grate

Lancelot and Guinevere, The Mouse on the Moon, Culloden, Alfred the Great, Gone to Earth, Far from the Madding Crowd, Wessex Tales, Little Dorrit, The French Lieutenant's Woman, Another Time, Another Place, Rainy Day Women, A Month in the Country

14. Bleak Houses

The Go-Between, Brideshead Revisited, The Shooting Party, The Remains of the Day, The Draughtsman's Contract, Downton Abbey, Mansfield Park, Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, Sir Henry at Rawlinson End, Archipelago, The Garden

15. The Geography of Peace

Jack Hargreaves, Fyfe Robertson, Fred Dibnah, Ian Nairn, Sir John Betjeman, British Transport Films, Humphrey Jennings, Patrick Keiller, Chris Petit

16. The Ragged Fringes

Gallivant, The Moon and the Sledgehammer, Requiem for a Village, Akenfield, Sleep Furiously, Way of the Morris, Two Years at Sea, Oss Oss Old Oss, Bait

17. Pageants and Pandaemonium

Orlando, A Diary for Timothy, Family Portrait, 2012 Olympics Opening Ceremony, In the Forest, Jubilee, Philip Donnellan, For Memory, Living on the Edge, The Lie of the Land, The Levelling, The Stuart Hall Project, Arcadia

18. III Fares the Land

The Luddites, Winstanley, Comrades, The Wind That Shakes the Barley, The Massacre of Glencoe, Peterloo

19. Private Dysfunctions

If..., O Lucky Man!, Unman, Wittering and Zi go, Scum, Kes, Scotch on the Rocks, Death Line, The Ruling Class, Pink Floyd: The Wall, Britannia Hospital

20. Tangled Up in Time

Sapphire and Steel, Corridor of Mirrors, The Time Machine, The Ploughman's Lunch, Wetherby, The Line of Beauty, Close My Eyes

21. English Magic

A Canterbury Tale, Penda's Fen, Robin of Sherwood: 'The Swords of Wayland', Stargazy on Zummerdown, Detectorists, Britannia, Worzel Gummidge

22. Closedown.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9780571284597

0571284590

OCLC:

1255863974