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When variety was king : memoir of a TV pioneer : featuring Jackie Gleason, Sonny and Cher, Hee Haw and more / Frank Peppiatt.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Peppiatt, Frank, 1927-2012.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Television producers and directors--Canada--Biography.
Television producers and directors.
Television producers and directors--United States--Biography.
Television broadcasting--United States--History--20th century.
Television broadcasting.
Peppiatt, Frank, 1927-2012.
Peppiatt, Frank.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (306 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
Toronto, Ont. : ECW Press, c2013.
Language Note:
English
Summary:
An autobiography of television producer Frank Peppiatt.
Contents:
Chapter 1 And Away We Go!
Chapter 2 Depression without a Shrink
Chapter 3 Neither a Salesman Nor a Lawyer Be
Chapter 4 Enslaved to the Ad Man
Chapter 5 From Ad Man to Superman
Chapter 6 Striptease at the Border
Chapter 7 Polio Clown
Chapter 8 Hurricane Wedding and Other Disasters
Chapter 9 I Take Manhattan and Manhattan Takes Me
Chapter 10 Brown Christmas with Bing Crosby
Chapter 11 White Christmas with Perry Como
Chapter 12 Loss
Chapter 13 Judy! Judy! Judy!
Chapter 14 Hullabaloo and Sinatra Too
Chapter 15 Hurricane Marriage and Hee Haw Honeymoon
Chapter 16 Hee Hawing All the Way to the Bank
Chapter 17 Drowning in Money
Chapter 18 Depression with shrink
Chapter 19 Canadian Sunset
I Remember John Aylesworth.
Notes:
Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
Includes index.
ISBN:
1-77041-029-5
1-77090-354-2
OCLC:
841525756

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