TV Finales FAQ
All That's Left to Know About the Endings of Your Favorite Tv Shows
1st Edition
Published on 1. January 2000
400 pages
978-1-4950-4607-0 (ISBN)
Description
TV Finales FAQ is the first book devoted exclusively to television's most memorable series finales. From Mary Richards' heartfelt goodbye to the WJM-TV newsroom in the classic finale of The Mary Tyler Moore Show to the puzzling conclusion of the enigmatic adventure series, Lost, to the tumultuous final hours in the life of Breaking Bad's Walter White, TV Finales FAQ takes an up close, insightful, and entertaining look at the most memorable final episodes of television's most popular prime time, daytime, and late night series.
Crafting the final episode to a long-running television series can be challenging for producers and writers who want to remain faithful to the show's characters and history, yet, at the same time, satisfy the high expectations of its loyal fan base. TV Finales FAQ offers television viewers the inside story on the creation, broadcast, and aftermath of the most famous (and infamous) final episodes of over 50 television series from the 1960s through the present day.
The books features such shows as Dexter, Roseanne, Will & Grace, The Office, The Sopranos, and some classic talk and late-night programs such as The Oprah Winfrey Show and The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, and many others.
Crafting the final episode to a long-running television series can be challenging for producers and writers who want to remain faithful to the show's characters and history, yet, at the same time, satisfy the high expectations of its loyal fan base. TV Finales FAQ offers television viewers the inside story on the creation, broadcast, and aftermath of the most famous (and infamous) final episodes of over 50 television series from the 1960s through the present day.
The books features such shows as Dexter, Roseanne, Will & Grace, The Office, The Sopranos, and some classic talk and late-night programs such as The Oprah Winfrey Show and The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, and many others.
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
Basingstoke
United States
Publishing group
Hal Leonard Corporation
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-1-4950-4607-0 (9781495046070)
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Stephen Tropiano (Los Angeles) is the author of Saturday Night Live FAQ, The Prime Time Closet: A History of Gays and Lesbians on Television, and books on the film musicals Grease and Cabaret for Limelight Editions' "Music on Film" series. He is the director of the Ithaca College Los Angeles Program, where he teaches courses in film and television theory and criticism.
Holly Van Buren (New York) earned her MA in Critical Studies at the University of Southern California and teaches film studies at Wagner College.
Holly Van Buren (New York) earned her MA in Critical Studies at the University of Southern California and teaches film studies at Wagner College.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Introduction
- Part 1. America Tunes In: The Most Watched TV Series Finales
- 1. Tuesday, August 29, 1967: The Day The Fugitive Stopped Running
- 2. Cease Fire: M*A*S*H 4077th Goes Out of Business
- 3. "Where Everybody Knows Your Name": Diane Returns to Cheers
- 4. The Finale About Something: Seinfeld on Trial
- 5. The One Where It's All Over: TV's Favorite Friends
- 6. One Final Case: Aloha, Magnum, P. I.
- 7. One Last Dance: The Cosby Show Waltzes off the Air
- Part 2. WTF? Series Finales That Left Us Scratching Our Heads
- 8. In the Mind of Tommy Westphall: St. Elsewhere's Fantastical Twist
- 9. Meanwhile, in the Basement . . . Roseanne Is Writing Her Novel
- 10. Letting Go: Lost Comes Full Circle (Sort of)
- 11. In the Dark: The Sopranos' Last Supper
- 12. Alive and Still Creepy: Dexter Makes a Major Career Change
- Part 3. Flash Forward: Finales Jump to the Future
- 13. All Grown Up: The Teens of Dawson's Creek and Gossip Girl Come of Age
- 14. Prime-Time Soulmates: Will & Grace, Jack & Karen, and Ben & Laila
- 15. Putting a Ring on It
- Part 4. All Talked Out: Daytime and Late Night Television
- 16. Sunset on Daytime: Closing the Book on Long-Running Soaps
- 17. One Final Word: Donahue and Oprah Sign Off
- 18. "I Bid You a Heartfelt Goodnight": Carson and Leno Exit The Tonight Show
- Part 5. Saying Goodbye
- 19. "Good Night, Seattle": Frasier Crane Signs Off
- 20. Canceled!: Liz Lemon Exits 30 Rock
- 21. Clocking Out: Closing The Office
- 22. "I Couldn't Help but Wonder": Carrie-ing on Without Sex and the City
- Part 6: The Best TV Series Finales
- 23. "It's a Long Way to Tipperary": Mary Tyler Moore and Friends Share a Group Hug
- 24. It Was Only a Nightmare: Newhart Wakes Up
- 25. The Apocalypse Has Been Postponed: Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel Save the World
- 26. Dearly Departed: RIP Six Feet Under
- 27. Bye-Bye Baltimore: Cutting The Wire
- 28. One Last Knock: Walter White's Final Days on Breaking Bad
- Appendix
- Bibliography
