Who were Lost in Space? Where did The League of Gentlemen live? When did the Eurovision Song Contest begin? And what does a 'gaffer' actually do? The Penguin TV Companion - fully revised, updated and expanded - answers all of these questions, and thousands more.
-- More than 2,300 programmes, with cast lists, transmission dates, detailed synopses and loads more, from Dallas to Downton Abbey, Porridge to Peep Show and The Woodentops to The Wire
-- More than 1,500 entries for major TV people - actors, writers, producers and others, from Des O'Connor to Dermot O'Leary, Joanna Lumley to Nigella Lawson and Harry Corbett to James Corden
-- Technical terms explained; major broadcasters profiled
-- New star ratings, revealing the best, and the worst, of seventy-five years of viewing
-- DVD availability highlightedThe most comprehensive and addictive book on television you could ever want.
- ISBN10 0241952913
- ISBN13 9780241952917
- Publish Date 24 November 2011 (first published 27 September 2001)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 29 June 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Penguin Books Ltd
- Format Paperback
- Pages 1072
- Language English