The Encyclopedia of Daytime Television

This comprehensive, five-decade chronicle of television history covers all daytime programs that aired for three or more weeks on a commercial network between 1947 and 1996, plus 100 nationally syndicated shows from the same period. Included in this book are all cartoons, children's programs, game shows, news shows, soap operas, sports programs, talk shows, and much, much more. Eack entry provides the dates each show aired, a synopsis of its plot, its principal cast members, and other pertinent information.