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I've seen this one before: the construction of 'classic TV' on cable television / Derek Kompare -- Selling soap: post-war television soap opera and the American housewife / Kristen Hatch -- Study of a mad housewife: psychiatric discourse, the suburban home and the case of Gracie Allen / Allison McCracken -- Lessons from Uncle Miltie: ethnic masculinity and early television's vaudeo star / Susan Murray -- Nothin' could be finah: The Dinah Shore Chevy show / Lola Clare Bratten -- Re-made for television: Hedy Lamarr's post-war star textuality / Diane Negra -- Maureen O'Hara's 'Confidential' life: recycling stars through gossip and moral biography / Mary Desjardins -- Matinee theater: difference, compromise and the 1950s daytime audience / Matthew Murray -- The BBC and the birth of The Wednesday Play, 1962-66: institutional containment versus 'agitational contemporaneity' / Madeleine MacMurraugh-Kavanagh -- Mystery and imagination: anatomy of a Gothic anthology series / Helen Wheatley -- Exploiting the intimate screen: The quartermass experiment, fantasy and the aesthetic potential of early television drama / Catherine Johnson -- This week in 1956: the introduction of current affairs on ITV / Victoria Wegg-Prosser -- Women at work: popular drama on British television c1955-60 / Janet Thumim -- Crackint open the set: television repair and tinkering with gender, 1949-1955 / Lisa Parks.