Roy Huggins

As a writer and TV producer, Huggins created some of the most memorable TV shows of all time: Maverick (1957-1962), 77 Sunset Strip (1958-1964), The Fugitive (1963-1967) and The Rockford Files (1974-1980). Plus many others that are not so well known -- he wrote at least 350 TV and movie scripts. In 1961 an episode of his series Bus Stop dealt with a psychopathic killer; around the same time, Federal Communications Commission chairman criticized TV as "a vast wasteland", and Bus Stop was held up as an example. In response, Huggins wrote that "The public arts are created for a mass audience and for a profit; that is their essential nature. But they can at times achieve truth and beauty, and given freedom they will achieve it more and more often." And he went on to prove that before he died, on April 5 in Santa Monica, Calif., at 87. From This is True for 7 April 2002 Suggestions for further reading: Mad Men Unbuttoned: A Romp Through 1960s America by Natasha Vargas-cooper Amazon Price: $11.55 Customer Review: //Mad Men Unbuttoned: A Romp Through 1960s America// uses the characters and episodes of //Mad Men//, a TV drama about 1960s New York admen as a jumping off point to give readers an overview of the 1960s from hippies to Kennedys to the Marlboro Man. ...   As Seen on TV: The Visual Culture of Everyday Life in the 1950s by Karal Ann Marling Amazon Price: $26.73 Customer Review: I was really excited to read this book but I didn't enjoy it. It reads like a textbook to me. My mind drifted. Even the part about Disneyland couldn't hold my attention. Overall I found it really dry and not a fun read.   Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years 1954-1965: A Companion Volume... by Juan Williams Amazon Price: Customer Review: This book was in very poor condition. Not what I expect. I will never purchase another book from this vendor.   Groove Tube: Sixties Television and the Youth Rebellion (Console-ing Passions) by Aniko Bodroghkozy Amazon Price: $24.95 Customer Review: This book has some really interesting information on the evolution of culture in 60's television. I would say that the people who lived it as teenagers and adults might not benefit as much from reading it, but those who remember the shows as children...   Seriously Funny: The Rebel Comedians of the 1950s and 1960s by Gerald Nachman Amazon Price: Customer Review: A bittersweet look at the daring and provocative comedy "subversives" who turned scathingly humorous social commentary into an American art form. It'll make you want to turn back the clock to New York's and San Francisco's ground-breaking "beat era"...   Newsfeed display by CaRP

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