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Article: A GUIDE TO TELEVISION'S MAYBERRY R.F.D.(Review)
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- Journal of Popular Film & Television
- Article date:
- June 22, 2001
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David Fernandes and Dale Robinson. Jefferson: McFarland, 1999. 245 pp. $35 cloth.
My brother-in-law, a graduate student living in New Jersey, recently told me about a relatively new ritual he has observed at several on-campus restaurants: "riffing" about television. Twenty-something students try to outdo each other with their rapid-fire knowledge of television programs, many of which were on the air long before they were born.
The reader will feel that he or she has just emerged from a riffing session after digesting David Fernandes and Dale Robinson's thorough book A Guide to Television's Mayberry R.F.D. A formidable, at times overwhelming, amount of ...