The History of Television
Episode Date: June 8, 2022It has been called the boob tube and the idiot box, but the fact is that perhaps no invention was as important to the latter half of the 20th Century...
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2140 episodes transcribedIt has been called the boob tube and the idiot box, but the fact is that perhaps no invention was as important to the latter half of the 20th Century...
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