Here's the thing about television in the 1950s: most families didn't even own a set at the start of the decade. In the beginning of that decade, less than 10% of American households owned a television ...

Picture this: It’s 1964, and families across America are huddled around their black-and-white Zenith sets, watching a sharp-suited man step through a door that exists “between the pit of man’s fears ...

Since the first televised broadcast in the first half of the 20th century, TV has helped describe, drive, and ultimately define our popular culture, and the culture at large. Go decade by decade, and ...