Encyclopedia of Television Miniseries, 1936-2020

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Encyclopedia of Television Miniseries, 1936-2020 is written by Vincent Terrace and published by McFarland. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1476645426 (ISBN 10) and 9781476645421 (ISBN 13).

In 1936, as television networks CBS, DuMont, and NBC experimented with new ways to provide entertainment, NBC deviated from the traditional method of single experimental programs to broadcast the first multi-part program, Love Nest, over a three-episode arc. This would come to be known as a miniseries. Although the term was not coined until 1954, several other such miniseries were broadcast, including Jack and the Beanstalk and Women in Wartime. In the mid-1960s the concept was developed into a genre that still exists. While the major broadcast networks pioneered the idea, it quickly became popular with cable and streaming services. This encyclopedic source contains a detailed history of 878 TV miniseries broadcast from 1936 to 2020, complete with casts, networks, credits, episode count and detailed plot information.