Description: Considers the influence of The Dick Van Dyke Show on television sitcom history.
Brief description: Joanne Morreale is associate professor in the media and screen studies program at Northeastern University. Her most recent book is The Donna Reed Show (Wayne State University Press, 2012).
Review Quotes:
Joanne Morreale's The Dick Van Dyke Show is well-researched, informative, and accessibly written. This thin volume makes a strong case for the importance of the show in television history and encourages the reader to seek out episodes of this iconic series.
--Kathy Merlock Jackson "The Journal of American Culture"