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Praise for the First Edition. Acknowledgments. Foreword by Ken Tucker. Preface to the Second Edition. 1. What's So Funny About America? 2. Waking Up to Television. 3. The Making of a Sitcom, 1961. 4. Planet Earth to Sitcom, Planet Earth to Sitcom. 5. The Sitcom at Literate Peak. 6. Demographic Fantasies of the Reagan Era. 7. Friends of the Family. Bibliography. Index to Television Comedy Series. General Index.