The Hour That Never Was: The Avengers: Classic British Television Drama Volume 1

Television drama rarely receives the analytical attention paid to a landmark painting, sculpture, play, poem or film, frequently marginalised as a piece of fleeting popular culture rather than 'a more lasting art form'. The disappearance of many 1950s and 1960s TV dramas - the videotape wiped and re-used - seems merely to confirm its temporary status. The emergence of television studies has helped to question this mind-set. Innovative television drama can rival any field of the arts in term...