Cover: Special Issue — Television
Features: Live dramas from TV's golden age by Michael Kerbel
TV movies by Tom Allen
50s TV comedy by Peter W. Kaplan
Norman Lear by Richard Corliss
20 infamous moments in TV history by Paul Slansky
OD-ing on TV by Janet Maslin
TV news sex symbols by Richard Corliss
Johnny Carson by Roger Ebert
Television sports by Cary Schneider
Lou Grant by Richard T. Jameson
Dallas by Dave Kehr
Midsection — Commercials: Making commercials by Dan Yakir
Commercial character types by Tom Figenshu
Journals: Ojai by Frank Rich
Paris by Gilbert Adair
Books: The War, The West, and the Wilderness by Kevin Brownlow, reviewed by William K. Everson