The Rough Guide to Cult TV: Flipping Like a Pancake, Popping Like a Cork
- ISBN-10
- 1843530090
- ISBN-13
- 9781843530091
- Category
- Television programs
- Pages
- 384
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2002
- Publisher
- Rough Guides Limited
- Author
- Paul Simpson
Description
Following the same pocket format as The Rough Guide to Cult Movies, The Rough Guide to Cult TV is organised by genre, covering everything from sci-fi to comedy, sixties soaps to Czech animation, Alan Whicker to Alan Bleasdale and Zed Cars to Zoo Time. Meet the real life characters behind the sitcoms, read about the ones that got away and the ones they couldn't kill. Put on your pac-a-mac and paddle in a timeless tide of tosh, tension and titillation.
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