Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Editors\' Introduction Contexts; T.Garnett SECTION I: Editors\' Introduction: Production Context Television Drama Series: A Producer\'s View; I.Shubik TV Drama: Then and Now; J.McGrath Sydney Newman and the \'Golden Age\'; S.Sutton The 1970s: Regional Variations; B.Hanson Writing Television Drama: Then and Now; A.Davies \'The Age of Innocence\'; A.Plater Playing Shops, Shopping Plays: The Effect of the Internal Market on Television Drama; D.Elgar SECTION 2: Editor\'s Introduction: Critical Constructions, Approaches to TV Drama Mapping the Terrain: Troy Kennedy Martin\'s Edge of Darkness; J.Bull Holding On: Signs of the City, The Motif of the Redemptive Journey in Tony Marchant\'s Holding On; P.Billingham \'What Truth is there in this Story?\': The Dramatisation of Northern Ireland; E.Braun The Emancipatory Strategies of Reginald Perrin; C.Fox \'Run Over by One\'s Own Story\': Genre and Ethos in Dennis Potter\'s The Singing Detective\'; A.Hilfer Power Plays: Gender, Genre, and Lynda La Plante; J.Hallam Too Secret for Words: Coded Dissent in Female-authored Wednesday Plays; M.Macmurraugh-Kavanagh What Do Actors Do When They Act?; J.Caughie Multiple Authorship in TV Drama: Trevor Griffith\'s version of The Cherry Orchard; J.Tulloch Conclusion Select Bibliography Index