"Bodroghkozy is right-on when it comes to the details of "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, " CBS's firing of us, and the surrounding controversy. Her observations are certainly worth taking the time to read."--Tom Smothers

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Turning on the Groove Tube
1. “Clarabell was the First Yippie”: The Television Generation from Howdy Doody to McLuhan
2. Plastic Hippies: The Counterculture on TV
3. “Every Revolutionary Needs a Color TV”: The Yippies, Media Manipulation, and Talk Shows
4. Smothering Dissent: The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour and the Crisis of Authority in Entertainment Television
5. Negotiating the Mod: How The Mod Squad Played the Ideological Balancing Act in Prime-Time
6. Make It Relevant: How Youth Rebellion Captured Prime-Time in 1970-1971
7. Conclusion: Legacies
Appendix: A Groove Tube Selective Chronology of the Years 1966 to 1971
Bibliography

Aniko Bodroghkozy is Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of Alberta.