You can also find a short essay on the TV show in Diana George and John
Trimbur's freshman reader, READING CULTURE (3rd Ed.) 1999.  The essay is on
page 78 and it is Thomas Hine's "TV's Teenagers:  An Insecure, World-Weary Lot".
 
Bill
 
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