Pt 1. At the moment ; The west wing / Nick Hornby ; America, America, this is you / Elizabeth McCracken ; Days of our lives / Susan Perabo ; The tribe has spoken / Phyllis Rose ; pt. 2. Role models ; Father knows best / Susan Cheever ; The great ones / Barry Hannah ; The Andy Griffith show / Jill McCorkle ; Beam me up, Scotty: Star Trek / James Alan McPherson ; Bring back Big Valley / Jayne Anne Phillips ; The wound and the bow: Howard Cosell and Monday night football -- pt. 3. Thanks for being there ; Rob and Laura and the Little garage / Richard Bausch ; Like Robinson Crusoe / Lan Samantha Chang ; The Mary Tyler Moor show / Nora Ephron ; Infomercials / Stephen McCauley ; You are not alone: MST3K, Lost in space, and reality of science fiction / Douglas Rushkoff -- pt. 4. Great Escapes ; A life of danger / April Bernard ; Masterpiece Theatre / Michael Gorra ; Dreamhouse / Virginia Heffernan ; Hawaii 5-0 / Mark Leyner ; The Twilight Zone / Alan Lightman -- pt. 5. In the beginning ; The world in black and white / Sven Birkerts ; Amos 'n Andy and civil rights on TV / Henry Louis Gates, Jr. ; Gracie and me / Lloyd Schwartz.