This guide provides teaching suggestions, discussion questions, and a sypnosis of Captains Courageous, as well as a listing of related books and films for the ABC-TV broadcast of Kipling's Story. (Author/STS)

Responds to Martin Allor's "Relocating the Site of the Audience" (same issue). Suggests that the audience precedes the text. (MS)

Discusses forms of television representation, especially television realism. Proposes that the less value laden term "verisimilitude" replace realism when discussing forms of television representation. Defines television verisimilitude as a product of engagement between program and viewer in the process of text construction. (SD)

Addresses the three most frequently asked questions about exploring the use of public-access television: (1) How does one get started? (2) What are the obstacles? (3) What are the pitfalls (and tips) in producing a show? Optimistically concludes to beware of skeptics and go ahead. (JK)

Used a sample of 165 long-time soap opera viewers to examine the context, motives, and consequences of drug use in daytime serials. Results showed alcohol was seen more frequently than any other drug. Portrayal of illegal drugs was much less common than that of legal drugs. (JAC)

Officials from the American Broadcasting Companies (ABC) continue the debate between the network's report (minimizing television's role in the development of violent behavior) and the National Institute of Mental Health's position (which indicts television as a cause of social violence). (GC)

Argues that the characters played by Blacks on soap operas are neutral in that they are almost invariably second-stringers, detached from their Black ethnic background, and presented in ways that will not be seen as threatening by the White world. (CMG)

Suggested guidelines for a low-budget instructional television operation. (Author)

A public debate about television programing between network representatives and members of the Philadelphia Ethical Society is described. (BD)

Discusses the development of the "Woman Alive!" specials for the 1977 public television season. (ER)

Educational broadcasting's status, prospects, distribution, programing, audiences, decentralization, and organization. (LS)

A description of a do-it-yourself switcher that lets one man do two-camera productions. (Author)

This article explores the possibilities of upgrading PTV station leadership.'' (Editor)