Ed,
Re your question below:
"Thanks for all the background on tie-ins. Good stuff. I just
wondered about the inception of TV tie-ins. I mean when did
TVs first go on the market?"
The first commercial TV broadcast occurred in the UK in the
late '30's. There were two different methods of broadcasting,
and, as I recall, BBC had decided to try both methods to see
which worked best. The two crews both were feverishly working
to get their programming material out on the air first to say
they were the first. Part of the programming included an
original play, written especially for TV, by Agatha Christie.
Some years ago MASTERPIECE THEATRE aired a drama about the
two crews working to get the first broadcasts ready.
IN the US, TV began to make inroads after WW2 and, by the
late '40's, was pretty well established.
Since there was an earlier thread about crime comics being
adapted into prose, and since Max Allan Collins is one of the
most active current "tie-in" and
"novelization" writers, you might be interested in the third
of a trilogy of Dick Tracy novels Collins wrote while he was
still employed as the writer of the daily strip, DICK TRACY
MEETS HIS MATCH. It's set in 1949, and involves Tracy in the
new medium which is already phenomenally popular.
JIM DOHERTY
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