📚 Television Authorship

Books with television authorship on their catalogue record, first published between 1954 and 2019, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject television authorship in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 500 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Writing for visual media	Anthony Friedmann	2001	16
	Write to TV	Martie Cook	2006	15
	Michael Palin Diaries 1969-1979	Michael Palin	2006	13
	How to Write a Movie in 21 Days	Viki King	1988	11
	Writing for the mass media	James Glen Stovall	1985	10
	The Best Seat in the House	Allen Rucker	2007	9
	Halfway to Hollywood	Michael Palin	2009	9
	Television writing and selling	Edward Barry Roberts	1954	8
	Writing screenplays that sell	Michael Hauge	1980	8
	The screenwriter's bible	David Trottier	1994	7
	Vale's technique of screen and television writing	Eugene Vale	1998	7
	Script partners	Claudia Johnson	2002	7
	How to Be a Sitcom Writer	Marc Blake	2005	7
	The elements of screenwriting	Irwin R. Blacker	1986	6
	Me alquilo para soñar	Gabriel García Márquez	1995	6
	Successful television writing	Lee Goldberg	2003	6
	Dramatic Story Structure	Edward J. Fink	2013	6
	Scriptwriting for Film Television and New Media	Alan C. Hueth	2019	6
	The complete guide to standard script formats	Hillis R. Cole	1980	5
	Writing the screenplay	Alan A. Armer	1988	5
	American Scream	Cynthia True	2002	5
	Writing the TV Drama Series	Pamela Douglas	2005	5
	The screenwriter's sourcebook	Michael Haddad	2005	5
	Writing for Television	Sir Basil Bartlett	2016	5
	Script-writing for television	Janet Dunbar	1965	4
	The television copywriter	Charles Anthony Wainwright	1966	4
	Writing for television	Max Wylie	1970	4
	The writer and the screen	Wolf Peter Rilla	1973	4
	Writing the Script	Wells Root	1980	4
	How To Write For Television	Madeline Dimaggio	1990	4

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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