Television: Rare & Well Done is a collection of essays that cover nearly 70 years of American and British television. Its essays cover a time span that includes the anthology shows of the Fifties and the reality shows of the Naughts. The essays address subjects including the Golden Age of Television, the Westerns of the Fifties, the Davy Crockett phenomena, The Avengers, the spy craze of the Sixties, Batman, children's shows, and The Lone Gunmen.