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 Harry Castleman doesn’t watch as much television as he used to,
which is probably a good thing. In real life, Harry is a lawyer with the
firm of Michienzie & Sawin in Boston, specializing in business, probate,
real estate, and intellectual property law.
He co-authored seven other popular culture books with Wally Podrazik,
and also co-authored another book about applying and going to law
school. He previously worked as a media producer for the Democratic
National Committee, press secretary for the Florida Democratic Party,
and as a media consultant to political campaigns both nationally and in
Florida. Harry has also been a guest lecturer on TV history at Boston
University’s College of Communication and has been interviewed on radio
and television stations concerning television and music history. He
graduated from Northwestern University (where Harry met Wally) and
Boston University School of Law.
Harry is happily married and is currently enjoying watching his
daughter grow up. He is now glad he never gave up hope that the Red Sox
would win the World Series in his lifetime.
 Walter J. Podrazik loves history, education, and television and
is a firm believer in using "both sides of the brain." A communications
and logistics consultant, Wally has handled technical media logistics at
the Democratic presidential nominating conventions in New York, Chicago,
Los Angeles, Atlanta, Boston, and San Francisco, seeing firsthand
history-in-the-making.
He has also written seven other books with Harry Castleman, including
the previous edition of Watching TV.
Separately, Wally has lent his expertise to a number of multi-media
projects. He was historical writer and creative consultant for The
Great Debate, a CD-ROM on the 1960 presidential contest between John
F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon (a joint production of the University of
Illinois at Chicago and the Museum of Broadcast Communications in
Chicago). Wally is also media contributor for the Chicago Public Radio
morning news magazine program Eight Forty-Eight.
A graduate of Northwestern University’s School of Communication,
Wally has taught college and secondary school writing and communication
classes. He also serves as creative resources director for Heartland
Historical Research Service, a Chicago-based firm specializing in
putting local and personal history into entertaining and informative
packages. He is happily married and enjoys watching television at his
family homestead (built in 1872), occasionally imagining a pre-TV world
there without Columbo, Fawlty Towers, and Buffy the
Vampire Slayer.
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