We have been asked to distinguish between two parallel subdivisions of 791.45 Television, both under 791.457 Programs:
791.4575 Two or more programs
What is classed in 791.4572 Single programs? Here is a guideline for regularly broadcast TV programs: a single program is a single “TV series,” to use the terminology of the Internet Movie Database (IMDb), e.g., Saturday Night Live (SNL), which began broadcasting in 1975. Parts of Saturday Night Live—a single episode, a single season, selections from many seasons—as well as collective treatment of the whole program are all classed in 791.4572. Examples are the videorecording SNL. The Complete First Season, 1975–1976, and the book Live from New York: An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live. Also classed in 791.4572 is a single “TV mini-series” (IMDb terminology); see the previous blog entry “Motion Pictures and Television.” That same blog entry explains that a single made-for-TV movie is classed in 791.4372 Single films, a subdivision of 791.43 Motion pictures.
Back to subdivisions of 791.45 Television: what is classed in 791.4575 Two or more programs? Works classed in 791.4575 include more than one of what IMDb calls a “TV series,” e.g., collective treatment of the original Star Trek (1966–1969); Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994); Star Trek: Voyager (1995–2001); Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993–1999); and Enterprise (2001–2005). An example is the book Star Trek, described as an “authoritative account of the five Star Trek series.”
Subject-oriented television programs are an important exception to the above guidelines; the scatter note at 791.457 Programs has hierarchical force and applies to both 791.4572 and 791.4575: “Class subject-oriented programs themselves with the subject, e.g., programs on flower gardening 635.9.” An example is the videorecording A History of Britain: The Complete Collection, classed in 941 History of British Isles; it was originally produced for A History of Britain (“TV series 2000–2002”).
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