From Monitor to The Late Show, this book identifies the various types or genres of arts programmes - review programmes, stand series, drama-documentaries, artists' profiles, and then gives a chronological account of their evolution from 1936 to the 1990s. It examines in detail series such as Civilization, Ways of Seeing, Shock of the New, State of the Art and Relative Values. The text also discusses the vexed issues associated with representing fine art, a form of high culture, in a mass medium.