Alan Rafkin nibbles around the edges of, but never takes a decent bite out of the material that made up a lifetime of his work as a TV sitcom director. Here's a man, who, along with a few other peers, literally created hundreds of thousands of hours of TV comdedy that spans the earliest days of TV until the present. His book is mearly a glorified list of comdedies he directed, instead of a more insightful look at HOW they were created. For example, he could tell us what made the original Dick Van Dyke show a classic while subsequent attempts by Van Dyke fell flat. Instead, he provides a few examples of why this actor or actress was nice/tough to work with. Rafkin was there when so much of our video culture was created, but we never get a feel for it. If his book was a TV script, he would have demanded a rewrite. Perhaps Rafkin can write a sequel with more insight than his present attempt.