I started this site to chronicle my process of researching and writing a book about the 1968-1986 television series Beyond Our Control, which was a TV parody sketch comedy show produced in South Bend, Indiana, almost entirely by high school kids as a Junior Achievement company and which aired on the local NBC affiliate, WNDU-TV.
If you don’t know what this show is, the Wikipedia page is the best place to catch up quickly, or you can check out the BOC alumni association website or watch sketches on YouTube here, here, and here. I encourage anyone who has thoughts or memories (or – the ultimate dream – intact pre-1978 episodes) to share to get in touch. I want to know everything, so no query or memory is too small!
The book manuscript is now under contract at the University of Georgia Press for its Peabody Series in Media History! And an essay about the series will be available from the same place in this anthology on local TV histories, which will be out in October 2025.