{"id":33,"date":"2023-07-16T10:15:34","date_gmt":"2023-07-16T14:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/boc-project\/?page_id=33"},"modified":"2025-08-07T15:21:59","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T19:21:59","slug":"about-the-project","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/boc-project\/about-the-project\/","title":{"rendered":"About the Project"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I started this site to chronicle my process of researching and writing a book about the 1968-1986 television series&nbsp;<em>Beyond Our Control<\/em>, 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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you don\u2019t know what this show is, the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Beyond_Our_Control\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Wikipedia page<\/a>&nbsp;is the best place to catch up quickly, or you can check out the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.beyondourcontrol.org\/boc4\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">BOC alumni association website<\/a>&nbsp;or watch sketches on YouTube&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@beyondourcontrolbits2761\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@dleesim\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>, and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@WyantSteve\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>. I encourage anyone who has thoughts or memories (or \u2013 the ultimate dream \u2013 intact pre-1978 episodes) to share to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/mail.google.com\/mail\/?view=cm&amp;fs=1&amp;tf=1&amp;to=cbecker1@nd.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">get in touch<\/a>. I want to know everything, so no query or memory is too small!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The book manuscript is now under contract at the University of Georgia Press for its Peabody Series in Media History, with publication slated for late 2027. An essay about the series will be available from the same place in <a href=\"https:\/\/ugapress.org\/book\/9780820374758\/local-tv\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/ugapress.org\/book\/9780820374758\/local-tv\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">this anthology<\/a> on local TV histories, which will be out in September 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I started this site to chronicle my process of researching and writing a book about the 1968-1986 television series&nbsp;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":559,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-33","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/boc-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/boc-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/boc-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/boc-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/559"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/boc-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/boc-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":535,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/boc-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33\/revisions\/535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/boc-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}