The selected literature review in this booklet reflects the continuing controversy in the field of adult education over the place that should be accorded by adult educators to noncommercial cultural-informational television (Public Television or PTV). The writer contends that educators' views and definitions of the field of adult education are crucial to the position they support in the PTV controversy. This study views some of the notions in adult education which discourage acceptance of PTV as a unique broadcast form of education and analyzes the concerns arising from these notions; based on this analysis, "the review will argue that if the values of adult education, writ small, were to achieve dominance in Public Television, independent-minded Americans would be much the worse off for such 'progress'." More than half of the booklet is devoted to an annotated bibliography, which is divided into two parts: The Conflicting Hopes and The Reality. (EA)