Thirty-five books and articles about television and sex roles that were published between l954 and l983 are listed in this annotated bibliography. Among the topics covered in the articles and books are female stereotypes, the influence of television on children's perception of sex roles, a survey and summary of the research on sex roles and mass media up to l975, sexism and how it relates to the media, a sociological analysis of sex roles, a comparison of newspaper and television portrayals of women in the roles of criminal suspect and law enforcer, content analyses of prime time programming, an analysis of prosocial/antisocial behavior on television, effects of the women's movement on sex role portrayals on television, an analysis of the portrayal of women workers, a description and interpretation of female television characters from 1950-1980, ways children identify with television characters, the use of the Bem Sex-Role Inventory to analyze character traits of both males and females, and television's portrayal of minorities and women. (EL)