I don't watch much television either, so I can well understand where you are coming from there. I much prefer to read - 'The Chrysalids' is an old book written by John Wyndham from about the same time era of 'Z is for Zachariah'. It's another post-apocalyptic type of story and a bit of a classic. I think there was a movie made of it, but I never saw it - I had a feeling they might have mangled the story horribly when they made it.