Steven H. Scheuer ( 1926) is a film and television historian and critic. He edited all seventeen editions of Movies on TV published between 1958 and 1993 and wrote The Movie Book(1974), subtitled A Comprehensive, Authoritative, Omnibus Volume on Motion Pictures and the Cinema World. He was moderator of the syndicated television series All About TV from 1969 to 1990.
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Scheuer was born in New York City in 1926. His brothers (all deceased) were 13-Term New York Congressman James H. Scheuer, Walter Scheuer, an investor and film producer, and Richard Scheuer, a scholar and philanthropist.
Movies on TV was the first guide of its kind, preceding Leonard Maltin's TV Movies and Video Guide by ten years. It contained ratings of movies, videos and TV movies using a four star rating system. It was renamed Movies on TV and Videocassette in 1989.
The Steven H. Scheuer Collection of Television Program Scripts at Yale University "contains approximately five thousand American television scripts dating from about 1953 to 1963."[1] The Steven H. Scheuer Papers are housed at the Syracuse University Library.[2]