Swanson was the original TV dinner classic, but it's not the freezer aisle mainstay it used to be. Here's where it went, and how it got its start.

Swanson's original frozen TV dinner consisted of a compartmentalized ... By the summer of 1954, fried chicken was introduced ...

Whereas Maxson had called its frozen airline meals “Strato-Plates,” Swanson introduced America ... “The best fried chicken I know comes with a TV dinner,” Barbra Streisand told the New ...