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Are you sure that wasn't a skit on the Danny Kaye Show? I never saw the Danny Kaye Show. It was on way past my very strict bedtime. But that sounds like something he might have done. Since he was born in Brooklyn.
An entire show set in an urban area would have been very unusual in the 1960s. Most shows at that time were set in rural areas. Mayberry R.F.D., etc.
Yes I'm very familiar with The Honeymooners. Another urban show from the 1960s that comes to mind, was Batman. But for the most part 1960s TV shows were rural. For example, Mayberry R.F.D., The Beverly Hillbillies, Green Acres, Lassie, Petticoat Junction, Hee Haw, Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., etc. Those were all replaced by 1970s urban shows such as, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, All in the Family, Maude, The Jeffersons, and The Bob Newhart Show. They went from one extreme to the other.
Sitting at the little kids table during Thanksgiving.
Next year sitting at the adults table on a stack of phone books with hands on lap and not talking unless ant Milley grab your cheek and squeezed it
Even better, listening to a ventriloquist (Edgar Bergen) and his wooden puppets (Charlie McCarthy and Mortimer Snerd) on the radio. And tap-dancers on the radio. And automobile races on the radio. And the coronation of Quran Elizabeth II in the radio.
I remember the first AFL-NFL World Championship Football Game (later known as the Super Bowl). I didn't get to see the game, since it was blacked out in our area, and I was perched on our roof adjusting a makeshift antenna so that my Dad and his friends could watch the game. Was told that it was a great game.
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When the local news reported the news. They didn't have all the MSM woke crap.
Yeah local TV newscasts have changed a lot. I grew up in small towns and even small mom and pop TV station had their own local news at noon, 6pm and 10pm. Even if it was just mom and pop taking turns sitting behind a desk and reading the news.
Now the one TV station in the town I live in, I believe doesn't have any local programing whatsoever. They used to have 5 minute local inserts in newscasts, but I believe they have stopped doing even that. They still seem to have a news department, but I think that is just one or two reporters who do reports for the parent station.
I'm so old I remember having only 2 hours/day of televison (at one point in time, because we used to have more when I was 3 or 4 yo). So we had less and less liberty, it was a gradual process.
So...we only had two channels with communist propaganda. Each with 2 hours/evening. About what? About how wonderful life was, how terrible and decadent life in capitalist countries actually was, how greatefull everyone was for our smart, kind, talented etc etc communist ruler. And his genius wife. And on and on and on. Songs, poetry, documentaries, movies ... all about the same subject. Only deception and lies for 2 hours/day. In newspapers. Cinema. Art. Education. All of it.
Of course no one believed that nonsense. That demented lunecy. People were not cretines.
Living in these times now, in 2022, decades later...I don't know...but it sure feels like "deja vu" to me. A little bit lunecy here, a little bit there...and it's growing and growing... darker and darker vibrations. Not good. A lot of confusion.
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