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All in the Family
Completely changed tv drama and humor.
Star Trek The Original Series
It brought science fiction into the mainstream, and that original Trekkie generation created a snowball effect on our tv culture.
Game of Thrones
Changed the game for tv, brought a new much higher standard for funding and quality. $15 million per episode for the final season and that high budget can be seen.
Get Smart! Mel Brooks and Buck Henry presented comedy to the TV screen, with a sharp wit, like never before. Don Adams was perfectly cast, and he led the way for others like Leslie Nielsen (Airplane and Naked Gun etc.).
The Fugitive was riveting drama and must see every week (before DVR and VCR) to see if he would get caught. The finale was the most watched TV show for 13 years and is still the 3rd most watched show of all time (behind MASH finale and who shot JR episode of Dallas). It had a television household share, at 72%, 45.9% of all households with TV set watched it. 78 million people tuned in. Its still great 40+ years later
The Twilight Zone is as current as it was when it debuted in 1959. I loved it and tried to watch every episode. The writing was first rate as well as the soundtrack, cinematography and acting.
The Honeymooners is funnier than 99% of the "comedies" on TV today. It was shown live and Jackie Gleason didn't rehearse, instead having a stand-in for rehearsals so his performance would be "fresh". Brilliant and groundbreaking.
I think it portrayed teenagers more realistically than many shows had up to that point, and it also had adults who weren't caricatures. The kids were not stereotypes or one-dimensional.
It also didn't rely on the usual storylines but had surprises along the way.
Yup, great show but likely a bit obscure for the demographic around here (that is, older crowd).
I'll also add the original Degrassi series starting with Kids on Degrassi Street through Degrassi High.
Praline and greatblueheron, you beat me too it, I can't think of another show that addressed the issues of that time quite like All In The Family.
The thing about All in the Family is that Archie isn't really a hater. He's just heard these things all his life. And in a very real way, Mike is just as much saying what he hears in his filter. If you weren't there you may not understand that the sixties put everyone in their labeled corner, and people saw the label first. It was a huge clash of changing culture and it did have the power to tear apart families. I met my aunts and uncles in Dad's family when I was five, and we took a trip to meet his family in Alabama. But the plan was to visit them more often. However, my uncles were likely to say things my dad would not tolerate, and there was no lets agree to disagree, and later in the decade some of his family came to California to visit. Many of their kids ended up in aerospace in California too, like Dad.
What All in the Family did was encourage people to really think about the things they said, and what the words mean, and perhaps ask if they should. It also showed just how much was learned and just repeated, and with that image changed so are the words. And that we all have our assumptions and all could do a lot better to just *listen* to each other. Maybe you don't change minds, but nothing ever gets better if all you see is a parody of an image, and not another human being with different beliefs. The first step is to see another human, even if you don't see through the same mirror.
When my dad's sibilings and kids and family came out to visit, almost all of the kids and many of his brothers also working in tech jobs and especially aerospace, the buttons were gone and we had a very nice visit. It's too bad that line could not have been crossed earlier.
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