Posted on 09/11/2014 1:25:24 PM PDT by upbeat5
Before the Pritchetts and Dunphys, or the Cosbys, or the Bradys -- before the Cleavers, even -- there were Ozzie and Harriet Nelson and their sons, David and Ricky.
For 14 years and 435 episodes, the Nelsons starred in a TV show about themselves, filmed on sets that replicated their own Los Angeles home.
They invited America into their living room from 1952 to 1966, and hundreds of thousands of American families returned the favor. Even now, the phrase "Ozzie and Harriet" is practically synonymous with clean-scrubbed 1950s America.
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Boomers led by some members of the WWII generation.
The X-Files did an epi with the Brady Bunch house...
I also preferred the before remodel photos.
Maybe some.Of course every generation of every country/region since the dawn of time has had at least *some* psychopaths.But in *this* country the percentage of the Boomer generation who qualify as worthless psychopaths is dramatically higher than the percentage of the WWII generation.
Back when men were men and women were woman and you could always tell the difference. When the preferred hat was not a baseball cap, when men opened doors for women and the women were appreciative and there was something other than crude,lude, soft porn on TV.
The greatest disappointment of the 20th Century is that the so-called “greatest generation” spawned the absolute worst one.
David Nelson is still around. Ozzie, Harriet, and Ricky are all dead.
Rocky, s boys were quite handsome and used to have a rock band..don’t know what happened to them.
Johnson Wax was their sponsor and the announcer did a Johnson Wax commercial about the same time in every episode.
One show the announcer said, “Ozzie, I bet you can't guess what I'm going to talk about!”
Ozzie said, “Surprise me, Waxy”
Rocky should read Ricky.
Sadly, David Nelson passed away in 2004 of colon cancer.
Geez, the US has gone from Ozzie and Harriet (Nelson) to Ozzie and Sharon (Osbourne)
Nope David passed away in 2011
“The greatest disappointment of the 20th Century is that the so-called “greatest generation” spawned the absolute worst one.”
I could not agree more. How did the greatest generation spawn the biggest cry baby, liberal asshats?
David Nelson died Jan. 11, 2011 from colon cancer.
“The family had some serious problems.”
They certainly had their share of problems. They were only regular human beings. I enjoyed watching the show when I was growing up. They seemed so happy and so normal.
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Although the last two or three seasons of the X-Files saw perhaps an overall decline in the quality of the show, they also produced some gems of singular episodes and that was one of them. The episode with the Brady House was titled "Sunshine Days," and it was the very last episode before the two-part series finale.
It was also the same thing I thought of when I saw the title of the thread ;-)
Oops...meant to add that that episode also featured a cameo by David Faustino of “Married with Children,” as a quirky juxtaposition to the whole Brady theme, and was written and directed by Vince Gilligan, later creator of, “Breaking Bad.”
Thanks for setting me straight.
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