Posted on 06/06/2013 8:01:06 AM PDT by stillafreemind
As a child, the first show we ever watched was "Gunsmoke". We watched it as a family, and Marshal Dillon had a profound effect on the way I looked at life then and now. I continue to watch "Gunsmoke" reruns daily; it's a great refresher of the lessons I learned so long ago.
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And they have Beaver on now. There's always a lesson....and they make it very clear.
Another thing they make clear in all these shows is that "wisdom comes with age"...providing you're a good person to start with.
TV is such a cesspool nowadays.
Not all the old shows taught life lessons, perhaps, but at least they weren’t obscene. They weren’t full of sex jokes or feature the obligatory homosexual characters.
I also would highly recommend The Andy Griffith Show to illustrate life's lessons.
If it wasn’t for the western channel(Encore), TV Land and TCMs old movies..we wouldn’t watch tv.
I love Rifleman too. We watch that Sat or Sun mornings for a few hours.
Thank goodness, in NY...it's 7. s/
One of life’s lessons is that “less, is more”.
Matt didn’t say very much, only what was required, therefore what he DID say was important.
And the explicit relationship between him and Kitty? That’s the point. It wasn’t explicit. If it had been, it would have RUINED the show.
Ahhhhhh...
To quote the lyric sung by “Archie and Edith” opening their show... “those were the days”.
Ironic, they helped usher in the explicitness belied by their nostalgic theme song, right down to the sound of an upstairs toilet flushing...
I have noticed lately how Bonanza and gunsmoke reflect different values and teach good things.
My favorite shows were Daniel Boone and wonderful world of Disney most sunday nights.
Hopalong Cassidy was the man. He was strong and fought for justice. He was always polite and never drew first and then winged them so the sheriff could come in to make the arrest.
I was always a “Rawhide” guy myself.
Bonanza was about living in a family.
!5 or so years ago the Ponderosa(Bonanza) ranch house was still open at the North shore of Lake Tahoe. We went on the tour and (while I am a pretty tough guy) when they closed the front door Little Joe's green jacket was hanging on the coat hook. That about got me.
That is a great scene.
!5=15. Sigh, now where is the coffee......
There’s an episode c. 1971 in which a man seeks vengeance against another who had caused him so kind of wrong. When he finally finds the man, the man had no knowledge whatever of the afflicted one. I can’t recall the details, just the general principle about vengeance being in the realm of God back in a time when many Americans still believed in God.
One of the best was the half hour ‘’Lawman’’, but I preferred ‘’Sugarfoot’’; it’s the only old show I would consider buying DVDs of, were they available.
Gives new significance to the New York reload.
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