Posted on 10/17/2015 9:49:59 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
The other day I was watching a rerun of a popular TV show from the past. Suddenly it occurred to me that this was the most CONSERVATIVE TV show ever despite the fact that it wasn't specifically a political show.
Okay, I'll give you the name: DRAGNET. I was watching the color version that came back to the airwaves in 1967. Detective Joe Friday didn't fool around. He was all business with NO apologies in enforcing the law. Also notable was how he sneered at hippies, drug addicts, or (in the case of the episode I was watching) idiotic teenyboppers who shoplifted strictly to be members of a dopey club.
Andy Griffith show jumped the shark the moment it went from B&W to color.
Lot's of classic quotes from those shows, too.
"The sun hasn't come up on a day that Marshal Dillon can't take care of himself, Miss Kitty."
So is Blue Bloods, although Donnie Wahlberg is hard to watch and unbelievable when talking with that NY accent that does not jive with the Reagan family environment. He must have been adopted.
I like Maury Hanigan of “Real Stories of the Highway Patrol”.
He had a good time showing up with John Walsh:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JogttpcKFIA
The Apprentice
(watching re-runs all last week)
The technique is fantastic ...
They film real actors, doing a script/role ... in real NYC
Granted ... a lot is done in vacant areas (ala West Side Story), but a fascinating look at 50's/'60's NYC
AMYTHING PRE-1965
Been a long time since I have watch the show though.
Funny that you mention Jack Webb as “conservative”. I recently came across a privately written “history” of the neighborhood in Palm Springs where he once lived. His ex wife, Julie London, the singer, bought a house there after their divorce. Webb promptly bought the house next door and moved in to “keep and eye on her”. Some might construe that he was a stalker — unless he was just overly concerned about her well being on her own. Who’s to know? Except it seems a little creepy.
Was that the school teacher? I think he married her in the finale. (The first girlfriend was the same actress as the oldest daughter on Father Knows Best)
I forgot about Blue Bloods. And Donnie is definitely grating. The only think I ever saw him in where I liked him was Diamond Men, with Robert Forster.
I'm not so sure. The weird thing about "Gunsmoke" was that it featured a saloon whorehouse run by Miss Kitty. I was always amused by how matter of fact that Marshall Dillon and the other characters were about that.
Wasn't that the actress who played Barney's girlfriend Thelma Lou?
Hoss
I always wondered about that "little buddy" stuff. But if they were to re-boot it today, the professor would be gay, Ginger would be trans-gender, MaryAnn would be Maria Anna, a farm girl from Mexico, the skipper would be African-American, etc. Every episode would be about getting the Howells to pay their "fair share".
Wow, didn’t know Aunt Bee went to live in Mt. Airy, NC. Interesting.
I looked at a map and noted that there is a town called Pilot Mountain near Mt. Airy. I remember on the show they frequently mentioned a nearby town called “Mount Pilot”.
Well if I was married to Julie London I probably would have been jealous too.
You do know the guy who played Grandpa Walton was one of the first leaders of the Gay Rights movement.
How did you possibly gather that?
A conservative, Godly family living off the land and creating their own way in life?
Yep, TV really shifted away from making the types of shows many of us fondly remember.
What happened in Hollywood?? It’s as if they decided that rather than giving us any kind of wholesome entertainment, that they would push liberal or libertine agendas through programming instead.
The Rifleman.
Bad guy shows up, bad guy does bad thing, bad guy dies in blaze of gunfire by good guy. Conservative Idealism.
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