I watch Hogan’s Heros.....Bob Newhart...Mary Tyler Moore....
Those were quality shows that had no sex, drugs, and not even a token gay...lol.
They still make you laugh....
Love Bob Newhart, and MTM show. Have even seen ‘That Girl’ the one with Marlo Thomas on occasion. Dangerous Assignment, now that one I do not remember watching as a tyke. A cheap campy spy show that seems every episode as a mid-east plot. The sets are so cheap, the budget must have been really tight. There was one when Donlevy was in a pergola crossing the gorge. In the background was a painting of another snow topped mountain- it never moved from view. Just sat their so you KNEW the ride was a fake. All in good fun. Then, Get Smart was seen a time or two as well - time marches on. :-))
Newhart...witch in the basement? call Larry, Darryl and Darryl. Hilarious!
I have the DVD series of the Bob Newhart Show. My gawd, the way he treated his wife, Suzanne Pleshette, is cringeworthy to watch today. And the reason you didn’t see sex and violence on sitcoms is, well, they were sitcoms. If you wanted violence, Have Gun Will Travel, The Rebel, and Gunsmoke had plenty.
As for sex, the Depression-era Hayes Commission drove sex in the movies underground, which bled over into television. Married couples slept in separate twin beds and if they were in the same bed, each person had to have one foot on the floor. If hilariously unrealistic depictions of normal life were too much to handle, we can only be thankful the censors lightened up in the sixties.
It has been argued that the idyllic family life of Ozzie and Harriet, Father Knows Best, et al, drove the sharp increase in divorce rates as young people of the time thought if their marriage wasn’t like the ones on TV, they were in a bad marriage. They bought into the hype.