If you can remember back to 1968, mildly violent TV shows and movies were the things blamed for causing the murder of Bobby Kennedy by a Palestinian immigrant.
In the anti-gun anti-violence hysteria that followed...
TV shows immediately dumbed down to kiddie shows.
Movies on TV were butchered to remove “violence”.
But the movie industry claimed they would “police themselves” with a joke of a ratings system.
The Fox was guarding the henhouse.
They then reshot scenes adding more blood, guts and explicit sex to get the then covented “R” rating.
Now movie and TV violence are worse than they ever was.
Yes. The Wild Wild West was summarily cancelled. Space Ghost and the like were replaced by Scooby Doo.