Back around 1971, some City Slicker named Fred Silverman conducted the "Rural Purge" and none of us were the better for it.

Out in the Hinterlands | June 12, 2021 | Big Fan of Emmylou Harris

[SamAdams76]

[SamAdams76]

[Huskrrrr]

I’d love to see the Meathead go up against one of the Cartwrights.

[GMMC0987]

Red Skelton was another victim of the purge.

[blackdog]

F-Troop was as close as American television writers ever got to Monty Python quality. With the noted exception of The Rocky and Bullwinkel Show. If you watch it today you will be gobsmacked.

[lizma2]

[Rummyfan]

Hee-Haw stuck around a long time in independent syndication. It always featured great music too.

[G Larry]

Actually, Red took himself off of TV due to the filth.

[G Larry]

Actually, Red took himself off of TV due to the filth.

[EvilCapitalist]

I used to like MASH which I would watch as reruns. It wasn’t until I got a bit older that I realized just how left-wing that show is.

[Olog-hai]

So he’s the one that really did the Americanization of British TV shows. Hmmmm.

The “rural purge” is even mentioned in Wikipedia; no cancellation of that history, on an article ironically about a cancel culture pioneer.

[Blurb2350]

What do you expect when “rootless cosmopolitans” run the entertainment industry?

[MercyFlush]

Angela Cartwright could kick Rob Reiner’s sorry butt!

[blackdog]

I always found it very odd that all the black urban comedy shows were written by old Jewish white guys who used canned laugh tracks and forced the black actors who were very talented to make fools out of themselves. Let Dave Chapelle deliver black comedy to white television viewers. They might learn something.

[Chainmail]

When I was in high school, my dad went apocalyptic on me and kicked me out of the house for good, I don't remember what I said or did, but as the oldest of ten kids, it was just my time to get out of the house, I guess. I found a room that was really a converted garage in Hollywood and commuted the 15 miles to high school from there.

I made friends in Hollywood with a bunch of kids my age and I had a girlfriend there too. One evening, we were romping around together, well after 10:00 at night and I think we were drinking a bit and we walked right into a large concrete statue of Bullwinkle Moose holding Rocky in his hand. We had accidently found Jay Ward Studios and they were still working late that night.

They saw us and invited us in and we spent many hours yet watching their rushes of their latest Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoons with Peabody and Sherman and Dudley Doright, etc and a new character that apparently never went anywhere, Florence of Arcadia. and also saw them assembling the first Captain Crunch commercials. They were fun, energetic people and they made us feel really welcome. They also had a coin-operated Wurlitzer music machine in their foyer.. Great memories!

[Salamander]

I’d like to see meathead go up against Ellie May.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

Don’t forget the Beverly Hillbillies that started it all.

We’ll doggies.

[lizma2]

“I realized just how left-wing that show is.”

Watch some Star Trek, post Kirk. Holy cow! Can’t even watch it anymore.

[wally_bert]

MASH is hard to watch now.

I prefer Barney Miller.

[EvilCapitalist]

You’d get along well with my Dad. He’s a Barney Miller fan too.