Posted on 06/12/2021 3:06:57 PM PDT by SamAdams76
I have mosquito bites all over my arms and legs. I'm thinking because I've been out camping, sitting by the campfire and doing a lot of cast iron based cooking over said fire. Which is some of the best kind of cooking if you are to be camping.
Then I go into my tent and roll myself into a "sleeping bag" but even then, I'm thinking mosquitoes are still able to get through.
So a lot of mosquito bites and it's only mid June. Lot of camping left to go this season.
Nothing better though then sleeping under a tent and hearing all the noises of nature, especially pit-pattering rain and crickets and tree frogs. Then you get the birds in the morning waking you up as the sun gains strength in the east.
Then you get the campfire going again in put some "cowboy coffee" on as you prepare the eggs and bacon to get your next camping day off to an acceptable start.
But I digress.
I'm old enough to remember back when "rural" themed TV shows ruled the day. You had "Hee Haw" which was such an incredible institution that I might need several posts to fully describe it. You had "Beverly Hillbillies", "Green Acres", "Petticoat Junction", "Mr Ed", "Andy Griffith", "Jim Nabors Show", and "Lassie" just to name a few.
Oh yeah, and "Gunsmoke" and "F Troop" just to name a couple more.
All these shows (and more!) had respectable to great ratings on TV and presented good American values to the general public.
But along came this douchebag named Fred Silverman who took over CBS around 1970 and felt that rural values were not conducive to how he felt America should be and the "rural purge" was on.
In came more "urban" based shows like "Mary Tyler Moore", "All In The Family", "The Jeffersons", "What's Happening", "James at 15", and "Sanford & Son."
Certainly not all Fred Silverman creations but Fred did kill the rural-based TV shows in order to cater to more urban and suburban audiences (though those audiences did appreciate the rural shows as even "Hee Haw" got decent ratings in NYC and Boston.)
Fact is, rural shows basically disappeared in the early 1970s with the notable exceptions of "The Waltons" and "Little House On The Prairie."
Basically from then on, you had the urban-suburban TV shows with their loud voices, their canned laughtracks and their more liberal values dominating the airwaves.
Lassie was set on a farm and if they heard a gunshot, they called the sheriff.
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Don’t forget that pigs grow up very fast so there were actually many “Arnold the pigs”. A tribute to the intelligence and trainability of the pig.
Older people may spend more, but I’ll bet they’re less appealing to advertisers because they’re less likely to be swayed by B.S. that advertisers peddle to them.
I’m sure many Arnold the pigs ended up as Ham, or Bacon, or Pork Chops.
WKRP.. omg the turkey episode… funny funny funny show…
Murphy Brown really did backfire—if anything it showed how impossible it was for a single woman to function successfully at a high powered job and as a single mom.
Her social life was a running joke, and she muddled through one disaster after another.
I laughed at her, not with her.
“Gunsmoke remained on the air through the 1975 season.”
My Dad died in 1976. My mother joked that besides his body just wearing out at age 79, the end of Gunsmoke was his last battle.
He loved the show and the first Maverick show. The Cartwright family/Bonanza was another favorite of his.
The era of McLean Stevenson, Wayne Rogers, and Larry Linville was that good bit better with it’s many side splitting moments compared to the last two or three years that featured the (mis) adventures of Harry Morgan, Jamie Farr, and William Christopher with interludes of Alan Alda moralizing. And there was even the really good old days of Ho Jon, Ugly John, and Spearchucker.
When I was in London a few years ago, I watched a documentary on the Beatles and it featured the problem with all of the girls screaming non stop at the concerts and other public appearances they made. There was even a Paul McCartney interview from about 1965 in which he simply could not understand why it took place and it was so bad that they (him and George and John and Ringo) could barely hear themselves play music through that din.
The 1981-82 version of Bret Maverick was one of my favourites back when I was a twelve year old kid. I ordered a set of DVDs of the show from somebody off of the old IOffer site and they were taped from the original broadcasts and what’s neat to listen to are the announcements over the end credits (for Flamingo Road and other shows of that time).
Bradley Kincaid,gave him the nickname “Grandpa Jones” when he was 22 years old, because of his off-stage grumpiness at early-morning radio shows. Jones liked the name and decided to create a stage persona based around it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandpa_Jones
Birth name Louis Marshall Jones
Also known as Grandpa Jones
Born October 20, 1913
Niagara, Kentucky, U.S.
Origin Akron, Ohio, U.S.
Died February 19, 1998 (aged 84)
Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.
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.
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Yes, it is leftist but my dad, who was a Silver Star Korean War vet, watched and re watched it religiously. He told me that the show was not even close to the reality of the war he knew.
Alan Alda far far left.
Yeah, I think you are both right. I recall my conservative parents not liking the waltons for similar reasons. I also recall they loathed ‘Maude.’ I now know that it was for many reasons but particularly the ‘abortion’ episode.
There were two good things about Maude…..Adrienne Barbeau.
most male FReepers love Petticoat Junction for 3 obvious reasons.
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SIX obvious reasons.... They each have a pair!
I never saw the Batman series on TV - just projected on the side of a tent - and I thought the people back in the World had lost their minds..
Heartland made in Canada is what American television could have had, the direction it could have gone.
There is nothing like Heartland here in the US.
It has strong male models, along side string intelligent women.
And they work together and don’t demean each other.
Almost no social justice crap.
The only thing absent from Heartland is faith.
American TV could have shows like this, but it doesn’t that I’m aware of.
Either way, Betty Jo is my favorite.
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