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Ain't that the truth. I don't know what the hell happened to NBC, it's just died. CBS isn't much different, but their best sitcoms concluded in the '70s, and after they cancelled "Dallas" followed by "Knots Landing" in '93, that went the last show on that network I watched. At least ABC is trying these days.

I know. BTW, when i see "All in the Family," some of the stuff they say on that show back then would not be allowed today.

A favorite old show of mine is "The Bold Ones" which I catch on the RTV network, where they feature doctors, lawyers, police investigators, or a Senator in Washington D.C. It ran from 1969 to 1974 on ABC IIRC. One episode was where Burl Ives ran a law firm and a Black kid was accused of pushing a cop over a fire escape causing the cop's death. He was with the Black Panthers, it was a 1970 episode. Actually, it was the kid's father, a respected executive, who accidentely did it but the kid wanted to protect his father. During the trial, the kid said "the N word" openly, I was thinking, it was allowed in 1970 but not now. Come to think of it, the last time I heard a show using "The N Word" was "Roots" in 1977. I'm not out for just tossing it around willy-nilly, but if it is part of the storyline, I have no problem with it. It seems like Michael Savage is right, he said, "you father didn't make as much money as you do, but he was a freer man."

Back to "The Bold Ones," there was a 1971 episode where Hal Holbrook was a Senator and he made the point that instead of keeping people and communities on welfare, it is better to foster things and ideas to promote business growth, that way "they own what they have and and beholden to no one." He also made the point that when you appoint all these government Tsars (they didn't use that term then) you end up having these people take control with accountability to no one. It is kind of interesting that a show almost 40 years old saw the future and hit the nail on the head.

Yeah, I think CBS peaked in the late 1970's, NBC was the 1980's. ABC was #1 in the late 1970's IIRC.

There is one new ABC show I like, "Flash Forward," that seems interesting so far. I have to watch it on FIOS on demand or my computer, since we watch Survivor at that time.