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As someone who lived through the “golden age of television” you have to remember the shows were a product of the times.

Television was “new” in the 1950s and many shows were live and they had longer seasons. Not everything was great, but it was new, and it was in the home, and it was “free”

Did all the old shows hold up over time, no, but many have, you only need to look for them.

[RobRoy]

I'm completely with you on that one. I actually was watching one of the episodes and told my wife that what made the Nelsons special was Ozzie had the vision to go for it. If you or I were to go back in time to that era with the knowledge we have today we could become rich in very short order.

I collect another example of the "it was new" phenomenon. That would be Mom and Dads records. They suck, but I collect them as an ephemeral example of the very concept.

,p. They were a Canadian band that, for some reason was fairly popular in the northern midwestern US. A sax, a "boom-chicka" drummer and a tin-pan piano played with gusto. And people actually bought this stuff. :)