[SamAdams76]

Ironically "Leave It To Beaver" was the TV show that first showed a toilet on TV. There was quite the battle with the censors at the time but since the toilet was an integral part of the plot (Wally and Beaver hid a pet alligator in the toilet tank), the censors ultimately allowed it. But in Elvis Presley style, they only allowed the toilet to be shown from the tank up. Just like Elvis' pelvis, the bowl itself was still verboten on TV.

[Bryanw92]

But it was All In The Family that showed the business end of a toilet, right?

[sparklite2]

Married couples slept in twin beds, and if they were
in the same bed they had to have one foot on the floor
at all times.  You could be forgiven for wondering how
they managed to have children at all.

This had its drawbacks.  The divorce rate began its long march upward with the generation raised on Father Knows Best and Ozzie and Harriet.  Having come to believe married life was what they saw on the television, the rather different reality of it produced a disenchantment many couldn't get over.  At about this time, "shacking up" began to lose its pejorative potential as people increasingly opted for "cohabitation" rather than serial marriage and divorce.