Posted on 08/07/2020 5:34:50 PM PDT by Shark24
BOBBIE JO AND THE BEATNIK: Bobbie Jo brings home a mad-at-the-world young poet and slacker who has won her heart. The Beatnik is played by a young DENNIS HOPPER.
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Gilligan later. Right?
I have heard or read quite a few times that CBS executives literally didn’t like rural shows.
I think they probably had pretty much run their course tho ratings were still good.
Yes, I remember CBS saying they had gotten two “country” with Beverly Hillbillies, Green Acres, etc even though they were leading in the ratings.
Episode 31 of Season 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnjRJFnWJ_A
Smiley Burnette sings a train song.
I used to watch re-runs of Green Acres as a child in the 80’s. Arnold Ziffel was the star of that show.
Edgar Buchanan’s wife was also a dentist—they met in dental school. They relocated the practice to Southern California in the late 30s, where he was invited to join the Pasadena Playhouse and sharpen his acting skills. Buchanan was cast in his first film role and turned the practice over to his wife. Apparently, it worked out; he had more than 100 film roles (in addition to extensive work in TV) and his wife was a successful dentist. Still, it takes a certain amount of chutzpah to walk away from a lucrative career to take a shot at acting—at the age of 36.
1964, Crazy. He had already done Rebel without a Cause and Giant by then. Tons of TV. And a few years away from Easy Rider and the original True Grit.
The thought was the rural comedies didn’t play well in urban and suburban areas, where audiences were more affluent. So, CBS cancelled all of those shows on a single day in 1971. “They cancelled everything with a tree,” observed Pat Buttram, who played Mr. Haney on “Green Acres,” “even Lassie.”
The mass cancellation opened the door for “edgier” shows, such as “All in the Family,” “Maude,” “Mary Tyler Moore,” and the “Bob Newhart Show.” Some became classics, but it’s funny: you can still find “The Beverly Hillbillies” and the other rural shows on Antenna TV and other outlets, but the topical comedies largely bombed in syndication and it’s hard to find them on the nostalgia TV channels. What was timely and hip 50 years ago is tired and unfunny today.
My Brother-in-Law was raised on a farm in the middle of nowhere in Southern Illinois. His favorite show was “Green Acres”
He was extremely conservative.
Dobie Gillis was a great show, Maynard G. Krebs AKA Gilligan was one cool beatnick.
Antifa's roots go back to the 1920s and '30s, with all the bolshevik baggage that goes along with that period.
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