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Posted: 4/24/2024 9:51:52 PM EDT
[#1]
Leave It To Beaver
The Andy Griffith Show |
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MH, USA
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Posted: 4/24/2024 10:02:00 PM EDT
[#2]
The Monkees was pretty dope.
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Posted: 4/24/2024 10:21:49 PM EDT
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There weren't any "Reality" shows in the Sixties, but for contemporary drama, I think Route 66 was it.
I lived in the city when I was a kid in the 50s but we moved to the burbs in 1960; life was different, and safer, there. |
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Posted: 4/24/2024 10:32:51 PM EDT
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Dragnet |
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Posted: 4/24/2024 10:34:08 PM EDT
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For a good look at the pop scene and the political temperature of the nation you could look at some of the later Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour shows. They had the musical acts of the day but some of their comedy sketches on the politics of the day were biting. They especially had a hard on for LBJ and Nixon. Their antiwar commentary was the reason it was ultimately cancelled by CBS.
Some of the writers for the show were Steve Martin, Rob Reiner, Pat Paulsen, Albert Brooks, and Mason Williams. A powerhouse of writers that would rival anything Saturday Night Live would offer in the 70s. |
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SC, USA
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Posted: 4/24/2024 10:45:33 PM EDT
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Born in 1970. We personally had AC via window units but plenty of relatives who I spent a great deal of time around didn't have it. The one thing about no AC in the south is that you'd much rather be outside. Even with no regard to the elements, our parents had to make us come inside from playing. No wonder I think about being hot and dirty when I think about my childhood LOL.
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AL, USA
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Posted: 4/24/2024 10:46:08 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By FudgieGhost1: I was born on 1956, so the 60's were my childhood. As a previous poster alluded to, it depends on how old you were, where you were living, and what you mean by the 60's. But, no, I can't think of any movies or tv shows that accurately depict that time. The thing is for the vast majority of people, life was just about living, working, going to school, raising children, etc. Nothing really dramatic. The turbulence associated with that era was concentrated in specific areas and with a relatively small amount of people, the Vietnam war, and those involved with it excepted. The most stark difference i note these days is the lack of people outside, say in a suburban setting. Particularly the lack of children. A look down our street then. say on a Saturday and it would have adults doing yard work, maybe cleaning or working on cars, talking on a porch and kids playing or jetting by on bikes. Drive through most suburbs now, you might see someone cutting grass or maybe washing a car. No kids and now bikes laying on a lawn. My baby brother lived recently in a modern burb, before buying his new country place. Saw three knothead boys jet by on bikes. It was odd that i found that odd. |
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Posted: 4/24/2024 11:11:11 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By FudgieGhost1: I was born on 1956, so the 60's were my childhood. As a previous poster alluded to, it depends on how old you were, where you were living, and what you mean by the 60's. But, no, I can't think of any movies or tv shows that accurately depict that time. The thing is for the vast majority of people, life was just about living, working, going to school, raising children, etc. Nothing really dramatic. The turbulence associated with that era was concentrated in specific areas and with a relatively small amount of people, the Vietnam war, and those involved with it excepted. Also born in 1956. Everything on TV was simple-minded entertainment or normalcy propaganda. FudgieGhost is right. It was just life as well as we knew it. 
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MT, USA
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Posted: 4/24/2024 11:11:46 PM EDT
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The Many Loves Of Dobie Gillis. Dwayne Hickman and Bob Denver Totally accurate to the 60's, Maynard G. Krebs: Work?!
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Posted: 4/25/2024 12:51:39 AM EDT
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Two picks :
One flew over the Cuckoos's Nest. Once upon a time in Hollywood |
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Posted: 4/25/2024 1:05:39 AM EDT
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In the 60s, TV wasn't allowed to portray what was really going on in the 60s. Like the Dick Van Dyke show - they weren't allowed to show a married couple sleeping together in the same bed.
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VA, USA
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Posted: 4/25/2024 1:07:30 AM EDT
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Mod Squad
Room 222 That Girl Family Affair Eddie’s Father Hawaii Five O Adam 12 |
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Posted: 4/25/2024 1:19:45 AM EDT
[#13]
The show Flipper was the 60's to me
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NV, USA
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Posted: 4/25/2024 3:15:01 AM EDT
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Manix season 1 is in 1967.
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Posted: 4/25/2024 8:06:57 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By piciphant: This is partially true, in the 70's you could travel and see a help wanted sign and get a cash job for however long it lasted. If you looked right. You might get the job for looking right but that didn't mean you were going to keep it. For that you needed not only skills but also an internalized moral code to go with those skills...otherwise you were still useless...or less than.  Content of character. |
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Posted: 4/25/2024 8:10:06 AM EDT
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TV shows tend to idealize or denigrate...art imitating life...life imitating art...or cultural Marxist neural linguistic programing.
Vietnam was the undercurrent of the culture of the 60's. For me that show would have been Combat... |
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Posted: 4/25/2024 8:13:48 AM EDT
[Last Edit: 9divdoc]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Flysc: That was a great post...and really what the thread should have been about... Think I'll get my ears lowered today. |
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VA, USA
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Posted: 4/25/2024 8:18:01 AM EDT
[Last Edit: Ibn_Huq]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Positronic: Two picks : One flew over the Cuckoos's Nest. Once upon a time in Hollywood Once Upon a Time encapsulated the L.A. I remember of that time fairly well I was somewhat studio adjacent with neighbors in studio support jobs and a father who moon lighted for an anything anytime anywhere logistics company |
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Posted: 4/25/2024 8:22:37 AM EDT
[Last Edit: runcible]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By nvroundman: I think UFO nailed it.  Love me some hot purple haired chicks. And, speaking of UFO... Benedict Cumberbatch's mom was hot. 
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RI, USA
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Posted: 4/25/2024 8:24:03 AM EDT
[#20]
I Dream of Jeannie.
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Posted: 4/25/2024 8:28:45 AM EDT
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Me-TV (FRNDLY) shows lots of the old 1950s to 1980s shows.
Watching Dragnet and Adam 12 the issues of the day 50-years ago are the same - race relations, drug abuse, women's liberation are common themes in those shows. Back then apparently most crime was committed by white men, being politically correct. |
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Posted: 4/25/2024 8:29:06 AM EDT
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CT, USA
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Posted: 4/25/2024 8:35:43 AM EDT
[Last Edit: Number_Six]
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Batman 1966 full movie
archive.org batman the movie.-1966 mp4 version https://archive.org/download/batman.-the.-movie.-1966.i/Batman.The.Movie.1966.i.ia.mp4 Beach Blanket Bingo 1965  BEACH BLANKET BINGO (1965) R.I.P. ANNETTE FUNICELLO Commercial break: 1966 Buick "The tuned car"  Buick 1966 TV Spots |
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Posted: 4/25/2024 8:44:32 AM EDT
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The woman and me like watching old TV and movies.
We always point out the lack of fat people in the wide angle crowd shots. |
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MS, USA
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Posted: 4/25/2024 8:52:23 AM EDT
[Last Edit: ExFed1811]
[#25]
Where I grew up in the rural south?
The Andy Griffith Show. Edited to say, that I just remembered that one of my cousins was hired as an extra on one episode, as a friend of Opie's. (He just stood there, he didn't even have a line, but he was famous in my family for that.) |
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Posted: 4/25/2024 9:19:05 AM EDT
[Last Edit: mechanicuss]
[#26]
I grew up in the 60's. NOTHING shown on tv was even remotely similar to anything I experienced in my daily life.
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Posted: 4/25/2024 9:20:07 AM EDT
[#27]
The Wonder Years!
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AZ, USA
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Posted: 4/25/2024 10:43:00 AM EDT
[#28]
The President’s Analyst captures the 60s zeitgeist satirically.
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Posted: 4/25/2024 11:38:58 AM EDT
[Last Edit: curiomatic]
[#29]
The wholesome suburban life shows like Leave It to Beaver, The Dick VanDyke Show, and all the others, stood in stark contrast to what we all saw on the evening news, where most of what we saw was war, civil strife, and riots. That's when people became cynical about 1960s TV programs.
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Posted: 4/25/2024 12:27:27 PM EDT
[#30]
Mod Squad
Room 222 That Girl I dream of Jeanie |
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TX, USA
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Posted: 4/25/2024 12:29:04 PM EDT
[#31]
UFO and Johnny Quest.
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Posted: 4/25/2024 2:19:39 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By dropdbombnow: Except that American Graffiti wasn't made in the 60's. Production date was 1973. |
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Posted: 4/25/2024 9:43:23 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By PCB66: In 1964 I was 17 living in Central Florida (pre Disney). It was a great place to live. We didn't have AC back then either. Only the more well to do people had AC and that was usually a loud window AC unit. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By PCB66: Originally Posted By cavedog: I was six in 1964, and it sucked. It was hot in west central Florida, and we didn't have air conditioning. My old man was/is an asshole, so maybe a little like Cool Hand Luke, without the eggs and camaraderie. In 1964 I was 17 living in Central Florida (pre Disney). It was a great place to live. We didn't have AC back then either. Only the more well to do people had AC and that was usually a loud window AC unit. |
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Posted: 4/25/2024 9:55:15 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 9divdoc: Route 66 https://journal.classiccars.com/media/2020/08/62-corvette-c1-pick-l-side-768x341.jpg |
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Posted: 4/25/2024 10:18:33 PM EDT
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Posted: 4/25/2024 10:49:38 PM EDT
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THE most accurate depiction of life in the 60s?
Gotta be Twilight Zone |
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UT, USA
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Posted: 4/25/2024 10:54:11 PM EDT
[#37]
Adam-12 and Dragnet.
Sounds corny, but the law-and-order attitudes portrayed in those shows were shared by most Americans during the 1960s. |
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Posted: 4/25/2024 11:13:54 PM EDT
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Perry Mason
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Posted: 4/25/2024 11:51:50 PM EDT
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Additions:
Full Metal Jacket and Animal House |
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Posted: 4/26/2024 12:16:40 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By SS65: Leave it to Beaver. Seriously. My childhood was blessed with a blissful unawareness of all the shit going on in the world. Same. |
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Posted: 4/26/2024 12:23:25 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By shotar: Adam 12. That show had it all. Racial strife, cops being ambushed and killed, domestic calls, arresting child molesters, the works. |
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CA, USA
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Posted: 4/26/2024 12:25:47 AM EDT
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Wonder Years
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Posted: 4/26/2024 12:30:31 AM EDT
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Wonder years
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Posted: 4/26/2024 12:41:35 AM EDT
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My Three Sons.
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Posted: 4/26/2024 12:53:06 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Ibn_Huq: Mod Squad Room 222 That Girl Family Affair Eddie’s Father Hawaii Five O Adam 12 My experiences were closer to Green Acres or Petticoat Junction than any of those shows. |
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Posted: 4/26/2024 1:04:32 AM EDT
[#46]
Route 66
Father Knows Best The Man from U.N.C.L.E. |
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Posted: 4/26/2024 3:48:50 AM EDT
[Last Edit: Ringsting]
[#47]
The Monkees - that might have been 70's.
Planet of the Apes ETA - HEAT |
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CAN
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Posted: 4/26/2024 4:38:21 AM EDT
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Marnie
The Ipcress File Guess who's coming to Dinner The Graduate Festival (1967) The Trip (1967) Valley of the Dolls Faces (1968) |
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Posted: 4/26/2024 8:05:40 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By mannyCA: The Wonder Years! I had forgotten about that show, and you are right. It did a great job of capturing the 60's. |
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Posted: 4/26/2024 8:53:29 AM EDT
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Apparently I lived in a different world than the previous posters. For me music was everything and in the Detroit metro area music centered on:
 LOUDER THAN LOVE trailer |
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