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Posted: 9/30/2021 2:05:34 AM EDT
[#1]
Landon was coming off of Bonanza which was on forever, and yes it was sort of western but also family oriented, wholesome which people use to like. Also based on the Laura Ingalls Wilder books which were popular, because people read back then, and about the American frontier which people used to think was cool. Her books are now being banned and considered racist by the Marxists here.
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Posted: 9/30/2021 2:12:39 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: When you only had one TV and three TV channels to pick from, you watched whatever your parents chose and you liked it. Kharn Pretty much. And mom and sis loved the show, so dad and l suffered. 
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Posted: 9/30/2021 2:25:46 AM EDT
[#3]
Paper boulder.
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Posted: 9/30/2021 2:39:37 AM EDT
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Because many people at the time had read the books(remember them?) had an interest in the stories.
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Posted: 9/30/2021 2:57:36 AM EDT
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I was born in ‘68. It was a family-friendly show that appealed to kids. I was a kid. And up into the early 1970’s, cowboy TV shows and movies were still very prevalent so most kids were into TV shows from the cowboy era.
It was my favorite show when I was a little kid. |
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Posted: 9/30/2021 3:59:17 AM EDT
[#6]
At least it wasn't "Little Mosque On The Prarie."
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Posted: 9/30/2021 4:03:00 AM EDT
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Love the series, have the complete DVD set. I got to add wild packs of dogs to the list.
Funny how Minnesota looked a lot different back then, and the leaves never changed or fell with the seasons. 
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Posted: 9/30/2021 4:10:42 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Family friendly, the characters were compelling, gave a good flavor about life on the frontier. TV that is neither degenerate nor subversive? Imagine. |
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Posted: 9/30/2021 4:19:21 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Because there were three channels; that why.  This right here, all other answers are bullshit. |
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Posted: 9/30/2021 4:49:57 AM EDT
[#10]
Waltons, Little House and The life and times of Grizzly Adams.
Those were a staple until Baa Baa Black Sheep came out. |
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Posted: 9/30/2021 4:56:59 AM EDT
[#11]
The guy that played Doc Baker was my brother in law.
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Posted: 9/30/2021 5:11:15 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Couldn't say it better. People valued morality back then. They were entertained with thought experiments on how they could be better, not how they could circumvent morality. People didn't have better values or morality back then. Media was simply censored. The Comstock Laws and their various state and municipal clones were enforced up to the 1960s and 1970s in many parts of the US. Sexuality was treated as a criminal matter. Purchasing sex toys was a no no, same with porn. A number of locations had laws barring unmarried couples cohabiting together. This trickled down to media. You had the Motion Picture Production Code, which censored films starting in 1930 by the Motion Picture Association of America. They found films that promoted things like nudity, sex, violence, etc to be immoral. (Watch Pre-Code Hollywood films and you'll see they're on par with what is produced today.) Media was strictly censored and controlled. This alsoneffected radio and television. The Code of Practices for Television Broadcasters (enforced until 1983) barred numerous subject matters from being aired. The code prohibited the use of profanity, the negative portrayal of family life, irreverence for God and religion, illicit sex, drunkenness and addiction, presentation of cruelty, detailed techniques of crime, the use of horror for its own sake, and the negative portrayal of law enforcement officials. Television was heavily restricted and the start of the end of the Code of Practices for Television Broadcasters began with the Carter Administration's anti-trust lawsuit against the code's Section XIV time standards limiting advertising on children's programming, alleging that they "represented an unlawful effort to restrict supply of commercial availabilities and hence drive up prices for these spots." It fully died in 1983 when the National Association of Broadcasters and the Reagan Justice Department entered into a consent decree abolishing the time standards and the industry-wide limitations on the number and length of commercials along with agreeing that the Code of Practices for Television Broadcasters violated the First Amendment. |
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Posted: 9/30/2021 5:20:41 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: TV that is neither degenerate nor subversive? Imagine. |
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Posted: 9/30/2021 5:25:58 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Only because of censorship and quasi fascist style big government/business alliance working together by enforcing the Code of Practices for Television Broadcasters. Authoritarians pushing morality down the throats of content creators and barring anything they deemed inappropriate is why you had "TV that is neither degenerate nor subversive." Boy, I sure am glad we got rid of them! |
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Posted: 9/30/2021 5:26:38 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: The books were written by Laura Ingalls (and possibly her daughter) about her childhood and growing up as a pioneer settler. I think most God fearing pioneer families were probably pretty wholesome when compared to today's family. They didn't have as much to get into trouble with. I can watch the show in small doses. I don't think I'd want to binge it. Rampant alcoholism, drug abuse, rape (incest), infidelity, domestic violence, etc all happened. There is a reason why Prohibition and Big Government Nanny Statism was born at the end of the Wild West and gained full traction as those children of that era became the majority of voters during the early 1900s and solidifying their power in the 1920s. |
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Posted: 9/30/2021 5:27:45 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: The Waltons was a fantastic show. Excellent stories and cast, eventhough Will Geer was a super commie in real life. Yeah, I heard that too. Grandpa was a commie the got black listed back in the first half of the last century. |
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Posted: 9/30/2021 5:29:16 AM EDT
[#17]
Quote HistoryQuoted: You had a maybe two or more generations at the time the show came out that actually lived that type of life in America when they were younger. My grandmother was born in 1894 in Virginia. My my mother was born in 1927 in a one room shack with a dirt floor in West Virginia. They loved that show when it originally ran because that was the life they lived. You had most of the South in the mid 70s being only one generation with electricity and running water. |
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Posted: 9/30/2021 5:31:45 AM EDT
[#18]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Same thing with The Andy Griffith show. Yeah...both were fuctarded 
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Posted: 9/30/2021 5:32:09 AM EDT
[#19]
Quote HistoryQuoted: For sure. Can't beat the programming of today. Fags on every show. Cheating spouses. Sex and drugs. And all the rest of the damned debauchery seen on every show today. |
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Posted: 9/30/2021 5:33:00 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: You say that like it's a bad thing. /media/mediaFiles/sharedAlbum/3C9D8DCC-7017-4E20-94D7-C2D7C9B8674B-392.gif Kharn Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: We weren't addicted to internet pornography and realistic violence back then. You say that like it's a bad thing. /media/mediaFiles/sharedAlbum/3C9D8DCC-7017-4E20-94D7-C2D7C9B8674B-392.gif Kharn  Attached File |
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Posted: 9/30/2021 5:36:42 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Boy, I sure am glad we got rid of them! Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Only because of censorship and quasi fascist style big government/business alliance working together by enforcing the Code of Practices for Television Broadcasters. Authoritarians pushing morality down the throats of content creators and barring anything they deemed inappropriate is why you had "TV that is neither degenerate nor subversive." Boy, I sure am glad we got rid of them! Authoritarians are Authoritarians... they change their exterior labels but they're the same underneath. The oligarchs that ru. Facebook and Google are just the new generation of control freaks. They still allied themselves with Big Government in an attempt to control people and enforce their ideas of morality and utopia. |
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Posted: 9/30/2021 5:42:22 AM EDT
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I liked the show. A look into a simpler time. Looking back the 70’s were so much simpler than today…
4 channels and I was the remote control. |
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Posted: 9/30/2021 6:05:21 AM EDT
[#23]
To this day, I still watch Andy Griffith and think about the simplier life.....
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Posted: 9/30/2021 6:11:23 AM EDT
[#24]
Great series of books for kids made into a series for profit.
The books were great reading for little girls. |
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Posted: 9/30/2021 6:14:53 AM EDT
[#25]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Boy, I sure am glad we got rid of them! Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Only because of censorship and quasi fascist style big government/business alliance working together by enforcing the Code of Practices for Television Broadcasters. Authoritarians pushing morality down the throats of content creators and barring anything they deemed inappropriate is why you had "TV that is neither degenerate nor subversive." Boy, I sure am glad we got rid of them! Yeah I know, right? We're SOOOOO much better off now. |
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Posted: 9/30/2021 6:16:22 AM EDT
[#26]
It was better than most of the rest of the stuff on TV then. If that tells you anything about how good stuff on TV was then.
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Posted: 9/30/2021 6:29:00 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: LOL.... no. Rampant alcoholism, drug abuse, rape (incest), infidelity, domestic violence, etc all happened. There is a reason why Prohibition and Big Government Nanny Statism was born at the end of the Wild West and gained full traction as those children of that era became the majority of voters during the early 1900s and solidifying their power in the 1920s. All that corn they grew had to go somewhere. Most of it went into whisky. Which they drank in copious amounts. Often a quart per person per day. |
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Posted: 9/30/2021 6:30:54 AM EDT
[#28]
Quote HistoryQuoted: To this day, I still watch Andy Griffith and think about the simplier life..... If you want to remember a simpler life, try learning how to keep a car maintained or washing clothes in the 50s and 60s. |
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Posted: 9/30/2021 6:37:44 AM EDT
[#29]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Don’t know but Wilder was an American badass. Been to both her birthplace and her farms in South Dakota and Missouri. Respect. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_Wilder_Lane |
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Posted: 9/30/2021 6:51:11 AM EDT
[#30]
early 70s. Anodyne to contemporary social decay, safe haven for family values viewing.
It was from the era before TV devolved into shit-for-brains reality shows, wrong-end-of-the-telescope antiheros, crime porn, and wokeness. |
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Posted: 9/30/2021 7:02:39 AM EDT
[#31]
Quote HistoryQuoted: My mother read all the books out loud to my brothers and I when we were young kids. We read some of the books in grade school. I remember the Teacher yelling at one boy because he was making fun of the girls/women in the story. Now, teachers have banned the books because she wrote some negative comments about Native Americans. Fun Fact: Michael Landon often drank, heavily, on the set during filming. |
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Posted: 9/30/2021 7:06:08 AM EDT
[#32]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Fun Fact: Michael Landon often drank, heavily, on the set during filming. I too have three daughters.... 
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Posted: 9/30/2021 7:17:20 AM EDT
[#33]
It bored me to tears. I was always waiting for Little Joe to shoot someone.
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Posted: 9/30/2021 7:21:59 AM EDT
[#34]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I too have three daughters.... As I have more children, my sympathy for him only increases. |
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Posted: 9/30/2021 7:26:34 AM EDT
[#35]
I live a couple miles from Laura Ingalls Wilder’s childhood home near Independence, Kansas.
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Posted: 9/30/2021 7:52:32 AM EDT
[#36]
good show about how good people can solve most of their problems without political intervention or even a sheriff.
a great show for the head of household to see how a physical man that breaks and an unbreakable spirit inhabit the same body |
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Posted: 9/30/2021 8:26:39 AM EDT
[#37]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Quality entertainment full of life lessons. You are a better person for watching, understanding, and putting into practice those lessons. This, good, solid, wholesome entertainment based on a simpler time for a simpler time (70/80s). |
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Posted: 9/30/2021 8:27:46 AM EDT
[#38]
It was a good show from a better time. I don't watch much TV now, but I could stop and watch a while.
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Posted: 9/30/2021 8:27:46 AM EDT
[#39]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I watched it as a kid. You were better for it. |
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Posted: 9/30/2021 8:29:59 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: The guy that played Doc Baker was my brother in law. Cool |
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Posted: 9/30/2021 8:46:55 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: You must be mistaken. Maybe another set. Because I was there, in Chatsworth, California. With EVERY building from the show. I believe it was private land rented from the studios. Michael Landon had not right to blow up anything. There are actually quite a few studio properties there. Charlie Manson hung out in that neighborhood. ETA: I guess most of it was burnt down in 2003. I was there in 2001 or there abouts. Found this. Little House on the Prairie Set I recall cast interviews with the actors where they discussed Landon blowing up the buildings to prevent their reuse |
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Posted: 9/30/2021 9:28:31 AM EDT
[#42]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Show honestly bored me as a kid and I'd usually switch to something else if watching alone. You know what classic Western I never, ever, EVER turned off as a kid?  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fMN8a3ZRUYStill probably one of my favorite shows. I catch it almost every afternoon when I'm home. |
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Posted: 9/30/2021 9:32:07 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: There was an episode where one of the girls needed an operation to save her life. Mr. Ingles and his friend went to Washington and petitioned the government for free health care and a living wage. Just kidding...he manned up and went out and found work to pay for her operation and everything worked out fine because he's not a pussy. 
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Posted: 9/30/2021 9:44:28 AM EDT
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I think people were yearning for a return to a simpler time in the 1970's. This in the wake of the Vietnam War, Watergate, Inflation, the energy crisis, the Iran crisis. I'm a Gex X kid, born in 1971. My memories of the 1970's, mostly gleaned from hearing my parents and grandparents talk, it was a shitty time. Didn't bother me, I was into normal kid stuff and didn't really notice the background noise.
As pointed out numerous time, television was limited to the three networks, PBS, and maybe an independent station. That is, provided you lived near an urban area and had a decent antennae. I stayed with my grandma quite a bit growing up. Little House on Monday night and Walton's on Thursdays were required viewing. She also made it a point to watch the Lawrence Welk show. One of my earliest ass whippings was when I threw a fit over missing the Kentucky-Indiana basketball game. We didn't have dozens of ESPN channels then. Maybe just a game of the week or a syndicated broadcast of a local team. UK-IU was a big deal in the 1970's. Mamaw didn't miss Lawrence Welk, so I got hosed out of watching that game. Still remember that, lol. Oh yeah, back to Little House. Decent show, Albert was a shithead that got hooked on morphine and nearly burnt the town down. Pa should have bought him a train ticket and shipped his ass back to Mankato or Minneapolis, or wherever the biggest town was. Anywhere but Walnut Grove. |
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Posted: 9/30/2021 9:51:22 AM EDT
[#45]
Quote HistoryQuoted: You had a maybe two or more generations at the time the show came out that actually lived that type of life in America when they were younger. My grandmother was born in 1894 in Virginia. My my mother was born in 1927 in a one room shack with a dirt floor in West Virginia. They loved that show when it originally ran because that was the life they lived. You had most of the South in the mid 70s being only one generation with electricity and running water. I'm 31 yo. I remember my great grandmother getting indoor running water. |
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Posted: 9/30/2021 10:02:04 AM EDT
[#46]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I'm 31 yo. I remember my great grandmother getting indoor running water. |
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Posted: 9/30/2021 10:05:03 AM EDT
[#47]
Quote HistoryQuoted: My Great Grandparents had running water and electricity in Cuba and I'm older than you. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: I'm 31 yo. I remember my great grandmother getting indoor running water. My grandparents (McDonald County MO) had an outhouse out back and a hand pump on a well outside the back door for drawing all their water. I'm 50, so this would have been mid-80's |
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Posted: 9/30/2021 10:06:34 AM EDT
[#48]
I watched it as a kid.
But then again we only got 3 channels and only one channel came in somewhat clear. You really didn’t have much choice on what you watched. |
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Posted: 9/30/2021 10:06:43 AM EDT
[#49]
Quote HistoryQuoted: My grandparents (McDonald County MO) had an outhouse out back and a hand pump on a well outside the back door for drawing all their water. I'm 50, so this would have been mid-80's Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: I'm 31 yo. I remember my great grandmother getting indoor running water. My grandparents (McDonald County MO) had an outhouse out back and a hand pump on a well outside the back door for drawing all their water. I'm 50, so this would have been mid-80's |
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Posted: 9/30/2021 10:08:19 AM EDT
[#50]
hmmm the family house in Manila had indoor running water and was one of the 1st to get electricity in that part of Manila in the late 19th century.
Same for my fathers families place outside Budapest. |
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