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Posted: 9/29/2021 8:31:54 PM EDT
Failed To Load Title Was this like those old Hollywood wild west movies that used to be popular, only this time more for family friendly viewing? |
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Quality entertainment full of life lessons. You are a better person for watching, understanding, and putting into practice those lessons.
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Family friendly, the characters were compelling, gave a good flavor about life on the frontier.
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Never seen the series but have read the books many many times.
I think the amazement I had as a kid growing up in the city is lost upon my children as seeing bears, moose, wolves etc and looking at forests that go as far as you can see and getting hundreds of inches of snow a year is routine for them. |
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Oh it was wonderful. Every week a story about a child being crushed under a wagon wheel, losing their dog to rabies, going deaf or blind. Quality family entertainment.
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The ones that don't understand it are likely from California...........................
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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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I watched it as a kid. While I remember the characters I don't remember a single episode.
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When you only had one TV and three TV channels to pick from, you watched whatever your parents chose and you liked it.
Kharn |
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Quoted: Same thing with The Andy Griffith show. View Quote You should have seen it as it originally aired in 1960 FAMILY GUY Andy Griffith Show |
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People loved to hate on Nellie and her mom Mrs. Olson, the store keeper’s wife.
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laura ingraham, laura ingalls and mary ingalls
I'll add Mrs. Ingalls anyone else? Nancy? Nellie? Miss Beadle? Albert? Shannon Doherty for sure back in the day. |
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Quoted: Same thing with The Andy Griffith show. View Quote And the Waltons. Little House and the Waltons were mid-70s contemporaries, while Griffith was 60s. As another poster mentioned, there were three networks and usually three channels and a couple independent stations and maybe PBS in most markets back then. In many areas it was less than that, too -- I remember in northern AZ you were lucky to get a couple stations on translators from Phoenix in the 70s and they were fuzzy as hell. Pretty much anything that got and stayed on the air was by definition "popular" back then. |
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Don’t know but Wilder was an American badass. Been to both her birthplace and her farms in South Dakota and Missouri. Respect.
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I loved that show when I was little. Highway to Heaven, too. Michael Landon was awesome.
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Couldn't stand the intro, so it was Airwolf, A-Team and Miamuh Vice instead for this kid.
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We weren't addicted to internet pornography and realistic violence back then.
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I thought it was terrible even when I was a little kid, Andy Griffth sucked too.
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Quoted: We weren't addicted to internet pornography and realistic violence back then. View Quote You say that like it's a bad thing. Attached File Kharn |
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Like The Walton's, family friendly entertainment that the whole family could watch, back when families did such things together
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Quoted: Quality entertainment full of life lessons. You are a better person for watching, understanding, and putting into practice those lessons. View Quote 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. |
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Quoted: Never seen the series but have read the books many many times. I think the amazement I had as a kid growing up in the city is lost upon my children as seeing bears, moose, wolves etc and looking at forests that go as far as you can see and getting hundreds of inches of snow a year is routine for them. View Quote Same except I read the books when I lived in a rural quasi prairie area. For being a children’s book it covered some pretty stark stuff in great detail. Indian raids, house building, sickness, disasters. Hell, it gave step by step instructions on how her dad used to clean and load his black powder rifle. Not to mention things like wooden hinges, cooking, etc. |
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I would think the fat shaming episode would have been a rallying cry for GD.
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I never watched the TV shows, but read all the Laura Ingalls Wilder books as a child. Loved 'em.
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We've watched the whole thing with our kids and are about halfway through watching it again.
We're on the episode tonight where the tornado hits the farm and Pa gets frustrated and wants to sell. |
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Never watched it. Just not my genre. Didn't like the Waltons either.
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Back then you only had three fucking channels to choose from, how the fuck couldn't it be popular.
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Reagan liked it.
The real daughter Rose was an author and journalist…wrote “The Discovery of Freedom |
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I watch it all the time now that I am working from home. It's a good show, at least until the later episodes when they don't actually live on the prairie, rather they live in town.
Little House on the Prairie Bonanza Gunsmoke The Waltons |
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