Classic TV Shows - part 1

I thought I'd start another new series here in my writer's blog.  I want to discuss some classic TV shows from the 1960s and 1970s.  Because of copyright issues I won't name the shows.  I don't want anyone to come looking for me whom I don't want to come looking for me.  Though I only have good things to say about these particular shows.

I have gotten a little fed up with what's available on TV now.  No I don't have cable or satellite.  I don't watch enough TV to justify paying for it.  So I just have my little antenna that I use.  There is a network that airs classic TV shows from decades past.  But they have the annoying habit of suddenly going to a commercial break right in the middle of a scene or right in the middle of someone talking.  I want to know what that person said.  Don't you?

I really do miss the innocence that was still on TV back in the 1960s and 1970s.  I don't think bad language was even allowed back then.  There was no blood and gore when someone got shot.  The shows were clean and generally family-safe.

I grew up in the 1960s and 1970s.  There were several TV shows that I absolutely loved back then.  There are 3 that are my top favorites to this day.  Back when VHS was still around I bought some of the episodes of these shows on tape.

Recently I've started to get DVDs of shows that I loved back then.  Of course I'm getting DVDs of my 3 favorites.  Something that I'm enjoying is getting an entire season on a DVD set.  That is so fun.

I have noticed a pattern with the shows that I loved.  These are ones that I have DVDs of or am considering getting DVDs of (or in one case I have my first DVDs of it on order right now).  Each of these shows was about a family.  Well, technically, one of them is an exception to that.  Still, the characters are like siblings.

I have just ordered a DVD set of the first season of a show that I did not grow up watching.  It was on way past my bed time.  But I have come across reruns of it over the years, and have liked the show.  So I've decided to add it to my collection.  It's another show that's about a family.

It seems to me that the family dramas back then had more substance to them.  My 3 favorites are family dramas.  They dealt with timeless issues like prejudice, honesty, respect, mercy, etc.  The shows are set in a long ago time - long before TV, home computers, cell phones, and computer games.  Goodness, what did these characters do with themselves anyway?  For one thing, they actually sat down at the table and talked with each other face to face.  No one was distracted with texting or the TV.