television has grown faster than a teenager, and now it is time to grow up. the tv was the center of the house. i don t remember a time without tv. by 1960, essentially every household in america had a television. it was a new way of bringing the world to you. when something big happened on television, it really did happen to the entire country and impacted the entire country at the same time. keep an awakened eye on the world. suddenly television was the main event. everything else changed, even the way in which you went about the business of getting someone elected president. david, will you hit the one-minute button, please. 30 seconds and the cut, please. in 1960, the nixon/kennedy debate was a first in television. a lot of people were watching that night, and it introduced a lot of people to kennedy. would you let me see the tight shot on camera one, please? can you hear me now speaking? is that about the right tone of voice? good evening. the
this stick of true dynamite that i made. it makes no sense if you pull any single thread on it, but it was just like the kind of show designed to live forever in syndication. who are you looking for? the nun. who else? are you kidding? flying nun is the most it s a crazy show. like what is that about? look, carlos, it s very simple. you see, i only weigh 90 pounds and the combination of my cornet and the wind lifts me. it was just complete nonsense, let s face it. it was the height of the 60s, and everybody was eating granola and dropping out and doing god knows what else, and i wasn t. hello, central? i m switching to my eyeglasses. put a hold on my wallet but keep my shoe open. television more than ever in the 60s was a place to escape to. let s go.
song and skit routines and by subject matter that is often on the cutting edge of what is new. our government is asking us as citizens to refrain from traveling to foreign lands. okay, all you guys in vietnam, come on home! the times were changing so quickly in the 60s. and we didn t change them. we just reflected them. i can t hear you, what are you doing? getting ready to go to college. cbs gave the smothers brothers that show because they were clean-cut, folk satirists. they wore blazers, they could sing well, they were funny. mom likes you best! you lower your voice! mom liked you best. they told us what we could do and thought we should do and it was totally wrong. tony came in saying, i d like a show where we re relevant. until then, mr. mcnamara
just as tv could start to take advantage of them. hi. well, glad you could make it. i remember saying stay tuned for gidget next, in color. wednesday nights, in color, on abc. it was a big marketing thing. color tv was a huge step forward as far as the technology went. and yet, i think of lost in space. lost in space started off as a black and white show and went to color. it didn t get any better when it went to color. dr. smith, you re alive. of course i m alive. do i look like a corpse? the period has a reputation for being tv as a kind of candy. sometimes it felt like there was this really aggressive innocence to it. you re only to blow that in an emergency. this is an emergency. you re standing on my foot! gilligan s island made no sense whatsoever logistically. how is the professor able to build all this stuff but not build a damn raft?
new identity and, for as long as it is safe, a new name. the fugitive was a kind of somber character study. beware the eyes of strangers, keep moving. everybody wanted to see what happens to the fugitive. i ll ask you a question, how long is he going to go on? will they ever find him? i m about ready to give up. when it ended, it broke the viewership record set by the beatles on ed sullivan. it was one of the first tv shows that actually went somewhere. you know, youngstown is not exactly on our course. in a lot of ways, television was showing slices of the world that people may have never seen before. route 66 was an innovative show because it was actually filmed on location. so the audience was being exposed to things that just weren t part of their local orbit. space, the final frontier. you know, there s a little bit of the mayberry aspect to