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good evening, mr. cleaver. some poor unfortunate child is trapped up there. everyone has that moment when they were so embarrassed and they thought they d never get over it, but they did. tonight s special report from the scene of the 1961 emmys. whether it s a situation comedy or western or drama, i think it s the quality of the show itself that s important. the andy griffith show, mayberry, it s just a kinder, gentler place. it would be hard not to want to be in mayberry. the core of the andy griffith show was this rock at the center of it. calm, wisdom. i have taken the best parts of myself and people i ve known all my life and put them into andy taylor. ope, there comes a time when you have to stop the play acting and tell the truth. don t you believe me, pa?
good evening, ladies and gentlemen. tonight, live from new york. from hollywood. from beautiful downtown burbank. here is the star of our show, bob hope! [ applause ] variety was the backbone of television back then. one year there were like 18 different variety shows. everybody had a variety show. it s the jimmy dean show everyone was different because of who was helming the show. everybody loves somebody some time dean martin was just so loose he acted as though he was doing the whole show drunk without a rehearsal. this is a real international show. now, where else could you see a smooth italian and a slippery pole?
was now the medium that mattered. it wasn t before 1960, and it was every day after 1960 in those presidential debates. try to find a western. all right. once everyone had a tv set in their living room and advertisers had fully gotten a grip on how effective this was a way to sell products, the very definition of what you were doing was to create entertainment that would appeal to as many people as possible. beaver, eat your brussels sprouts. gee, mom, i can t. my stomach s filled up to my throat. now, no excuses. leave it to beaver was something that a lot of families understood. it s the first show that was ever shot from the perspective of a child. beaver. most people have had a lot of the experiences that the beaver or wally had, and everyone in their life has an eddie haskell. wally, some dumb kid fell in the soup.
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, good 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? i m getting ready to go to college. cbs gave the smothers brothers that show because they were clean-cut folk satirists. you know, they wore blazers. they could sing well. they were funny. mom liked you best! you lower your voice. mom liked you best. they told us what they thought we could do and what we should do, and it was totally wrong. and tommy came in saying, i would like a show where we can be relevant. if we could get a war without blood and gore i would be the first to go but until then mr. mcnamara i m only 18