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From: lmv@houxa.UUCP (L.VANDERBILT)
Newsgroups: net.tv
Subject: Re: 1960's adventure shows
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Date: Wed, 18-Sep-85 09:51:13 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep 18 09:51:13 1985
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Robert C. Lagasse writes:
>        Watching some reruns the other day as a form of background noise, I
> realized that there were a bunch of adventure type shows produced in the
> 1960's (and many were good) that portrayed a male hero type (usually a
> gentle person) that was not married or maybe divorced or lost a wife
> somehow.  Examples are: Flipper, Gentle Ben, Lassie, Daktari, Andy Griffeth
> to name a few.  All of these guys wore khaki colored shirts and were some
> sort of public servants I believe.  
> 
>    I wonder what was the psychological reasoning behind producing a string
> of shows like these with so many unattached fathers?  Oh......My Three Sons
> sort of falls into the same catagory.

I can't remember but did Petticoat Junction have no mother or no father in
the show, I think it was no father, but a mother and an uncle.  Just one
show I can think of not following your pattern.  I also remember the
Courtship of Eddie's Father which was a show where the mother had died.


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