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From: root@trwrdc.UUCP (Lord Frith)
Newsgroups: net.tv
Subject: Re: 1960's adventure shows
Message-ID: <1054@trwrdc.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 26-Sep-85 14:12:18 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 26 14:12:18 1985
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In article <789@houxa.UUCP> lmv@houxa.UUCP (L.VANDERBILT) 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.

I always assumed that the networks were too afraid of portraying a
family with a mother and father.... who actually... well... in bed they
might actually... um... well maybe the male figure should be an Uncle.
And the female should be an Aunt or a housekeeper.  Yeh... that works.
Like Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz!
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