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Nelson Au · 04-25-2008, 01:18 AM

An interesting documentary aired this evening on PBS about the era of the 50's and the TV shows of the time. As the title suggests, it explores the TV shows of that time right before color became the standard and how they presented such ideal families then.

I was watching Lost, and I was recording the doc and saw a bit of it flipping back and forth. It was amazing to see old Wally (Tony Dow) looked! And Billy Mumy too!

They interviewed Stanley Livingston of My Three Sons, all the children from Lost in Space, the kids from The Adams Family and some others, and of course Eddie Haskell himself and others.

It looked to be an interesting discussion about the morals of the times portayed verses what TV portrays American society as reflected today.

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Nelson Au Member Location: Silicon Valley Join Date: Mar 1999 Local Time: 09:34 AM Local Date: 08-30-2008 Posts: 3,002	PBS: On the Edge of Black and White An interesting documentary aired this evening on PBS about the era of the 50's and the TV shows of the time. As the title suggests, it explores the TV shows of that time right before color became the standard and how they presented such ideal families then. I was watching Lost, and I was recording the doc and saw a bit of it flipping back and forth. It was amazing to see old Wally (Tony Dow) looked! And Billy Mumy too! They interviewed Stanley Livingston of My Three Sons, all the children from Lost in Space, the kids from The Adams Family and some others, and of course Eddie Haskell himself and others. It looked to be an interesting discussion about the morals of the times portayed verses what TV portrays American society as reflected today.