Campanella in front of a well-dressed Brooklyn Dodgers crowd, 1958.
Posted on 06/19/2015 4:17:00 AM PDT by foreverfree
Doctors smoke.
Drivers get into cars on the passenger side and slides across the front seat instead of walking around. Exception: A male driver with a female passenger. They both get in on the drivers' side. She gets in first but only slides halfway across.
Cops shoot fleeing unarmed suspects. If a civilian is shot during a pursuit, the cop doesn't bother stopping to render aid or call an ambulance; they keep chasing the suspect (of course, assumed to be guilty).
To make sure everyone knows his or her place, formal and familiar modes of address (and reference) are rigidly used.
Black people are always servants and servile (except on Amos 'n' Andy).
When "stuff" happens, women scream. A guy has to handle it for them.
Busy signals.
Convertibles with the top down in apparently cold weather (people bundled up or wearing heavy coats and hats).
Western marshals don't make arrests; they have duels with bad guys and given them the chance to draw and fire first. Cops aren't much better; they approach armed suspects without drawing a weapon, allowing the suspect fire at them so they can have a dramatic shoot-out.
Despite the fact that Roman Catholics are less than a quarter of the US population, about 90 per cent of TV clergy are priests.
You seldom see a TV in the homes of TV families.
It only takes a quick kiss or peck on the lips to make teenage boys happy.
TV homes have table radios with future technology (they don't need to warm up). And when turned on, a news story or announcement relevant to the plot is heard immediately.
Doctors make house calls. Nobody worries about the cost of health care.
Wives are younger and better looking than their husbands.
Women can't walk by themselves; guys must grab an elbow and steer them.
Bathrooms don't have toilets.
People drink coffee with every meal. (You'd think they'd need those toilets.)
Any others?
I have seen demonstrations of the CBS system, and it did produce eye-popping color.
But yeah, from a technical standpoint, it was absurd.
Nobody sat at the dinner table with their backs to the camera.
One of these days we’ll be able to access sufficient internet speed for Netflix. Right now a three-minute trailer will buffer repeatedly.
“I remember tv wives and mothers at home always dressed up”
Yea — I couldn’t understand why my mom only looked like June Cleaver on Sunday mornings!
My mother didn’t look like June Cleaver even on Sunday. Oh, Mom dressed well for church, but she didn’t have heels or pearls or fancy jewelry. She couldn’t afford such finery.
At least we knew the Father Knows Best dad sold insurance.
I have no idea what, if anything, Ozzie did for a living.
“Mom dressed well for church, but she didn’t have heels or pearls or fancy jewelry.”
Same with my mom. It was just “Sunday Best” — better than the housedresses during the week. I guess she looked as much like June Cleaver as I could imagine.
Thanks to him and the rest of those Washington morons, we'll be paying more just to have a picture of a cat download more slowly.
At ball games they all have white shirts on!
“Good guys’ guns never run out of bullets, but bad guys’ guns always do.”
Encore Westerns channel recently ran a clip from the John Wayne movie “The Sons of Katie Elder” where Duke fires 14 rounds out of his trusty six shooter without reloading. Their caption was “Hell of a gun.”
And I love how “The Rifleman” can fire 12 rounds from his rifle, reach in his pocket, pull out ONE bullet, shove it in the rifle and be good to go.
“married women who look like Laura Petrie sleep in a twin bed four feet away from their husband”
Makes you wonder how Lucy got pregnant with Little Ricky.
Campanella in front of a well-dressed Brooklyn Dodgers crowd, 1958.
The dads all had professional careers that required them to be well dressed for work. How often did you see a dad on tv who worked in a factory or coal mine or some blue collar job?
‘The Twilight Zone’, The Outer Limits’ and ‘Combat!’ were made for B&W!
Well, you had Chester Riley, of “Life of Riley,” who was a blue-collar worker, at that plane factory, working alongside his neighbor pal, Gillis. Circa 1953-58. Can’t think of too many others, offhand.
That is because they have easily recognizable costumes.
A pastor is just a guy in a suit.
People never remove their underwear before going to bed even if they are going to have sex. The next morning they sit up the guy is still wearing boxers and undershirt and the girl is wearing panties and bra.
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