Comment from Gloria ....

Excellent

This is a terrific synopsis of the first generation's journey through TVLand. Now we are living the reality of brains altered (and possibly DNA too) from chronic watching of the Idiot Box. When the generations enter into the realm of dementia that is where the inability to separate fact from fiction will cause some real trouble is my guess.

I am currently watching old black and white movies and just watched The Night of the Hunter the other day, what a terrific flick.

Just a couple of name typos:

Eric Severeid (Sevareid) would read an editorial. Charles Kouralt, (Kuralt) in his down home

creepy Adams (Addams) Family

going Coco (Cuckoo) for coco (Cocoa) puffs

Joe Dimaggio, (DiMaggio)

Thurmon (Thurman) Munson, Bobby Murcer, Roy White and Fritz Petersen, (Peterson)

Sullivan show, Colombo (Columbo)

Olivia DeHavilland ( de Havilland) in Gone With the Wind, Erol (Errol) Flynn

tap dancing through The Barklays (Barkleys) of Broadway,

A most impressive lot of memories here and fun to recall some of them.

Many thanks for sharing.

Gloria

 Comment Written 26-Jan-2021

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reply by the author on 28-Jan-2021

Thanks so much for the excellent review and your interesting comments on the piece. You picked up on something so far only one other person has; how sinister, in some ways, all this TV watching was in shaping our sense of the world, of relationships, and experience itself. Who knows how much of our politics was shaped by it. And then there were all the commercials, that I hardly touched on. But the consumer world of our time, the image of the cookie cutter family with the car in the driveway, laughing time away, the explosion of the importance of sports; all this was born in the sixties. estory

Comment from Erika Seshadri

Excellent

Ay, yes, this definitely pulled me all the way back to my childhood. Thank you for taking me on a trip down memory line.

I think wise cracking is a compound word... wisecracking.

Cheers!

 Comment Written 26-Jan-2021

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reply by the author on 28-Jan-2021

Thanks for the excellent review and I am glad you enjoyed the trip down memory lane. estory

Comment from Y. M. Roger

Excellent

Aaah, reminiscing along the television airwaves here, E -- wow, so many memories flood back in reading your well-written piece here! ;) Thanx for sharing here - TV is certainly not what it once was, is it? :) Yvette

 Comment Written 26-Jan-2021

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reply by the author on 28-Jan-2021

Thanks so much for the excellent review and your comments supporting the piece. I think one of the funniest shows of all time was one of the first. Jackie Gleason's Honeymooners, with Art Carney, Audrey Meadows, and Joyce Randolph. Audrey Meadows, maybe along with Mary Tyler Moore, were the prototype TV moms. estory

Comment from Alcreator Litt Dear

Excellent

This Letter and Diary Fiction has explanatory and expressive taletelling about growing up with television, fast forward plot development, informative beginning and positive formal ending; well said, well done; thanks for sharing this. ALCREATOR

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 Comment Written 26-Jan-2021

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reply by the author on 28-Jan-2021

Thanks so much for the excellent review and your interesting comments supporting the piece. I am glad it made you think of how much TV influenced our experience of life, of relationships, and maybe even politics. estory

Comment from Sally Law

Excellent

Television was once great and we all watched it together, even the evening news. I stood and held the tin-foiled antennas so that my family could watch the Wizard of Oz on our sacred night of TV viewing. The good Lord help ya if something interfered with this time slot on Sunday evening. We are so far from this, and I still prefer the older shows and movies. Feel good stuff and accurate news has gone with the winds of time.
Sending you my best for this marvelous post,
Sal XOs....

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 Comment Written 26-Jan-2021

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reply by the author on 28-Jan-2021

Thanks for the excellent review and your interesting comments supporting the piece. I am glad I was able to conjure up some old memories, and it is interesting to hear how many of the same shows and movies I shared with you all through that set, in different settings. I remember watching Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom and the Wonderful World of Disney every Sunday night. Of course the Wizard of Oz as well, whenever it came on, usually on Easter weekend. My mom was one of those 13 year old girls who first saw Judy Garland light up the screen in what must have been a movie like Star Wars to people in that time. estory