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TheMastersNemesis

(10,602 posts) Sat Dec 16, 2017, 01:50 AM Dec 2017

THERE WAS A TIME WHEN ------------

The Twilight Zone, Night Gallery or Outler Limits were the scariest things on TV. NOW THE MOST SCARY AND TERRIFYING THING ON TV IS THE NIGHTLY NEWS!!!!!!

A paraphrase from original idea posted on Facebook by a former Democratic chair.

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THERE WAS A TIME WHEN ------------ (Original Post) TheMastersNemesis Dec 2017 OP

While this is true, murielm99 Dec 2017 #1

Yeah. I lived that but was too young to understand. rusty quoin Dec 2017 #3

TeeVee often gives us escapism lapfog_1 Dec 2017 #2

Bob Wilkins Creature Feature Grassy Knoll Dec 2017 #4

Sacramento boy... tonedevil Dec 2017 #5

Watch Horror Films, Keep America Strong! Brother Buzz Dec 2017 #6

It seems like there was a time we could watch tv for entertainment... world wide wally Dec 2017 #7

Agreed about the scariest! democratisphere Dec 2017 #8

murielm99

(30,741 posts)

1. While this is true,

Reply to TheMastersNemesis (Original post)

Sat Dec 16, 2017, 01:53 AM

Dec 2017

I was fucking scared of nuclear war when I was a kid. The Cuban Missile Crisis was from the same era. That stuff was all over the TV and newspapers then.

I have been feeling that fear again in these times.

rusty quoin

(6,133 posts)

3. Yeah. I lived that but was too young to understand.

Reply to murielm99 (Reply #1)

Sat Dec 16, 2017, 02:09 AM

Dec 2017

And then post MLK & RFK, we gradually went into party mode, then greedy mode, then easily fooled mode, up to the let’s go to war big time mode, and then we got Trump.

We never figured it all out as a country. It’s hard to do if you are not paying attention.

lapfog_1

(29,205 posts)

2. TeeVee often gives us escapism

Reply to TheMastersNemesis (Original post)

Sat Dec 16, 2017, 02:09 AM

Dec 2017

Big shows in the 1960s

Gilligan's Island
Beverly Hillbillies
Petticoat Junction
Gunsmoke
Bonanza

All while a President, a Presidential candidate (his brother), and a great leader for equality were being gunned down... a pointless war was killing thousands of young Americans... and riots were breaking out in cities across the land.

Time to revive "I Dream of Genie" or "Bewitched" or "Gilligan's Island" (where every season we can watch as rising ocean levels due to climate change swallow more of the island!)

Grassy Knoll

(10,118 posts)

4. Bob Wilkins Creature Feature

Reply to TheMastersNemesis (Original post)

Sat Dec 16, 2017, 02:14 AM

Dec 2017

tonedevil

(3,022 posts)

5. Sacramento boy...

Reply to Grassy Knoll (Reply #4)

Sat Dec 16, 2017, 02:19 AM

Dec 2017

makes good.

Brother Buzz

(36,434 posts)

6. Watch Horror Films, Keep America Strong!

Reply to tonedevil (Reply #5)

Sat Dec 16, 2017, 02:52 AM

Dec 2017

Bob Wilkins was an Indiana boy who made it big in Sacramento AND Oakland; he did a lot of commuting back in the day. There was a time I could view two different productions with just rabbit ears.