Reply #17: I was in Atlanta in '64. We LOVED TW3 [View All]

[ProudDad]

I was a student at Ga. Tech. We used to go through the tunnel under the freeway to the Varsity Drive-in Restaurant, buy a cheeseburger, fries and coke (for about .75) and sit down in one of their color-TV rooms to watch TW3.

Imagine our surprise and anger when for a number of successive weeks in the fall of '64, the republican party would buy the 1/2 hour that TW3 was normally on to preempt it for a broadcast about the wonders of Barry Goldwater!! This went on every week until the election of '64.

Then Lyndon Johnson quietly had the series killed...


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I would like to dispel a myth though. There just wasn't very much good satire on tv then. The networks were just as tight about speaking truth to power as the whole mass media is now. The Brothers were BIG, BIG, BIG for only a couple of years, then fired...Laugh In was always watered down, pulled their punches -- hell, they even had Nixon on!...and frankly, there was NOTHING else in the way of political satire on the tube that I remember.

The Simpsons are more hard-hitting than anything that ran back then.