The Sixties (2013) s01e01 Episode Script

1 Cameras on standby.
- Here we go.
- Take one.
Champ, watch the TV.
The average time spent watching television is five to six hours per day.
Holy residuals.
There's a reason for calling it the boob tube and the idiot box.
Let's change the channel.
Banzai! We want to wrap about our scene.
Yeah.
Here is the news.
We must give the Americans viewers the kind of television that he both desires and deserves.
Okay, let's try and do it again and let's see what comes out this time.
Television has grown faster than a teenager.
Now, it is time to grow up.
The TV was the center of the house.
Yeah, I don't remember a time without TV.
By 1960, essentially every household in America had a television.
It was a new way of bringing the world to you.
When something big happened on television, it really did happen to the entire country and impacted the entire country at the same time.
Keep an awakened eye on the world.
Suddenly, television was the main event.
Everything else changed.
Even the way in which you went about the business of getting someone elected President.
David, will you hit the one minute button, please? The 30 seconds and the cut, please.
In 1960, the Nixon-Kennedy debate was a first in television.
A lot of people were watching that night.
And it introduced a lot of people to Kennedy.
Let me see the tight shot on camera one, please.
Can you hear me now speaking? Is that about the right tone of voice? Good evening.
The television and radio stations of the United States and their affiliated stations are proud to provide When the networks offered a debate, Kennedy immediately said yes.
Because he was sure he could do better than Nixon.
I think Mr.
Nixon is an effective leader of his party.
I hope he would grant me the same.
The question before us is which point of view and which party do we want to lead the United States? Mr.
Nixon, would you like to comment on that statement? I have no comment.
If you're live on television and there's a camera right here, there's really no place to hide.
Once you see a guy sweating when asked a question, are you sure he's the leader for you? That's the question before the American people and only you can decide what you want.
What you want this country to be.
What you want to do with the future.
I think we're ready to move.
If you saw it on television, clearly Kennedy had won that debate.
Gentlemen, thank you very much for permitting us to present the next President of the United States on this unique program it was the beginning of a new form of political craftsmanship.
If you could structure a message appropriately for the TV camera, you could have a huge impact.
And if you couldn't, you were toast.
I would like you now to give a real Tonight welcome to the Senator from Massachusetts, Mr.
John Kennedy.
May I ask you, so that I don't look too naive, a tough question right off the bat? Whether I'm a Democrat or a Republican? Oh People recognized that television was now the medium that mattered.
It wasn't before 1960, and it was every day after 1960 in those presidential debates.
Oh, honey, let's not watch that.
- Try to find a Western.
- All right.
Once everyone had a TV set in their living room, and advertisers had fully gotten a grip on how effective this was a way to sell products, the very definition of what you were doing was to create entertainment that would appeal to as many people as possible.
Beaver, eat your Brussel sprouts.
Gee, Mom, I can't.
My stomach's filled up to my throat.
Now, no excuses.
Leave it to Beaver was something that a lot of families understood.
It's the first show that was ever shot from the perspective of a child.
Beaver! Most people had a lot of the experiences that Beaver or Wally had and everyone in their life has an Eddie Haskell.
Hi, Wally.
Some dumb kid fell in the soup.
Good evening Mr.
Cleaver.
Some poor and unfortunate child is trapped up there.
Everyone has that moment when they were so embarrassed and they thought they'd never get over it.
But they did.
Tonight's special report a scene of a 1961 Emmys.
It isn't whether it's a situation comedy or whether it's a western or whether it's a drama.
I think it's the quality of the show itself that's important.
The Andy Griffith Show, Mayberry, it's just a kinder, gentler place.
It'd be hard not to want to live in Mayberry.
Hi, Pa.
Hi, Barn.
Hello.
The core of the Andy Griffith Show was this rock at the center of it.
Calm wisdom.
I have taken the best parts of myself and people that I've known all my life and put them into entertainment.
I hope that there comes a time when you have to stop to play acting and tell the truth.
Don't you believe me, Pa? Don't you, Pa? People appreciate emotional honesty.
They appreciate it more than laughs.
It's great if you can achieve both simultaneously.
And The Andy Griffith Show actually did that very often.
For a sitcom and it shows an unexpected depth.
Well, we think in the new format, the second dance number should come before the big sketch.
Gee, I don't know.
I like it.
Now, I like it.
Yeah, me too.
Yeah, I like it too.
What do you know? Look at that tie you're wearing.
I only wrote what I knew about, which was my life.
If you're writing about that, nobody can say, "That's not true.
" it is true.
I'm living it.
On the Dick Van Dyke Show, we could believe the actions of the characters because we could relate to them.
This wasn't a genie in a bikini in someone's bottle on their mantle.
These were real people.
Women are more, more Honest and direct? No.
They're more Courageous? We all have the same needs, feelings relationships with husbands and wives.
That was the kind of comedy we do.
The problems of living.
Honey How much do you like that baby? Oh, Rob, don't tell me you're jealous already.
The season opening episode for the 1963 season was seared into my head.
Now, our wives had a baby on the same day in the same hospital and the hospital was very busy, Mr.
Peters.
What am I getting at? They thought they got the wrong baby from the hospital.
So he calls the parents of the other kid and thinks, you know, we may have your kid, you may have our kid.
Hi.
We're Mr.
and Mrs.
Peters.
Come in.
Mrs.
Peters.
Won't you come in.
It was beautiful.
Absolutely beautiful.
Here, they're tackling a subject without tackling it.
Why didn't you tell me on the phone? And miss the expression on your face? The network worried about the fact that the African-Americans might be upset by it.
The network was always a little behind.
There's always somebody back there who doesn't have B-A-L-L-S.
Balls.
In Hollywood, the winner Carl Reiner, Dick Van Dyke.
I wish somebody had told me, I would have worn my hair.
I got to tell you this one.
Do you know those knock-knock jokes? Yeah, but they are old now.
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
But I got a real good one, I get a real funny one.
All right.
Go ahead start say knock, knock.
- I say.
- Yeah, go ahead.
- Knock, knock.
- Who's there? There was only three networks and there was only one late night show, really, You know, it's Jack Paar.
They don't understand how we do this show.
We just keeping talking with no script.
I know.
it's agony.
Jack Paar invented the late night television talk show.
Do you feel confident that you There's not a man in the world to beat me? I'm as pretty as Liberace.
Jack had in his corner his personality.
It's fabulously interesting complex, frightening, neurotic, but in other cases, an enthusiastic and informed personality.
It made for great television.
How much time I have done? I don't have a watch, either.
- How much? - Nine.
Has he been charming? I'll quit now, then.
Here's Johnny.
Johnny Carson inherited The Tonight Show but he made it his own.
It's going to be wild tonight.
I can always tell.
He hosted a nightly party.
Are you married? And if his buddies came and they started playing together, You felt like what it must have felt like to go to Vegas at three in the morning and have the Rat Pack come on.
Where is he in? No, but where's the guy you talk to? Oh, I love that.
It was a beautiful thing to watch a guy working at his best.
Okay.
Mingle.
Well, do we have it already? Get your axe and let's go.
All right.
If you watch it closely, he is gauging how much longer he can wait to let the laugh die before what he says will be irrelevant to what happened.
And he gets it just on the nose.
It's beautiful to watch.
I didn't even know you were Jewish.
Johnny was the best audience in the world.
And he loved comedy.
The woman is watching him.
She's watching him from the corner of her eye.
She says to him, "What are you looking at?" The guy says, "I'm looking at that ugly baby.
" That's a bad looking baby, lady.
Johnny was there listening for you he wanted you to score, then when you score, he scored.
Enough is enough.
Now calm down, lady.
He said, "Madam, the Pennsylvania railroad will go to any length to avoid having differences between the passengers.
" Said, "Perhaps it would be more to your convenience if we would rearrange your seating.
And as a small compensation from the railroad, if you'll accompany me to the dinning car, we'll give a free meal.
Maybe we'll find a banana for your monkey.
" Hi.
I'm Dick Cavett funnier than Chet Huntley, taller than Mickey Rooney and as pure and honest as New York, New Jersey.
The Dick Cavett Show was amazing because you could get people like Norman Mailer and Woody Allen.
My only New Year's resolution this year I think I'm going to try to sleep through the Nixon administration.
You have authors on.
You would have heavyweight boxers.
There were conversations.
When you mention the national anthem and talk about playing it in any unorthodox way.
You immediately get a guaranteed percentage of hate mail from people to say how dare It's not unorthodox.
Isn't unorthodox? No, no.
I thought, it was beautiful.
Well, there you go.
They just thought anything that's interesting ought to have a place on a talk show rather than young pretty actresses who have used word 'excited' in every sentence.
You're not frequently seen on television.
Is that by choice or Well, of course, it is the most impressive medium of all.
It's the medium that's going to either save America or send it down into demise.
There's no question in mind.
I'm getting out of it myself.
Really! We'll be back after this.
What you do is to book the best possible guests from different kind of businesses maybe not everybody in show business, some politics, some newspaper people Get them all in the stage together and hope that something works.
But it's a great show, it's a great platform for people who have something to say.
The point is that they take these scripts out of their drawers.
They change the things around.
Maybe it doesn't work with Green Acres, but on many of these shows, and that's why night after night, you turn on these serials and they all seem as if they came out of the same bread box.
Back then you had lots and lots of of copy cats.
You got The Addams Family and then you have The Munsters.
You've got Bewitched and then you've got I Dream of Jeannie.
You know, the old saying is imitation is the sincerest form of television.
So if one person is doing this fantastical hit, we're going to do that.
Now is that considered a crime? I'm afraid not.
There aren't any laws to protect us against bad TV shows yet.
So you're safe.
Thank you.
What I'm surprised by are some of the shows that I can't even imagine the pitch meetings for.
Like Hogan's Heroes.
It's a story about American prisoners of war in a Nazi concentration camp Which doesn't exactly sound like it's a funny comedy.
Why don't they trust us, Schultz? That shows you how weird the sixties was right there.
Here's another one of our fine shows for this year, Zoom.
Pit Stop.
The moving story of an effeminate race car driver who was really an astronaut for the Mafia.
9:30 Eastern Time, 8:30 Central time, quarter after two Pacific Time.
CBS presents this program in color.
I didn't have color television until I was 16 years old.
Yes, I lived like an animal.
The following program is being brought to you in living color on NBC.
Getting the color TV was huge because suddenly we can watch Walt Disney's Wonderful world of color on Sunday night's which was like just an acid trip of a show.
We just could not believe it.
Tinker Bell going bing, bing bing and it was like oh, it was like special effects, par excellence.
The world is a carousel of color It also happened just coincidentally at the time when what we think of as the Mod Sixties came in.
Colors were all over the place just as TV could start to take advantage of them.
Hi.
Well, glad you could make it.
I remember saying stay tuned for Gidget next in color.
Wednesday night, September 15, in color, on ABC.
It was a big marketing thing.
Colored TV was a huge step forward as far as the technologies went.
And yet, I think of the Lost in Space.
Lost in Space started off as a black and white show and then went to color.
It didn't get any better when it went to color.
Dr.
Smith, you're alive.
Of course I'm alive.
Do I look like a corpse? The period has a reputation for being TV as a, kind of, candy.
Sometimes it felt like there was this really aggressive innocence to it.
Only blow it in an emergency.
This is an emergency.
You're standing on my foot.
Gilligan's Island makes no sense whatsoever logistically.
I'm going to make a spider drunk.
How was the professor able to build all the stuff but not build the damn raft? Look at this stick of true dynamite that I made.
It makes no sense if you pull any single thread on it.
But it was just like the kind of show designed to live forever in syndication.
What are you looking for? A nun, who else? Are you kidding? Flying Nun is the most It's a crazy show.
Like what is that about? Look, Carlos, it's very simple.
You see, I only weigh 90 pounds and the combination of my cornet and wind lifts me.
It was just complete nonsense.
Let's face it.
It was in height of the sixties and everyone was eating granola and dropping out and doing God knows what else and I wasn't.
Hello, Central? I'm switching to my eye glasses.
Put a hold on my wallet but keep my shoe open.
Television more than ever in the sixties was a place to escape to.
Let's go.
It seemed like it was almost sort of a willful respite from the stuff that was going on out in the world and in real in life.
Here's a Bulletin from CBS News.
There's has been an attempt, perhaps you know now, on the life of President Kennedy.
He was wounded in an automobile driving from Until early sixties, television news was by and large seen as something of a back water to print journalism and even to radio, but the Kennedy assassination was the moment that television journalism came of age.
We'll continue a full-day coverage of the Presidential funeral and the final procession More and more people were depending on television to give them the headline news of the day.
330 Americans were killed in combat last week in Vietnam.
But the number of wounded, 3,886, was the highest of any Most of the 1960s, the contrast between what you saw on your entertainment and what you saw on the news was, you know, planetary.
Never has this descent been as emotional and intense.
In the sixties, it was one thing after another.
Each year, it was filled with poor events.
Governor Wallace has ordered 500 Alabama national guardsmen into Tuscaloosa.
At the moment, they are under his control.
When there was the Civil Rights Movement, or it was the Kennedy assassination, or the space race, when there was a huge thing that happened, it happened on TV.
The witness to that violence that had seemed to be unprovoked on the part of the demonstrators.
Television became the fire in which the whole tribe gathered around to listen to the elders tell them what was going on.
Police reinforcements moving down Balboa Street now.
Good evening ladies and gentlemen.
Tonight, live from New York From Hollywood From beautiful Downtown Burbank.
Here is the star of our show, Bob Hope.
Variety was the backbone of television back then.
One year, there were like 18 different variety shows.
Everybody had a variety show.
Everyone was different because of who was helming the show.
Dean Martin was just so loose.
He acted as though he was doing the whole show drunk without a rehearsal.
This is a real international show.
Now, where else could you see a smooth Italian and a slippery pole? He was funny.
He was really, really funny.
He always looked as if he was a bit lost.
People thought that it because he was tidily.
But that was part of the charm.
Here he is.
Ed Sullivan.
Thank you very much.
Thank you.
No matter who controlled the TV set the other nights of the week on Sunday night, you know, eight o'clock you were going to watch Ed Sullivan.
Now, ladies and gentlemen, a very fine hourly act.
Ed Sullivan was a phenomena and he was powerful force.
Quiet please! Quiet.
The beauty of the Sullivan kind of variety show is that if you didn't like some things, something else would be around in four minutes.
- No, Yanni, no.
- No.
- It is very difficult.
- Easy.
Advertisers wanted everybody.
And so they got everybody.
The little kid and his grandparents could watch the same show.
They would have an elephant on, and then the next thing somebody doing Shakespeare, and then the next thing a comic.
There would be an acrobat and then an opera singer over next bit, which was true variety.
Forget all your cares And go Downtown Things will be great when you're Downtown Anything that was current was on the Ed Sullivan Show.
The young Richard Pryor.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Rodney Dangerfield.
Everybody wanted a showcase and if you got in on Sullivan you knew You can talk about it.
"Did you just see Sullivan?" My whole life I don't get no respect.
No respect from anyone.
He's a performer.
You couldn't get a better place to sell your product.
When I started out, they would say, "Variety is a man's game.
It's Dean, it's Milton Berle, it's Jackie Gleason, it's, you know, the guys.
" But variety is what I know.
I felt it was in my genes to do this.
She had been so good on the Garry Moore show.
She always knew she could sing and dance and be funny.
Honey, where is the On my show, I would do pratfalls and jump out of windows and get pies in the face and it was heaven.
I think it's gone.
Oh, God.
You know, I still see a rerun of Carol Burnett show and goddamn they're funny.
There's never been a better three-wall sketch show ever.
She was great in bed too, Dick.
- You remember that? - Stop.
- You never when to bed with - Well.
You're not supposed to curtsy, you're supposed to bow.
But I get dizzy when I bend over.
When Tim Conway came on, his goal in life was to destroy Harvey.
Here's Tim with our own Harvey Korman as a brand new dentist with his very first patient.
I use to have a pool back stage not as to whether Harvey was going to break up.
But at how far he could get along with the sketch before he broke up.
Okay, Novocaine, Novocaine.
Take a firm hold of the hypodermic needle.
Right.
And they never knew what he was going to do.
But they knew it's not going to be what they expected.
When they did the dentist sketch, none of that was rehearsed.
Yeah, I'll be right with you.
Poor Harvey was helpless, tears coming down and Tim swears that Harvey wet his pants during that sketch.
I don't know why that works so well.
Watching two actors break character and just crack each other up should not be as entertaining.
But somehow when it's Tim Conway and Harvey Korman doing it, it just I could watch that stuff forever.
I just thought if we have fun, the audience will We're going to go out there and do what we do best and it worked.
You can plan it, you can write it, you can rehearse it but you hope for some magic and it was Carol, the magic of Carol Burnett.
Are you saying he's a TV addict? Perhaps she's been staring at this electronic blessing, the television set, for so long that its life has become his.
Yeah.
And he's reached such a stage of confusion that he no longer knows whether he's watching the action or he's participating in it.
You unlock this door with the key of imagination.
Beyond it is another dimension.
There was a desire on the part of writers and producers to push the envelope and stretch the medium and you certainly saw that was The Twilight Zone.
It was a very cinematic show.
This is not a new world.
It has patterned itself after every dictator who has ever planted the ripping imprint of a boot on the pages of history since the beginning of times.
Rod Serling who created The Twilight Zone came to the realization that through a lens of fantasy or science fiction, he could actually tell stories about racism, he could tell stories about fascism.
Tonight, I shall talk to you about glorious conformity.
It was a way to deal with a lot of the issues that America was starting to go through at that time.
But in a fantastic setting so that there's some divide between you and the show.
They sent four people, a mother and the father and two kids who looked just like humans but they weren't.
The Twilight Zone had these little O'Henry like twists on it.
It was allowed to have unhappy endings.
They picked the most dangerous enemy they can find and it's themselves.
Now, six months a fugitive, this is Richard Kimble with a new identity and, for as long as it is safe, a new name.
The Fugitive was kind of a somber character study.
Beware of the eyes of strangers.
Keep moving.
Everybody wanted to see what happens to the fugitive.
Well, the actual question is how long is it going to go on? Will we even find her? I'm about ready to give up.
I'm tired.
When it ended, it broke the viewership record set by the Beatles on Ed Sullivan.
It was one of the first TV shows that actually went somewhere.
You know, Youngstown is not exactly on our course.
In a lot of ways, television was showing slices of the world that people had never seen before.
Route 66 was an innovative show because it was actually filmed on location.
So the audience are being exposed to things that just weren't part of their local orbit.
Space the final frontier.
You know, there's a little bit of the Mayberry aspect to the world of Star Trek and that's going to sound like an odd analogy but follow me here.
People want to believe that such a place can exist.
The idea of a future in which a lot of the biases and fears of the past has evolved out of us.
Where I come from Size, shape, or color makes no difference.
There's one episode where some of the members of the crew were taken over by these mental giants.
This is psychokinetic power of yours, how long have you had it? They forced Cap.
Kirk and Lieutenant Uhura to kiss.
It was the first interracial kiss on television.
NBC asked me if would do my own special and I have always adored Harry Belafonte.
We decided to do one duet called The Path of Glory.
They will die for their country It's an anti-war song and we both felt very strongly about it and I just touched his arm.
Sponsor went crazy.
My star doesn't touch a black man's arm.
Petula Clark says I'm not doing it over and it's my show and it's going in that way.
And we weren't having any of that nonsense.
No way.
So it went out the way we wanted it to go out.
I didn't really have any other problems with sponsors but that sort of gave me a taste of what could happen.
A car that's moving fast and clean and strong.
Get in a Plymouth seat.
You can't go wrong.
In the TV business, 60's was probably about the last decade during which the sponsors had a really iron grip on content.
Brought to you by Dash.
Even if they tried to keep TV as white homogeneous, whole milk product the world found its way in.
It could, it just had to.
What's the trouble, driver? Don't you ever remember to bring a silencer? It ruins the line of my suit.
With I Spy, Robert Culp and Bill Cosby were equals.
Cosby is this pioneer in terms of a black male lead in a drama.
He made race a none issue because he's undeniable.
The winner is Bill Cosby in I Spy.
Bobby and I try and put forth an example of a way it should be racially in this country.
We need more people in this industry to put forth that message and let it be known that the bigots and the racist that they don't count.
Thank you.
As television changed, it was helping all Americans to understand that this is what America looks like.
Frankly, you're not exactly - what I expected.
- No? No, not from what I read here.
Did you expect me to be older or younger? Julia was going to be the first time at a black woman starred in her own television show.
Had Mr.
Colden told you? Tell me what? I'm colored.
What color are you? She was a young black woman who had been educated.
Raising her son alone.
It had a universality that's just something new.
And you'll keep out of mischief.
- I'll just watch the old TV.
- Good.
In the 60s, America was exploding in a way that needed to be reflected on TV.
Stand still.
Dragnet came back in the late '60s and Friday was now in a very different world than he had been in the black and white days and suddenly there were the damn dirty hippies.
I'll make you a book.
He's been dropping that acid we've been hearing about.
Jack Webb would lecture about the dangers of marijuana, smoking, and crazy drug culture.
They're trying to deal with the counter culture but they don't understand it.
So it's just basically they're stereotypes of what the hippies were like and it plays exactly like that.
Keep your nose out of my purse.
Keep yours out of the acid, next time I will.
NBC presents Rowan and Martin's Laugh-in.
Our country would be much better off with a strong leader.
I know but Sinatra can't do everything.
When Laugh-In came along, we'd never seen anything that was kind of like grown ups acting goofy and hip that way, you know, and had girls dancing in bikinis that they had to joke walk.
Who's in there with you? Cool Hand Luke.
And there was nothing but jokes.
I was at the hospital.
Anything serious? A black widow bit me.
Well, it never would have happened if you'd been a gentleman.
Jug.
We took it to the network and the network said "What the hell is this?" They said, "This makes no sense.
" I said, "Right.
" - Hi.
- You too? They acknowledged the hippie generation, yet the hosts were in tuxedos smoking cigarettes.
They were still your parents.
But the other people let loose on the show were this kind of young Vaudeville.
It must be "Sock it to me" time! Hey, she socked it to herself.
We knew that Sock it To Me didn't mean Sock it To Me, right? So we thought.
Sock it To Me.
Sock it To Me! Sock it To Me? It wasn't as subversive as it sounds.
Yes, it was it was fun.
Sock it To Me? It was the first time Presidential candidate had ever appeared on a comedy show and that, may have got 'em elected and I've had to live with that anyway.
The family that watches Laugh-in together really needs to pray it again.
It just seems like it's happening right now and it's about right now that was greatest thing ever that there's a fusion of politics and comedy and everything else into one television show.
When we take over, I'm going to look out for you.
The subjects that were verboten, we don't talk about these things.
We're starting to come up in TV and because it was well executed, it changed everything.
This is Smothers Brothers, Comedy Hour, Production 124 air, take one.
Good evening and welcome to the Smothers Brothers Show.
If Rowan and Martin in the Smothers Brothers are the new stars of TV Comedy, it is the comedy itself rather than the comedians which is more often in the spotlight.
These two programs have consciously tried to influence people by comedy techniques to breakthrough the traditional song and skit routines.
And by subject matter, that is often on the cutting edge of what is new.
Our government is asking us as citizens, good citizens to refrain from traveling to foreign lands.
Okay, all you guys in Vietnam? Come on home.
The times were changing so quickly in the 60s, and we didn't change them We just reflected them.
I can't hear you.
What are you doing? I'm getting ready to go to college.
CBS gave the Smothers Brothers that show because they were clean-cut folk satirists.
You know, they wore blazers, they could sing well, they were funny.
Mom liked you best.
You lower your voice.
Mom liked you best.
They told us what they thought we could do and what we should do and it was totally wrong and Tommy came in saying, "I would like to show where we could be relevant.
" if you ever get a war without blood and gore, Boy, I'll be the first to go.
But until then, Mr.
McNamara I'm only 18, I got a ruptured spleen, And I always carry a purse People in the counterculture started making these shows and they don't want to play by the rules that other people did before then.
But who would expect this Smothers Brothers of all people to be the ones raising this much of a fuss.
A good script.
I held my breath every time they did the show because I knew it that the network people were befouling their trousers with fear.
Nothing funny in this.
Yeah, boys we're through censoring your show.
They said the social subjects we touched on were not appropriate for the 9 o'clock family viewing hour.
Stick 'em up! They came up with any excuse to make it difficult.
And I came up with any excuse to push it.
Yeah.
CBS would like to give us notice And some of you don't like the things we've said, But we're still here.
Oh yeah, we're still here.
They were going to speak truth the power and they were not compromising.
Do you have something important? Something very important to say on American television.
You know, a lot of times we can't We don't have opportunities saying anything important because it's American television.
Every time you say something and if you try to say something important, they Well, whether you can say it or not, keep trying to say it.
That's what's important, isn't it? Are you getting that? Yeah? There's no one in the world if anything is meaningful and truthful that you're not going to offend someone.
You've got to be able to say what it is, say how it is and take the consequence.
CBS announced today that the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour will not return in to the CBS Television Network next season.
Network President Robert Wood said it became evident that the brothers, "Were unwilling to accept the criteria of taste established by CBS.
" CBS News efforts to reach the brothers for comment have been unsuccessful.
I was angry but we never regretted it.
We never did regret it.
What do you think of television honestly? Do you think it's good? Yes, I do.
I think, particularly for what it is for the amount of hours that it gives you for enjoyment.
Either an education or for pure entertainment.
It's remarkably good.
What television did in the 60s was to show the American people to the American people.
Until then, we did not truly know much about each other.
We knew only what we had seen which is very little and what we had read which was even less.
Few years ago, I thought it was the end of the world.
No, it's just the beginning.
I think people looked at television for answers maybe that the world is just confusing.
It's going to be hell over the place.
Maybe something on here will help.
There was no denying in the shift and attitudes towards sex, towards race relations, towards politics.
It was all televised.
That you will faithfully execute the office.
And I will faithfully execute the office.
When it works television conveys impressions and revokes memories.
When it works well, television makes us feel.
Good morning.
It's T-minus one hour, 29 minutes and 53 seconds and counting Television created a sense of national unity around culture events.
Good, now we can see you coming down in the ladder now.
You could turn on a machine and be somewhere else.
- You're looking good here.
- Phew, boy.
Television changed absolutely everything.
Beautiful view.
Isn't that something?