Meanwhile, television was bringing many burning issues of the day, such as the civil rights movement and the Vietnam War, to American living rooms through live and filmed coverage of events such as Dr. Martin Luther King’s march on Washington and battlefield activity in Vietnam. Perhaps not surprisingly, many popular 1960s TV shows seemed to retreat from these issues and look back towards an idealized rural way of life.
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The Endearing Appeal of The Andy Griffith Show
The cast of The Andy Griffith Show created some of the best loved characters on American television, most notably Jim Nabors’s Gomer Pyle, who became the star of his own show, Gomer Pyle U.S.M.C., and Don Knotts as Deputy Barney Fife, who won five Supporting Actor in a Comedy Emmy awards for his work on the series.
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The cast of Batman was also memorable for the stellar cast of actors it managed to attract to play villains, including Cesar Romero as the Joker, Frank Gorshin as the Riddler and Burgess Meredith as the Penguin.
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The Brady Bunch series revolved around a blended family created when Mike Brady (Robert Reed), a widower with three sons, married Carol (Florence Henderson), a widow with three daughters.
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