Today, television is an incredibly large part of basic American culture, with many people’s lives revolving completely around the little screens, or sometimes large, that dominate nearly every single living room in the modern family’s home. But, in the late 1940s, when TV was first introduced, this wasn’t the case. Television has always been on a rollercoaster between fads, and new technologies introduced throughout the decades. But one of the overall most influential decades for the television and the evolution of the entertainment aired for the people through it.
In the early part of the 1960’s, the first nationally televised presidential debate was viewed by a record amount of people, further securing the TV’s importance in the typical family living room.(Thompson, Robert) Following this debate only a week later, was another piece of television history, the Andy Griffith Show, which was an immediate success and ran from 1960-1968,(Thompson, Robert) bringing a host of a new type of television originating in the 1950’s, but with a revised story type that gave a humorous twist ot the everyday life of a typical family. the Andy Griffith Show, and the many similar shows following it, brought us the modern day sitcom, and the evening lineup of television that we still know today. …show more content…
With a growing uprising taking place, the late 1960s quickly became a time for massive social change in America, that was was heavily influenced by the things that the television brought to the American
In the early part of the 1960’s, the first nationally televised presidential debate was viewed by a record amount of people, further securing the TV’s importance in the typical family living room.(Thompson, Robert) Following this debate only a week later, was another piece of television history, the Andy Griffith Show, which was an immediate success and ran from 1960-1968,(Thompson, Robert) bringing a host of a new type of television originating in the 1950’s, but with a revised story type that gave a humorous twist ot the everyday life of a typical family. the Andy Griffith Show, and the many similar shows following it, brought us the modern day sitcom, and the evening lineup of television that we still know today. …show more content…
With a growing uprising taking place, the late 1960s quickly became a time for massive social change in America, that was was heavily influenced by the things that the television brought to the American