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Just happened to see, seems the door in the wall which Ruth Buzzi would pop out of behind Dan Rowan and Dick Martin is now closed forever. She passed on the end of last week. Now she and Arte Johnson can go sit on the bench again, and hopefully not swat him with her purse anymore. Rest in peace Ruth.
 
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I remember being a little shocked when I first watched "All in the Family",
& "Saturday Night Live".
 
Back then, for network TV they were pushing the boundaries. Hard to explain to today's young folks who have 100's of streaming and other services that never have had to deal with government broadcast limits what a step forward some of those shows could be.
 
mikephillips said:
Back then, for network TV they were pushing the boundaries. Hard to explain to today's young folks who have 100's of streaming and other services that never have had to deal with government broadcast limits what a step forward some of those shows could be.
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Most of the censorship on TV was network imposed via the networks' own Standard and Practices departments. The FCC did (and still does) have regulatory guidelines around obscenity, indecency, etc., but they rarely interceded in network decisions. Also back then we had something called the Fairness Doctrine which required on-air news organizations to present controversial topics in a fair and balanced way. This was phased out in 1987(ish) so that news networks had no legal obligation to be fair or balanced or present both sides of an issue.
 
True the censorship was self imposed, I just wonder how much might have been ignored back then had there not been the government standards and potential for review/fines that exists still to today for over the air broadcasts. Net and streaming stuff since it isn't over the air, doesn't have to deal with it and we see how their choices are much more "mature" and dark in many cases. We would never have seen "The walking dead" series, Gemstones and others in that adult corner on the three networks when we were kids.
 
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I just wonder how much might have been ignored back then had there not been the government standards and potential for review/fines that exists still to today for over the air broadcasts.
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We would be watching the BBC.
 
I always keep in mind - the show's sponsors often were the final step in "censoring". They didn't want to be associated with questionable material for a general audience in "prime time".
 
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I always keep in mind - the show's sponsors often were the final step in "censoring". They didn't want to be associated with questionable material for a general audience in "prime time".
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I would imagine the threat of losing advertising revenue was a strong incentive.
 
Monty Python and Benny Hill were among things I realized I could find, even in a cleaned up fashion, on PBS back during my college years. Along with the original cast of SNL pushing gently, as might be seen today, against the boundaries was quite a wakeup from what had been before.
 
mikephillips said:
Monty Python and Benny Hill were among things I realized I could find, even in a cleaned up fashion, on PBS back during my college years. Along with the original cast of SNL pushing gently, as might be seen today, against the boundaries was quite a wakeup from what had been before.
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That was a time I learned about what true humor was. Golden years. My first experience was when I was traveling around Nova Scotia with my girlfriend. We stayed in a little cabin in Peggy's cove and they had a TV. Not much on except Faulty's Tower. We almost died laughing. We made sure we were at the TV every night that was on.
 
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