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go through the script and say we can't use this word. we felt like we were in the midst of a battle. this is freedom of speech. >> senate hearings on violence today, strong charges were leveled at the commercial television networks. >> the broadcasting industry now stands charged with having molested the minds of our nation's children to serve the cause of corporate profit. >> the family hour was established by the three networks and the federal communications commission in response to complaints of too much sex and violence on evening television. >> the two hours from 7:00 to at 9:00 p.m., during which parents and children are supposed to be able to watch television without being made to feel uncomfortable. >> it seemed altogether unfair. and we sued. >> family hour is under attack from some producers, unions, and others in the industry. they have filed a lawsuit to have it abolished. >> as those scheduled to

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on, it's not surprising. >> i bought some yesterday, it is in the closet, in the kitchen. >> i ain't in the kitchen. >> hearing a toilet flush for the first time was a big deal and made headlines. >> what this country coming to, anyhow? >> bad news? >> what else. >> you get out of vietnam or something? >> a wiseguy? >> i wasn't going to play around, how were we going to keep them from finding out about it, not when i see what is going on in our country. >> just because a guy is sensitive and he is an intellectual and wears glasses, you make him out a queer. >> i never said a guy who wears glasses is an queer. >> they did something really new for a television, they put before the public, archie's friend, very masculine who

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testify arrived, they scheduled -- passed through a picket line for testing. >> congress has no right, whatsoever, to interfere in the content of media. >> if you can censor a joke today and tomorrow you can censor the expression of any thought if you can censor a joke. it just becomes easier the next day. >> a federal judge in los angeles ruled the so-called family hour on television from 7:00 to at 9:00 p.m. was unconstitutional, a violation of the first amendment guarantee of free speech. >> the first amendment was upheld in a most important decision. and, it is truly a victory for everybody. with thirty grams of protein, one gram of sugar, and nutrients to support immune health.

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at 9:00, the mary tyler moore show. than the bob newhart show. >> it ended with the carol burnett variety shower at 10:00. >> murderers row. >> we had no dvr is, no vhs, nothing with initials. so, people would stay home on saturday night. they wouldn't go to the movies, they wouldn't go to restaurants. >> that may be the best night of television in all of television history. >> mary tyler moore was a single woman, working, as an associate producer on a nightly tv show. >> you know what? you've got spunk. >> i hate spunk. >> there were a lot of young women entering the workplace and for some of them, mary tyler moore would like a port of entry. >> i am doing as good a job as he did. >> better. >> better. and i am being paid less than he was, because? >> you are a woman. >> the television female could be a hero. she could be the main event. >> rita?

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>> it was really genius to cast all of america's favorite television dads in the roles of the white slave owners and the villains. >> i'll be by to fetch ya in the morning, captain. sleep well. >> it is difficult to explain in today's culture how unprecedented "roots" was. no one had ever seen the story of slavery before told from the point of view of the africans. >> it may be the first time that television allowed an embracing of black pride. >> them is free. is free, honey. >> one of the reasons that "roots" was so incredibly popular is not because abc had so much faith in it, but because abc didn't. >> earlier miniseries were broadcast in weekly installments. and the abc executives determined that if "roots" were to fail, they could just be done with it in seven or eight nights. >> it was high risk, high reward. if it didn't work, you were out

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>> here's one. >> young people were interested in irrelevant things, so television began to reflect that. >> it was really simple. you had three channels and pbs. >> when the decade turned over to the 70s, television was very rural. >> cbs had beverly hillbillies, greenacre. >> these kind of rural fantasies . >> the hillbilly shows were everywhere, and then they weren't. >> fred silverman was running programming at cbs and he said we will get rid of the shows that are the most highly rated, and replace them with shows that they thought would be more appealing to that younger audience. >> it changed the face of television. >> my name is norman lee. >> until 1971 he was a very successful if largely unheralded producer writer in hollywood but then he burst

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television really matured in the 70s >> i love you. >> i love you too. now, for something completely different. >> when i was 13, this show from england came on. pbs, which before that was only the realm of my parents. and suddenly, they are doing the most outlandish, racy non sequitur type of humor, and killing me, the 13-year-old. >> it is extraordinary what you cannot do on american television. >> come on, attack me with it. >> so you have a generation of comedy nerds who don't even know they are comedy nerds. >> this parrot is no more. it has ceased to be. >> monty python turned out to

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>> i am barbara walla. >> he redrawn to the tv because you knew something insane might happen. partly because it was live, partly because you knew the television was now in the hands of the television generation. >> these were kids who just might do anything. >> having sex with women, brazenly, within this very well. >> that never happened when nixon was in the white house. >> that was partly what made it attractive. >> no problem. >> everyone of their episodes became worthy of talmudic study if that is the word. >> when i hosted, lauren called me into his office and said you realize, the kids are the stars. the host wasn't nearly as impactful. >> that is not quite it. >> the thing was all the rage.

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idiot is watching it. >> at this point in time, what is known as the platinum age. >> our obligation is to entertain and if we have something to think about, so much the better. >> television should not be just entertainment. >> charges were leveled at commercial television networks. >> congress has no right to interfere with the media. >> you have a responsibility to give the audience what it tendon to say.

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a lot of tv time and not many people watching. >> the television premiere on eight consecutive nights attracted the largest audience in the history of the medium. >> there's something about it that seems to touch all human beings. it transcends age and race. >> entertainment was meeting humanity. i think that's the primary value is to lead humanity forward. >> if there's a legacy of television in the '70s, it's that you matter. >> while there's a lot going on in the world, television was a reminder of how much little things mean to us. the smallest of situations. >> no matter what the subject matter was, it wanted to include you. you're in the family. don't make fun of the outsider. include them. >> its legacy is, look how long it's lasted. >> those shows were about people who were kind and nice. they were not mean-spirited

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