How Did Tv Change In The 60's

Imagine that you are sitting in your living room, watching T.V and you start to wonder how television got to this point. Some may believe that T.V was always this way, but this could not be further from the truth. Television had a very long journey from the 1960's to modern day. Many of the ideas that were populare in shows before the 60's were not poulare in the future. Shows such as Scoobey-doo, Star Trek, Gilligans Island, The Andy Grittith show and the addams family reimagined how T.V was thought about. T.V in the 60's made television today different by being more bold with thier ideas and more encouraging for the future show creators. Gilligans Island was quite a popular show in the mid 60's and it changed the way people looked at colored

The Addams Family was a sitcom about a strange family of people, and their friends. This show included lots of dark humor witch was uncommen in the 1960's. With this shows humor being darker, and the show being much more grungy compared to other sitcomes in the early '60s, it was different, and people ended up watching more due to the families having many imperfections and being different than other families. The Addams Family also included bizarre and unique characters such as Wednesday, Pugsley, grandma Addams, and thing, a severed hand (How the Addams Family endured from the 1960's to now). The Addams families memorable characters led to them never to be forgotten about even today. One example of this would be the new netfilx original "Wednesday," whitch follows Wenesday Addams and her life in a public school. As you can see, the Addams Families differences and the creators ability to dare has kept the show relevant over the

during a period of change in the U.S.A and it's multimedia forcing it to adapt to what was populare at the time (Wilson). The Andy Griffith show permiered in 1960 and started off in black and white, but later switched to color T.V. Most of the people watching the show after the 60's tuned in just due to nostalgic appeal being one of the most nostalgic shows ever. One of the biggest challenges that the show went through was the change from black and white to color. With its last 90 episodes being in black and white its fanbase thought that it lost some of its charm, and the fans disapproved. "Changing to color stripped the show a bit of its charm and gave it a little too much modern sensibility. But many shows made the change to color mid-run with the later seasons still revered. What made “The Andy Griffith Show” so different was the additional changes that came with the colorized seasons" (Matthew). This is part of the reason that it was only able to run for 8 seasons. Later in 1965 they decided to premiere the show again but the audience disapproved and they shut the show down (Matthew). This show was an example for other shows, showing that you should not change the show too much. These reasons all put togather led to the show disscontinuing, and it not having the same longevity as other shows in the