It is interesting that reruns of The Andy Griffith Show yet appeals to young people and children if they watch it. There is, indeed, a wholesomeness to this show as there are moral and ethical lessons that children can learn from watching this program.
Frequently, one hears the comment, "All these stations and nothing to really watch." This year the Olympics were the number 1 program that was viewed at the times of its broadcasting. This fact should tell the networks something.
Programs from the era of The Andy Griffith Show were sometimes very unrealistic in their portrayal of people: not every mother wore pearls around her neck and a pretty dress around the perfectly kept house. So, certainly there should have been programs to which other socio-economic classes could relate, But, at least, the dramas that were on television such as on The Zane Gray Theatre, etc. were not so inane that one could figure out the plot in 5 minutes as they are today. And, there were real actors--not people in a reality program.
Even news programs are dramatically different from the early days of TV. For, the news programs were not as slanted liberally or conservatively as they are today. And, real news was presented, not just human interest stories and the latest gossip on celebrities. Journalists like Edward R. Murrow and Walter Cronkite brought professionalism to television news programs.
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