[GeorgeJetson]

In the 50's and 60's we had very high standards and society tried to put it's best foot forward...we had class....this is in stark contrast to the seedy twisted anything goes mentality of today.

The old shows like "Ozzie & Harriet",Leave it to Beaver","Dragnet","Highway Patrol","Andy Griffith","The Dick Van Dyke show" etc are all considered classics today and continue to entertain audiences new and old.

Tv shows and movies did contain adult jokes and commentary back then,but it was on a much higher level,they had to be clever about it.

I just watched "The Courtship of Eddies Father" from 1962 last night,it has Glenn Ford,"Ronny" Howard,sexy Stella Stevens and Jerry Van Dyke, it also has lots of adult/sexual humor in it without being low brow and vulgar.

So who cares about Rob and Lauras silly twin beds,or Lucy being termed "expectant" rather than pregnant...or that we didn't have a Brady scene with a toilet...its harmless!,those shows were all entertaining,and after all tv is supposed to be an escape from reality.

Rest assured the real life 1950's and 1960's people watching the shows had toilets and husbands and wives slept in the same beds and they used the word "pregnant" at home in discussions,people weren't naive,they knew the difference between the tv sitcom world and real life.

The music that got airplay was censored because there were raunchy songs like "Big 10 inch record" by BullMoose Jackson,"Big Long slidin' thing" by Dinah Washington,"the walkin' blues","keep on churnin' til the butter comes",etc that parents obviously didn't want their kids exposed to so they became overly critical towards rock and roll and rythm and blues.

Yes,I agree some of the examples of censorship from that time may seem petty until you step back and look at the "big picture".
A steady decline in those standards as the envelope kept being pushed further and further has brought us to the point we are at now...a jaded,twisted world of vulgar degenerate "reality shows" where familys air their dirty laundry and broadcast their infidelitys for all to see,movies full of depraved acts of violence,gutter humor and sex,people walking around with their pants hanging down,and profanity laced rap music blasting from the car next to you.....can anyone say with a straight face things are better now?