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Series · NBC · 1951

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Dragnet

64Watch it awake.

The facts are the point, and some of the cases are too grim for kids.

The review

The country learned a cop voice from this show, which is more than most crime hours ever managed. Sergeant Joe Friday and a partner work Los Angeles cases. The claim is procedure: names, times, the facts. Emotion is clipped. Some cases are grim.

I would not hand the grim ones to a small child, and I will not make up a case to prove it. A teen can take the flat voice. There is no marriage in the hour. The job is the life. If you leave it on, ask whether a cop who stays with names and times is a standard you want, or only a sound the country learned.

Journal

Keep Dragnet in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 64. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household is the thin one.

Is a marriage, a parent, or a child a real life here, or just a prop?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

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Adolescence

78 instead of 64

Adolescence is still a crime show, and it scores 78 instead of 64. What you gain is household: The whole measure is a household that loved a child and did not know him.

The eight

9
Industry
Friday's job is the case: names, times, and the facts, and it matters.
2
Household
The life on screen is a work partnership, not a marriage or a child.
6
Piety
The clipped method is meant to keep feeling from outrunning the facts.
6
Courage
They stay on grim cases as the work, with little personal glory in it.
8
Republic
A Los Angeles badge is a debt to the case, the law, and the names.
7
Temperance
Emotion is clipped on purpose, so the hour does not feed a thrill.
8
Truth
The show's claim is that names, times, and facts are the promise.
5
Stewardship
It left the country a voice for what a television cop should sound like.

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Series · CBS · 1961

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The Dick Van Dyke Show

65Worth an evening.

Worth an evening. A marriage and a job, and the marriage is not the punch line.

The review

He writes for a television star. She is his wife, not his straight man, though she can land the line. The neighbors and the writers are a company. What distinguishes the half hour from the other famous rooms of the decade is that the marriage is the prize the plot is not allowed to spend. A lie big enough to threaten the house is treated as a problem. A joke at her expense has to be worth it, and often it is not allowed to be.

It lived near the top of the ratings and earned the seat. I would put it on before most of the other comedies of these years if a house wants one. Watch an episode about the office and an episode about the living room. Ask which one required an apology. The show usually knows. That knowledge is the inheritance, more than the physical comedy, though the physical comedy is why people still stop on it.

Journal

Keep The Dick Van Dyke Show in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 65. Yours can differ.

The glance

Piety and Republic are the thin ones.

Can conscience actually stop someone, or is reverence only in the shot so it can be mocked?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

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The Andy Griffith Show

73 instead of 65

The Andy Griffith Show is still a comedy show, and it scores 73 instead of 65. What you gain is republic: Mayberry is a commons.