Mary Martin's Peter Pan

64Watch it awake.

The flying is what they remembered, and growing up is the part that matters.

The review

A great many houses watched this together, live, in March 1955, and again the next year. Mary Martin plays Peter and flies. Captain Hook is there for the children who want someone to boo. A child can watch it. People remembered the flying, and I would have too. Flying will always beat a point if you let it.

Under that is a girl offered a life without growing up. She goes. She comes back willing to grow. That choice is the point, and it is the part I would not let the kids skip. Never growing up is the pretty offer. Coming back is the harder one. I liked the night better once the flying stopped being the only thing anybody mentioned.

Journal

Keep Mary Martin's Peter Pan in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 64. Yours can differ.

The glance

Republic is the thin one.

Does anyone owe a neighbor, a law, or a town — or is every person out for themselves?

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

The eight

5
Industry
Growing up is the work she accepts when the flying is done.
8
Household
She is offered never growing up, and she comes back willing to grow.
7
Piety
Conscience is choosing to grow instead of staying a child forever.
6
Courage
Going is the showy risk; returning to grow up gives the escape back.
3
Republic
Families watched together; the plot owes no town a duty.
8
Temperance
A life of endless play is put down when she comes back to grow.
7
Truth
She goes, and coming back willing to grow is the promise kept.
7
Stewardship
What she leaves herself is a life that continues after the flying.

Where to watch

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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.

Consider this

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.