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Series · ABC · 1960

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My Three Sons

60Watch it awake.

A father who stays. The sentiment is real, and it is mostly earned by the ordinary week.

The review

A widower raises three sons with the help of his father-in-law, and later the shape of the house shifts as people leave and arrive. The early years are the ones to keep. Someone has burned dinner, someone is failing a class, someone misses a mother the show does not turn into a gag. It ran through these years as a steady top-thirty habit, never the loudest show in the country and often the one a family could actually sit in front of together.

The limit is softness. Pain is solved by the half hour, and a real house is not. Say that, and still keep the picture of a father who is present for the ordinary failure. I would choose it over the fantasy comedies of the same evening if a child needs one show about a house. Ask which chore the episode treated as beneath the boys, and whether the father agreed.

Journal

Keep My Three Sons in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 60. 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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Win or Lose

69 instead of 60

Win or Lose is still a comedy show, and it scores 69 instead of 60. What you gain is republic: A team is a small commons.

The eight

7
Industry
He has a job, and the boys have school. The show thinks those facts are the plot.
8
Household
The household is the entire premise: who cooks, who is hurt, who is growing up.
4
Piety
A decency about the dead mother and the living boys stands in for a louder piety.
5
Courage
The father takes the awkward conversation instead of handing it to a laugh.
4
Republic
The public is a school and a workplace. The debt he models is to his own table first.
6
Temperance
Problems are sized to a house. The show does not inflate them into a stunt.
6
Truth
A boy's lie is a problem. The show wants it confessed, not admired.
8
Stewardship
A house can inherit a widower who does not abandon the week to a series of women.

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Series · CBS · 1971

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All in the Family

60Watch it awake.

Don't laugh with Archie just because the chair looks familiar and Edith stayed.

The review

Archie works a loading dock, takes his chair, and says the neighborhood's prejudices out loud. Edith stays. Their daughter and her husband live under that roof and argue with him, so the rooms are full of people who can answer. The show wanted you to hear the ugly line and disagree with the man saying it.

Plenty of the country agreed with him instead. The laugh is the risk, and on a lot of weeks the laugh won. You can still see a working marriage and a crowded house, which is more than most comedies of the time bothered to build. The chuckle is not a verdict, even when the room treats it like one.

Journal

Keep All in the Family in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 60. Yours can differ.

The glance

Temperance is the thin one.

Is appetite shown and then put down, or are you being trained to want the next one?

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

Consider this

The Andy Griffith Show

73 instead of 60

The Andy Griffith Show is still a comedy show, and it scores 73 instead of 60. What you gain is temperance: Appetite is not the engine.