Get your facts right ..bonanza was cancelled due to dan blocker "hoss" died and other cast died so thats why was cancelled...DO YOUR RESEARCH TWATT.
@laurac86593 жыл бұрын
Chill Pegasus I only mentioned Bonanza because Hoss’s picture is on the thumbnail. So for that I’m a twat 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@onnieduvall25653 жыл бұрын
A part of the purge included Hee Haw which is often overlooked because of its long term success as a syndicated production.
@barryallenflash13 жыл бұрын
Ah, yes! LOTS of guests you thought you'd NEVER see on that show, but there they were!
@tltatt3 жыл бұрын
Hee Haw was definitely part of the "rural purge" of 1971 by CBS. It lived on for over 20 more new seasons in syndication.
@cpcva7243 жыл бұрын
Lawrence welk went the same route and left the air when Welk retired
@Farrah3003 жыл бұрын
CBS indeed canceled Hee Haw, but thanks to syndication, it would go on to have a more the twenty year long life on television. I'm so thankful it did. Hee Haw was one of the funniest shows other than Red Skelton , to have been on television.
@michaelodonnell97562 жыл бұрын
@@tltatt The Lawrence Welk Show is another example. That's still in reruns on PBS to this day.
@paulmilsaps44763 жыл бұрын
I watched every one of these shows, and was mad, each time one of them got cancelled. My favorite was Gunsmoke.
@karlsmith25703 жыл бұрын
I'll admit that I was actually Pretty surprised that "Gunsmoke" ran as long as it did before getting canceled
@paulmilsaps44763 жыл бұрын
@@karlsmith2570 After Amanda Blake left (Miss Kitty) the show just was it the same. I still watched it, but I always felt like there was something missing.
@lauriescott62753 жыл бұрын
Gung smoke is on me 📺 and tv land it's on these chanles today.
@michaelodonnell97562 жыл бұрын
They didn't even mention Mister Ed.
@raymondhopwood939316 күн бұрын
@@michaelodonnell9756 Mr. Ed was cancelled in the mid 60s. You knew they were running out of ideas when they had Ed and Wilbur working as secret agents!
@toddmccreary45793 жыл бұрын
The rural purge was by CBS. The new network president wanted urban shows. Bonanza was on NBC in living color all the way through and was cancelled because Dan Blocker died. Just didn't work without Hoss.
@elwoodblues96133 жыл бұрын
"CBS canceled every show with a tree in it, including Lassie." (Pat Buttram, aka Mr. Haney from "Green Acres")
@mcmax5713 жыл бұрын
Lorne Greene after being told of Blocker's death told his wife that Bonanza just died with him.
@jadeblues3573 жыл бұрын
The show didn’t work without Dan Blocker because he was the best character in the show! He was my favorite one anyway
@Mokkari773 жыл бұрын
So if Dan Blocker hasn't died we wouldn't have had LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE. At least not with Michael Landon as Charles Ingalls.
@thomasjefferson63 жыл бұрын
The purge wasn't limited to rural shows. Family Affair, Get Smart, Bewitched, Ed Sullivan, and I Dream of Jeannie all went off the air at the same time. None of them were rural shows. It can be argued that at least some of these shows had just aged, victims of their own success (Ed Sullivan had been in TV since 1948). It more likely the case that the more wholesome moral atmosphere of those shows made them increasingly unpopular with Madison Avenue advertisers. They wanted the sort of stuff that ultra-liberal Normal Lear and his sort were offering. Little House on the Prairie got on the chiefly because of Michael Landon himself, who liked the wholesome family friendly sort of show, was able to persuade NBC to try a pilot film. As the most popular star of Bonanza, the network agreed. What was stunning about "the purge" is that so many popular shows went off the air at the same time, and what replaced them were so morally different that they looked like they came from a completely different country.
@shyman993 жыл бұрын
The Waltons disagrees with both you and the poster.
@Nicks_Pix2 жыл бұрын
@@shyman99 The exception doesn't prove the rule
@shyman992 жыл бұрын
@@Nicks_Pix - A universal purge of shows (both rural and non-rural, both drama and comedy) also doesn't make a rule of a rural purge.
@alanvallazza97814 ай бұрын
@@shyman99The Waltons, Little House on the Prairie, Alice and the Dukes of Hazzard came after the purge. They were either Western or set in the south.
@joeblaumer20853 жыл бұрын
Bonanza was done after Dan Blocker died. Green Acres and The Beverly Hillbillies were my favorites.
@tomfrazier11033 жыл бұрын
Little House on the Prairie? Gen-X has a thing for that show, an intact nuclear family with good parenting.
@Ninnjette-3 жыл бұрын
Because they want what they’re missing. The nuclear family is under attack.
@yooneeque13 жыл бұрын
Also, the Waltons. IIRC the surprise success of The Waltons paved the way for other family shows like Little House on the Prairie.
@neoasura3 жыл бұрын
As a Gen-Xer who didnt have that nuclear family, I love Little House on the Prairie.
@tomfrazier11033 жыл бұрын
We were partly raised by Grandparents and lived under their G.I. generation T.V. rules, and got one channel. It was a fun show, but Diff'rent Strokes was funnier. RIP Arnold Coleman.
@Robert080103 жыл бұрын
The Waltons is still very popular as well. Prety sure that was a CBS show and it only started in 1970 or so.
@ArchstantonsMTgrave3 жыл бұрын
Green Acres was a riot....still makes me laugh 🤣🤣🤣
@elwoodblues96133 жыл бұрын
"Green Acres": the precursor to "The Far Side." Or maybe it's . . . well, not that. Well, I think you can say that . . . well, maybe not . . . or maybe it's like . . . what was I saying? (that's Hank Kimball, not Joe Biden)
@mackermaldrill26563 жыл бұрын
Me too, especially Arnold the pig.
@tomryan9143 жыл бұрын
"Shoosting up toward the sun and the sky!"
@dangreene98463 жыл бұрын
Think they had a saying about this purge anything with a tree got canceled. A lot of these shows were on CBS and they wanted a more urban lineup . So here came "all of the family" and the "Mary Tyler Moore." Shows.
@mikell50873 жыл бұрын
And I would argue that the CBS Saturday night line-up in the early to mid '70's of All In the Family, MASH, Mary Tyler Moore Show, Bob Newhart Show and The Carol Burnett Show was the greatest line-up of TV in my lifetime. I missed a lot of the rural shows, but you can't beat that CBS Saturday night.
@johnmorgan6923 жыл бұрын
@Dan".. again CANCEL CULTURE " . We know What " irban" Means.. Gillette/ coke cola" DONT BE TOO ******?
@kenjett24343 жыл бұрын
I grew up watching these shows they are engraved into me and in a way shaped who I am.
@barryallenflash13 жыл бұрын
Me too! My younger son watches stuff like this too, because of me! I can tell it's affected him the same way.
@antifactoid2 жыл бұрын
That may be part of the problem as well. Like they said, the demographics were skewing higher. Much of the audience was aging with the shows, not attracting anyone younger.
@kenjett24342 жыл бұрын
@@antifactoid not sure that is true as alot of these shows do attract younger generations which is why many of these shows still have successful airing in syndication all these 50 or 60 plus years after they were first aired.
@karlsmith25703 жыл бұрын
As I recall, there was a 4th Cartwright son who was played by Purnell Roberts AKA: Trapper John M.D.
@toddmccreary45793 жыл бұрын
Yes Adam was on the first five or six seasons
@samanthab19233 жыл бұрын
Only three sons. All different moms. Same dad, Ben Cartwright. Adam, played by Pernell Roberts. Hoss by Dan Blocker & Lil Joe by Michael Landon.
@toddmccreary45793 жыл бұрын
@@samanthab1923 Later Ben adopted Jamie who was the son of a rainmaker that helped Virginia City get rain. After he died Jamie came back to the Ponderosa for a visit and was eventually adopted. Played by Mitch Vogel
@samanthab19233 жыл бұрын
Todd McCreary That's right, the young red head.
@laurac86593 жыл бұрын
Adam was Ellen’s son, Hoss,
@patrickbarber81873 жыл бұрын
I remember all of these shows! Why can't we have programming like that today! Fortunately a few of them still live on cable stations.
@barryallenflash13 жыл бұрын
Well, I think you already know the answer. They're too UNpolitically correct. They tackle the real issues in society and that's NOT something the networks wanna see. Instead let's have a bunch of gay, transgender, black, etc. people run around and act like idiots....this is ANY reality show by the way, so the libtards can watch it. We can't have ANYTHING that's wholesome OR has good family values anymore!!!!
@JohnLee-pt5jz3 жыл бұрын
Yeah, thank God for cable!
@josephalfonsoamantia70283 жыл бұрын
All you need is one of those flat antennas and you can pick up MeTv Network. They play all of these shows, plus many others not mentioned on this video.
@robertshawiv15133 жыл бұрын
Can’t forget The Real McCoys. Great show
@ronaldpoole32733 жыл бұрын
It went down several years earlier
@mikeelmira3 жыл бұрын
while recovering from an illness I binge watched every episode of the Real McCoys, after Kate left there was a noticeable decline in the storyline. IMO.
@robertshawiv15133 жыл бұрын
@@mikeelmira Hope you’re doing better 👍🏻
@mikeelmira3 жыл бұрын
@@robertshawiv1513 Thank You, I doing much better,
@catsofsherman13163 жыл бұрын
I love the Beverly Hillbillies, but by the last couple of seasons it was creatively spent. The early black and white seasons were best. Towards the end they were relying on absurd situations and over the top slapstick.
@wvpirate3 жыл бұрын
I agree that The Beverly Hillbillies were past thier prime. In fact I dont think they put the 9th season in syndication.
@JohnLee-pt5jz3 жыл бұрын
Well at least you can see them in reruns!my favourite was the Beverly hillbillies, Greenacres and petticoat junction, they don't make shows like that anymore!
@barryallenflash13 жыл бұрын
They aren't in this video, but how 'bout Wild, Wild West, F Troop and all the rest? The good stuff!
@JohnLee-pt5jz3 жыл бұрын
@@barryallenflash1 F Toop great show.
@mikeelmira3 жыл бұрын
No show last forever, most listed aired quite a long time
@CraigSmith3 жыл бұрын
If advertisers were so opposed to rural shows, how do you explain Little House on the Prairie or The Waltons?
@samanthab19233 жыл бұрын
Came later & more nostolgic.
@rodh14043 жыл бұрын
Ways to fix a mistake without admitting you made one.
@yooneeque13 жыл бұрын
@@samanthab1923 Like I said in another comment, The Waltons was a surprise success and paved the way for other family-oriented shows like Little House on the Prairie.
@toastnjam73843 жыл бұрын
00:35 That's what happen to the History Channel. The demographics skewed to old for the advertisers.
@TheBrooklynbodine3 жыл бұрын
I've often wondered how well "The Beverly Hillbillies" and "The Andy Griffith Show" (though the latter wasn't on this list), did in places like NYC and Boston. They must have been like a house on fire nationally to have had the ratings they did, but I can't see rural-oriented shows doing well in those two cities, to name JUST two northern cities. I'll be 58 in about 3 weeks, but when I was a kid, I lived for Wednesday night, when "Hillbillies" was on.
@serSER3693 жыл бұрын
Thank goodness for MeTV where many of these shows can still be seen.
@robm30743 жыл бұрын
This humor portrayed 50 years ago, almost 60 shows that creative writing, if pursued can succeed on our television screens.
@dangreene98463 жыл бұрын
We were not so sensitive back then . You took it as something to laugh at not be offended by.
@elwoodblues96133 жыл бұрын
And Lawrence Welk and Hee Haw. Both shows got even with the Rural Purge by going into syndication, and running for at least 15 years longer, ending up with more stations running the show than before the Purge.
@disneyfan81783 жыл бұрын
Let's not forget (God forbid!) "The Ed Sullivan Show" and "The Virginian".
@nickhill86123 жыл бұрын
@@disneyfan8178 Really? Ed Sullivan?
@disneyfan81783 жыл бұрын
@@nickhill8612 Sadly, yes due to, as they said, the show's audience being too old (like my grandparents). They did try to compensate during the last years by booking more rock 'n roll acts (in particular, after the Beatles appeared), but it wasn't enough.
@michaelodonnell97562 жыл бұрын
Lawrence Welk Show is still in reruns on PBS to this day, last I heard.
@larrygriffith52913 жыл бұрын
You can have your urban areas, I have lived in a rural area all my life and there is nothing to compare with rural living. I still watch most of these shows, and I don't watch anything made past 1995, its all trash after that.
@lastguyminn23243 жыл бұрын
Not true at all. The past 15 years or so has been a Renaissance for great TV. From The Wire to The Sopranos to Mad Men to Breaking Bad to The Office to Boardwalk Empire to Game of Thrones to The Handmaid's Tale...there has been some incredible episodic TV you have missed.
@cwdotson99303 жыл бұрын
Good report$!? There is no longer anything on tv or radio for me and I'm 76$$! However; I now get my entertainment off my phone$!😳😘😁
@xray86delta3 жыл бұрын
Green Acres was one of the funniest comedy shows ever, in my opinion! And to answer the question, I watched ALL of them except 'Gunsmoke' .
@kirkmorrison61313 жыл бұрын
I was shocked and watched them all until Dan Blocker passed away
@samanthab19233 жыл бұрын
Rob Zombie bought Hoss' LA manse. Did a tour on MTV Cribs.
@kirkmorrison61313 жыл бұрын
@@samanthab1923 I liked the character and the show wasn't the same after he passed. Thanks I'll see if I can find that episode on line
@andyiswonderful3 жыл бұрын
All, after a while, the writers really struggle with coming up with something new and good. How may possum jokes can you write?
@markdaniel87403 жыл бұрын
But fart jokes are always funny and there is an endless supply.
@sorshiaemms59593 жыл бұрын
WE ALL NEED TO GET BACK TO OUR RURAL ROOTS
@robertbarnum14853 жыл бұрын
I watched those shows when I was young. I liked them, I was 5 or 6 years old. 🙂🙂
@emanuellawton7942 Жыл бұрын
I remember when this happened. CBS began canceling any tv show that smacked of being country or rural. For years CBS had been known as the Tiffany network because of their older demographics and high class programs but they stilled relied on successful tv shows and ratings to make money. These rural/country set shows helped CBS pay the bills for years but CBS was starting to get a reputation for being the Country Broadcast System instead of the Columbia Broadcast System . With the added pressure from advertisers to make shows that appeal to a younger audience and because young people had more expendable income to buy their products, CBS decided that they had to make a change with their programming so out went the many shows that had a rural setting or theme. That included many shows that were still top-rated like "The Beverley Hillbillies ","Green Acres", "Petticoat Junction " "Mayberry, RFD","The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour" and even "Hee-Haw" which found a second life through syndication. Image is sometimes just as important as the bottom line.
@damrhy2 жыл бұрын
Bonanza was my favorite. I still rewatch from time to time.
@bobb63133 жыл бұрын
Hogan’s Heroes was part of the “purge” as well
@rocktober13273 жыл бұрын
The critics never liked the Beverly Hillbillies, because of the Confederate flag and the Shotguns, it was of course the audience that kept them on, one of my favorites.
@commentbellow81853 жыл бұрын
I Miss you _Daisy Duke_ . Love from urban London.
@joycependleton5893 жыл бұрын
I watched and Loved them all!
@benaiahburns40463 жыл бұрын
A lot of the reasons was also because they wanted to indoctrinate people into certain beliefs, and these shows made that much harder to accomplish.
@dmnemaine3 жыл бұрын
Nobody wanted to "indoctrinate" anybody. It was strictly about money, and the demographic that spends it the most.
@benaiahburns40463 жыл бұрын
dmnemain, stated by someone who has NO idea what they are talking about? Have you actually sat in on the conversations of these network shows? Do you not understand that everything we believe in life influences us? Do you REALLY think a Christian would NOT try to push Christian type themes or ideas in a show or movie? Thus, it is the same way for all, regardless of what they believe. If you can't see varying ideas and opinions throughout the years shoved down your throat on TV, then maybe you either don't watch TV much, or aren't very bright!!!
@dmnemaine3 жыл бұрын
@@benaiahburns4046 LOL TV executives care about one thing. Making money. They don't care about "messages" or "indoctrinating". Not everything in the world works the same as the fundamentalist Christian cult does.
@benaiahburns40463 жыл бұрын
@@dmnemaine Wow, you must know them all, and know....everything...
@dmnemaine3 жыл бұрын
@@benaiahburns4046 I know that there's no evidence for any "indoctrination" conspiracy theory, and that there's plenty of evidence for TV executives catering everything to the young male demographic that spends the most money.
@shannonfrench68933 жыл бұрын
Watched all of them. They made me a better person. I grew up in Northwest Arkansas and could identity with the country humor. This was a golden era for television as I remember these and more since I was born in 1961. I watched them mostly in syndication and still enjoy them on various networks today. They just don't write 'em like that anymore to borrow a lyric by Greg Kihn. My very favorite is Gunsmoke. My parents met and married in Dodge City and my brother was born there. The show was great except everyone who has been to Western Kansas knows it's flat as a pancake. Lol... Love the channel!!! ❤️☮️🎵
@tyrannosaurusburke2 жыл бұрын
"Hogan's Heroes" also got axed in 1971. Some lists include that show in the Rural Purge, but I don't think it counts.
@wandaborowy94003 жыл бұрын
I am surprised how long Lassie lasted. How many dogs did they go though? Also Lassie was played by a male .
@neilforbes4163 жыл бұрын
*Lassie* was revived in the late 1970s with Aussie teenage singer/actor Sally Boyden as the pooches owner. Sally came out of one of Australian TV's biggest hit shows, *Young Talent Time.*
@ferociousgumby3 жыл бұрын
This is the SECOND video where this guy pronounces the name "BONE-an-za".😣
@hydrolito2 жыл бұрын
They were doing reruns of Bonanza five days a week as The Pondersa before Bonanza was cancelled. Once they no longer did new episodes, they went back to call reruns Bonanza which was still being shown.
@krazyj19573 жыл бұрын
Dan Blocker's death ended Bonanza, they tried a season without him but didn't fly.
@pamelamays41863 жыл бұрын
CBS cancelled everything with a tree. Including Lassie.- Pat Buttram, Mr. Haney on Green Acres.
@markschroeder25783 жыл бұрын
Pat Buttram made a guest appearance as a bartender at the Boer's Nest in an episode of "The Dukes Of Hazzard."
@lauriescott62753 жыл бұрын
Some of these shows are on me 📺 Antenna vt and tv land today
@jamesholman23463 жыл бұрын
Just curious, how does Little House on the Prairie fare into the purge equation? Just curious since my parents watched all these shows and I as well, though some of them in re-runs since I was born in 1971.
@yooneeque13 жыл бұрын
IIRC The Waltons, a family-oriented drama, was a true surprise success and paved the way for other family series like Little House on the Prairie. Shows like LHotP and the Waltons were hour-long dramas, as opposed to sitcoms, with multi-generational casts that appealed to the family demographic. Maybe that was a factor?
@hydrolito2 жыл бұрын
Gunsmoke started on the Radio in 1952 and ran on radio until 1961. So was still running on radio while also on TV.
@MsTimothyswan3 жыл бұрын
it seems to me that these high and mighty television execs just couldn't leave well enough alone. with the exception of Bonanza which was on NBC, all of these great CBS programs did not deserve to be cancelled before their time
@karlsmith25703 жыл бұрын
The only member of the cast of "The Beverly Hillbillies" which are still living is Max Baer AKA: Jethro Bodine
@karlsmith25703 жыл бұрын
@Hubert Harmon yup, and he's actually said in an episode of "E!:True Hollywood Story" where he'd said that whenever he died, that he'd be best known for his role as Jethro on "The Beverly Hillbillies" and he'd said the same thing with regards to Donna Douglas and Buddy Ebsen (and he'd acutely predicted that too)
@timmy-the-ute27252 жыл бұрын
There were country and western shows that made it in the 70's. The Waltons, Little house in the Prairie, The Dukes of Hazzard, and Hee Haw. You can even add McCloud.
@jeffreymliss3 жыл бұрын
Many of these shows simply ran out of gas. They went to the proverbial well once too often.
@jjtt74083 жыл бұрын
I CAN REMEMBER WHEN MY CITY WAS A TOWN IN THE 50S AND 60S AND IT WAS LIKE ANDY'S GRIFFIN MAY-BERRY NOW IT'S LIKE A SHIT HOLE
@paulbegley14643 жыл бұрын
Well the older folks do buy refrigerators also. Just as needed. Besides maybe they bought a Maytag and aren't they supposed to last. I mean don't they advertise the most lonely repairman.
@williampalenik73063 жыл бұрын
I watched all these shows back then and and in reruns they are better shows than the garbage that is on TV today
@louf71783 жыл бұрын
Just yesterday I was trying to remember the name "rural purge" - thanks.
@buck5463 жыл бұрын
We remember when tv was worth watching. I watch this crap today and ask myself what happen? In the old there were writers and actors today I'm not sure what you have.
@SPak-rt2gb3 жыл бұрын
I watched everyone of them growing up but the older I got the less I watched I think Lassie was the first to get the axe and Bonanza was the last.
@mikeelmira3 жыл бұрын
I lost interest in Lassie when he went to live with the ranger
@susanhundley13473 жыл бұрын
I liked them all my favorite was lassie gunsmoke was the last to get purged I hated it these shows produced good family values their only three brothers on bonanza pernell Roberts little Joe and hossCartwright later candy took Adam's place loved that show I wouldn't give you two cents for shows today
@komerwest37483 жыл бұрын
Loved them all and still do
@deepwater26523 жыл бұрын
Thank goodness for reruns!
@paulfournier65093 жыл бұрын
Bonanza was going to end anyway after Dan Blocker passed away
@mikestefka66683 жыл бұрын
That's OK we will just reenact them in our big beautiful backyards.
@michaelbaker94153 жыл бұрын
I still watch the Beverly Hillbillies on KZbin. I used to watch Bonanza get forced to watch Andy Griffith show the sheriff that didn't carry a gun and Don Knots as deputy Barney Fifth. Always enjoyed I Dream of Genie and Bewitched and for cartoons the Flintstones with Fred and Wilma and Barney and Betty a good thing that people don't realize cousin Pearl Jethro and Max Baer other part his sister Jethrine mother Pearl did the sound voice for the Flintstones Betty Rebal. The thing that the Beverly Hillbillies did from time to time have people like a young Roy Clark and a few others on their and going over to Petticoat junction for a couple of shows. Miss Drysdale and what was supposed to be her fine Boston gulible back ground. Nobody was trying to hurt anyone like a bunch of the modern violence shows.
@Ninnjette-3 жыл бұрын
I’m 37 and I watch Gunsmoke religiously.
@woxyroxme3 жыл бұрын
I can remember when they called CBS the Country Bumpkin Station.
@jerrygillespie12143 жыл бұрын
I watched all except for Bonanza. I believe these shows ran past their prime and more modern shows like All in the Family, Maude and The Mary Tyler Moore show were fantastic replacements that got as good or even better ratings than those rural shows they replaced
@bestofcaltv3 жыл бұрын
I got to work with Jim Aubrey in later years, he was the champion of these shows as Pres. of CBS.
@sorshiaemms59593 жыл бұрын
I STILL WATCH THEM YOU FORGOT GILLIGANS ISLAND
@Farrah3003 жыл бұрын
Please forgive me if I've already made the comment I'm about to make, but I can't find it, so I'll say it once more. Hee Haw got canceled in 1971 by CBS, but thank Heavens, that would not be the last we would ever see first run episodes. Thanks to syndication, Hee Haw would go on to have a long life of over 20 years!!! Loved that show, and still do as I have DVD's of some of the episodes.
@nrnoble3 жыл бұрын
Although there was a specific purge by CBS, there was nothing preventing the other networks from picking up these cancelled shows, which had been done many times before, such as My Three son (ABC-->CBS), Leave To Beaver (NBC-->ABC), Disney (ABC-->NBC) and over a dozen more. I beleive that all the rural shows were dropping in the rating for at least 2-3 years, thus they likely would have been cancelled in 2-3 years; CBS took a huge gamble that viewers wouldn't really miss the cancelled shows and other networks wouldn't pick them up and then beat them in the ratings with their own discarded shows. I'll split hairs on including Gunsmoke and Bonanza as part of the purge. The rural purge happen between 1970-71. Bonanza had really fallen in the ratings, plus the death of Dan Blocker, was the cause of its cancellation on NBC. Gunsmoke had almost been cancelled several times over years, but managed to survive until 1975 well past the rural purge.
@wvpirate3 жыл бұрын
Gunsmoke was going to be canceled earlier. But the wife of William Paley loved Gunsmoke. So they canceled Gilligan's Island instead
@kurttoy5035 Жыл бұрын
LITB never aired on NBC, CBS had it initially before ABC picked it up.
@robertwalker47883 жыл бұрын
Tv went down hill and. still is.
@kc4cvh29 күн бұрын
Most of these series were old and deteriorating, in their sixth season and beyond. There's a reason why series television was named "the glass furnace", they consume creative material so quickly that by the third or fourth season the writers are facing increasing difficulty in coming up with good story ideas. This was certainly evident in Beverly Hillbillies episode S6E29, with Raymond Bailey as "Superbanker".
@karhday25202 жыл бұрын
I love Green Acres and still watch it today
@ddhappy13 жыл бұрын
I watched all of the shows you mentioned and loved them. Sadly, TV is just not the same anymore with shows of much lesser caliber these days.
@njacobdekelaita61983 жыл бұрын
Most ran their course. You cant do 200 episodes with basically the same idea and not get stale. Movin on
@bradmad83463 жыл бұрын
You said what I was going to point out, even after these were gone there was the Walton's and others, the shows that came out to replace the country themed were All in the family, Maude and Sanford and son, ect some thought ok, were boring in creative content ... just my opinion.
@gpierce223 жыл бұрын
Everyone loves talking about the THE RURAL PURGE, in realty, most of these shows had already run there course by 1970, I love the Beverly Hillbillies, I still watch the reruns, but I really have a hard time watching season 9, it was awful. Petticoat Junction suffered the loss of Bea Benaderet, and Green Acers was starting to show age, true television was changing, but most all these shows enjoyed a long run, and we can still enjoy the reruns today.
@mikeelmira3 жыл бұрын
I agree, loved the shows for years but they got boring toward the end. No shows last forever and when they were canceled I assumed that was the reason
@louisjriversjr90933 жыл бұрын
I saw them all but one or two shows when I was younger.
@raymondhopwood939316 күн бұрын
The deaths of Bea Benaderrette and Dan Blocker had a lot to do with their shows getting cancelled. You forgot "Hee Haw", which was cancelled by CBS in 1971. Fortunately, it was picked up by a syndicate, and it lasted for another 20+ years.
@mikewrasman51033 жыл бұрын
I watched all of these shows. My family was shocked by the show's cancellations.
@jeffreybokhari73483 жыл бұрын
You Forgot About The Western Wanted Dead Or Alive And The Lone Ranger
@wvpirate3 жыл бұрын
Both of those shows were long gone before 1970
@forfluf3 жыл бұрын
Because I dislike all those then and now videos on this channel. Or the "untold truth" videos. This divergence was very welcomed. May I suggest a part 2, "What did they replace the rural purge with"
@patrickholland68483 жыл бұрын
Sometimes Network exec's make stupid decisions and this was one of them.
@hydrolito2 жыл бұрын
Mitch Vogel played adopted son Jamie Hunter Cartwright on Bonanza before canceled.
@kali36653 жыл бұрын
As Pat Buttram (Mr Haney on Green Acres) said, they cancelled every show with a tree ... including LASSIE!
@kevinbergin99713 жыл бұрын
Thanks, I mention the Rural Purge in my advertising & marketing classes that I teach. I'm thinking about showing this (although I might cut it in half).
@lorishiversdogmom3 жыл бұрын
To heck with the purge! They didn't know what they were doing. The Purge didn't do no good. People between the ages of 25-35 still liked and promoted shows like Little house on the prairie and The Walton's which were both in rural country settings. They both ran their complete course and made tons of money. So they were wrong with that early purge. They should have left those shows alone and let them run their course. Plus all those early shows are still beloved today by people of all ages! Including The Andy Griffith show and The Beverly Hillbillies. On vhs and DVD and on cable. What were they thinking?! They were crazy! That was just stupid thinking. I and many other fans of these shows would rather watch them than any of the garbage they put out on TV today.
@elwoodblues96133 жыл бұрын
How many people watch "Good Times" and "Maude" anymore? Yet it's easy to find someone who likes "Andy Griffith" and "Green Acres." And guess what: the kids of the "Lawrence Welk" audience are now watching reruns of that show on PBS.
@lorishiversdogmom3 жыл бұрын
@@elwoodblues9613 Yep. I believe it.
@EnligUlv3 жыл бұрын
That’s back when the big three had a monopoly on programming, but later cable diluted their share…now the wwweb has blown up the control of our collective minds with streaming. Now, every individual seems to have their very own thing they’re into. The only commonality is that it is, and was, driven by “advertisers”, a nebulous term which ultimately means “us” by agency of creative managers trying to impress the bossman to get that golden ring, along with the CEO’s who are beholden to the Board of Directors who are beholden to the “stakeholders” meaning “Us” who are represented by various forms of “those concerned”, e.g., Activist investors, Anita Bryant & the moral majority, Mothers Against Drunk Driving, The Silent Majority, The Rainbow Coalition, and at late, the way-left-leaning Cancel Culture… Aside from my rant, I was a huge fan of all of the late 60s thru early 70’s westerns, especially The Big Valley because it was supposed to be near Stockton, one of the urban centers closest to our cattle ranch.
@ginayoung4213 жыл бұрын
Watch shows when I was a teenager.
@Imaminimonstertruck3 жыл бұрын
The salary of these actors as well can cause cancellation of a show that they don't want to pay them. Also some of the actors want to move on from the show pursue something different then continuing playing the same character for 20+ plus years.
@glennso473 жыл бұрын
Hatred against older people.
@donbest50243 жыл бұрын
At 3:42 Mayberry rfd house is also Waltons house
@thefranchise46983 жыл бұрын
Bonanza's ratings had dropped the season before it was cancelled. The stories were getting old and repetitive. But it was Dan Blocker's death that really signaled the end of Bonanza
@jparsons31633 жыл бұрын
Watched all of them and several others
@SPak-rt2gb3 жыл бұрын
Was Grizzly Adams around at that time?
@Turkeyinthehay3 жыл бұрын
What about Maverick?
@andyjay93463 жыл бұрын
I used to work at a TV station in Australia in the early 1970's as a film and program editor. The Beverley Hillbillies was on film of course and always pulled in the ratings. Telecast daily and on weekends as a standby show in case there was problems withe the football or cricket live broadcasts.
@ColKorn19653 жыл бұрын
The Beverly Hillbillies was my favorite. My grandmother was just like her, except for the clodhoppers. I'm still trying to find a photo of my grandmother drinking a beer in my cousin's photo albums.
@jedidrummerjake3 жыл бұрын
Watched all of them except Petticoat Junction. Mom wouldn't let me.
@mooveeluver3 жыл бұрын
Most of these shows had pretty much run there course. While Petticoat Junction may have been inspired by The Beverly Hillbillies, they were separate and distinct shows. When they did crossover episodes, it was the equivalent of what later would be called "jumping the shark".
@markdaniel87403 жыл бұрын
The Waltons, little house on the prarie, dukes of Hazzard and a few others survived a bit longer. Then Dallas and other soap operas took over. I was mid twenties and didn't know anybody except old people who watched them.
@sheilaholmes84553 жыл бұрын
I watched all these shows!
@stevekirsch68033 жыл бұрын
Sure lots of popular shows were taken off the air, but they were replaced by other shows that were popular for many years.
@dmnemaine3 жыл бұрын
I think Green Acres was the oddball of the "rural" shows. It had a weird surreal element, and it made no bones about making fun of rural life and making fun of being nostalgic about rural life. There is a theory that Green Acres is all Oliver Douglass's strange dream.