Inside the Box: The TV History Podcast

Mining the Archive Mondays: Episode 06: The Rural Purge


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his week Steve, Andrew and Jonathan discuss the thinking behind CBS's 1960s Rural Purge. Why did it happen? What types of content followed it? What does "the great man of history" have to do with it all? Was that the last time rural depictions ever graced the Tiffany network? So, give up your city livin', grab a pitchfork, and don't mind Uncle Joe (he's just movin' kinda slow) and join us down at the junction of 1960s ratings, demographics, and the network's interpretation of Marshall McLuhan.
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