This is what Alfred Hitchcock's half-hour anthology series did. This was during the opening of each episode was introduced by a chubby guy with a British accent who could give a brilliant introduction while cracking a few bad jokes and abuse the sponsors. Instead in true fashion,it snuck past the guardians of Good Taste and Morality,otherwise known as the Department of Standards and Practices. However,the ground breaking series did not attack frontally. It was an original,and it remains to this day a standard classic appreciated by one and all. The Twilight Zone,by the end of the decade,attacked frontally with huge doses of imagination and exotic story lines that often overwhelmed viewers,thereby opening America's living rooms to the expanding world of unthought not to mention unheard of possibilities. Two series,however did come along to challenge convertion. Even the typical variety show had some flaws in them too,but sometimes was rarely notice. After all, not matter how good some of the episodes were,either the adventures of a typical suburban family,bringing law and order to the Old West or following the humorous escapades of a zany housewife were not exactly novel concepts in television programming. Or that the early Ozzie and Harriet or the early I Love Lucy did not have its hilarious moments. That's not to say that certain series,such as the early Gunsmoke were not daring and edgy in their own way. During that period,you had the opportunity to see either detective dramas,and family comedies not to mention all of the above. Television in the 1950's,was pretty bland by almost any yardstick.
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