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Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 1969718, member: 289"] I didn't catch the gaffe but it's interesting that you should post this. I like to use You-Tube as a time machine, going back to watch vitnage film and TV, sporting events, music, etc. Stuff I remember, stuff I don't and stuff I wasn't around for. I have a book on TV history and I've been searching for episodes of early shows and I recently watched a 1949 episode of The Goldbergs, a gentle comedy/drama aobut a Jewsih family in New York which was on from 1949-1955. It actually dates back to 1929 when it premiered on radio. Gertrude Berg, (molly)) was the whole show, producing and writing it based on conversations she had with people walking through Brooklyn. people would suggest stories to her based on things they'd seen or had happen to them. Tragically, the fellow who plays her husband, Philip Loeb, was blacklisted the eyar of this episode and later, in 1955, killed himself, despondent over his inability to get work. [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Loeb"]Philip Loeb - Wikipedia[/URL] One of the other early shows I've seen is I Remember Mama, the story of a Norwegian family in San Francisco at the turn of the (20th) century. Actually it was just called "Mama" on TV but was based on a play and 1948 film with the full title: [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mama_(TV_series)"]Mama (TV series) - Wikipedia[/URL] Here is an episode of that show: [URL="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qxB3sHgrGo"]I Remember Mama Mama's Bad Day Part 1 1950[/URL] Different ethnic group, different city and different coffee but a similar show, with a similar simplicity and warmth you don't see in our entertainment any more. In the Father Knows Best/ Dobie Gillis/ Leave it to beaver days, the "typical American family was of a bland ethnic background and lived in the suburbs. But a decade earlier the first family comedies on TV featured immigrants living in cities. That was 'typical', too. [/QUOTE]

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