In the 1960s, nuns flew. It was also a decade in which horses talked, hillbillies struck oil, witches married advertising executives, dead mothers possessed cars, and genii obeyed astronauts.
In the 1960s, nuns flew. It was also a decade in which horses talked, hillbillies struck oil, witches married advertising executives, dead mothers possessed cars, and genii obeyed astronauts. from OldSchoolCool
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It was a magical time
And your neighbor could be a monster or a Martian.
Big City lawyers could make a living being a farmer.
And, most improbably of all, Marines with mismatched speaking and singing voices never worried about being deployed to Vietnam.
Tell that to the young people of today and they won’t believe you.
This would have been a lot cooler if you’d posted Gidget.
Flying cars and astronauts living on a remote planet with oxygen.
And when a small group of people were stranded on a dessert island, the millionaire somehow held onto his privileged status.
I did not realise this was real, I remember Corey Haim screaming “What are you the flying Nun?” in Lost Boys and figured it was a funny non sequitur.
Dead mothers possessed cars 🤷♂️
I dreamed of genies
Some doctor convinced a cop that a one armed man really did kill the doctors wife.
Not to mention being a POW in a WWII German camp (Stalag) is funny.
Just think about a world where Darren Stevens of McMann and Tate could have competed with Don Draper of Sterling, Cooper, Draper, and Pryce for an advertising contract.
If you wanted realism you could have watched Combat!, 12 O’clock High, or Rat Patrol.
Good times.
The good old shows of yesterday, the kind of t.v. parents didn’t check out 1st to make sure it was kid safe & appropriate…
Flying Nun Sally Field is the best Sally Field!
Powerful women constrained by the conventions of society, religion, and marriage.
*drugs*
Dialing For Dollars calling from my color TV
And the music was AWESOME
OP forgot “The Monster and his family” lived a Suburban life.
Genii *not* obeying astronauts is like half the plot though!
Oh bring back classic TV 📺
Sister Bertrell I think 💭
Mother possessed a car?
She was just playing the Zenith VRMMO
She’s really moving there, huh ? Look at her go.
That’s why they’re called “The Good Old Days”!
Loved every one of those!
They were great shows if you were less than thirteen years old.
The “Ghost and Mrs Muir” hasn’t shown up yet. That was a pretty silly premise.
Um, a movie star got shipwrecked with a millionaire and his wife, the Professor, and Maryanne.