I bought a DVD set of 150 TV detective shows. It's been worth every penny so far. Right now it's Joe Mannix, September 1967. What is bizarre is we recognize the makes and models, even the years, of the cars. Yes, my child, there was a time when one car didn't look like every other car and the V-8 ruled. Put your pedal to the metal and you go somewhere.
Not that I want those days or those cars back again. But it's interesting to look at TV from the time and recall the clothes, the consumer goods, the attitudes. Joe Mannix keeps taking digs at the newfangled machines his boss at Intertech uses. The show's name in the opening credits is on a punchcard. The "computer room" is a rackety place, where today OSHA would require employees be wearing ear protectors.
It does seem like 1967 might be the hinge on which the Sixties turned. Even Mannix changed.
Not that I want those days or those cars back again. But it's interesting to look at TV from the time and recall the clothes, the consumer goods, the attitudes. Joe Mannix keeps taking digs at the newfangled machines his boss at Intertech uses. The show's name in the opening credits is on a punchcard. The "computer room" is a rackety place, where today OSHA would require employees be wearing ear protectors.
It does seem like 1967 might be the hinge on which the Sixties turned. Even Mannix changed.