All in the Family
On Thu, Oct 2, 2025 at 8:59 PM Kevin M. <[email protected]> wrote: > I teach a History of Pop Music elective in my middle school. I’m > contemplating a companion elective centered around television. Throwing > this concept open to this group. > > Looking at about ten hours of content (one hour a week for one quarter of > the academic school year). > > Do I go chronologically from early early years to the present day, or do I > focus on a different genre each class (drama, sitcom, talk show)? > > Most iconic shows? The ones that need to be preserved in a time capsule? A > day devoted to the worst TV shows? > > I feel like I need to include the following: > MASH > Johnny Carson > NYPD Blue > Wheel of Fortune > Monty Python > The Cosby Show > Star Trek > The Real World > Wide World of Sports > The OJ Simpson trial > Cronkite announcing the death of JFK > > People will probably also want me to include: > I Love Lucy > Milton Berle > Bob Hope > Ernie Kovacs > SNL > > Open to any and all ideas > > Kevin M. (RPCV) > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKgmY4AXmWNFSG0pZ%3DW6s4bxY3qdJXXpfmJT3Zz1yaTgS1ivXQ%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKgmY4AXmWNFSG0pZ%3DW6s4bxY3qdJXXpfmJT3Zz1yaTgS1ivXQ%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CA%2B_fQPwnKU797v9tb93qDHu6Rmy75kg-wjR6WDVWxgtmstSHpQ%40mail.gmail.com.
