Starting to really enjoy Bonanza

[XanaDUer2]

Used to watch it as a kid in the 70s. Did a little reading. The four leads were liberals. Its tackling issues like racism, domestic violence, young men coming back from war (civil, but Vietnam). It has a disclaimer that thete are outdated stereotypes, however.

AND I HATE WESTERNS!

[Omnipresent]

1. I believe all those old tv shows had lessons to be learned.

The good guys prevailed and the bad guys got their comeuppance in the end.

[a kennedy]

2. And they only have a couple of minutes of advertisements, not like TV shows now, where damn near

a 30 minute show has damn near 15 minutes of ads. 🤬 🤬 🤬

[twodogsbarking]

3. It was good vs evil with good prevailing. They meant well.