Favorite Black and White Television Show?

[Buckeye_Democrat]

30. Black and white characters! I get it!

My family loved The Jeffersons when I was a kid! My poor mother had to deal with a mother-in-law who behaved just like Mother Jefferson! My father was her spoiled only child, but he actually couldn't stand to be around her. So my mother would be the one who'd try to help her, and she'd typically get rewarded with insults for doing it.

My mother grew up very poor on a small farm, describing how she went to bed hungry many times as a young girl during the Great Depression. Meanwhile, my father grew up on a 3000-acre farm about 12 miles away. (No, it was never a slave plantation.) Dad could've inherited all of that land, being an only-child, but he didn't want to manage a bunch of hired-help to work the land. So his parents finally gave up on it, selling it for "pennies on the dollar" according to Mom. Then the mother-in-law (my paternal grandmother) later spent most of the money like she was a baroness.

EDIT: I researched my family tree years ago. It was pretty easy in my case because all of my ancestors moved from the Northeastern USA to a farming community in the Midwest after the Revolutionary War, and they all remained there until my parents finally moved away. Anyway, land records showed that my paternal grandparents' large farm was slowly acquired by my paternal great-great-great grandfather when he was a young man. Then he finally got married at age 52... to a woman who was only 24! He later outlived her by a few years too, since she died in her 50's.