![]() ![]() Williams doesn't want to go back to the rat race. The character, Garth Williams, naturally prefers the bucolic Willoughby, to the "push, push, push" pace dictated by his Manhattan boss. In another episode in the series, "A Stop At Willoughby," first seen on May 6, 1960, a New York City ad exec daydreams each night on his train ride home to Connecticut, that he is visiting a small town called Willoughby in 1888. In an encounter with his parents, his father warns adult Martin that he is out of place, which is then proven out. Soon, Sloan discovers he has transported back to 1934. Once there, he finds little has changed since his boyhood, including prices at the local soda fountain, and the local carousel where he was once injured. When Sloan stops to have his car repaired near his hometown (bluntly named "Homewood"), he walks into town to kill time. Titled "Walking Distance," it concerned a 36-year-old New York City ad exec ".in charge of media." named Martin Sloane, portrayed by Gig Young. On October 30, 1959, the fifth episode of the new paranormal morality play (produced by World War Two paratrooper Rod Serling) "The Twilight Zone” aired. Fishing rods and swimming holes schools within walking distance. This provoked nostalgia for a simpler time. For the first time since the war, "successful" Americans, their cultural cues shaped by white males in New York City and later Los Angeles, were wondering if the muscle car, backyard swimming pool, envious barbecue grill and daily commute were worth it all. The persons writing their material were almost all male, and for the most part their same age(s). The TV and Hollywood industry of the early 1960s was dominated by such veterans, among them Paul Newman, Dick Van Dyke, producers Rod Serling and Aaron Spelling, James Garner, Tony Curtis, Lee Marvin, James Coburn, David Janssen, and Steve McQueen. The movie deals with the pressures of his professional life, and the stress of keeping up with the Joneses. As many of them do, he suffers from what was then termed "shell shock" (PTSD). ![]() Portrayed by Gregory Peck, the subject, like tens of millions of his contemporaries, is a World War II vet. In the 1956 film "The Man In the Gray Flannel Suit,” the lead character is an upwardly mobile male writer for a Manhattan-based nonprofit, who lives in suburban Connecticut with his wife and children. To unpack that, one must examine the engines behind the trend. What does the rural craze tell us about the national zeitgeist? was using the medium to brand Southern sheriffs as intolerant obstacles to ethnic harmony, one of TV's most beloved characters was a Southern sheriff. The next year, "Gomer Pyle, USMC," a Griffith spinoff, was the third most popular watch in the country. By the time the Civil Rights Act was passed on July 2, 1964, it was a genre, well represented in the Top 10 in shows like " The Beverly Hillbillies" (#1), "Petticoat Junction" (#4), and "The Andy Griffith Show" (#5). The larger the space the Civil Rights Movement occupied in the U.S., the more rural/country TV series appeared.
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