You Don't Hear Tv Cops Griping Because

The Once Inviolate Frame Within Which Programs Or Commercials Were Displayed On Television - Always Separately - Has Been Violated To A Pulp. Program Content Is Seen Increasingly As A Mere Backdrop On Which Ads Are Posted Like Billboards On A Fence.

People Of A Certain Age Look Back On The Mayberry Of 'the Andy Griffith Show' And Become Almost As Homesick For That Simple Fictional Hamlet As They Do For Their Own Home Towns.

Technically, 'kukla, Fran And Ollie' Was A Kids' Show, But Adults Watched Almost Religiously - And We're Talking Adult Adults, Celebrated Adults - Including James Thurber, Orson Welles, John Steinbeck, Adlai E. Stevenson And Lyricist Stephen Sondheim.

The Perils Of Credit And Debt, Especially Perilous In The Computer Age, Have Long Been Acknowledged In Pop Culture, But Very Infrequently By Tv.

Somewhere Around The Turn Of The Century, It Stopped Being Hip To Say You Never Watched Tv. Adults Are Much More Likely To Find Something To Engage Them On Television Than They Are At The Local Multiplex. Edges Are Being Cut On Television All The Time, But At The Movies Only Now And Then.