![]() ![]() I couldn't believe TV had reached that level of sophistication. Tense! When the commercial did come, I said, "Hey, this is a pretty good movie, what is it?" "That's not a movie", they told me, "it's Hill Street Blues, a TV series!" No way, I thought, they had to be pulling my leg. ![]() One evening I was leaning in the doorway waiting for a commercial so I could talk to them & I got caught up in what they were watching - some tough portly mustached detective had been captured by a lunatic with a shotgun & bound to a chair. Thereafter, whenever I came home from work, I knew where to find my wife & son - both in his room glued to the tube. So he wouldn't feel culturally deprived, we decided to get him a little black & white set for his room. When I settled down tho & my son started going to school, his friends talked constantly about TV programs he knew nothing about. To our minds, TV was a puerile waste of time, pablum for the masses, a substitute for life. Bear with me on a bit of background: For a full decade as a penniless hippie, I didn't have a TV. ![]()
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