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Language I don't remember?

posted 16 years ago by nemoiam
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Is it just me, or do some of the words thrown around in the first episode seem pretty risque language for that time? As a 9 year old watching this in its first run, I thought I would have remembered characters throwing around phrases like "I wanted to see you make an a$$ of yourself" and "Dammit I love you!". But I don't even remember my mother covering my ears or turning off the TV...
I was a regular viewer back then.

All pretty tame stuff by today's standards, but somehow I can't picture this spouted on network TV in 1969.

[–] smallworldguy76 16 years ago

If you think that's a bit risque for language, you should watch the last story on Episode 5 titled, "Love and the Single Couple" where Diana Ewing's character says a line that includes "damn well" and such. According to the ABC 1969 Fall preview of the show, Don Porter was to have said "Well I'm about to complicate the hell out of it." But on the DVD, he says "heck" instead. I guess LAS was a really that mature-themed at the time than I originally thought. Then again, I wasn't around during the time and I am now watching these original network shows for the first time after watching the butchered shows in syndication.

RETRO FOREVER!

[–] whimsical5 16 years ago

I remember this show as being considered risque, and wasnt it on at 10pm? I was 9 in 1969, I would watch it when my parents had card parties and no one paid attention
nice socks, man.....

[–] CipherCode 16 years ago

Remember when Dawn Norris in epiosode 3:2 said "He can jack it on me anytime". The 60's were being paid homage to.

[–] hooper-xxx 16 years ago

I don't think that it was all that risque. The United States has simply turned back the clock and has become more puritanical.

[–] titans_58 11 years ago

For those times it WAS VERY risque, just like Laugh-In to which was on early enough that I watched it when I was 10 yrs old. Laugh-In came first and paved the way. When I was young watching these shows I was thinking how dirty adult like they wereand my curiosity got the best of me at that age to see those 2 shows.

[–] Itsamoomoo 12 years ago

At ten years old I think we were just happy to be able to still be up at ten o'clock at night to be watching TV and not hanging on to every word.