Those Were The Days In Movies & TV

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I’m gettin’ old I guess. Last night I was watching a short tell-all about the old TV series, Superman. As most of them were back then, it was a very low budget series whereby the stars of the show only made about $300 a week compared to today’s $60K+ per show. The thing that got me though is that Kellogg’s was the main sponsor and though each star of the show would be spot-lighted by eating Kellogg’s cereal, Clark Kent and Lois Lane were never filmed together eating the stuff. Why? It was too suggestive. It might intimate that Lois and Clark were having....sex! (gasp). The censorship laws were pretty strict back then. The only person that could get away with saying hell was someone portraying a preacher or the televangelist on the radio or TV. My goodness, Rhett Butler’s retort of “Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn”, shocked the entire movie going civilized world! Even the bedroom was off limits back then. If a bedroom was seen in a movie or on TV, there were generally twin beds in the master bedroom. Perchance a married couple Were seen in the same bed, each one had to have one foot on the floor so they wouldn’t get too intimate whilst on the set. Then came the rating system: G, PG, PG 13, R, X, XXX etc. I remember it when it first came out but the problem is that what used to be a rating of R is now pretty much PG and X is now PG13 or an R if we get lucky. Sex, violence and extreme language seem to be in the script of just about every movie or TV series we might wish to watch. Yeah, again I think I am getting old. I see and hear reality every day when I walk out of the house but what used to be an escape from it, TV and movies just whip us back in to it and even more extreme then we need it to be.