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‘A Big Thank You’ to the American Television Industry of Bygone Days

‘A Big Thank You’ to the American Television Industry of Bygone Days
Actor George Reeves (1914–1959), as Superman, stands in front of actress Phyllis Coates, as Lois Lane, in a still from the television series "Adventures of Superman," circa 1952. Hulton Archive/Courtesy of Getty Images
Mark Hendrickson
Mark Hendrickson
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I have fond memories of television programming in the 1950s and early ’60s. Although the stern stoic uncle who raised me habitually referred to TV as “the idiot box,” to this day I give it credit for being a positive force in my upbringing. I’m not referring here to news and sports, but to the pre-recorded television shows produced as entertainment.

Mark Hendrickson
Mark Hendrickson
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Mark Hendrickson is an economist who retired from the faculty of Grove City College in Pennsylvania, where he remains fellow for economic and social policy at the Institute for Faith and Freedom. He is the author of several books on topics as varied as American economic history, anonymous characters in the Bible, the wealth inequality issue, and climate change, among others.
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