>I do wonder, though, even with the best of TV from the 50s if a lot of it looked good because the competition was so thin. I remember a lot of stuff very warmly , but mostly because I don't go back and see them again. <s>

Judging by the music, my tastes haven't changed much. Most of the stuff from my youth survives on my playlist about the same number of weeks as it did the first time :). And then there were things I really liked then, which are forever welded to their places on their list.

It gets more interesting with the stuff I more or less skipped then and can watch/listen at ease today. Well, my tastes haven't changed much. The only difference is that I grew a respect for some of the French and Italian pop music of the sixties (of which we had too much then, as a replacement for harder stuff that wasn't verbotten, just hard to get). I still can't stand the kitsch of the times - tried watching Gilligan's and Lucy, and couldn't stand them, for the same reason I can't stand Jerry Lewis. Their imitations I watched as a kid, when there wasn't anything else to watch (in '65 we had one channel, until '72), were too faithful to the original, and I didn't like those either.