{"id":2073,"date":"2023-10-30T14:37:22","date_gmt":"2023-10-30T14:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tvhistorypod.com\/?p=2073"},"modified":"2023-10-30T14:37:24","modified_gmt":"2023-10-30T14:37:24","slug":"mining-the-archive-mondays-episode-06-the-rural-purge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tvhistorypod.com\/?p=2073","title":{"rendered":"Mining the Archive Mondays: Episode 06: The Rural Purge"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--powerpress_player--><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_6435\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2073-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/inside_the_box_the_tv_history\/www.tvhistorypod.com\/episodes\/Inside_the_Box_ep_06_Rural_Purge.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/inside_the_box_the_tv_history\/www.tvhistorypod.com\/episodes\/Inside_the_Box_ep_06_Rural_Purge.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/inside_the_box_the_tv_history\/www.tvhistorypod.com\/episodes\/Inside_the_Box_ep_06_Rural_Purge.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/inside_the_box_the_tv_history\/www.tvhistorypod.com\/episodes\/Inside_the_Box_ep_06_Rural_Purge.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.tvhistorypod.com\/?powerpress_pinw=2073-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/inside_the_box_the_tv_history\/www.tvhistorypod.com\/episodes\/Inside_the_Box_ep_06_Rural_Purge.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Inside_the_Box_ep_06_Rural_Purge.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvhistorypod.com\/?feed=podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This week Steve, Andrew and Jonathan discuss the thinking behind CBS&#8217;s 1960s Rural Purge. Why did it happen? What types of content followed it? What does &#8220;the great man of history&#8221; have to do with it all? Was that the last time rural depictions ever graced the Tiffany network? So, give up your city livin&#8217;, grab a pitchfork, and don&#8217;t mind Uncle Joe (he&#8217;s just movin&#8217; kinda slow) and join us down at the junction of 1960s ratings, demographics, and the network&#8217;s interpretation of Marshall McLuhan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Check out a great six part blog series on the Rural Purge <a href=\"http:\/\/mercurie.blogspot.com\/2013\/09\/american-rural-comedies-of-sixties-part.html\">here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Petticoat Junction Theme Song\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2Jx2jEPvh88?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Beverly Hillbillies Theme Song\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NwzaxUF0k18?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; 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Why did it happen? What types of content followed it? What does &#8220;the great man of history&#8221; have to do with it all? Was that the last time rural depictions ever graced the Tiffany network? So, give up your city livin&#8217;, grab a pitchfork, and don&#8217;t mind Uncle Joe (he&#8217;s just movin&#8217; kinda slow) and join us down at the junction of 1960s ratings, demographics, and the network&#8217;s interpretation of Marshall McLuhan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[518,460,499],"tags":[52,53,49,50,47],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.tvhistorypod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Eddie-Albert-and-Eva-Gabor-817x1000.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tvhistorypod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2073"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tvhistorypod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tvhistorypod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tvhistorypod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tvhistorypod.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2073"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tvhistorypod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2074,"href":"https:\/\/www.tvhistorypod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2073\/revisions\/2074"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tvhistorypod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tvhistorypod.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tvhistorypod.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tvhistorypod.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}