Subj : Family Oriented 70s/80s
To   : ABBUB
From : Dumas Walker
Date : Sun Feb 11 2024 11:13 am

> > I am not sure I think of Miami Vice being targeted to kids... maybe
> > teens

> Yeah, I meant that it's a little bit more watchable because it *wasn't* 
target
>  towards kids. Writers seemed to have had some contempt for kids or 
something,
> nd really went overboard dumbing their scripts down back in the day. You can 
s
>  the stark difference between a show thought to be for adults versus one that
> s 'family oriented' when you compare Airwolf season one (which is a lot 
darker
> to the subsequent seasons which shifted towards 'family friendly.'

Yes, I agree.  The A-Team is probably another good example.  I would
sometimes catch a bit of an episode when MeTV was running it recently and
it was even more dumbed-down than I remember.  ;)


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