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We lived a lovely, middle-class, suburban life in Philadelphia. And I really thought that the TV programs of the '50s, like 'Father Knows Best' and 'The Adventures Of Ozzie And Harriet' Nelson were documentaries filmed with hidden cameras in our neighborhood.

— Richard Corliss

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

There were some television sets back in the '50s, but they were expensive. People would gather at the rich guy's apartment down the hall to watch Milton Berle on his 10-inch black-and-white screen.

— Al Feldstein

I think that I recall the nostalgic '50s: the start of early television and rock-and-roll, and I think everything seemed to get very generic. Not much has changed.

— Rick Moranis

I started working in the mid-to-late Seventies, when television was not what it is now.

— Kevin Bacon

I do believe that we're in a true golden era of television, and I think it started with 'Hill Street.'

— Graham Yost

I had no television when I was little, just a stack of old, beat-up comics from the 1950s and 1960s.

— Daniel Clowes

Television is what made It's a Wonderful Life the classic it is today.

— Leonard Maltin

And then we watched an amazing number of movies from the late '60s and '70s, which is my favorite time, and we studied their camera movements, their stocks, the way they lit stuff, the colors they used.

— Ted Demme

I grew up with the television product being old Western serials like Roy Rogers, and John Wayne and Gary Cooper, and many others were my favorites when I was a young person going to films.

— Steve Kanaly

✗Opposing Perspectives

I grew up in the '50s, in New York City, where television was born. There were 90 live shows every week, and they used a lot of kids. There were schools just for these kids. There was a whole world that doesn't exist anymore.

— Christopher Walken

We just weren't a family that gathered around the TV. I grew up in a town where everyone was outside all the time. I was mostly in Connecticut; I spent a lot of time in Tennessee in the summers, but I was in Stamford, Connecticut.

— Christopher Abbott