What America Watched



Television Favorites from the Cornfields to the Cosmos



Just Published!!



Join us on an informative and nostalgia-filled five-decade journey through some of the most beloved television shows of the 1950s through the mid-1990s





This website accompanies the forthcoming book WHAT AMERICA WATCHED: TELEVISION FAVORITES FROM THE CORNFIELDS TO THE COSMOS, 1960S-1990s, now available from McFarland.


Both the book and site focus on the following series:


The Addams Family

The Andy Griffith Show

The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.

The Beverly Hillbillies

Bewitched

Dark Shadows (1960s and 1991 versions)

Ellery Queen

Gilligan's Island

Gomer Pyle, USMC

Green Acres

I Dream of Jeannie

It's About Time

MacGyver

The Magician

Magnum, P.I.

Mayberry, R.F.D.

Mister Ed

The Munsters

Murder, She Wrote

Nichols

Petticoat Junction

The Rockford Files

Stargate, SG-1



Remembering actress #PatWoodell (birth name Patricia Joy Woodell), who was born in Winthrop, Massachusetts, on this day (July 12th) in 1944. Woodell was best known as one of the actresses who played Bobbie Jo Bradley on the 1960s CBS TV sitcom Petticoat Junction.