Ah, the '50s! Sci-fi mutants, horror comic books and the birth of rock 'n' roll. But that was just kid stuff, the teen taste that eventually took over pop culture. The prevailing tone on '50s movie and TV screens was adult, earnest, upper-middlebrow. Dozens of hourlong teledramas probed modern and historical topics each week. At movie theaters people found that for every social problem, Hollywood had not a solution but a script. Are you looking for the Golden Age of Television? You'll find it in the work of Fred Coe. You want to send a movie message? Call Stanley Kramer.
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