Comments on: 10 TV Shows That Changed the Course of History

By: stephny

stephny — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 14:30:00 +0000

Wow, what a media-dominated culture we live in. Everyone is clamoring for TV shows that didn’t influence anything but the viewing enjoyment of the viewers. This list is about “changing history”
Altering the outcome of elections, bringing new products into peoples homes, and changing attitudes about topics as important as ecology is changing history. Bonanza and Good times are great TV, but really.
I do agree with Ms. Williams about Roots, though, that did mark a cultural watershed.

By: Emika

Emika — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:40:00 +0000

Yeah, I would have gone with “10 TV Shows That Changed the Course of American History.”

Otherwise, interesting article… although it was distressing that I’ve only ever heard of two of these shows (Star Trek and Dallas, and I only heard of Dallas after moving abroad). Am I that culturally ignorant?

By: Blackwolff9

Blackwolff9 — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 05:51:00 +0000

For those who are complaining about the title of the article,please note that the title is “10 TV Shows That Changed the Course of History”, NOT “the World”,NOT “America”. Granted, most of the shows listed are from America,but their airings in other countries obviously had a deeply profound impact on the populace, as in the case of DALLAS. Great Britain and Australia also had their turning points using television as well,as stated by the author, so obviously we’re not the only game in town. Come on,people! Pay attention!

By: Courtney

Courtney — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 05:49:00 +0000

Hello? Where’s The Simpsons? The longest running cartoon series in history. That has inspired so many sayings that they’re now part of the English language and even have a place in the dictionary.

My inner fan has to mention Stargate SG1. It ran longer than Star Trek did.

By: Bob W.

Bob W. — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 08:05:45 +0000

The title of this piece is simply 10 shows that changed the world. Not the 10 best, worst, funniest, most, least, or anything else. These are just ten of them. There were, obviously, many more.

By: Cliff

Cliff — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 12:02:09 +0000

Cosby Show

By: Colleen Williams

Colleen Williams — Sat, 24 May 2008 14:18:41 +0000

Yall missed a big one by not including the mini-series “Roots” in your list of shows.

By: GrownUp

GrownUp — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 13:47:24 +0000

Sesame Street did much to relax social relations.

By: WolvenSpectre

WolvenSpectre — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 20:21:09 +0000

How about the Canadian Show “This Hour has Seven Days”. One of the pioneer shows for the TV news magazine format which invented the “Hot Seat” interview technique where they would use the interviewer’s silence to push interviewees to talk more to avoid the awkward silence and often say what they otherwise wouldn’t.

It was also the first news program that would cover and interview Ralph Nader’s campaign for safer cars. After that the US and International news networks were compeled to actually cover the topic seriously.

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 18:04:04 +0000

seriously, this list would be hundreds of shows and take all day to read if you all had your way. regardless of your opinion of whether the last word in the title should be ‘america’ or ‘the world’, notice that the beginning of the title says ‘10′ and not ‘every last one’ either respect the author’s selection or don’t read the post.