These children grew into adults who never lost interest in one of the strangest shows ever made. But in the intervening years the show’s status grew.Ĭhildren of the 1960s to the 1980s discovered the reruns and fell in love with the weirdness and offbeat humour. The series itself only ran for two seasons and was dropped for poor ratings. Beatniks, hippies and a general anti-establishment youth culture progressively dismissed the conforming stereotypes of the wholesome family.įrom this, a TV show based on a long-running New Yorker cartoon by Charles Addams was launched: The Addams Family, based around a family who, while not outright monsters, definitely played on the dark side of life. In the 1950s and 1960s, family sitcoms The Andy Griffith Show, My Three Sons, The Beverley Hillbillies and Leave it to Beaver were all hugely popular.īut the ’60s were also a time of the counter-culture revolution.
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