• Television in the 1960s
• The Most Popular TV Shows of the 1960s
• Movies in the 1960s
• Rating the Movies
• Popular music in the 1960s
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In film and television it is hard to determine which movie or program best represents American popular culture in the 1960s. Television included such diverse programs as the popular western Bonanza (1959–73), with its depiction of life on a nineteenth-century cattle ranch and The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour (1967–70), in which comedians Dick and Tom Smothers pushed the boundaries of social satire, sexual innuendo, and taste. Films of the decade included...