Any Afro-Americans in the 1950s LONE RANGER teleseries?
Cozi ran an anti-bigotry episode of TLR the other week, concerning the tribulations of Chinese immigrants, and of course other episodes touched on the Native American plight.As Denny O'Neil famously...
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>I thought including about that one too, Craig, but felt that it's about ten years past the Lone Ranger timeframe we're talking about< I know I stretched things a little Hal, but not that much!...
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Things certainly were beginning to loosen up in the early '60s, particularly in dramatic series. But that wonderful Van Dyke episode was something special. It was that rare, perhaps very first,...
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Yup. Thanks, Carl, Dick, et al.
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Nipsey Russell shows up on as a cop in some episodes of Car 54. I found it a little disturbing the Clampettes would run around in Confederate uniforms during the Civil Rights era.
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Well, some Suthanahs are still doing that in the new millenium!
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There was a Dick Van Dyke show wherein he managed to dye his hands black, and found he had to go and receive some "brotherhood" award. (His speech concluded that he's waiting for the day when doing...
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HalLane wrote:I suspect there were black characters on GUNSMOKE and BONANZA too, possibly also BIG VALLEY?Yes. There's a great one starring Lou Rawls! Season 4, episode 14: JOSHUA WATSON. The IMDB...
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Lou Rawls -- y'know, I HAVE seen that one. And it is pretty good. Thanx, Batman!
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in 1964 The Outer Limits Episode "The Mice" featured black actress Diana Sands as the female lead, and I don't think her race is ever mentioned in the script. I seem to recall reading Jack Webb caused...
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I don't know that one well, but I seem to remember normally "oily" Larry Tate putting that aside when he sees the client's attitude, and getting mad at him. If I do have that right, it was a clever...
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James Edwards did episodic TV in the 50's. Woody Strode was in a few RAWHIDES.
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When I made the OP I didn't really think there would have been any Afro-Americansg in TLR. I have the impression that the show's makers had a fairly liberal bent, so that they probably wouldn't have...
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gene phillips wrote:And before anyone else says it, I know AMOS AND ANDY wasn't demeaning humor at all times. I haven't seen but a few episodes, but in modern times it's been praised as showing black...
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Eddie Rochester Anderson was on THE JACK BENNY SHOW all thruout the 50s up to 1963.
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And he wasn't subservient either, always making fun of his employer's cheapness. A clear affection between them always came through also.
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Rick wrote:Things certainly were beginning to loosen up in the early '60s, particularly in dramatic series. But that wonderful Van Dyke episode was something special. It was that rare, perhaps very...
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I don't know the show backward and forward the way many people do, but I know there was another episode with Greg Morris, with (I think) no ethnic humor at all, even the "enlightened" kind, which also...
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porta wrote:Rick wrote:Things certainly were beginning to loosen up in the early '60s, particularly in dramatic series. But that wonderful Van Dyke episode was something special. It was that rare,...
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Grant wrote:I don't know the show backward and forward the way many people do, but I know there was another episode with Greg Morris, with (I think) no ethnic humor at all, even the "enlightened"...
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Another classic, in which Rob wonderfully makes an idjit of himself!
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