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Hippies were frequently parodied on popular television series of the time like Star Trek, while shows like Dragnet regularly portrayed them in a negative light as drug-crazed hedonists. Even children's television shows like H.R. Pufnstuf, [72] and educational shows such as The Electric Company [73] and Mulligan Stew were influenced by the hippies.
The Human Be-In took its name from a chance remark by the artist Michael Bowen made at the Love Pageant Rally. [6] The playful name combined humanist values with the scores of sit-ins that had been reforming college and university practices and eroding the vestiges of entrenched segregation, starting with the lunch counter sit-ins of 1960 in Greensboro, North Carolina, and Nashville, Tennessee.
[3] [4] An episode of the PBS documentary series American Experience referred to the Summer of Love as "the largest migration of young people in the history of America". [5] Hippies, sometimes called flower children, were an eclectic group. Many opposed the Vietnam War, were suspicious of government, and rejected consumerist values.
The popular DJ of the genre Goa Gil, like other hippies from the 1960s, left the US and Western Europe to travel on the hippie trail and later developed psychedelic parties and music in the Indian state of Goa, in which the goa and psytrance genres were born and exported around the world in the 1990s and 2000s.
The comedy-variety show — originally broadcast on radio from 1938 to 1949 — became the biggest show on TV when “Mr. Television,” Milton Berle, became the permanent host in its second ...
History of: Sports broadcasting; Public broadcasting; Children's television; TV animation: (Network era · Modern era) Genres. ... List of years in American television.
PLAYBACK: Mark Beaumont asks if the legendary hippie music festival was really a ‘blueprint for a new society’ or as ‘shambolic, profit-driven and violence-marred’ as the attempt to do it ...
Sunshine is a 1975 American television comedy-drama series starring Cliff DeYoung and Elizabeth Cheshire, about a hippie musician raising his young daughter alone after the death of his wife. The series was based on the 1973 made-for-TV movie Sunshine and DeYoung, Bill Mumy , Corey Fischer , and Meg Foster all reprised their roles from the film.