Word: petticoats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...average television series is created for an adult with the mentality of a twelve-year-old. This is an egregious affront to the American populace. When will the TV program planners realize that the "average" viewer does not identify with the antics of Petticoat Junction or Gomer Pylel
...Petticoat Slip. Such pseudoscientific testing of off-the-sidewalk critics has a great and growing impact on network programming decisions. Actress Chris Noel was dropped from CBS's forthcoming comedy series Pistols and Petticoats, with the explanation that she "pretested" badly. Every time blonde and buxom Chris came on-camera during the screening, there was an inexplicable plunge in the graph line that records the composite reaction of the button pushers. Similarly, negative readings caused the jettisoning of an entire subplot from Pistols and Petticoats, and the replacement of ten other projected series performers. The previewers have even assumed...
...Very Special Favor was written by Stanley Shapiro (Pillow Talk, Operation Petticoat, Lover Come Back, Bedtime Story), which means that it is supposed to be hilariously off-color. Off-color...
...female Emperor," she subjected China to a reign of unprecedented terror. In this lightly fictionalized and gruesomely readable account of her career, Lin Yutang dispassionately describes the nature of the beast and the events of an era that still stands as history's most horrible experience of petticoat government...
Sporting a pepper-red wig, a low English accent, and the ever-ready air of a lass who welcomes surprise, Kim is pinched, pursued, manhandled, and upended at regular intervals. She excels in barroom brawls and petticoat larceny: popping a gentleman's ring onto her tongue, she kisses him until he has to surface, then drops the gem into her decolletage...