The Fifties - Season 1

The Fifties - Season 1

Season 1

Network
Episodes7
DatesFeb 2, 1997 - Feb 2, 1997

Episodes

The Fear and the Dream
Season 1Episode 160 min

The Fear and the Dream

Feb 2, 1997
Selling the American Way
Season 1Episode 260 min

Selling the American Way

Television makes its popular debut. TV is a great selling tool, manufacturing demand for everything from automobiles to zany inventions. Business and governments all begin to learn (and wield) the power of the new media.
Feb 2, 1997
Let's Play House
Season 1Episode 360 min

Let's Play House

Conforming to the idealized visions of family as depicted on their new televisions, Americans settle into enjoying their American Dreams but discordant voices are beginning to be heard. Grace Metallious's Peyton Place, Sloan Wilson's The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, and the opinions of feminists like Betty Friedan begin to make Americans question the idealized nuclear family.
Feb 2, 1997
A Burning Desire
Season 1Episode 460 min

A Burning Desire

During an otherwise repressed time, Americans again question their ideas of "normal" when the Kinsey report is published, Marilyn Monroe debuts as the centerfold in Hugh Heffner's Playboy, and Margaret Sanger and "Goody" Pincus begin to make noise about "The Pill."
The Beat
Season 1Episode 560 min

The Beat

Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and Elvis. Conformity is questioned and homogenized America begins to differentiate. The teenager as a class is born. Popular music is forever changed by the advent of Rock n Roll. Beat poets push our boundaries and America begins to question everything.
The Rage Within and The Road to the Sixties
Season 1Episode 660 min

The Rage Within and The Road to the Sixties

The Road to the Sixties
Season 1Episode 760 min

The Road to the Sixties

Fast food and fast cars occupy Americans' thoughts until the Soviets launch Sputnik and the space race begins.

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