The Fifties - Season 1
Season 1
Network
Episodes7
DatesFeb 2, 1997 - Feb 2, 1997
Episodes
Season 1Episode 160 min
The Fear and the Dream
Feb 2, 1997
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
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
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."
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.
Season 1Episode 660 min
The Rage Within and 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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