Family Viewing Hour(s)

Booksteve reminded me that the family viewing hour didn't exist in 1968. That is true. It came into being in 1975. It was originally to be from 8 to 9. They decided to extend it to be from 7-9. Two hours long. For awhile it seemed to work. Many producers, like Norman Lear, who did adult themed shows were upset and lobbied against it. It still went into effect. Some fairly well done family shows were produced. When cable came more adult themes started to come back into plots of even some family shows. That was from 8pm to 9pm. The 7pm-8pm hour was really local station time. Local stations didn't have the money to produce a weekly series for each day. So independent producers started making game shows like Wheel of Fortune, Jokers Wild, etc. Yes these were family friendly but I doubt it is what they had in mind when the Family Hour was created.