Primetime was loaded with frothy, high-concept sitcoms, such as Gilligan's Island and I Dream of Jeannie, that became baby boomer favorites, while network news delivered grim images of the Vietnam War, social unrest, and assassinations. The Smothers Brothers, who made their bones as a clean-cut comedy-folk singing act, infused their Sunday night CBS variety show with material that criticized American military involvement in Vietnam and acknowledged the counterculture. [...] it was television news that matured first in the decade, from the first presidential debate between John Kennedy and Richard Nixon in 1960 to the moon landing in 1969. Vietnam is among the topics that get a full hour on The Sixties, along with the space race, the Cold War, the Kennedy assassination, the civil rights movement and the British Invasion.
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