Adjusting with our Antennas
What was watched and the way it watcehd on TV has presented a significant impact on the medium's influcence over time. Join the lifelong television enthusiast identified as the frequency BAF in a journey through various decades of that medium where the reception came from the antenna. The episodes cover shows, genres, personalities and how not just antennas but how audiences have received them through the airwaves over time.
Produced by Benjamin Fronczek
Our Theme Song: Good Ol Days - 2024 Remaster by Beat Mekanik is licensed under a Attribution 4.0 International License.
Adjusting with our Antennas
On the Job, On the Air: School in Session
Whether it is those who teach or those who learn, the school setting represented a signficant television community of characters. Schools have been shown in various shows but specific ones used the setting as a centerpiece. BAF welcomes back Early Childhood Teacher Krysti to review some of these programs through the decades starting with the 1950s sitcoms Mister Peepers and Our Miss Brooks. During the changing years of the 1960, 70s, and 80s decades, more urban settings came on the scenes with dramas such as Room 222, The White Shadow, and Fame, plus sitcoms focusing on the remedial classroom of the Sweathogs in Welcome Back, Kotter, the gifted-talented academic team in Head of the Class and the mix of sterotypical characters in Saved by the Bell. It is a full syllabus for discussion of schools on the air.
