Re: Here come Wally and Mary Ellen

On Sat, 10 May 2008 13:53:11 -0700, Charles Bishop wrote:

>In article <a4iVj.103791$TT4.21753@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Mary <mrfeathers@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
wrote:
>
>>Peter Ward wrote:
>>> On Fri, 09 May 2008 13:05:30 -0600, Greg Goss wrote:
>>>> The Cleaver family was the focus of an American sitcom of the
fifties.
>>>> In a recent mother's day survey of "fictional mothers", June Cleaver
>>>> was once again voted top fictional mother of all time.
>>>>
>>>> The Cleaver "family values" are the archetype of all that America
>>>> thinks that their families should look like.  Or at least till the
>>>> boomers grew up.
>>> 
>>> Sounds awful.
>>
>>You've no idea.  June Cleaver always wore dresses and high-heeled pumps 
>>and pearls, and she never had a hair out of place, even while vacuuming 
>>and cleaning the kitchen.  She was a little bit dim, as befits the 
>>perfect woman of the 1950s - I mean, god forbid Ward would have to be 
>>threatened by actual thought from his wife.
>>
>>But her house was spotless and her children were gee-golly-whiz nice 
>>boys, and people ate it up back then.
>>
>
>Were there any British tv shows that had the same premise? There were
>other american shows with similar themes, but this was in the days before
>gritty reality came to tv and movies.

"Not in front of the children" springs to mind, but as I hardly ever
watched it, and it was years ago, I couldn't say for sure.  I might
even have got the title wrong.

-- 

Peter

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