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Michael Dann, CBS Programmer Who Scheduled Horowitz and Hillbillies, Dies at 94

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Oscar Madison

"Michael Dann, one of the most powerful and effective programmers in network television in the 1950s and 1960s, who brought “The Defenders,” “The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour,” “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” and “60 Minutes” to the screen, as well as less prestigious but enormously popular shows like “Hee Haw” and “The Beverly Hillbillies,” died on Friday at his home in Boca Raton, Fla. He was 94."
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/31/b...uled-horowitz-and-hillbillies-dies-at-94.html
 
I saw Mr. Dann in a few interviews regarding behind-the-scenes retrospectives on "Gilligan's Island" and "The Beverly Hillbillies", and although he green-lit these shows and knew how very popular these shows were with the audience, he expressed that he detested both shows (along with one of CBS' other rural-themed shows whose title escapes me).
 
ShawnHill1 said:
I saw Mr. Dann in a few interviews regarding behind-the-scenes retrospectives on "Gilligan's Island" and "The Beverly Hillbillies", and although he green-lit these shows and knew how very popular these shows were with the audience, he expressed that he detested both shows (along with one of CBS' other rural-themed shows whose title escapes me).
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Was he involved in the "rural purge" in the early 70's?
 
ShawnHill1 said:
I saw Mr. Dann in a few interviews regarding behind-the-scenes retrospectives on "Gilligan's Island" and "The Beverly Hillbillies", and although he green-lit these shows and knew how very popular these shows were with the audience, he expressed that he detested both shows (along with one of CBS' other rural-themed shows whose title escapes me).
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"Petticoat Junction" or "Green Acres," probably, although "Green Acres" had an absurdist feel to it that elevated it, at least in my eyes, above the others. It was to the other rural comedies what Chuck Barris' "The Gong Show" was to the other game shows.
 
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