Does anyone remember a civics quiz broadcast by CBS(?) in the late '60's?

[stlsaxman]

There was a National Quiz with a book you could send for. I was just a pre-teen but I remember the cartoonish graphics, reminiscent of the old Esquire Magazine Logo.

If ANYONE remembers this please tell me- not just for the sake of my sanity, but I would like to see how it has held up historically and maybe throw it in the face of some Right-wingnuts and see how THEY score.

Anyone?.... Beuler?

Thanks in advance!

[sharesunited]

1. Here's a time capsule link from 1966:

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,898956,00.html

[stlsaxman]

2. Nope... that ain't it. thanks anyways.

[LWolf]

3. No, but I remember

School House Rock videos on Saturday mornings along with cartoons. :D

I wish they still played them.

[tonysam]

4. Schoolhouse Rock is not late 1960s--it produced episodes

from 1973-1986. No wonder I was baffled by your question. It ran on ABC.

[stlsaxman]

5. ABC, huh? You did notice the (?) after CBS... i wasn't sure... Do you know any more about it?

[ashling]

8. I remember schoolhouse rock stuff from

when I was in High school .. I graduated in 1970.

[Skip Intro]

6. I went surfing for info on that CBS show, and it was fascinating.

I've been intrigued by tv ratings and the resulting extrapolations one can make based on that info about psychological makeup of mainstream America, and fascinated how dramatically and rapidly shows changed to meet a changing audience (or vice versa). The history of CBS just from the Wiki page is mind-blowing in that respect, but when you look at what was available for viewing for the average tv viewer, from the 60's and even 50's and 40's - I mean, wow. Look at something like "I Love Lucy" vs the racy and crude offerings of today, manically knocking down barriers, designed to shock an increasingly shock-less modern audience.

I find myself yearning for a network, and a nation, where entertainment doesn't require vulgarity and shock value. Where tv and theater, humor and drama and suspense and music, doesn't require all that. A simpler time, a more innocent time. Sad to say that is mostly gone now, and I'm still not sure if the entertainment industry pushed that envelope and society followed, or if the industry was just keeping up. Does tv (movies, music, video games, etc) reflect a changing reality or create it?

Whew - still didn't answer your question, did I?

[havocmom]

7. I recall some sort of national civics test program, but think it was NBC

cuz I seem to associate it with Brokaw's voice, but I could be mistaken

[stlsaxman]

9. Saturday morning kick... anybody? ... Beular?...