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Essay:Greatest Conservative TV Shows (view source)
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|TV NR/PG13
|TV NR/PG13
|[[John Walsh]] hosts news documentary of well known suspects and fugitives, their crimes and captures. Was the real life father of above mentioned Adam Walsh and subject of above mentioned TV films named for him.
|[[John Walsh]] hosts news documentary of well known suspects and fugitives, their crimes and captures. Was the real life father of above mentioned Adam Walsh and subject of above mentioned TV films named for him.
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|''The Andy Griffith Show''
|1960–1968
|[[CBS]]
|TV-G
|Andy Griffith stars as Andy Taylor, small-town sheriff and widowed father of young son Opie Taylor (played by Ron Howard), who keeps law and order in his hometown of Mayberry, North Carolina, assisted by his bumbling but well-meaning deputy Barney Fife (Don Knotts). Andy and Opie's Aunt Bee (Frances Bavier) lives at the Taylor house as a live-in housekeeper and mother/grandmother figure to Opie, and other friends and neighbors of Andy's include local barber Floyd Lawson (Howard McNear), gas station attendant/mechanic and occasional deputy Gomer Pyle (Jim Nabors) and his cousin Goober Pyle (George Lindsey), town drunk Otis Campbell (Hal Smith), county clerk Howard Sprague (Jack Dodson), school teacher (and later Andy's love interest) Helen Crump (Aneta Corsaut), Aunt Bee's best friend Clara Edwards (Hope Summers), Barney's girlfriend Thelma Lou (Betty Lynn), repair shop owner Emmett Clark (Paul Hartman) and local farmer Sam Jones (Ken Berry).
The show focused on Andy's approach to [[law enforcement|enforcing the law]] in Mayberry as he uses common sense, mediation and conciliation to settle disputes among the townsfolk while taking on and defeating out-of-town criminals on occasion using practicality and understanding of each case (and, when necessary, a firearm), along with his home life as he raises Opie with Aunt Bee's help (showing the importance of [[family]]), and his social life as he hangs out with Floyd and other friends at Floyd's barber shop or takes out women he is dating (including Helen in later seasons) on picnics or for nights out for dinner and a movie or dancing. A spinoff series, ''Gomer Pyle, USMC'', centered around good-natured bumpkin Gomer and his time spent in the [[United States Marine Corps]], while ''Mayberry RFD'', a sequel series to ''The Andy Griffith Show'', focused on Sam Jones, his young son Mike (Buddy Foster) and many of Mayberry's citizens, with Andy and Helen finally getting married on that show's series premiere. A 1986 reunion movie, ''Return to Mayberry'', brought most of the show's surviving cast members back together as Andy returned to Mayberry to run for sheriff again in a campaign against his former deputy Barney.
''The Andy Griffith Show'' ran on CBS for eight seasons, with the first five seasons filmed in black-and-white before switching to color for the remaining seasons. It was a Top Ten performer throughout its run, finishing its final season as the number-one show on American television, and it continues to air in syndication to the present.
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|''The Apprentice''
|''The Apprentice''
|''[[Magnum P.I.|Magnum, P.I.]]''
|''[[Magnum P.I.|Magnum, P.I.]]''
|1980-80
|1980-80
|[[CBS]]
|CBS
|NR
|NR
|Crime/Drama TV show starring conservative actor Tom Selleck, the show has many conservative values such as having good character, being pro-second amendment, and is Pro-America.
|Crime/Drama TV show starring conservative actor Tom Selleck, the show has many conservative values such as having good character, being pro-second amendment, and is Pro-America.
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|''Mayberry RFD''
|1968–1971
|CBS
|TV-G
|Sequel to ''The Andy Griffith Show'', starring Ken Berry as widowed farmer Sam Jones (who was introduced in the previous series), who raises his young son Mike (Buddy Foster) in Mayberry while serving as head of the town council. Many characters from ''The Andy Griffith Show'', including Aunt Bee, Goober Pyle, Clara Edwards, Howard Sprague and Emmett Clark, also appear as regulars on this series. ''Mayberry RFD'' spent its first two seasons at #4 in the Nielsen ratings and was still popular when CBS abruptly cancelled it in 1971 as part of its infamous Rural Purge.
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|''McLeod's Daughters''
|''McLeod's Daughters''