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But if you watch TV and movies ''from'' the Sixties, it's as if half of that stuff never happened. Some of the Sixties' landmark events, such as the Stonewall Riots in 1969 that kicked off the gay rights movement, were barely acknowledged until the 1990s. Our cultural memory has selected [[The Grateful Dead]] and [[Aretha Franklin]] from a musical landscape that had a lot more Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass than seems sonically possible; and the squares of the first half of the decade actually dressed a lot cooler than the hippies of the latter half, who frankly come off as a little grimy. A standout example of this is ''[[The Andy Griffith Show]]'' whose title actor portrays a Southern sheriff and in which not a whisper of the civil rights movement is mentioned.

 

 

See Also: [[The Forties]], [[The Fifties]], [[The Seventies]], [[The Eighties]], [[The Nineties]], [[Turn of the Millennium]] and [[The New Tens]].

 

* [[Beehive Hairdo]]

* [[Civil Rights Movement]]

 

=== Literature ===

* ''[[Go Ask Alice]]''

* ''[[Hearts in Atlantis]]''

=== Video Games ===

* ''[[BioShock (series)]]'', which despite being set in ''The Sixties'' has a very 1930's feel to it.

* ''[[Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater]]''

* ''[[Team Fortress 2]]'': The timeframe is ambiguous, but with a heavy '60s espionage/industrial motif.

== Works set ''and'' made during this time period: ==

(At least mostly, as some say [[The Sixties]] lasted until [[The Seventies|the early '70s]].)

 

=== Comic Books ===

 

 

* Honorable mention: ''[[Medium Cool]]'' was shot ''[[Reality Subtext|during]]'' the Chicago [[Long Hot Summer|'68 riots]]. It was [[Moral Guardians|Rated X]] for political content.

 

=== Literature ===

* ''[[Portnoy's Complaint|Portnoys Complaint]]''

* ''[[Spider Kiss]]''

* ''[[The Time of the Hero]]''

* ''[[We Have Always Lived in The Castle]]''

 

 

* ''[[Adam Adamant Lives]]''

* ''[[The Addams Family]]''

* ''[[The Man from U.N.C.L.E.]]''

* ''[[Match of the Day]]''

* ''[[The Mod Squad]]''

* ''[[The Monkees (TV series)|The Monkees]]''

* [[The Grateful Dead]]. Formed in 1965.

* Arlo Guthrie

* [[George Harrison]]. Debut album in 1968.

* [[Hawkwind]]. Formed in 1969. Debut album in 1970.

* ''[[Hair (theatre)]]'': The original [[Rock Opera]] musical, of course.

* ''[[The Odd Couple]]''

* ''[[Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?|Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf]]''

 

 

=== Western Animation ===

* ''[[The Banana Splits]]''

* ''[[The Cattanooga Cats]]''

* ''[[The Herculoids]]''

* ''[[Hokey Wolf]]''

* ''[[Mad Monster Party]]''

* ''[[Magilla Gorilla]]''

* ''[[Milton the Monster]]''

* ''[[Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer]]''

* ''[[Secret Squirrel]]''

* ''[[Space Ghost]]''

* ''[[Top Cat]]''

* ''[[Yogi Bear|The Yogi Bear Show]]''

 

== Works made, but not set, during the sixties ==

 

=== Comics ===

* [[Howling Commandos]]. First appeared in May, 1963. Set in [[World War II]].

* [[Nick Fury]]. First appeared in May, 1963. His original series was set in [[World War II]].

* [[Unknown Soldier]]. First appeared in June, 1966. Set in [[World War II]].

* [[Valerian]]. First appeared in November, 1967. This is a [[Time Travel]] series with no "present" setting.

* ''[[Mother Night]]''

* ''[[Noon: 22nd Century|Noon Twenty Second Century]]''

* ''[[One Hundred Years of Solitude]]''

* ''[[Pale Fire]]''

* ''[[The Rat Patrol]]''

* ''[[Star Trek]]''

* ''[[The Time Tunnel]]''

* ''[[Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea]]''

 

=== Western Animation ===

 

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If you can remember the 60s, you didn't live in them.

 

 

 

 

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