Baby blue movies city tv6/15/2023 Jean Stapleton, for those too young to remember, was one of the stars of “All in the Family”. I said the major networks, and by that I mean the American networks. But, enough of CITY – they’ve become civilized now. I recall reading an article in one of the Toronto papers at the time that said on Friday nights it was common for people (read “men”) to drive to a place near the border with their television sets they could plug into the lighter socket in the car, and hope they could catch CITY’s signal across the lake. There was also CITY-TV in Toronto which, very late on Friday nights, would run what they called the “Baby Blue” movies – basically soft-core porn. Of course, living in southern Ontario as I do, in addition to those, I also had access to the two major Canadian networks, CBC and CTV. But back then you were pretty much stuck with the three major networks, plus PBS if you were lucky. With the wealth of cable channels available now, no matter what you want to watch, you can probably find it somewhere on the dial. Let me clarify that – network television pushed the limits, cable being virtually non-existent. A friend and I were talking earlier this week, following the death of actress Jean Stapleton, and we both agreed that television pushed the limits more in the 1970s than today.
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