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    The "rural purge" of American television networks (in particular CBS) was a series of cancellations in the early 1970s of still-popular rural-themed shows...
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  • throughout its entire run but was canceled after its third season in CBS's "rural purge" of 1971. Father and son stories involving Sam and Mike Jones are reminiscent...
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    its six-year run, Green Acres was cancelled in 1971 as part of the "rural purge" by CBS. The sitcom has been in syndication and is available on DVD and...
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    The Great Purge, or the Great Terror (Russian: Большой террор, romanized: Bolshoy terror), also known as the Year of '37 (37-й год, Tridtsat sedmoy god)...
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    After six seasons, Green Acres was cancelled in 1971 as part of CBS's "rural purge". After Green Acres, Lester was typecast as Eb Dawson. In 1990, he reunited...
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    was cancelled in 1971 in the CBS network's "rural purge" — a policy to get rid of the network's rural-based television shows. In 1966, Eva Gabor and...
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    show. The show was one of the few shows with rural audience appeal to survive CBS's so-called "rural purge" of 1971, a survival made more unusual because...
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    urban-oriented programming that occurred in the early 1970s known as the "rural purge;" the changing culture of the late 1960s was less friendly to the traditional...
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  • hit shows by mid-1971 in what became colloquially referred to as the "rural purge", with Green Acres cast member Pat Buttram remarking that the network...
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  • commissioned in response to the rural purge that the networks in general and CBS specifically had done that eliminated most rural-themed shows in 1971, and...
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