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...

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...

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...

The Great Purge, or the Great Terror (Russian: Большой террор, romanized: Bol'shoy terror), also known as the Year of '37 (37-й год, Tridtsat' sed'moy...

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...

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...

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...

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...

the two remaining series of CBS's rural-themed comedies were cancelled. This action came to be known as "the Rural Purge". Pat Buttram, who played Mr. Haney...

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...