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How come on the 50’s TV show “I Love Lucy” they showed them having twin beds in their bedroom, but on Gunsmoke they showed a married couple

In a full size bed and it filmed in the 50s too?
joe438 · 61-69, M
The standards in effect at the time were the Hays Code, or the Motion Picture Production Code. They didn't forbid showing couples in bed together but it was a grey area and many productions just avoided bedroom scenes completely. I found a reference that said the first season of I Love Lucy had them in two twin beds pushed together (which supports the 'easily movable' theory) but then the beds were moved apart. It's funny that there doesn't seem to be any conclusive answer to this question.
joe438 · 61-69, M
@cherokeepatti It probably was. Times were different enough that while sex and alcohol were a problem, shooting people was okay. Now it's the opposite.
cherokeepatti · 61-69, F
@joe438 Cause sex and alcohol makes babies that can be aborted and parted out piece by piece.
joe438 · 61-69, M
@cherokeepatti I doubt any of that logic had anything to do with the ban in the 50s.
SteelHands · 61-69, M
Keeping in mind that many parents and grandparents maintained the illusion of completely separate rooms for the moral development of their kids sake. I would guess it was a decision for the producer in those days to maximize the viewership.

And yes. Mine actually did that.
SteelHands · 61-69, M
@cherokeepatti That's right. There's little modesty grace or piety left to save us now.
cherokeepatti · 61-69, F
@SteelHands well people were modest back then, but they didn’t pretend to sleep in twin beds if they were married.
SteelHands · 61-69, M
@cherokeepatti They didn't need to pretend anything. The separate rooms was just a fact. It isn't as if they never played around. I have younger siblings. They just didn't need to fart all over each other every night. Lol
I love lucy was done on stage, they needed small, easy to move props, and don't forget, it was filmed live so they needed to move things quickly.
cherokeepatti · 61-69, F
@Grateful4you Yes that too, wondering if they had children in the audience?
@cherokeepatti Possibly grown children, Lucille insisted on things done perfectly so NO crying babies!
redredred · M
The first married couple depicted on television in the same bed were the Munsters
Picklebobble2 · 56-60, M
@redredred Really ? That's interesting. The Munsters didn't air until what ?.....'64 '65 ?
So that would have been some 7 or 8 years after Lucy had finished on tv.
joe438 · 61-69, M
My first guess was that it was a network rule, but the web seems to say that both aired on CBS... So yeah, it's weird.
The censor had the flu.
cherokeepatti · 61-69, F
@Mamapolo2016 Well I heard them talk about the twin beds on I Love Lucy and they said it wasn’t allowed, but they sure allowed it on Gunsmoke. And Gunsmoke was a family show too.
It was always so silly. The parents of the kids who watched Lucy & Gunsmoke had double beds!@cherokeepatti
Picklebobble2 · 56-60, M
mix-race couple in bed ?
cherokeepatti · 61-69, F
@Picklebobble2 I believe she had 3 children by the time she was 20...one died as an infant. The average age of death for people back then was before they were 50 so if they didn’t marry young they wouldn’t be able to have and raise their children by then.
Picklebobble2 · 56-60, M
@cherokeepatti And many worked farms or were sharecroppers and would have needed the 'manpower'too
cherokeepatti · 61-69, F
@Picklebobble2 Believe they ended up buying their own farm or inherited it maybe. But yeah the children worked when they weren’t in school as much as they could. That was our lifestyle when I was young and most farm kids end up very responsible as adults whether they stay on the farm or leave to get a job or education or whatever.
pedrohedgerow · 61-69, M
IMO-its because the American and UK governments are absolutely determined to influence their populations to think as diversely and openly as possible 🤣🙃🤣
SW-User
Don’t know but when Lucy had little Ricky, they couldn’t even say pregnant but as Ricky would say, “specting” 😂

 
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