What a difference a decade makes. How truly enlightened we have become. Just think how enlightened we ll be in 2009. Lots of people considered the prime time of 1989 inordinately sexual. PTC points out that s when Detroit housewife, Terry Rakolta, made headlines with her protests to the sponsors of Fox s Married With Children.
Programming indeed tends to change as the evening progresses.
Tune in at 9 for silly double entendres, at 10 for heavy breathing. But viewers in 1989 hadn t seen anything yet. By the mid- 90s, even casual observers had to notice that sex and foul language were becoming more common not only at 10 p.m. and 9 p.m., but also at 8 p.m., as networks began to schedule shows like Melrose Place, Friends and The Nanny in the first full hour of prime time. Television is everywhere. There is a television set in 98 percent of American homes.