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NOTES 97 1. The first nonviolent, “contemporary” wanderer-redeemer TV series was Route 66 (1960–64) on CBS. Roy Huggins’s antiheroic Bret Maverick (James Garner) on the ABC western series Maverick (1957–62) provided the first cracks in breaking the dominance of the self-sacrificing , super-violent redeemer in TV westerns. These cracks, coupled with an oversaturation of action-adventure programming and federal regulatory pressures, laid the foundation for the creation of The Fugitive and other nonviolent wanderer-redeemer series. 2. The Bus Stop episode “A Lion Walks among Us” (12/2/61) featured pop singer Fabian as an amoral psychotic killer. ABC president Oliver Treyz later admitted that he had been guilty of poor judgment in allowing the episode to air. For further information, see Barnouw 1990, 303–6. 3. W. T. Lhamon (1990) argues that the 1950s were not a bland cultural period but set the intellectual and stylistic tone for the decades to follow. In his analysis of 1950s popular culture, especially rock n’ roll music, he finds strong impulses and echoes of America’s attempts to transform itself from an industrial to a post-industrial society . Lhamon asserts that the breakdown of racial barriers through popular culture was the central cause of the decade’s “postmodern revolution.” 4. The final marital struggle between Richard and Helen Kimble was over his desire to adopt a child. In his fugitive travels, Kimble is able to serve as a surrogate parent and protector of children. 02 Pierson BM.indd 97 10/27/11 12:05 PM 98 Notes 5. Levy states that The Chase (1966) and Easy Rider (1969) both portray small towns as seething hotbeds of racial, class, and social conflicts often involving distinct tensions between social groups: “parents versus children . . . dominant culture versus subversive counterculture” (1991, 172–73). 02 Pierson BM.indd 98 10/27/11 12:05 PM ...