Rethinking Prime Time

[Taualumna]

Originally Posted by bluefish81

Wow, I didn't know that. I always thought that reality shows got their start with MTV's Real World.

That's what I was thinking too...anything before that, the shows on PBS (and PBS-like channels) are documentaries or nature shows because I don't recall anything similar to Real World on PBS.

What "reality" show was on PBS?

[Senusret I]

Originally Posted by Taualumna

What "reality" show was on PBS?

It was called An American Family and came on in 1973. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_American_Family