As a lot of the Gen X and older crowd here might remember, the US educational cartoon show Schoolhouse Rock aired their American Civil War cartoon just one time. It provoked so much backlash from the public, with ABC threatened with sponsor boycotts and even complaints to the FCC, that it was pulled after that one screening, never to be shown again. The series continued its 1970s run sticking to its usual safe ground as far as American history and government went.
Is there anything the creators could have done differently to make that episode more acceptable to a politically and to a large extent racially polarized public in the mid-1970s? I've never seen the installment myself(not even You Tube has it, so I assume the copies were all destroyed), so would be grateful for any recollections as well.
OOC: In the real world, there was no Civil War episode of Schoolhouse Rock at all.
Is there anything the creators could have done differently to make that episode more acceptable to a politically and to a large extent racially polarized public in the mid-1970s? I've never seen the installment myself(not even You Tube has it, so I assume the copies were all destroyed), so would be grateful for any recollections as well.
OOC: In the real world, there was no Civil War episode of Schoolhouse Rock at all.