As Phoenix-raised filmmaker Steven Spielberg explained, “When my mom saw me and my three sisters parked in front of the TV set watching The Wallace and Ladmo Show, she knew, except for bathroom breaks, we wouldn’t be anywhere else.” A similar statement could be uttered by a generation of Phoenix residents, cutting across ethnic, racial, gender, religious, or socioeconomic barriers—a generation that shared the exact same words and same visual images being imprinted and stored in their brains at the exact same moment for hours every week.
