Can we go back even further?
When I was a little girl, TBN in Atlanta (Ted Turner) made the 'crazy like a fox' move of buying up rights to ALL the older Hollywood classics of the 30's, 40's, and 50's.
And started playing them.
Every Sunday my mom and I would settle down in the den to watch Shirley Temple.
Not politically-correct now--can't see them anywhere (don't know if you can still order them--I have video's of all I could get that I bought a few years back).
Some of the best entertainment ever.
Plus the old "On-The-Road" movies with Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, and Dorothy Lamour.
And of course all the good (and not so good) old Westerns.
Many cable stations noted the wild success of TBN and started "oldies" movie channels--but Ted Turner minted the coin on that.
I was raised more on Depression-era movies in my childhood than anything else--which is maybe why I always felt out-of-sync with the 70's (when I graduated high school and college) and more in-sync with the 40's and 50's...