When US television shows in the 1960s turned their attention to LSD, the most notorious drug of the turbulent era, they often did so from the viewpoint of the preceding decade: the culturally conservative 1950s. Such is the case for each of the episodes discussed here. One of these, the earliest to focus on LSD, is from the 1950s. All the rest are from the 1960s, but in their collective ethos, the framework of implied authorial values, these shows belong to the 1950s. LSD threatened the socially conservative world of business suits and suburbs.
Below are eight US television episodes, arranged chronologically by release date, that addressed LSD. Their throwback mindset led to moments of confusion and irony, often comic in effect.