And The Cat Jumped Over The Moon....

True, Miss Margo. What made the series so wonderful was the variety of types the lead players encountered; and indeed those types, many of them are still with us. Yet the specific setting and time frame of And The Cat Jumped Over The Moon left a certain impression on me, reminding me of the days of the so-called juvenile delinquents (such an overused expression back then, and in use since the mid-50s).

In a short few years the news magazines and such were dealing with the issues of draft dodgers, long haired radicals, and then (at last!) the hippies, who came to dominate the mass media till Kent State came along and changed everything (though I think the Counterculture had already peaked and that its decline was inevitable, as the hippie thing had become a trope, and they were already doing TV movies about the consequences of going down that particular road).

7:46 Martin Sheen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFV2HxLSztg
Route 66 was the most unique and literate TV show ever. The only one that was filmed on the road; every week a new city and a new girl. Of course most of the scenarios were unrealistic , but Sterling's writing was usually high level.

Pretty sure it was a COW that jumped over the moon.

What changed “everything” at Kent State U was a barrage of bullets, fired by ill-trained National Guardsmen, opening fire on unarmed civilians.

Four dead in O-hi-o.