‘Marty’ remains a poignant Catholic reminder of the Golden Age of Television By DAVID A. KING, Ph.D. | Published September 8, 2025Like many of us, I have had to completely revise my approach to watching television. Sevent years later, the program remains strikingly poignant, and its portrayal of Catholic life and imagery is realistic and revelatory. We are as isolated and anxious as the television audience of the 1950s, which was often described as an age of anxiety. Like many of the great 1950s anthology teleplays, Marty became a popular and critically successful feature film.