Accurate "period" Film/TV shows

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Since NBC is premiering "Aquarius" a police show starring David Duchovny set in late 1960's LA tonight, it would be a good time to ask what were the films and TV shows that most accurately portrayed the era you grew up in and what shows/films got it mostly wrong?

Most Accurate - The Film Dazed and Confused was a semi autobiographical look at being a teenager in 1976. I graduated high school in 1975. The film really got not only the clothes and styles and events but the feel and tone of being a teen in that era. I have not seen a 70's movie portray the last day of school where people emptied their lockers and threw everything on the floor.. In my high school it was even more intense then portrayed in the movie with the halls knee deep in garbage and fireworks going off. Teachers still living and preaching the 1960's and apathetic kids who did care care also accurate. Also portrayed was the lack of traditional boy meets girl go on date, people did drive to a remote locations and gathered in groups of 30 and 40 to party do drugs.

The Brady Bunch of course was made in that era. Completely inaccurate. In that show nobody was on drugs, or talked about drugs or sex. Anybody that talked, acted like that and listened to that cheesy bubblegum music would have been relentlessly bullied and laughed at. People getting crushes on people or least admitting to it stopped by age 14 but Marsha was still doing that at age 17. Having a crush on Davy Jones? by the early 1970's he was has been. Wanting to be a Led Zeppelin groupie was more the norm. Unlike today teens did not know know and listen to music from the past even the very recent past.

That 70's show got the styles music and events right but the tone and feel were all wrong. It was clearly a show for 2000's teenagers set in the 1970's and not a show about 1970's teens