We would have thought that plenty of TV viewers in Salt Lake City, Utah, would like a network drama set in the late ’50s-early ’60s. But, of course, a show called The Playboy Club isn’t showing the parts of that bygone era that conservative viewers appreciate the most, so KSL, the local NBC affiliate, won’t be airing the program.

The decision “is based on the station’s long-term policy to screen programming for material which significant portions of our audience may find objectionable,” according to the station’s website.

According to reports, the problem has more to do with the fact that that the station’s parent company, Bonneville International, is owned by the Church of The Latter-day Saints. An executive for KSL said he’ll work with NBC to find ways for The Playboy Club to be seen in Salt Lake City “on another channel.”

Um. We suspect that the large percentage of non-Mormons in Salt Lake City have a problem with this, but they’re probably used to some inconvenience. We wonder what KSL will show instead? Bonanza reruns?