Saturday Night Cbs Lineup All in the Family

If you listen to people talk, we're supposedly living in the "Golden Age of Television"; an era unlike any in TV history, with incredibly high-quality shows that represent the gold standard of writers at the top of their game. Uh, we assume that those people have never heard a bunch named Brady. Puhlease!

Okay, perchance that'southward non the greatest argument in the earth, but in that location's no denying that television has had some pretty amazing ages along the fashion, one of the most amazingest existence the 1973 season when CBS' Saturday dark line-upwardly was impressive then, but mind-blowing in hindsight. It represented an evening of quality programming that's never quite been duplicated. Then join u.s.a. every bit we take a trip back some 44 years into the by to encounter what was so special about those Saturday nights.

(CBS Fall 1973 TV Promo)

eight:00-8:xxx: All in the Family

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Created past Norman Lear (based on a British series called Till Expiry Do Us Part), this is a prove that you would never be able to get on the air today. It managed to break pretty much every taboo of the era, trigger-happy downward the walls of political definiteness and dealing with such things as racism, women's lib, government policies, miscarriages, breast cancer, abortion, swingers, menopause and rape. And this was a sitcom. Oh, it also represented the first time that the audience ever heard a toilet flushing on the air.

The focus of All in the Family is on the Bunker family of Queen, New York. Sitting middle seat (in his favorite chair) is Archie Bunker (Carroll O'Connor), a conservative bigot who has an opinion (usually wrong) almost virtually everything. Over time, Archie gradually warmed his way into the audience's centre — he proved that he could evolve… eventually). His wife is the lovable and brighter-than-she-seems Edith (Jean Stapleton), who Archie lovingly calls "Dingbat." Mike Stivic (Rob Reiner, who you lot may know at present as the director of films like Stand By Me, When Harry Met Sally and A Few Good Men) is Archie's ultra-liberal son-in-law who represents the opposite of his view on any given topic, and is given the not-and so-appreciating nickname "Meathead." Mike lives in the Bunker household with his wife, and the Bunkers' daughter, Gloria (Sally Struthers, who has her optics opened on life and herself as a woman forth the way). Needless to say, this was a set-up for a steady stream of explosive — yet enlightening — arguments.

All in the Family ran for nine seasons from 1971-1979, winning 22 Emmy Awards and eight Golden Globes. It gave gave birth to quite a number of spin-offs: Bea Arthur'southward Maude (which spun-off Good Times), The Jeffersons (which spun-off Checking In, starring their maid), Gloria (Sally Struthers got her own show), Archie Bunker's Place (starring Carroll O'Connor after All in the Family left the air) and 704 Hauser Street (which focused on the Bunkers house with new residents, an African-American family). All in the Family was the #1 series on television from 1971-1975.

8:30-ix:00: MASH

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In that location would seem to exist nix funny about the Korean War (especially these days), just this series, based on the novel by Richard Hooker and the 1970 film of the same name, managed to mine plenty of humor out of the horrors of war. The focus is on the doctors and nurses of the South Korea-based 4077th Mobile Ground forces Surgical Hospital, and it features an incredible bandage of actors and some of TV's virtually memorable characters: Eagle Pierce (Alan Alda), Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan (Loretta Swit), Max Klinger (Jamie Farr), Father Mulcahy (William Christopher), Trapper John (Wayne Rogers), Henry Blake (McLean Stevenson), Frank Burns (Larry Linville), Radar O'Reilly (Gary Burghoff), B.J. Hunnicutt (Mike Farrell), Sherman Potter (Harry Morgan), and Charles Emerson Winchester Iii (David Ogden Stiers).

Interestingly, the show ran for 11 years (1972-83), compared to the actual Korean War'south two-and-a-one-half. When it came to an end with the 2-and-a-half hr "Cheerio, Goodbye and Amen", it broke all sorts of ratings records and became a national event. MASouthward*H won 14 Emmy Awards (out of the 100 it was nominated for), and viii Golden Globes. It besides gave nascence to two-spin-offs, the single flavour AfterMASH, focusing on several of the characters working at a Midwestern hospital post-obit the war; and Trapper John, Physician (1979-86), which took place 30 years after the war and starred Pernell Roberts in the Wayne Rogers role. A pilot that did non go to series was WALTEastward*R, which looked at Radar O'Reilly, who, after the failing of his family unit farm, becomes a St. Louis cop.

9:00-ix:30: The Mary Tyler Moore Bear witness

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Withal another of import sitcom that played a significant role in changing the TV landscape. Actress Mary Tyler Moore represented the modernistic woman, making inroads in what was perceived to be a human's world. She plays Mary Richards, who has moved to Minneapolis to become a secretarial assistant at TV station WJM, only ends upwards getting offered the position of Associate Producer of the Six O'Clock News. Today it'southward hard to imagine how pregnant this was, but by exploring her workplace and home life, it provided illumination through laughter and featured some of the best comedy writing tv has e'er seen. And go a load of these characters/actors likewise MTM herself: Lou Grant (Edward Asner), Mary'south boss; Murray Slaughter (Gavin MacLeod earlier he boarded The Beloved Boat), caput writer of the news; anchorman Ted Baxter (the oh-so-memorable Ted Knight); Rhoda Morgenstern (Valerie Harper), Mary'due south best friend; Phyllis Lindstrom (Cloris Leachman), Mary's non-quite-as-close friend and neighbor; Georgette Franklin (Georgia Engel), Ted'southward girlfriend; Sue Ann Nivens (Betty White, playing equally opposite a role equally you can imagine from her role as Rose on Gilded Girls). Seriously, that'due south simply amazing.

The Mary Tyler Moore Show, which ran from 1970-77, won 29 Emmy Awards and three Golden Globes. Information technology, too, spawned a number of spin-off serial: Rhoda (1974-78), Phyllis (1975-77) and Lou Grant (1978-82), the last a 1-hour drama. Amazingly, it was Moore's decision to end the series rather than the network's. Also, it was only the second sitcom to have an actual ending (the station gets sold and anybody merely Ted gets fired), The Odd Couple beingness the first.

nine:30-ten:00 The Bob Newhart Show

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The depression-central humor of Bob Newhart was the perfect companion slice to The Mary Tyler Moore Bear witness. Newhart is Chicago psychologist Robert Hartley, Suzanne Pleshette is married woman Emily, Bill Daily — hey, it's Major Healey from I Dream of Jeannie! — is airline pilot Howard Borden; Peter Bonerz is orthodontist Jerry Robinson, who has a do on the aforementioned floor as Hartley; and Marcia Wallace is their shared receptionist, Carol Kester. And then in that location are those oh-and so-wonderful patients of the skilful doc, who are so dysfunctional that, peculiarly butting upwardly against Newhart'south personality, it was hysterical. It was the role player'south chore to play straight man to pretty much anybody else, and it worked large time.

The Bob Newhart Show ran from 1972-78, and, like MTM, the actor decided to end the bear witness while information technology was still a critical and audition darling. Also like that show, at that place was an ending that saw Hartley stepping down from being a working psychologist to go a teacher at a college in Oregon. To show you lot the indelible power of the prove, he went on to star in the sitcom Newhart, which spanned from 1982 to 1990 and saw he and his new wife (Mary Fran) operating a Vermont inn. In the final scene of the final episode of that testify, he woke upwards in bed from a nightmare and turned to his wife — Suzanne Pleshette as Emily — the new evidence apparently having been nothing but a dream. How brilliant is that?

10:00-xi:00: The Carol Burnett Show

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What a mode to finish up those Saturday nights! This diversity show — consisting of music and comedy sketches — is the one that all others were measured by at the time. It showcased the humor of Carol Burnett, whose companions included, in the beginning, Harvey Korman, Vicki Lawrence and Lyle Waggoner. In the 1975 flavor, Tim Conway became a regular and in that location was naught amend than watching Burnett, Korman and Conway in skits trying to cleft each other up, a skill that Conway in particular excelled at (to the indicate where they would have to stop mid-sketch, unable to go on due to laughter). The audition loved their movie parodies, Burnett'southward question and answer session with the studio audience, and even the tugging of her earlobe at the end of each episode which signaled to her grandmother that everything was okay and that she was thinking of her.

The Ballad Burnett Prove ran from 1967-78, winning viii Emmy Awards, eight Aureate Globes and 3 People's Choice Awards.

Each week Burnett would stop the show with a song whose lyrics were, "I'grand then glad nosotros had this time together, Just to accept a express mirth or sing a song; Seems nosotros just become started and before you know it, Comes the time we have to say, 'So long.'"

The aforementioned could exist said of those Saturday nights on CBS in 1973.

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