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moore was like a port of entry. i m doing as good a job as he did. better. better! and i m being paid less than he was because you re a woman. the television female could be a hero. she could be the main event. rita. all right. out loud! the first script written by allen burns and jim gricks had mary coming to minneapolis divorced. and very quickly cbs says, no, no, no, no, no. at the beginning of the decade, divorce was considered somewhat scandalous. she went on dates with a lot of guys. but the guys were really important. we seem to be hitting it off. and i just thought you just thought? she s not obsessed with finding a husband. don t forget to take your pill. i won t. i won t. this was about people coping with one another. and the workplace was like a
explore deeper into the psyche of what makes us tick. but there was also, you know, a need to escape. i m going to a beach barbecue. uh-huh. i can see what s going to heat up the coals. if there s any single phenomenon that s tilted the ratings books in abc s direction, it s t & a. at the cbs affiliates meeting he explained how these t & a shows are concocted. they take the clothes off three times. they get idea. and then they have to run three times. so they jiggle. they re all well-endowed. of course. and then they say, now, let s get three undressed scenes. and three jiggles. and write a script around it. there are some who will tell you t & a has peaked and is on its way out. abc has shows like the love boat and three s company. jiggle tv referred to the fact that these were women who were, you know, who were, you know good morning, angels. good morning, charlie. charlie s angels became a very enduring trademark out of the 70s. i ve already made arrange
the best thing pbs did for adults in the 70s was the miniseries. the idea of novels for television. good evening. i m alastair cook here with the ninth episode of i, claudius. we ought to put up a sign, discretion is advised. i was not allowed to watch it because it had nudity in it. i very much wanted to. rather than try to come up with a show that would run for years and years, it was this idea that here is a limited story, we re going to tell it in x number of episodes, and let s just do this one self-contained thing. we all did things during the reign of my mad brother that we might not otherwise have done. it looks cheap. it was the script and the performances that mattered. in other words, it could be good for you, but it was fun at the same time. the miniseries was such a huge success for public television.
that was an interesting part of the balance i think of the television diet. that there was an attempt to explore deeper into the psyche of what makes us tick. but there was also, you know, a need to escape. i m going to a beach barbecue. uh-huh. i can see what s going to heat up the coals. if there s any single phenomenon that has tilted the ratings books in abc s direction, it s t & a. herb jacobs at the cbs affiliates meeting, he explained to us how these t & a shows are concocted. they take the clothes off three times. they get idea. and then they have to run three times. so they jiggle. they re all well-endowed. of course. and then they say, now, let s get three undressed scenes and three jiggles. and write a script around it. there are some who will tell you t & a has peaked and is on its way out. but abc has shows like the love boat and three s company. jiggle tv referred to the fact that these were women who were, you know, who were, you know good morning,