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slowly but surely the 1970s are disappearing. the 1980s will be upon us. what a decade it is coming up. happy new year. as you begin the 80s in the television world the landscape was in the evening 9 out of 10 people were watching only one of three networks. social critics are mystified by its success. what is it? it s television prime time potboiler, dallas. it ll ruin our family name. i assure you a thought like that never crossed my mind. brother or no brother, whatever it takes i ll stop you from destroying in oil. dallas literally captivated america for 13 years. dallas is a television show which in some ways is rooted in the 1970s and one of the crazy things that emerges is this character, jr ewing as a pop fe phenomenon. he was such a delicious villain, everyone was completely enamored by this character. at this point so many people were watching television that you could do something so unexpected that it would become news overnight. who ....
they know when it hits the bottom, it ll be 1990. good-bye to the 80s in ten, nine, eight, eight, eight, eight! oh, will this horrible year never end? when the 90s began, we are starting to see a lot of experimentation. seven, six, five, four, three, two, one. and the simpsons i think in some senses was inspired by not necessarily hatred of television, but a distrust of a lot of the ways in which television was talking to us. tv respects me. it laughs with me. not at me. you re stupid. doh! i think the sitcoms of the 80s were such a warm, safe, humor. i love you guys. the kids, they listen to the rap music which gives them the brain damage. and i think there was a real yearning for another type of humor. we were able to spoof fatherhood what a bad father. which at the time, and i stress at the time, was bill cosby as the shining example. did you ever know that you re my hero the stuff they got away with because it s a ....
no. everybody trying to get along. one problem with hiring women is that they re frail and breakable. is it possible you re thinking about light bulbs or your hip? hilarious. what do you say to that? whoa. ow! let s talk about earning a living. yeah. have you ever done it? no, but i could. ha! lucille ball with the chocolates, always funny. if one piece of candy gets past you and into the packing room unwrapped, you re fired. all the writers needed to say was lucy and a conveyor belt, you re good. some of the most memorable episodes of i love lucy are when she gets a job outside of the home, but it always unravels. you re doing splendidly. speed it up! when sitcoms started, they were family sitcoms. and for years, that s all there was. and then we move into the 1960s, we start to see more people working in an office than on a factory line. for the first time in the history of our nation, a majority of all workers are in white ....
crew members of inspiration 4 return home after their historic three-day mission. a warning from the cia came too late to stop a u.s. air strike that killed ten afghan civilians last month. according to three sources, the intelligence agency warned there were likely civilians in the area and possibly children just seconds before the missile hit. the strike followed a suicide bombing that killed 13 u.s. troops and scores of afghans at the kabul airport, but the pentagon now admit is no one in the car was linked to isis-k, calling the air strike a mistake. cnn s nic robertson has been speaking to the relatives of those killed and he filed this report from kabul. this is a lot of children this is part of the children up here? reporter: yeah. ahmaudi shows me his shattered house. reporter: it s heartbreaking now to see this now and know that they say it was just a mistake. no one has had the heart to clean it up since the drone strike three weeks ago. my cut ....
are home after their historic three-day mission. a warning from the cia came too late to stop a u.s. air strike that killed ten afghan civilians last month. according to three sources, the intelligence agency warned that there were likely civilians in the area and possibly children just seconds before the missile found its target. the military hit the toyota following a suicide bombing that killed 13 u.s. troops and scores of afghans at the kabul airport, but the pentagon now admits no one in the car was linked to isis-k and up to seven people killed in the air strike were chil children. cnn s alex marquardt has mar on what we re learning from washington. on the heels of the pentagon dmigt o admitting on friday to a tragic mistake, we are now learning in the final seconds before the h h hellfire missile tore through the car of an aide worker, the cia issued a warning that civilians were likely in the area, including possibly children inside the vehicle. that s accor ....