asner: i ll tell you about the golden age of television. this period in time will be looked upon as the platinum age. lear: our obligation is to entertain, and if we ve left something to think about, so much the better. kunta. kunta kinte. television should not be just entertainment. charges were leveled at the commercial television network. congress has no right interfere with the media. well, excuse me! we have a responsibility to give the audience what it tuned in to see. the years of the 60s, which end in a few hours, have a bad reputation that is not entirely justified. some things got worse, obviously, but tv and other news coverage is better, not worse. we simply developed more demanding standards. when i think of tv, i think of the 70s. what is this world coming to? the american public was hungry for more. what was allowed that hadn t been before? it was the last decade where it was a campfire television, where there was one in the living room. i want to watch an al
what s on the idiot box? it s only an idiot box if an idiot is watching. this period in time will be looked at as the platinum age. our obligation is to entertain. if we ve left something to think about, so much the better. kunta kinte. television should not be just entertainment. charges were leveled at the commercial television networks. congress has no right to interfere in the media. well, excuse me! we have the responsibility to give the audience what it tuned in to see. the years of the 60s which end in a few hours have a bad reputation that is not entirely justified. some things got worse, obviously. but tv and other news coverage is better, not worse. we simply developed more demanding standards. when i think of tv, i think of the 70s. what is this world coming to? the american public was hungry for more. more was allowed that hadn t been before. it was the last decade where it was a campfire television, where there was one in t
these sitcom characters. they re your friends. i don t think it s going to pivot anymore. you think? they were purely selfish and purely immature. are you still master of your domain? i m queen of the castle. you hope that you ll have those kinds of relationships in your life. tonight is about celebrating our enduring weekend as friends, nay, family. good to see you too, girl. where you going? carnival? your friends, sometimes that s more family than the people that you re related to. something s bothering you. i ve never been happier. trying to make your way in the world. having a safe harbor, you know, where everybody knows your name. afternoon, norm. norm! i m out. what? yeah, i m out. i m out of the contest. ugly naked guy is having thanksgiving dinner with ugly naked gal. friends or seinfeld, you want me to choose? i can t answer that. it s so subjective. challenge accepted. contest. a contest? seinfeld will win, i
good evening. i m anderson cooper along with my colleague jake tapper in washington for a special two-hour 360, looking at what was a truly extraordinary day of witness testimony and stunning new details revealed during the january 6th committee hearings. former top officials at the justice department offering details, sometimes moment by moment descriptions of private phone calls and meetings demonstrating how the former president personally and continually tried to convince them to support his fraudulent claims about a stolen election. part of today s hearing focused on someone whose home was actually raided by federal investigators yesterday, former justice department official named jeffrey clark. we re going to have more on that raid in just a moment. the committee s interest about clark has to do with the former president s effort to install clark as acting attorney general so that clark could use the levers of the justice department to subvert joe biden s victory in t
hey, girls. knock yourselves out. i m really sorry. it was a slip of the fingers. it s a fantasy of what teen life could be. hey, defazio! they re here. all right. mwah! laverne. this is laverne defazio. she s mine. and this is shirley feeney. she s yours, as you can see. nice to meet you, richie. my pleasure. marshall: when laverne and shirley made a guest appearance, one of the cameramen said, look at this two-shot. that s a series. schlemiel! schlimazel! hasenpfeffer incorporated. wallace: tuesday night between 8:00 and 9:00 is called the death spot death to any program that dares to go head-on against abc s happy days and laverne & shirley. laverne & shirley was one of the few sitcoms that ever debuted as number one. the absolute top number-one show this season is laverne & shirley, a seemingly harmless, but essentially brainless exercise in adolescent silliness. you have to go all the way back to i love lucy