Word: lear
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...that we've all heard from the Black Congressional Caucus, the N.A.A.C.P., Norman Lear, et al, I think it only fair that you listen to one of the writers and creators of the canceled Mister Dugan [March...
...Norman Lear take All in the Family around to union halls or down to a few blue-collar saloons before he inflicted Archie Bunker on us? Thank God that Lear did not get his hands on Roots. He would have turned it into a 400-year-old tap dance...
...viewers were probably looking forward to seeing any, wild and crazy guy last Sunday night, not to mention the redheaded knockout. But a not very funny thing happened on the way to the tube: just three days before the show was supposed to go on the air, Norman Lear's T.A.T. Communications Co. suddenly yanked it away, leaving CBS, which was still promoting it Thursday morning, with a yawning hole in the Sunday schedule...
...trouble was that Mister Dugan who was played by Cleavon Little, was no only black but also a Congressman. After consulting with blacks in Los Angeles and Washington, Lear decided that Mister Dugan was not the sort of man he would want to vote for. "We felt we were ineffectively presenting a black Congressman as a role model," he says. "We want our black legislator to do as good a job showing how compassionate a politician can be as Marcus Welby did in showing how good a doctor could be. It's painful...
...Family, both of which are in Nielsen's top ten, and ending with the still untested Just Friends and The Mary Tyler Moore Hour. Mister Dugan was given the favored 8:30 spot after All in the Family and was expected to provide a strong bridge to Alice. Lear's cancellation, probably unprecedented at such a late date, confounded CBS'S programmers. They apparently had nothing else new to replace it and filled the gap with another episode of Alice, putting one right behind the other. Network executives, understandably miffed at Lear, sent out a terse announcement...