Word: petticoats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DIED. Edgar Buchanan, 76, veteran character actor in nearly 100 films, most of them grade-B westerns, who won his widest recognition as Uncle Joe in TV's Petticoat Junction; of complications following brain surgery; in Palm Desert, Calif...
With national elections approaching, Mrs. Thatcher undertook a highly public effort to reach out to the common folk. She turned up for a walkabout along Petticoat Lane, London's celebrated street market, where she was bussed by a local huckster. But she also needed a popular issue, and so she did what had hitherto been politically unthinkable: she injected the explosive issue of immigration, meaning race, into the campaign. In a television interview, Mrs. Thatcher called for a "clear end to immigration," on the ground that "people are really rather afraid that this country might be swamped by people...
...ways the shows look like well produced rehashes of the hoariest old TV formats. Unlike the Norman Lear sitcoms on CBS, ABC's shows do not pretend to deal with topical issues, and their premises are brazenly retrograde. Happy Days copies Dobie Gillis; Three's Company recalls Petticoat Junction and Love That Bob. Laverne and Shirley's slapstick antics- usually built around wild schemes to earn money or meet men-are often indistinguishable from the adventures of Lucy and Ethel on I Love Lucy...
...Barney Miller stuffed with crackers. ("Would you press my dress uniform?" one redneck cop asks a policewoman. "I don't do sheets," she answers.) In its other entries, ABC takes to the sea: The San Pedro Beach Bums are five California boys on a rundown boat; Operation Petticoat, based on the old Gary Grant flick, unites a crew of sailors on a pink submarine and a contingent of bosomy nurses-war is swell, apparently. And in The Love Boat, Gavin McLeod of The Mary Tyler Moore Show steers a cruise ship down the California coast...
...Editor Margaret Boeth's father, a Mississippi judge, warned her against putting too much stock in the family tree. "It takes three generations to make a lady, and then she'll spit," he used to say. In addition to many distinguished ancestors, Boeth can also claim a petticoat thief in New Amsterdam (fined 20 guilders for the deed). And Chicago Bureau Chief Benjamin Cate enjoys recalling, among his Puritan precursors, one William ("Whiskey") Cate, who earned his moniker as the watchdog of sobriety in colonial Boston. "During his lifetime, he confiscated many bottles of booze," says Cate. "When...