Word: rhoda
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wound one of the Japanese carriers in that decisive victory at sea. Son Byron is in submarines. Daughter Madeline is in wartime show business, but she takes up with a young officer who just happens to be working on a Navy effort to enrich uranium. Pug's wife Rhoda, pining at home in Washington, starts her own chain reaction with an Army colonel...
...with the ordinary viewer. When he picks a show he likes, chances are that 40 million or 50 million other people will like it too. But now, through extraordinary circumstances, he will be programming for everyone. CBS, which he left in 1975, still runs many of his shows, including Rhoda, Good Times and M*A*S*H, and ABC will do the same for years to come. NBC will switch to the Silverman channel next month. It is, as the industry cliché goes, a truly awesome, and not altogether settling, thought...
...pilots. You work fast in television, and I like the improvisational atmosphere. It's very much like summer stock where you do a new show every six days. If the pilots work out, it can develop into something very comfortable. I directed the first 30 episodes of Rhoda, for example...
...shows are junk-as a CBS executive once labeled them-they are frequently far better than the junk on the other two networks. To see why, one need only look over at various knockoffs. On CBS, for example, a new show, On Our Own, and an old series, Rhoda, are both trying to emulate Laverne & Shirley-right down to the opening credits sequence in the case of On Our Own. The copies are so lugubrious that they make the original seem almost Shavian by comparison...
...minute telephone calls by Betty Ford, Vice President Walter Mondale, and Rosalynn and Jimmy Carter were of no avail. Florida's former Miss America, Anita Bryant, took time out from her campaign against gays to oppose the ERA; she was more successful than Valerie Harper, television's Rhoda, who campaigned...