Word: rhoda
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sitcoms, MTM has always transmitted intelligence, along with a rather unique respect for its characters and its audience. The snorting, hoorawing Archie Bunker's All in the Family has no such charm. Over the years, MTM has been rich enough in its talent to spin off Rhoda (Valerie Harper) and Phyllis (Cloris Leachman) into fairly good series of their...
...innocence-its almost Kuklapolitan charm, its absence of malice. Inside all the characters-Mary herself. Ted, Lou, Georgette, Newswriter Murray Slaughter, Happy Homemaker Sue Ann Nivens, Rhoda and Phyllis while they were still there-were children who coped as well as possible with an adult world, but retained a kind of wistfulness. They sniped at one an other, but without bloodshed...
Move over, Mary Hartman, and make way for a real lady. Her name is Glencora Palliser-Lady Glencora Palliser. She just may be the most entrancing TV character of the '70s-as quickwitted as Rhoda, as attractive as Mary Tyler Moore, as sexy as any of Charlie's Angels. And where did this superlative creature spring from? Why, from the prolific pen of Anthony Trollope, the very prototype of the long-stemmed Victorian novelist...
...York with unsolicited letters, some of them assessing program lineups. CBS eventually took him on. His first triumph was to make Saturday morning profitable for the network by replacing sitcom reruns with new cartoon series. Later, as programming chief, he gave the network such treasures as Cannon, Maude, Rhoda, Phyllis, Sonny and Cher, Tony Orlando and Dawn...
...prime kiddy time. He faces tough competition from the perennial Wonderful World of Disney (NBC) in the 7 p.m. Sunday slot, known in the trade as "death alley." The Captain and Tennille, a.k.a. Pop Musicians Daryl Dragon and Wife Toni Tennille, are a) lackluster, and b) up against Rhoda and Phyllis from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m. Mondays, and may have to go bionic to survive. The same thing goes for Van Dyke and company on NBC, which is set for 10 p.m. on Thursdays...