Word: rhoda
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...theatrical wing of the Hasty Pudding Institute of 1770 has chosen Warren Beatty as Man of the Year and Valerie Harper, star of the CBS television show Rhoda, as Woman of the Year...
...format was to become a permanent structure. Even today, Benny's influence still echoes around the channels. Jack's wisecracking girl friend -and offstage wife-Mary Livingstone is the original of Rhoda. Don Wilson, the pompous announcer, can be seen in Ted Knight's role on the Mary Tyler Moore show. The drunken bandleader, Phil Harris, is a 100-proof version of Ed McMahon, Johnny Carson's sidekick. Rochester, the sardonic Negro valet, is the granddaddy of all the servants, black and white, who have hilariously put down their employers since the invention of the vacuum...
...down trend is most pronounced at ABC. Its Monday Night Football telecasts, featuring the logorrheic Howard Cosell, are appearing in 11% fewer households this season than last. Part of the slippage is due to the popularity of two comedy shows, Maude and Rhoda, aired by CBS. For its part, NBC two weeks ago blitzed ABC'S Denver-Kansas City game by a margin of better than two to one with the first telecast of The Godfather...
...Rhoda is the best thing to happen to Monday night TV including pro football. Before, TV was boring, and complaints to my football-watching husband were useless because there really wasn't anything else worth watching. Now he takes time out from the game so that I can enjoy Rhoda. He likes it too. (Mrs.) Tootie Jackoniski Houston...
Television, Mary and Rhoda included, is still aiming down at what it considers to be the broadest possible audience. It is not because of any lack of talent, but rather because of the industry's opinion and our own lazy expectations of what TV should or could be. Cash Lockhart Clay St. Louis...