Word: rhoda
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...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...
...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...