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Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps: Despite being successful with viewers and staying on the air for ten years, from 26 February 2001 to 24 May 2011, with a total of nine series and 80 episodes, the BBC sitcom always received a strongly negative critical response. The Guardian wrote that it was "universally panned". [201]
The purpose of a very special episode is generally to raise awareness of an issue and encourage those affected to seek help if necessary. For example, the Diff'rent Strokes episode "The Bicycle Man", in the same year it was released, influenced a child in La Porte, Indiana, to inform his mother of a pedophile in the area, and the LaPorte police department credited the episode for the man's ...
Pre-broadcast reports about the series noted that it would include an openly gay character as a regular on the show, [2] which was highly controversial at the time. [3] The series was to premiere September 30, 1976, on NBC, but was shelved at the last minute and was never broadcast in the United States. The cancellation was so abrupt, bumpers ...
The Facts of Life is an American television sitcom created by Dick Clair and Jenna McMahon and a spin-off of Diff'rent Strokes that originally aired on NBC from August 24, 1979, to May 7, 1988, making it one of the longest-running sitcoms of the 1980s.
The programme made many adult viewers uncomfortable when some of the juvenile singers imitated the provocative styles of adult performers. [80] One performance by eight-year-old performer Joanna Fisher sparked outrage when, while performing the Sheena Easton song " 9 to 5 ", she sang the lyrics "Night time is the right time/We make love". [ 81 ]
The decade of the 1970s saw significant changes in television programming in both the United Kingdom and the United States.The trends included the decline of the "family sitcoms" and rural-oriented programs to more socially contemporary shows and "young, hip and urban" sitcoms in the United States and the permanent establishment of colour television in the United Kingdom.
1980s American multi-camera sitcoms (21 C, 121 P) 1980s American single-camera sitcoms (1 C, 22 P) 1980s American teen sitcoms (3 C, 20 P) L. Laverne & Shirley (1 C ...
The group Lesbian Feminist Liberation staged a sit-in at NBC and, after meeting with gay activists, the network agreed not to rerun the episode. [40] 1974 The Streets of San Francisco: ABC "Mask of Death" A female impersonator (John Davidson) is famed for his impersonations of actresses Carol Channing and (the fictional) Carol Marlowe. The ...