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Writer Vince Powell was no stranger to working on controversial shows, having created two of the most controversial comedy shows of the 1970s, Love Thy Neighbour and Mind Your Language. The programme made number 97 in Channel Four's 100 Greatest TV Moments from Hell list show, a retrospective of television's low points of the last fifty years.
Bosom Buddies is an American television sitcom starring Tom Hanks and Peter Scolari created by Robert L. Boyett, Thomas L. Miller and Chris Thompson.It aired on Thursday nights for two seasons on ABC from November 27, 1980, to March 27, 1982, and in reruns in the summer of 1984 on NBC.
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 ...
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 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.
11 TV Show Episodes So Controversial, They Literally Caused The Show To Be Canceled Or People To Be Fired ... was an immensely popular sitcom in the 1960s about an astronaut who discovers a genie ...
Legal dramas like L.A. Law and Law & Order included euthanasia storylines centered on the deaths of gay men with AIDS. Sitcoms would occasionally broach the subject, but for the most part followed the pattern that had developed during the 1970s, with episodes following one of a handful of plot devices: a character close to a lead character ...
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 ...