other element in our country. sometimes for the better, sometimes for the worse. >> it gave rise to people pursuing artistic content in a way that i think has raised the bar in television production exponentially. i love you guys. >> there's a shift in the 80s from just wanting to placate the audience to wanting to please and challenge the audience and that's the decade when it happened oh, we had one hell of a run, didn't we partner? >> yeah, we sure did sonny. >> i'm gonna miss you, man. i'm gonna miss you too, sonny i'll give you a ride to the airport why not

onight, television takes a look at itself. >> what's on the idiot box? >> it's only an idiot box if an idiot is watching it, i'll tell you about the golden age of television. >> this period in time will be looked upon as the platinum age. >> our obligation is to entertain and if we've left something to think about so much the better. kunta. >> kunta kinte, television should not be just entertainment. >> charges were leveled at the commercial television networks congress has no right to interfere in the media. >> excuse me we have a responsibility to give the audience what it tuned in to see

he years of the 60s, which end in a few hours, have a bad reputation. >> that is not entirely justified. some things got worse, obviously, but tv and other news coverage is better. not worse. we simply developed more demanding standards when i think of tv, i think of the 70s.

>> what is this world coming to? >> the american public was hungry for more more was allowed that hadn't been before. >> it was the last decade where it was a campfire television, where there was one in the living room. i want to watch an all black show for a change. >> where are you going? to find one. >> here's one. the los angeles lakers against the milwaukee bucks like that this is cbs really? >> it was very simple. you had three channels and plus pbs. >> when the decade turned over into the 70s, television was very rural the beverly hillbillies, cbs had beverly hillbillies green acres, petticoat junction, and these kind of rural fantasies of mayberry ism. >> the hillbilly shows were everywhere, and then they weren't. >> fred silverman, who was

running programing at cbs, said, we're going to get rid of the shows that are the most highly rated and replace them with shows that they thought would be more appealing to that younger audience. >> it changed the face of television. >> my name is norman lear. >> until 1971, he was a very successful, if largely unheralded producer writer in hollywood but then he burst upon the public consciousness when he took on bigotry with his all in the family. >> norman lear and bud yorkin created absolutely iconic shows. >> they revolutionized not only cbs, but all of american television. >> our world is coming crumbling down. the are coming to use language like that on tv was just unheard of, but it really captured a certain moment with archie 12% of the population is black there should be a lot of black families living out here yeah, this is only a beginning, but i think it's wonderful. >> well, let's see how wonderful it is when a watermelon rinds come flying out the window.

>> well, it scared me when i first saw on the family little bit, i thought they better be careful. >> there was no doubt in my mind the american people were going to accept it. >> do you have a quick answer for the people who say the show reinforces bigotry and you know that charge started from the very. >> my quick answer is no. everybody was going to see something they knew well was going on, and nothing that surprising did for robert saleh paper. >> no it's not. i bought some yesterday. it's in the closet. in the kitchen. >> i ate in the kitchen are hearing a toilet flush for the first time was a big deal and made headlines what's this country coming to, anyhow? what is it, archie? bad news. what else? we get out of vietnam or something? don't be a wise guy huh? >> i wasn't going to play around with mom. dented the car. and how are we going to keep dad from finding out about it? not when i see everything that's going around in our country. >> just because a guy is sensitive and he's an

intellectual and he wears glasses, you make him out of queer. i never said a guy who wears glasses is a queer. a guy who wears glasses is a four eyes. a guy who is a is a queer all in the family did something really new for television. >> it put before the american public. archie's friend who was very masculine and who happened to be gay. >> how long have you known me? >> ten. 12 years? >> yeah in all that time did i ever mention a woman? >> oh, come on, steve how can i not think that you glorify on public television homosexuality? >> the reason you don't glorify johnny somali glorify nixon objecting to the show. >> that was a badge of honor. >> and it was really culturally on point. every time for a sitcom that was unheard of. >> one, two, three. >> i wanted to do an episode where somebody could give archie what he earned. why?

shut up. >> all year we created a character that, you know, could really let him have it mort i'm only here because of edith. >> the fact that you happen to be here with her is beyond my control. >> like any other freak of nature before that show was off the air, fred silverman was on the telephone with me saying there's a show in that woman hello? >> no, this is not mr. findlay. it's mrs. findlay yeah. mr. findlay has a much higher voice now get your coat and come on. >> what makes you think you can order me around like that henry? >> you're my wife. >> that gives me the right when he says wife, he means possession so what? >> maude, you told me 100 times. you want to feel possessed. >> walter findlay, i never said that standing up. >> and you know it norman lear and bud yorkin really turned the spin off series into an art form norman lear hates to hear it called the lear factory all his series

come out of this building, allowing lear to move from show to show like a dervish good times was like, holy smokes, there's black people on tv. >> there had never been a complete black family on tv before with the father what made it so unique and universal was that we have the same problems in our household, and we do not live in the projects in chicago dynamite do you want to worry your head about nothing? >> go on and do it. >> well, we got $32 in the shoe box and i got another $6 right here in my pocket. >> you worked all night and all they paid you was $6. >> there were a lot of folks who were not happy with the show. >> the black panthers were very upset when huey newton came to see me. the big complaint was, why can't we see a black man that's doing better than that the jeffersons started as neighbors of archie bunker. >> don't call me honky why are you so sensitive all of a sudden? >> how would you like it if i called you

you call me that's no worse than honky. >> you're right nothing's worse than honky except being married to one. >> norman lear set the stage for other shows in the 70s that just brought gravitas to television. >> what are you staring at? >> i was just thinking i'd bring my neighbor's kids over here this place is better than the zoo december 8th on cnn. >> it's a night that's good for the soul. join anderson cooper and laura coates for cnn heroes. an all star tribute. >> thank you. guys. >> meet the honorees and celebrate their life changing achievements. >> they're ordinary people doing extraordinary things. >> then find out who'll be named the cnn hero of the year. >> it's really incredible. >> plus, don't miss a special tribute to this year's legacy award honoree, michael j. fox cnn heroes, an all star tribute

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>> check your local listings only on hallmark channel on saturday nights the cbs lineup in the early 70s was amazing 8:00 all in the family 830 mash 9:00. >> the mary tyler moore show you had bob newhart show and it ended with the carol burnett variety show at 10:00. >> they used to call it murderer's row. >> people had no dvrs. they had no vhs. they had nothing with initials so people would stay home on saturday nights. they wouldn't go to the movies they wouldn't go to restaurants that may be the best night of television in all of television history mary tyler moore was a single woman working as an associate producer on a nightly tv show. >> you know what you got spunk. >> well, i hate spunk. >> there were a lot of young women entering the workplace

then, and for some, for some of them, mary tyler moore was like a port of entry. >> i'm doing as good a job as he did better better and i'm being paid less than he was because you're a woman. >> the television female could be a hero. she could be the main event read it all right out loud. >> the first script written by allan burns and jim brooks, had married coming to minneapolis, divorced and, oh, very quickly, cbs said, no, no no no no no no, no. >> at the beginning of the decade, divorce was considered somewhat scandalous she went on dates with a lot of guys, but the guys were really important we seem to be hitting it off and i just thought you just stop it. >> she's not obsessed with finding a husband. >> don't forget to take your pill, i won't. >> this was about people coping

with one another and the workplace was like a family. >> i told ted to close with the the copy for sue ann oh my god what's wrong? >> i told the projectionist it was the other way around. >> oh my god local pig farmers served. >> notice today that rising corn prices are forcing them to find other means to feed their stock here's one pig who doesn't seem to just look at her gobble up that slop. starting tomorrow, we'll be presenting a new feature on w.j.m dining out with sue ann nivens once jim brooks said to me, i know there's a world of comedy in my wife's purse. >> i just can't access it. we've got to find some female writers for this show. >> did you crash the men's room? >> of course not i went as somebody's guest why do you think it's such a winner? >> i think because of the casting. >> and i think because of the

writing, they don't sacrifice the character for the sake of a good joke that effort to keep the female sensibility is what made it authentic and good people would say, you're just like me and my girlfriends. >> how can you gorge yourself like that and stay so skinny? >> i'm going crazy with hunger. >> i'll eat something i can't. >> i got to lose 10 pounds by 830. >> freddie silverman head of the network at the time, said valerie listen, i'm going to spin you off and i thought, oh, my god, i'm fired, because spin off is a term that was originated in the 70s. >> if we're going to start living together, we got to tell each other everything. >> okay, joe, i want to be married rhoda and joe's wedding became a huge national event. >> 52 million people tuned in to see that. >> suddenly, rhoda is in a happy relationship, and they didn't know what to do with that. and they had to have her get divorced to try to reboot the show. >> why did you marry me? just

answer me that. >> why did you marry me? you made me marry you. >> i feel so funny. >> it's just a matter of trust she's not going to do that. >> the doctors. >> where does that leave us? i mean, where do we go from here? >> that we'll have to discuss at future sessions? >> 70s also had this therapeutic overlay. >> hi, bob. oh hi, bob. >> hi, bob. hello we decided to make him a psychologist. >> he seemed to have run out of things to say why don't we pray? >> yeah, let's pray for the end of this session. >> i didn't know anything about therapy prior to that i'm from the planet lothar it's in the galaxy how? >> how long are you going to be in town i didn't want to do a show where we had children. >> i didn't want to be the dumb dad. >> sit waiting howard, i don't care where we.

i just don't want to make any more decisions and people will say, gee, my dad and i used to watch the show, and it was great. >> and you realize you're in you're part of people's lives the 70s was the era where a certain artistry developed mash really changed many people's perception of what a sitcom can be. a sitcom could be cinematic mash was shot like a movie, and mash was maybe the single most unique situation comedy ever. >> i have a headache, a tremendous headache. >> it goes all the way down to my waist. >> the television series mash had one thing the movie, in my estimation did not, which was heart. >> there are certain rules about a war and rule number one is young men die and rule number two is doctors can't change rule number one. >> it was about korea, but we were talking about and doing things that had to do with vietnam, and everybody knew it rolling action.

>> war is in hell. >> war is war and hell is hell. and of the two, war is a lot worse we had 30 million people a week watching mash. have you ever really considered the foot? >> yeah, but i prefer girls. >> you better not bump into henry in that, general. >> i intend only to bump into nurse baker repeatedly if possible program and practices. >> these were people who would go through the scripts and say, you can't use this word we felt like we were in the midst of a battle. this is freedom of speech at the senate hearings on television violence today, strong charges were leveled at the commercial television networks. >> the broadcasting industry now stands charged with having molested the minds of our nation's children to serve the cause of corporate profit. >> the family hour was established by the three networks and the federal communications commission in response to complaints of too much sex and violence on early evening television. the family hour the two hours from 7 to 9 p.m., during which parents and children are supposed to be

able to watch television without being made to feel uncomfortable. >> it's topless seated, so it just seemed altogether unfair and we sued family hour is under attack from some producers, unions and others in the television industry. >> they have filed a lawsuit to have it abolished as those scheduled to testify arrived like grant tinker and alan burns of mary tyler moore enterprises, they passed through a picket line protesting the hearing congress has no righthatsoever to interfere in the content of the media if you can censor a joke today then tomorrow you can censor the expression of any thought. >> if you can censor a joke, it just becomes easier. the next day, a federal judge in los angeles ruled the so-called family hour on television from 7 to 9 p.m. was unconstitutional. >> a violation of the first amendment guarantee of free speech. >> the first amendment was upheld in a most important decision, and it's really, truly a victory for everybody

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with berries, i think we ought to eat him. >> there was a longing for a simpler time when it didn't seem like there was so much anger and contentiousness, when people weren't so mad at each other. >> during last season, the waltons caught on. good night, john boy good night. >> this year there will be more nostalgia and wholesome family drama. >> now that dinner is over, let's try out the piano. >> oh, good. >> i am taking requests sunday monday. >> happy days i created happy days not with a family. really? was i thought it would be good if there was some families that didn't get divorced. >> well, you guys are really wow it wasn't by accident. >> everybody unhappy days hugged each other. >> it wasn't by accident. >> everybody in the family ate at the same time at the same table. >> it was a sweet, tender show in the vein of american graffiti. looking back on that era of the 50s with a certain affection hey abc wanted fonzie's air to compete

directly with jimmie jj walker's dynamite cause i'm the fonz. >> hey catchphrases were big on marvin. >> sit on it howard. >> does anyone say thank you arnold? no. you know what they say. >> sit on it, arnold that's what they say you watch fonzie and you just want to be fonzie oh hey girls, knock yourselves out. >> i'm really sorry. it was a slip of the fingers. >> it's a fantasy of what teen life could be. hey, defazio. >> they're here. >> all right laverne, this is laverne defazio. she's mine. and this is shirley feeney. she's yours. >> as you can see. >> nice to meet you, ritchie. my pleasure. >> when laverne shirley made a guest appearance, one of the cameramen said, look at this. two shot. that's a series schlemiel schlimazel hasenpfeffer incorporated tuesday night between 8 and 9

is called the death spot. >> death to any program that dares to go head on against abc's happy days and laverne and shirley. >> laverne shirley was one of the few sitcoms that ever debuted as number one. >> the absolute top number one show. >> this season is laverne and shirley a seemingly harmless but essentially brainless exercise in adolescent silliness. >> you have to go all the way back to i love lucy to get the same sort of slapstick and physical comedy i mean, we never thought about its importance except that, you know, it was two girls trying and the value of friendship it must have something for it. >> i don't vote oh, doh doh, you vote, you dodo i don't body. >> oh doh doh, they couldn't say sex, so they said vote or doh evodio everybody knew what we were talking about once my son didn't watch laverne and

shirley or happy days. he said you don't like it. he said, i like it but what's missing, spaceman because we were getting into space. and so that's when i created a spaceman. >> wait a minute. who are you? >> i am mork from ork kibbutz eilon. >> the writers all rolled their eyes. an alien? he wants an alien. i had to make up a story of fonzie's running out of adversaries. >> that's right. fonzie has never lost a whole attacker yet. and we got the home planet advantage then we got him on his own show, and mork and mindy was the hit show of the 70s. >> are the audience talk about a willing suspension of disbelief, is willing to buy the premise? >> mind if i do just so they can watch robin williams? >> no, no no no excuse me that was an interesting part of the balance. >> i think of the television diet that there was an attempt to explore deeper into the psyche of what makes us tick, but there was also you know, a

need to escape. >> i'm going to a beach barbecue. >> i can see what's going to heat up the coals if there's any single phenomenon that has tilted the rating books in abc's direction, it's tea and a herb jacobs at the cbs affiliates meeting, he explained to us how these tea and shows are concocted, and they take their clothes off three times, they get ideas, and then they want them to run 2 or 3 times. >> so they jiggle. and all are well endowed. of course. and then they say, now let's get three undressed scenes and three jiggles and write a script around it. >> there are some who will tell you that tna has peaked and is on its way out, but abc has shows like the love boat and three's company, jiggle tv referred to the fact that these were women who were, you know, who who were, uh, you know good morning angels. >> good morning charlie. >> charlie's angels became a very enduring trademark out of the 70s. >> i've already made arrangements for you three to go to prison open your towel. >> i'll be standing as erect

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of kids like they were human beings. >> there's some things that are very difficult to understand in a newspaper. >> every now and then, i think back to mister rogers, and i think he would say, don't be, don't be scared. life is good. life is special. >> that's why everybody is so special. >> because everybody is different. >> just go and do the thing that you love. and that always stuck with me see you tomorrow. >> can you tell me how to get how to get to sesame street? >> sesame street introduced my children to the interaction of people with different backgrounds. >> it's not that easy being green. >> count the penny. >> count that penny. >> yeah. count it. okay down what sesame street was aggressive in terms of learning not only concepts of reading, but concepts of interacting. i may be small. i may be small but i am. >> i am somebody, somebody.

>> sesame street was, you know, as big as it got in terms of celebrity. everybody wanted to hang with the muppets. >> aren't you johnny cash? cash, cash cash educational children's television really matured in the 70s. >> i'm leaving i love you, i love you too. >> thanks and now for something completely different. >> when i was 13, the show from england came on pbs which before that was only the realm of my parents. yeah. what do you mean i don't like spam and suddenly they're doing the most outlandish, racy non sequitur type of humor and killing me. the 13 year old. >> it's extraordinary what you can't do on american television. >> i think you can do it on pbs. and that's why i hope you'll watch it. come at me with that banana. >> come on, attack me with it. come on and so you have this generation of comedy nerds who

don't even know that they're comedy nerds. >> this parrot is no more. >> it has ceased to be. >> monty python turned out to break so many rules. i mean, it changes everything. just like with the beatles. you can say, oh, they came after the beatles. you look at saturday night live, you look at sctv. oh after after monty python. >> beginning on october the 11th, saturday night will open up a whole new live venture from new york city. we just happen to have the producer of the program and members of his company. what should we look for on your program? >> anxiety. >> lorne michaels, this canadian comedy producer was given free rein. >> hi. >> i'm lorne michaels, the producer of saturday night and he ultimately winds up hiring a bunch of improv comics. >> rehearsal will warm up. let's do 20 face laughs come on. >> slap it up. >> come on. make it hurt. >> george carlin was the first host and wanted to be a permanent host. >> nice to see you. welcome and thanks for joining us live. >> there were a lot of names bandied about in terms of

permanent hosts. >> that's one of those tv rules that you mustn't break until you do. and then you realize, why don't you have a different host every week? but it was the cast that finally won people's hearts. >> come on, who is this andy graham? oh no. >> you're back. >> you cut your own steaks, we give you the sauce. i'm barbara wawa. thank you thank you, thank you very much. you're beautiful. you're beautiful thank you. >> you were drawn to the tv set because you knew something insane might happen. live live, live from new york partly because it was live, but partly because you knew television was now in the hands of the television generation. emmys before ever, peacock and these were kids in quotes who just might do anything. >> yes. >> having sex with women the president within these very walls. that never happened when dick nixon was in the white house. >> it was counter television. and that's partly what made it attractive. >> no problem. >> every one of their episodes became worthy of talmudic study. if that's the word.

>> when i hosted the lorne called me into his office and said, you realize the kids are the stars, but the host wasn't nearly as impactful. that's not quite it. uh because the thing was all the rage. >> they called themselves the not ready for prime time players, not because they felt they weren't good enough, but because they felt they were too good. >> good evening. >> i'm chevy chase and you're not. >> chevy chase became an instant star. >> our top story tonight president coy wire his own time. >> and why are his arms tired chevy chase was on the show for one year. >> are you sorry you left saturday night live? >> i'm deeply, deeply sorry chevy decided that he was too big for the show, and so he left in some ways. >> chevy leaving after the first year was a blessing because it showed that saturday night live was going to do much more than survive. >> some things that just

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miniseries the idea of novels for television. >> good evening. i'm alastair cook. >> we're at the ninth episode of i claudius. >> we ought to put up a sign discretion is advised. >> i was not allowed to watch it because it had nudity in it. i very much wanted to rather than try to come up with a show that will run for years and years. >> it was this idea that here is a limited story. we're going to tell it in x number of episodes, and let's just do this one self-contained thing. >> we all did things during the reign of my mad brother that we might not otherwise have done. >> it looks cheap. it was the script and the performances that mattered. in other words, it could be good for you. but it was fun at the same time the mini series is such a huge success for public television. abc was the network that hit gold with rich man, poor man. >> are you going to tell a story that isn't controlled by the clock? >> characters can grow and change and differ and listen, i

want to talk to you about what? >> about making an honest man out of me. >> it's a subject i rarely discuss in the nude. >> what we saw in the 70s was that the big event television, if it was done right and if it was compelling, the audience kept on coming back and back. >> here you have topics that start to get serious and important and groundbreaking for television. >> there's no life left here, and i don't want harm to come to you because of me, i won't. >> i won't listen to this though. >> majority reaction to the holocaust program has been positive. it has not been without debate with holocaust. >> the heat was you shouldn't even touch this subject. it's disrespectful. but finally, the thinking was no to not talk about it would be disrespectful to not perpetuate the memory for another generation. and so if you're too young to know, here's a depiction of swedish nazis. >> the war have emotions been so high in germany the

holocaust telecast caused heated discussion. its most tangible political effect was shown when the german legislature debated the search for nazi war criminals. holocaust made it easier for lawmakers to vote to continue the hunt for nazis the holocaust brought it home. >> it made it real, even though it was a hollywood creation sunday night roots begins in eight parts on abc. >> if it sounds like i'm plugging it, i am. basically, television will never be the same again. >> there was really no bigger television event than roots. it was based on a 1976 book by alex haley about his family in africa and coming to america as slaves, and what happens to them as the centuries go on. >> i will go to my grave believing that roots is america's story. it's not just black america's story. >> we might have come over in the bottom of the ship, but we all came over on ships. >> your name means stay put but

it don't mean stay a slave. >> as a 19 year old kid, you know, roots was my first job. >> we're not children. we're very close to being men. norberto what's your name? >> kunta. kunta kinte. >> the character that i got to portray in roots. >> kunta kinte, the adult, was a dream role. >> it was really genius to cast all of america's favorite television dads in the roles of the white slave owners and the villains. >> i'll be by for you in the morning, captain sleep well it is difficult to explain in today's culture how unprecedented roots was. >> no one had ever seen the story of slavery before, told from the point of view of the africans it may be the first time that television allowed an embracing of black pride. >> then we's freed we's free, honey. >> one of the reasons that roots was so incredibly popular is not because abc had so much

faith in it, but because abc didn't. earlier. >> many series were broadcast in weekly installments and the abc executives determined that if roots were to fail, they could just be done with it in 7 or 8 nights. it was high risk, high reward. >> if it didn't work, you were out. a lot of tv time and not many people watching the television premiere on eight consecutive nights attracted the largest audience in the history of the medium. >> there's something about it that seems to touch all human beings. it transcends age and race. >> entertainment was meeting humanity, and i think that's the primary value is to lead humanity forward if there's a legacy of television in the 70s, it's that you matter while there's a lot going on in the world. >> television was a reminder of how much little things mean to us the smallest of situations

no matter what the subject matter was, it wanted to include you. >> you're in the family. don't make fun of the outsider include them. >> its legacy is look how long it's lasted those shows, they were about people who were kind and nice. >> they were not mean spirited shows there was a certain elegance to that. >> i kind of miss it. oh it was so delicious. >> five different flavors and archie was sitting at another table with that fellow jefferson pratt. >> remember him wang yiwei. archie was trying to get my attention, so first he put two straws in his mouth like a water slide. he lisa schoch