pure escapism and that is what garry marshall, the genius behind that show and mork and mindy and lavernerley and the odd couple and great movies like pretty woman — he is it my don, i kiss his ring — garry marshall, he says, "a lot of people make television that is really, like, supposed to be smart. i make recess. " (laughs). but there is something about making recess at a time like that which is a little bit strange. it is a timeless show. he made it in the 1950s on purpose because you could do moral stories without ever feeling like you were being hit on the head with a point of view. i suppose what i am getting at, in depicting 1950s america as that place of tight families, close—knit communities, where every kid got into scrapes but basically had a heart of gold, it was fantasy. it was never true of the 1950s or any other decade in the us. the fact is why i think it is so popular was that you wanted a family like that. so, children who were latchkey kids who came home and had a key to open their apartment and there was nobody there, they wanted the cunninghams, they wanted a friend