Amid the 1970s television landscape selling obvious sex and youth, Norman Lear understood the magnetism of older everyday women. Mr. Lear, who died on Tuesday at 101, has long gotten credit for being the first to train the television spotlight on issues of racism and class, war and poverty, to create plots centered on hot-button […]
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Remembering Norman Lear’s Most Controversial Episode
Norman Lear, who died this week at 101, left behind a legacy of groundbreaking television. But there was perhaps no hour of TV on his lengthy résumé more controversial than a two-part episode of the CBS sitcom “Maude,” from the show’s first season. Titled “Maude’s Dilemma,” it aired on consecutive weeks in November 1972 and […]
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