Category: US
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The Golden Girls On The Golden Girls
Here’s a selection of interviews with the stars of The Golden Girls. To begin, an incongruous one, when Bea Arthur and Estelle Getty appeared on The Word in 1992. Here Rue McClanahan discusses her development of Blanche. Betty White is candid here about the chemistry between the cast. Here Rue talks about the casting of…
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The George Carlin Show
In January of 1994, the first episode of The George Carlin Show premiered on the Fox network. Co-created by the titular star and Sam Simon (who got sole credit), a long time writer of The Simpsons and Cheers, it was set in a New York tavern based on one frequented by Carlin’s father, and where…
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The Silver Girl
This is a convoluted story of sitcoms crossing back and forth across the Atlantic. It begins with Alf Garnett and his first sitcom Till Death Us Do Part. Norman Lear read a synopsis of this show, and it triggered an idea in his head about a sitcom based on his own relationship with his father.…
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The Associates
A year after Taxi hit US screens, the producers were given an opportunity to follow it up with another sitcom for ABC. Later described as a ‘white-collar version of Taxi’, The Associates was based on the novel by John Jay Osborn Jr, and developed by James L Brooks, Stan Daniels, Charlie Hauck, and Ed Weinberger.…
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The Chicago Teddy Bears
The US networks used to make so many sitcoms that they explored some really strange ideas and precincts. The Chicago Teddy Bears was a CBS show that aired for thirteen episodes in 1971. Originally conceived as a returning vehicle for Ann Sothern, who hadn’t had a regular role since My Mother The Car, after the…
