Good Times were what the Evans family was trying to find in the first place. That was the whole point of the show. It was an ironic title considering their plight and the overall mood in the country in 1974.
This reminds me: If we can't talk politics, can we still talk about this show's relationship to Good Times and the Henry/James Evans thing*?
*H.J. doesn't have the same ring to it, honestly, And things got weirder there when once I saw them reading an Ebony magazine with The Jeffersons on the...
Lear stopped supervising the production of his shows in 1978, the year Maude ended*, because he no longer had any time to do so; Alan Horn, now head of Disney's film department, took over, and then a bunch of people whose names and tenures escape me right now replaced him. But until he sold the...
Exactly: she believes she's always trying to do the right thing, but she doesn't, and she doesn't always practice what she preaches. We all know people like that. Heaven knows there are plenty like that where I come from. Moving across the country did not rid me of their presence.
Carol Burnett...
I wonder what the episodes were about. It had to have been pretty scandalous by 1973 standards not to have been aired, considering how much did get past standards & practices.