Word: maclachlan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...couple in middle-class suburbia who suddenly discover that the new couple next door is black, and then twisting things around so that the black guy is just as prejudiced against white folks as the white guy is against blacks? Right on, right? Thanks to the grace of Janet MacLachlan and Joyce Bulifant, the pilot episode managed to be nearly inoffensive, despite such lines as "I believe in calling a spade a spade," and "Show me a blue collar and I'll show you a red neck." But it has been downhill from there-a leftover lunch of cold...
...wavering white liberal is shamed into telling the Morgans where Nathan Lee is being held. David Lee goes on an unsuccessful search for his father, but during the course of his journey, he runs across an all-black school where he is befriended by the teacher. Camille (Janet MacLachlan). David Lee stays at the school for awhile, and receives his first instruction in black history...
...mere thought of holding such an august office sets Jones to trembling. "How are you, Dad?" inquires his daughter (Janet MacLachlan). "Nuuummmb," Jones replies, drawing the word out of his mouth as if it were a piece of bubble gum. His militant daughter regards him as little better than a token black, a mild-mannered professor willing to tap-dance to the white man's tune. Everyone else around Washington has more or less the same impression...
...MACLACHLAN...