Word: sitcomic
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...imagination with such a collection of memorable characters. Indeed, perhaps no American entertainer has created so raucous or raunchy a crew as Archie and Edith, Maude and Walter, J.J., the Jeffersons, Sanford and son-and this season's most improbable heroine, Mary Hartman. Next season the monarch of sitcom will have two new shows on the air, and these too seem likely to slice through prime-time jabberwocky to hit Americans in nerve end and funny bone...
...workers on Happy Days, and suggested The Bionic Woman spinoff. Silverman's impact on ABC itself is obvious. Already the network exudes a No. 1 brand of confidence. Now the hot $m_ |f-entertainers want to be at ABC. More than 50 projects, including a new Norman Lear sitcom starring Nancy Walker and an evening soap by Agnes Nixon (All My Children), are being considered by Silverman in a familiar CBS pattern -no commitments, just a lot of promising developments...
There are a number of other programs scrambling around down there in the pits with A.A.G. It is difficult, for example, to decide which is the worst new sitcom. For sheer witlessness, the nod should go to LAVERNE AND SHIRLEY, (ABC, Tuesday, 8:30 p.m. E.S.T.), a spin-off from Happy Days, in which the title gals (one cannot bring oneself to use a more dignified term) are employed in a Milwaukee brewery in the early 1960s-a situation about which we are for some reason supposed to feel nostalgia. Penny Marshall, who plays Laverne, has chosen not to characterize...
...Tuesday, 9:30 p.m. E.S.T.), Lear makes the same mistake that the producers of the late Fay did. Instead of the humor inherent in the show's situation-a formerly married woman's adjustment to the single state-he has chosen to cram it with familiar sitcom gags...
...rolling Camelot. The pair have yet to encounter any bad weather, let alone any bad vibes on ABC the roads they (theoretically) share with the dispossessed multitudes inscribed on our consciousness by the fiction and photography of the period. Documentary verisimilitude is too much to ask of a sitcom, but surely there might be some semblance of the vulgar energy that animated the movie from which the show is derived-not to mention Joe David Brown's fine novel...