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...elaborate: they live in neighboring apartments, for example, that are connected by a hidden door in the bookcase. MacGruder & Loud goes through the cop-show motions, but the off-duty mush is clearly where its heart is set. You can't keep a good genre down. Reports of the sitcom's death, it turns out, were premature; all the genre needed was a healthy dose of adult writing, as proved by The Cosby Show, the new season's biggest hit. Enter Sara, a very adult sitcom about a single lawyer (Geena Davis) trying to make...
...phone with her boyfriend and threatening to "devote my entire life to crisis counseling for the holiday-impaired. My mother can be the poster child." And young Jeremy (Christopher Fields), just back from the war, slouches about like a lost soul. On closer inspection, though, this engaging sitcom quartet reveals affinities to more tortured theatrical families: O'Neill's Tyrones, Miller's Lomans, the ravaging couples in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Jeremy really has lost his soul, lost it for good and all, in the jungles of Viet...
DOMESTIC LIFE (CBS). Before Bill Cosby revived the sitcom genre in the fall, Martin Mull poked juicy fun at it last January, playing the father of a slightly loony family in a very funny, undeservedly short-lived series...
COMFORT AND JOY. Sitcom becomes surrealism in this tale of a Scottish disk jockey's miserable Merry Christmas. The best film yet from cockeyed visionary Bill Forsyth...
...offices in Burbank, several months later. Network executives are celebrating the latest Nielsen ratings: after nine straight seasons in last place in the prime-time race, NBC has finally moved up to No. 2. Its new hit The Cosby Show, a sitcom about the trials of middle-aged parents, is a major reason...