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...report winds up in a New York City newspaper. Nancy, playing Nancy, reads it and drops by to discuss the piece. She flubbed a line in rehearsal, but fared better with the cameras rolling. Would she, asked Executive Producer Howard Leeds, like to star in her own sitcom? The First Lady laughed. "We'll talk," she replied. That's Hollywood for tabling the motion...
...picked up as a series, Lorimar might use the Harvard bikers on a regular basis, Seidel said. It would depend, however, on how the network would want to develop the show. If it were an adventure mystery it would be filmed in the Boston area. If it becomes a sitcom, it will go to Hollywood...
While some might say the social importance of a weekly sitcom is limited. M*A*S*H earned a cult prominence and then a social significance that guaranteed it more than a sitcom's respect...
...Every sitcom must have its bad guys, even as every war finds its black-market profiteers, body-count fanatics and suspicious spooks. M*A*S*H had its fair and flaky share, led by Frank Burns, the camp martinet. As Linville notes, Burns had "a mind that's obviously stripped its gears, and yet here he is standing over other human beings with a knife in his hand." At first, locked in a dead end affair with Frank, Hot Lips was simply a stock shrew, an excellent nurse but a failure as a woman. She was also attracted despite...
...velvet-gloved champion of creative personnel, but at NBC he was unable to stanch defections by Newsman David Brinkley (to ABC) and Sports Chief Don Ohlmeyer (to independent production). He did woo many of his old MTM employees to develop relatively sophisticated new series, like the sitcom Cheers and the hospital drama St. Elsewhere. With these shows NBC has asserted its image as the "quality network," though the one new NBC show to perform reasonably well against tough competition - Knight Rider, in the suicide slot opposite Dallas - is just another burning-rubber melodrama, a CHIPS of Hazzard...