When was maude on the air

She's a liberal, independent woman living in Tuckahoe, New York with her fourth husband Walter, owner of Findlay's Friendly Appliances; Carol Traynor, her divorced daughter from her second marriage; and Carol's son Philip. Other characters included: Dr. Arthur Harmon, Walter's conservative best friend from their Army days--he and Maude were always at odds about politics and just about everything; and Vivian Cavender-Harmon, Maude's naive best friend from their college days who married Harmon in season three.

Naugutuck were the most memorable. Did you know Edit. Reportedly this was a prank he used to pull from time to time. The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences responded by telling Norman Lear and the producers of "Maude" that they would no longer be eligible for any Emmy awards for the duration of the run of the show. Goofs At the end of the series, the Governor of New York State appoints Maude to the House of Representatives, filling a vacancy caused by the death of her local Congresswoman.

In fact, vacancies in the House of Representatives caused by the death, resignation, or expulsion of a member can be filled only by a special or general election.

The rules for filling vacancies in the U. Senate, however, vary from state to state. Quotes Florida Evans : [on Maude's new facelift] You may be looking at a brand new face, but you'll still be hearing the same old mouth. User reviews 32 Review. Top review. Norman Lear is notorious for his liberal so they called it ground-breaking television series of the 70's in which he tampered with conservative censors' traditional television taboos. The downside is the way the show outdated itself by being too topical, but on the other hand it stands as a time capsule.

Bea Arthur is a better actress than this show displays, since she is rarely given the opportunity to do much more than posturing and screaming "Walter" repeatedly. Many 70's programs are now waving the banner of 'retro' to gain some sort of badge of hip for the straplings that weren't there; this show should be returned to the vaults and only drudged up for retrospectives iconifying what made this era of entertainment the very worst that the century had to offer. Skinny Oct 21, Details Edit.

Release date September 12, United States. Despite the compromise, the network developed cold feet at the last minute: CBS refused to pay to tape the episodes. A secretary for producer Fred Silverman, who was head of CBS programming at the time, said he was ''too busy'' to be interviewed for this article. By the time the shows were repeated, in August , a campaign against them had been organized by the United States Catholic Conference.

The reruns were broadcast, but nearly 40 affiliates chose not to air them, not one corporate sponsor bought commercial time, and CBS received more than 17, letters of protest. I think the problem was I had become some sort of Joan of Arc for the middle-aged woman. Despite the protests, the shows attracted a huge audience. In an era before cable TV and home video, the episodes averaged 41 percent of the viewing audience. Not only were they No. CBS estimated that as many as 65 million people watched at least one of the episodes, either first-run or in rerun.

That figure represented nearly one-third of the American population. Twenty years later, it is doubtful a similar show could be broadcast on network TV. Nowadays the ''a'' word has practically been purged from the prime-time vocabulary and is heard almost exclusively on talk shows and some daytime soaps.

They asked Lear for a delay, saying otherwise they wouldn't pay for the taping. But Lear declared that if these episodes didn't air, he wouldn't provide anything in their place. The network blinked and the shows were recorded. When the two episodes of "Maude's Dilemma" aired on November 14 and 21, , two Illinois affiliates, in Champaign and Peoria, opted not to broadcast the show a third affiliate, in Detroit, had planned to skip the show but ended up airing it in the face of protest.

Maude 's audience still increased for the episodes, bringing the program to the Top 10 in TV ratings. There were objections afterward — nearly phone calls came into CBS in New York registering opposition — but Lear has explained that at first "relatively nothing happened.

The episodes were scheduled to appear as reruns in August According to Lear, opposition flared that summer because "the religious right knew the show was coming. It happened in front of my car in LA. The protests affected the scheduled reruns: This time almost 40 affiliates opted not to broadcast them.

And while other Maude reruns had sold all of their commercial time, few sponsors could be found for these episodes. CBS aired the shows but added a warning: "Tonight's episode of Maude was originally broadcast in November of Since it deals with 'Maude's Dilemma' as she contemplates the possibility of abortion, you may wish to refrain from watching it, if you believe the broadcast may disturb you or others in your family.

Even with the affiliates that opted out, CBS calculated that 65 million viewers saw at least one of Maude 's abortion episodes, either during the first run or as a rerun. Lear noted in , "I wasn't doing messages, but the writers and I were aware of what was happening up the street, what was in the papers, what we were experiencing in our own lives. First Lady Betty Ford was such a devotee that she dubbed herself "Maude's Number One Fan," and later helped sell the show into syndication.

Lear felt that the opposition the show experienced "wasn't 'the American people' speaking. It was a minority.