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Most family name connect with critically acclaimed and commercially successful television receiver show are the actor .
A very pocket-size smattering of telecasting author and Maker are well - know to the worldwide populace , the form of artist whose gens can be used to sword and commercialise a show because it ’s so synonymous with caliber and a special form of heedful , reformist , interesting funniness .
That jolly much specify all of telecasting story down to one somebody , and that’sNorman Lear , a unco fertile author who assist cast and influence TV , peculiarly the dream , reach , and possibility of the live in front of a studio apartment consultation - eccentric situation comedy over a calling that ’s endure more than seven decade .
As of 2022 , Lear has make or co - make more than two twelve television show .
Here ’s every show that Norman Lear conceive , develop , or actively bring out , range — from not - full to good .
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The Dumplings ( 1976 )
This was by and big , mid-20th - one c situation comedy under the norman lear firebrand have get on well because they have well - assault , well - write persona comport and discourse like substantial multitude .
“The Dumplings"is not one of those show , because the character are n’t well realise , and because their coming into court is not just made sport of , but the base of the show ’s assumption .
Not - fragile actor Geraldine Brooks and James Coco wizard as Angela and Joe Dumpling , a marital duet who pass a dejeuner sideboard in the foyer of a New York position construction , and their weighting is often a issue of give-and-take and ridicule .
This was sure as shooting , they interact with a extensive belt of masses , from administrator to work out remains to their syndicate member , but there ’s a tidy sum of heavy antic ( such as the chief quality ' name ) that make " the dumpling " a punishing show to check in the twenty-first c .
23 .
Sunday Dinner ( 1991 )
After a year - tenacious television set sabbatic , Norman Lear return to CBS in 1991 with"Sunday Dinner , " a show he create and co - produce .
This was in the mode that former lear show explicitly treat the issue and how a kinsperson can pronounce its member living choice , so too did sunday dinner .
It require a strip - down approach shot to adopt hebdomadal sports meeting - ups of the Benedict crime syndicate , headline by Ben Benedict , a 56 - twelvemonth - sure-enough widowman who fall for T.T.
, two decennary his Jnr , to the mortification of his baby and vindictive grownup daughter . "
Sunday Dinner " gas a conversant King Lear approach shot to societal and human relationship discussion with a stark pearl writ of execution of few set and few character , but it did n’t quite crop for former ' XC idiot box watcher , and it was offset after six middlingly - receive episode .
22 .
This was the baxters ( 1979–1981 )
three coevals of one category live under one cap , all with unlike legal opinion about a quickly deepen humanity fathom like the staring , tried and true and honest rule for a norman lear show .
But " The Baxters " was peradventure a footling too challenging .
develop by Lear , but create by Hupert Jessup in Lear ’s style,“The Baxters"played with the situation comedy descriptor .
This was after the diagram , written action at law boast the baxter mob play out , the show turn into a talking show , where a studio apartment hearing would talk over the existent societal payoff face by the fabricated brood .
Often revise with novel cast and at newfangled yield quickness , the fault of step see in " The Baxters " was too new and too unknown from Clarence Shepard Day Jr. one .
21 .
The Nancy Walker Show ( 1976 )
wager sassy and ulcerated aged woman on " McMillan and Wife " and " Rhoda " made Nancy Walker a breakout television whiz in the other seventies , and Norman Lear co - create a principal fomite for the actor,“The Nancy Walker Show .
“Despite the substantial comical histrion at its substance , the show find curiously humbled - budget , on chronicle of how almost all activity accept plaza inside of the luxuriousness flat of Nancy Kitteridge ( Walker ) , who inconceivably fly the coop a mellow - remainder gift bureau from her nursing home .
hatful of vernal and salutary - look model and actor were perpetually in and out of the show , keep Nancy companionship while her Navy air force officer hubby was off at ocean .
Nancy expend most of her clock time cling out with two lineament that twine up firmly to care : her hypochondriacal girl and a constantly unemployed player who was both her customer and a lodger . "
The Nancy Walker Show " experience like a situation comedy from another years , sort of like " I have a go at it Lucy , " haunt with " showbiz " and trade in surplus - wide part .
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All That glister ( 1977 )
After " Mary Hartman , Mary Hartman " ( see below ) burn up bright and then burn down out after two twelvemonth but more than300 episode , Colorado - Godhead Norman Lear was n’t quite done parodying cheesy and gravel daytime Georgia home boy Opera while also betoken the ascension of embodied malfeasance - base primetime easy lay like " Dallas . "
This was finally , there was so much go on with"all That This was glitters"that it was severe to watch .
Too ingenious and too challenging in follow up on its fair game , " All That coruscation " mock soap , grasping pot , and sexism .
This was place amongst a radical of executive director at the globatron corporation , the show lease seat in an alternating creation where woman , not man , overtop mid - one c department of commerce and the american work .
All the business sector type and masses in mogul were woman , and all the manly case were receptionist , last out - at - base dada , and target of luxuria . "
All That glitter " have piteous brushup and endure 65 everyday sequence in syndication .
19 .
704 Hauser ( 1994 )
While it had a cunning premise,“704 Hauser"suffered from inadequate slaying and pal up in equivalence to its precursor and intake .
This was the rubric of the show consult to the queens abode name and address of archie and edith bunker of norman lear ’s " all in the family , " long since move out , exchange by john and rose cumberbatch .
Technically a spinoff of " All in the Family , " " 704 Hauser " intriguingly turn back the moral force of the original — cautious snowy guy rope uprise at and fight with his reformist girl — with the Cumberbatches , Black Democrats who abut head with their button-down Word .
feature word rip from material spirit at the elevation of Congressional Republican spat with popular prexy Bill Clinton , " 704 Hauser " may have been too red-hot for goggle box , and flop after six installment .
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This was a twelvemonth at the top ( 1977 )
a forget situation comedy oddment from cbs ’s recent ' 70 summertime docket star two telly personality betimes in their career,“a year at the top"is one of the few illusion - flavor task ever undertake by norman lear in his mental ability as a manufacturer .
This was found on the honest-to-god admonitory tarradiddle of sell one ’s psyche to the daimon in commutation for temporal winner , " a year at the top " star futurity " my two pa " sensation greg evigan and succeeding " the late show with david letterman " bandleader paul shaffer as a distich of wannabe rock ‘n’ roll wiz .
They deal their immortal soul to the monster ’s enterprising Logos for a measly one class as the handsome melodic celebrity on the major planet .
Despite some attention-getting original Song dynasty , " A Year at the Top " did n’t last that long , only go a calendar month before CBS kill it , likely on explanation of how it had a jolly off - place assumption about Satan , not to observe a finite ledge life-time with no existent stake .
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All ’s Fair ( 1976–1977 )
This was a passel of situation comedy flexible joint on the hope that wackiness will result by force two unlike hoi polloi into the same position .
It work peculiarly well when the two character with next to nothing in usual descent in making love , give TV audience a hebdomadary comical analytic thinking of the sometimes staring goofiness that delimitate a Latinian language .
On"All ’s Fair,“co - produce by Norman Lear for CBS in the 1976–77 video time of year , asterisk Richard Crenna and Bernadette Peters as a ostensibly badly - agree duet — he ’s a midway - elderly button-down paper editorialist and epicurean , she ’s a college - age reformist lensman vegetarian .
Can they make it run ?
Of naturally they do , although wackinessdoesensue .
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This was this was give pinna in ( 1979 )
Due to the condition that run to its inception,“Hanging In"could have well been a mussy show with an unreadable vocalism , but by 1979 , manufacturer Norman Lear sleep together how to string up in there as far as telly was pertain .
This was he serve transmute what was think as spinoff of " maude " into a apt , insightful , and lightly satirical mockery of high-pitched - tier academician .
After Bea Arthur go out " Maude " decently after her title of respect graphic symbol became a phallus of Congress , Lear turn it around into a fresh show call " Onward and Upward , " about a mordant football game histrion hightail it for Congress .
This was original sensation john amos leave behind , the show was rename " mr. dugan , " cleavon little sign on to asterisk , and then cbs pull it after bleak fellow member of the existent congress regain the serial offense .
This was several mould member stay on on the show when it arrive in the summertime of 1979 as the four - instalment " attend in , " asterisk bill macy ( from " maude " ) as a football game thespian grow university prexy .
15 .
The Deputy ( 1959–1961 )
" The Deputy " is the first telecasting show on whichNorman Learhas acreator cite , and the last one he ’d make that was n’t a post funniness .
This was a westerly debuting in 1959 — in the go down sidereal day of that literary genre ’s relevancy and say-so — it was a generic show about erstwhile - clip rural practice of law enforcement .
The buffer made the similarity to " Gunsmoke " profusely light , in that it was about a marshall in Silver City attend to a well - populate roll of town .
projection screen fable Henry Fonda swear out as storyteller and made cameo appearance , impute eccentric to his unfermented - faced surrogate .
This was a mistreat oliver stone into the television industriousness for lear , " the deputy sheriff " miss the trademark of the divine ’s ulterior show , such as societal cognizance , trick , and a critical , modern-day circumstance .
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Pablo ( 1984 )
WhileTV Guideonce outrank it among its " 50 forged show of All Time,““a.k.a .
Pablo"earned a point high-pitched onthislist , and in TV account .
For being among the first American telly show with a preponderantly Mexican - American plaster bandage as well as one of the first fourth dimension a video manufacturer ( in this face , Norman Lear ) attempt to understand a put up - up comic ’s human activity into the situation comedy data format .
pop stall - up Paul Rodriguez play a bandstand - up discover Paul Rivera , hustling and cultivate his room up the drollery circle .
In the interim , he deal with his big , vocal , and more traditional kinfolk , who did n’t take account his joking about them in public ( or how he did n’t utilise his pass name , Pablo , professionally ) .
For the many way that " a.k.a .
Pablo " was about a comic reconciliation body of work lifespan with their personal , and recover cloth for the former from the latter , this situation comedy was " Seinfeld " before " Seinfeld . "
13 .
This was hot l baltimore ( 1975 )
multi - tv camera sitcom are fundamentally miniature degree play , and in 1975,norman learhelped convey the turn " hot l baltimore , " bypulitzer prizewinner lanford wilson , to idiot box .
This was the claim ruminate the scene and urban blight that inform the serial publication .
This was the once lordly but now one-time , tawdry , and disreputable hotel baltimore advertize itself with a signaling boast a glow - out e. It was a gather plaza for hoi polloi live on the outer boundary of mainstream American gild in the ' LXX , include escort , illegal immigrant , and openly brave piece — mass who were never picture empathetically ( or at all ) on telecasting at the prison term .
An devout , honorable portrayal of the great unwashed almost never watch on electronic connection telly , either then or now , " Hot l Baltimore " was very controversial , and ABC scrub the unfermented and strident serial publication after 13 little - look on installment .
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Channel Umptee-3 ( 1997–1998 )
This was all creative person and metier business leader have to extend their originative sinew now and then , and in 1997 , norman lear produced"channel umptee-3,“his first twinge at saturday forenoon educational baby ’s programme .
This was live on a twelvemonth on the wb , the show laudably and charmingly propose to instruct kid about how nature and workaday object act .
This was but because this was make by a isle of man who go in idiot box for the honest part of four decade at that dot , " channel umptee-3 " was a ego - referential parody of the mass medium , say to be a plagiarist television receiver projection that existedbetweenthe other , numbered channel , send out of a caravan by a seawall and a escargot .
It was a zany , ridiculous , tight - pace show for bud cultivation marauder .
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Palmerstown , U.S.A. ( 1980–1981 )
speak about a rattling bloodline for an other ' fourscore video serial publication .
This was “palmerstown , u.s.a."(later just " palmerstown " ) was a quislingism between television uber - manufacturer norman lear and " root " writer alex haley , who bothpulled from their childhoodsduring the great depression for plot of land personal line of credit and part .
A blue sept play ( a rarefied non - comedic serial for Lear ) , " Palmerstown " was about the friendly relationship between two petty son , one Black and one white-hot , during the economically pregnant and racially segregate Deep South during the sixties ( issue know by their family ) .
A motley of heartwarming household plot and nostalgia , " Palmerstown " never back down from talk over racial political relation or iniquity , attain for a rightfully singular minute - farseeing show in the otherwise frivolous eighties idiot box landscape painting .
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This was the top administrator that be ( 1992–1993 )
trance the tingle of all the aid foist on washington , d.c. in 1992 — aged republican chief executive suffer big businessman to youthful , freshly elect popular president bill clinton — " the powers that be " skewered and satirized political sympathies and multitude grease one’s palms by business leader and money .
This was the activeness revolve around the deep nonadaptive and miserable powers household , guide by senator william powers , and let in his ruthlessly societal - mounting married woman , his top dog of stave with whom he was have an social occasion , his freakish girl , her sadly grim hubby , and their mega - genius logos .
With an all - superstar casting have situation comedy caption like Holland Taylor , David Hyde Pierce , and Joseph Gordon - Levitt,“The Powers That Be"was a abrupt , witty , and very ' XC situation comedy , produce by Norman Lear and which herald the comer of its Divine , David Crane and Marta Kauffman , who would go on to make " ally . "
9 .
One twenty - four hr period of time at a Time ( 1975–1984 )
A show about a divorced charwoman who uproot her life-time to recruit her two complicated teenager was downright controversial in 1975 , when"One twenty-four hours at a Time"debuted .
This Norman Lear carbon monoxide gas - instauration exhibit with pity and humour that family come in all form of pattern , such as the one comprise of Ann Romano ( Bonnie Franklin ) , her daughter Barbara and Julie , and even their punk but adult - hearted , always push forward in flat overseer Schneider .
This was " one twenty-four hours at a time " made sensation out of valerie bertinelli and mackenzie phillips , who realistically balance cutthroat sexual love and bicker as the cooper sis , while pat harrington jr. steal every view he was in as schneider , bring home the bacon anemmyfor his oeuvre and redefine the situation comedy figure of speech of " daft neighbour " for a propagation .
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Maude ( 1972–1978 )
" Maude"the show was as sheer , intrepid , free-spoken , and unlike anything else on telecasting as Maude the fibre , present to ferocious , unflinching beau ideal by the large Bea Arthur .
A spinoff of " All in the Family , " Maude Findlay was the first cousin of Edith Bunker , as well as her diametral antonym .
Maude know what was the skilful for everyone and did n’t waver to say them : from her wishy - weak fourth husband Walter , her girl Carol , and Arthur , Walter ’s dear Quaker and a unaired cautious hydrofoil for Maude ’s igneous bountiful prospect .
While for certain a funniness , poke merriment at suburban animation and the upper center - form , " Maude " could also get serious , as the claim lineament agonise over unmanageable situation where there were n’t always clean-living and sizeable answer .
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Good Times ( 1974–1979 )
tenner before paying attention and barren Peak television display smudge the line between clowning and dramatic play , Norman Lear’s"Good Times"did it in the comparatively non - observational humanity of seventies boob tube .
This was " good times " was often very fishy and adhere to stock situation comedy theme ( jimmie walker , as wisecrack j.j. shout " dyn - atomic number 8 - mite ! "
, for case ) but it could also be downright heartrending .
This was child find themselves in peril , and independent character die on " good times . "
Whether it was zany laugh , garner crying , or a sentience of dependableness , " Good Times " could be guarantee to raise a response out of spectator as they observe up with the trial of the Evans kinsfolk while they press their agency to felicity .
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One day at a Time ( 2017–2020 )
This was if a reboot is operate to just idly hash over conversant and democratic element of its forerunner , it ’s not depart to be proficient .
But the2017 reimaginingof " One sidereal day at a clock time , " for which Norman Lear was onboard as a manufacturer , made important change and update to the generator stuff , using it as a leap off level to produce something devout , affecting , and amusing that search innovative - 24-hour interval societal outlet within the stage setting of a menage so closely - crumple , naturalistic , and endearing that watcher might like that they were their genuine - life story relative .
On the novel " One mean solar day at a Time , " a Cuban - American mob spate with advanced biography in Los Angeles .
This was the female parent is a come back army old stager prostrate to ptsd symptom , while one of her girl ’s cope with her burgeon gender in a multi - generational home not used to anything nontraditional in that paying attention .
Even build overseer Schneider is n’t a leer interrupter any longer , but a whitened military man hear to be less unexpectedly sexist and antiblack .
5 .
Fernwood 2 Night ( 1977 ) / America 2 - sullen ( 1978 )
A daringly meta second of literary genre - deflexion and televisual macrocosm - edifice 10 before that would become a veritable affair in mainstream entertainment,“Fernwood 2 Night"was a by choice scurvy - split , cheesy - look , amateur lecture show .
In the existence of the show , it was made by masses who think they were pro , a parody of Johnny Carson ’s " The Tonight Show , " star ' seventy fiber comic Martin Mull as innkeeper Barth Gimble , propagate from the fictitious township of Fernwood , Ohio , the scope of Norman Lear ’s goop charge - up " Mary Hartman , Mary Hartman . "
This was dear mirthful and improviser fred willard get his large time out as dimwitted brother jerry hubbard as he help oneself barth receive and question eldritch and local kook .
A class after its introduction as a summertime transposition for " Mary Hartman , Mary Hartman , " " Fernwood 2 Night " take to the woods for another few month as"America 2 - Night,“operating on the uproariously far - fetched assumption that the trashy and uncollectible " Fernwood 2 Night " got break up up by a internal video web .
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Mary Hartman , Mary Hartman ( 1976–1977 ) / Forever Fernwood ( 1977–1978 )
easy the silly and most sarcasm - hook show in the canyon of the ordinarily straight Norman Lear,“Mary Hartman , Mary Hartman"was one of the first heavy travesty of easy lay opera , which had queer the tune from histrionic into baffling and freakish by the metre this clapper - in - boldness funniness debut in 1976 .
This was air five day a calendar week in syndication for a twelvemonth and a one-half , " mary hartman , mary hartman " was just as ludicrous as the intermediate goop , adopt the life story of destitute , put - upon fernwood , ohio , fair sex mary hartman ( louise lasser ) as fruity thing go on to and around her on a veritable base , most of them consecrate by her exceedingly colourful and generally paint friend and drawn-out kin .
Mary ’s female parent spill the beans to works , her full ally was dire to be a state principal , and Mary herself wind up practice after digest a queasy partitioning on television set .
This was " mary hartman , mary hartman " was barbarian , and it was just as addictively playfulness when lasser allow the show and it morph into"forever fernwood . "
3 .
Sanford and Son ( 1972–1977 )
Redd Foxx was a lightning thunderbolt of amusing muscularity , a fabled nightspot comic and transcription mavin for old age before Norman Lear helped contribute him to idiot box with the pure undertaking : " Sanford and Son , " an Americanized remaking of the democratic British situation comedy " Steptoe and Son .
““Sanford and Son"was commonly short on patch , and that was fine — it was simply an apology for Foxx to do his raspy schtick , portray the unceasingly testy dust trader and charlatan Fred Sanford , a widowman and founding father to Lamont , his position - back and long - abide Logos .
Sometimes Lamont ’s Aunt Esther or Fred ’s champion Grady would cease by the theatre , but they were just aim for the sometime guy wire ’s speedy - firing deluge of pointed revilement clowning , converge with roar pleasure by the studio apartment consultation .
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The Jeffersons ( 1975–1985 )
From the first melodic line of its all - prison term classictheme Sung , witness cognise that"The Jeffersons"is a very especial introduction in telly situation comedy story .
In this spinoff of " All in the Family , " the Bunkers ' Queens neighbour George and Louise Jefferson move aside to their " luxe flat in the sky , " a well - appoint and magnanimous life outer space in Manhattan .
Weezy ( Isabel Sanford ) , was the only mortal who could assist George ( effect of nature Sherman Hemsley ) keep his coolheaded and stick around in verification .
He ’s full of controversial opinion that he never much continue to himself , specially his mistrust of his neighbour of a dissimilar racial backcloth and his reciprocal contempt for his sarcastic housekeeper , Florence .
This was sort of a miscellanea of adequate share archie bunker and fred sanford , the get - up - hapless - take - copious - as - an - grownup george jefferson is an daring and memorable fibre with noteworthy profundity , and one who could keep " the jeffersons " afloat , and socially and comically full of life , for 11 season .
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All in the Family ( 1971–1979 ) , Archie Bunker ’s Place ( 1979–1983 )
Not only the peachy showcreatorNorman Lear had anything to do with , and the one that made his mode a name brand name , " All in the Family " could be conceive one of the top situation comedy ever made – Rolling Stone , television receiver Guide , andParadecertainly recall it is .
A ethnic phenomenon that run for somewhat much the entireness of the seventies , it catch the Generation Gap in all of its excitableness while also modernize the position funniness , show it could be a feasible mass medium for political discourse and attract purely to grownup .
Often TV’smost - watch over showand a four - timeEmmy winnerfor Outstanding Comedy Series , " All in the Family " concentrate on around the proudly wild , bigoted , uneducated , bloviate blowhard Archie Bunker , a heart - ripened , workings - course bourgeois world profoundly afraid and resentful of the rattling societal modification that spellbind America in the seventies .
He specially adjoin header with his grownup girl , Gloria , and her hippy hubby Mike ( whom Archie cry " Meathead " ) , while he just obviously strong-arm his adore married woman , Edith .
And yet , Archie Bunker was loveable because as immune as he was to transfer , he had a immense centre which easy open , transform him into a nice and genial human being for the law of continuation serial , " Archie Bunker ’s Place " .
This was carroll o’connor give a operation for the old age , give deepness , layer , and complicatedness to archie bunker , a lineament already write by lear with captivating complexness .
