anyone remember this short-lived sitcom with Stockard Channing (who was also appearing on movie screens at the time as Rizzo in GREASE) It was about a single mother with a son. It aired on CBS in 1978, but that's all I remember of it.

Yes, the show was about an unwed mother. The
subject matter was too much for it's time, yet
tame by today's standards. WAY before it's time.
This is an oddity for which LOTS of people are searching,
including me. Anyone have it?

I had a friend who recorded almost every sitcom from that time period but I haven't come across this one in his collection yet.

Miss Winslow & Son was a limited-run series which aired in the early spring of 1979, concurrently (and on the same network) with Stockard Channing in Just Friends. Miss Channing was not "Miss Winslow," that was Darleen Carr.

You may remember her from an episode of Quincy in which the doc really falls for her, only to be lured by her to a mountain cabin where her real boyfriend lies in wait to bump him off. She played a similarly deranged character in at least one of her four guest shots on Simon & Simon. She does "deranged" really well thanks to her piercing eyes.

Miss Winslow & Son followed the The Jeffersons on Wednesday nights. I remember there being minor hubbub about the premise of an unwed mother, but I also recall watching it and liking it--and totally forgetting any details about it! :p MW&S aired all of its six episodes and quietly expired forever.

..."MISS WINSLOW AND SON" was adapted from a more "free thinking" British sitcom called "MISS JONES & SON". Whatever merits the original had, obviously didn't translate into success or acceptance here. Then, of course, there was the fact that ABC's "EIGHT IS ENOUGH" had more viewers than whatever CBS scheduled on Wednesdays [between 8-9pm(et)] in early 1979.

:tv:

i loved the show

i liked the show too i even have an unused ticket to one of the tapings

Darleen Carr guested on Simon & Simon because she was married to Jameson Parker. I think she also played Karl Malden's daughter on the Streets of San Francisco and even appeared in the reunion movie 15 years ago.

Yes I do have at least one episode of this series, the pilot from CBS if I remember right.

Aj

Weren't there only 4 episodes? Aired after people had VCRs so someone should have it somewhere.

All I have is the CBS pilot, not a great show by any means. Of course the black neighbor on the show went on to replace Benson on SOAP. He just died recently, name was Roscoe Lee Browne.

Aj

All I have is the CBS pilot, not a great show by any means. Of course the black neighbor on the show went on to replace Benson on SOAP. He just died recently, name was Roscoe Lee Browne.

Aj


I want a copy, I want a copy

I have seen its intro on You tube as part of bobcnn's compilation of 1979 TV show intros. I don't remember this sitcom at all. And what did Bob's TV treasure mean by the subject matter of Miss winslow and son being too much for its time?

I want a copy, I want a copyme too

I have seen its intro on You tube as part of bobcnn's compilation of 1979 TV show intros. I don't remember this sitcom at all. And what did Bob's TV treasure mean by the subject matter of Miss winslow and son being too much for its time?
I don't know; anyone?

And; everyone's calling it "MISS Winslow and son", it was"MS. Winslow and son".

I don't know; anyone?

And; everyone's calling it "MISS Winslow and son", it was"MS. Winslow and son".i think he means that back in 1979 they just didnt do sitcoms about unwed mothers and the subject matter probably made more than a few viewers cringe i myself loved roscoe lee brown as the nebighor he stole the show

Yes, the premise of unwed motherhood led to an early demise for poor WINSLOW (years
before the same premise caused a certain uptight vice-president to
denounce the unwed motherhood of MURPHY BROWN). However,
by then the veep's uproar seemed rather out-of-place and out-of-pace, and he was
justly ridiculed and maligned.

I remember reading about in it my tv books. Darlene Carr did have the part which was a bit of change for I usually saw in goody goody roles. She played series of rolesl in the late 60's to mid 70's. Getting back to MISS if she not married she is still a miss. MS I thought could be married or not.