There's a sweet b/w episode about Uncle Charley taking care of a Korean orphan called "Charley and the Kid." I just came across an interview with Stan Livingston, that mentions the lack of diversity on the show.
Quote:
It probably was impossible to perpetuate that beyond a certain point anyway with the encroachment of Civil Rights and Vietnam and…we never had any of that [on the show], although we did have a black person. Our producer [cast] a black guy… And it kind of caused a stink on our set [amongst] some of the crew guys, so he basically said to the crew guys, “You don’t like it? You’re f*****’ fired!”
…And…it almost became an issue with the network like, “We can’t have a black guy…they’re supposed to be in the kitchen or be a janitor or something!” and he was just…a regular guy working—I think he played an engineer at the aeronautical plant… So yeah there were some things there that were kind of subtle behind the scenes that really were noteworthy that that happened.
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Source (middle of the page):
http://thelosangelesbeat.com/2014/07...dhood-stardom/
It's nice to know that
at least they wanted to do more and include different types of people. Of course, now I wonder if they did stories about asians because they couldn't do stories about blacks.