RIP Norman Lear: Hail, Hail to the '70s Sitcom Pioneer

[stevearino]

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/...133220344.html

Norman Lear, best known for creating a plethora's worth of '70s sitcoms as "All in the Family" and its spin-offs "Maude," "The Jeffersons" & "Good Times" (a "Maude" spin-off) as well as the '70s sitcoms "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman" and "Fernwood 2-Night" has died of Natural Causes at age 101 in his Los Angeles, California home.

Norman Milton Lear was born on July 27, 1922 in New Haven, Connecticut; like many men his age group and younger, Norman voluntarily enlisted in the U.S. Army during World War II, after which he got his career start as a writer I believe for Sid Caesar's "Your Show of Shows" but DO NOT quote me on that.

His big TV break came on January 12, 1971 when his first of many sitcom creations, "All in the Family," made its TV debut on the CBS Television Network and became a ratings juggernaut with its controversial subjects--including a memorable one from Season 7 in 1977 when Edith Bunker (Jean Stapleton) survived an attempted rape by a man (David Dukes), to prove a point that any woman CAN and often ARE rape victims, not just stereotypical attractive model-type beauties people often see in film/print and on TV.

2 years after that, "All in the Family" was re-tooled in 1979 as "Archie Bunker's Place," and the following year Archie Bunker (Carroll O'Connor) became a widower after Edith died of a Massive Stroke, becoming legal guardian to their niece Stephanie (Danielle Brisebois).

Over the course of 7 decades, Norman Lear continued working in TV almost to the end, and will be greatly missed, and for that, Hail, Hail, Norman Lear!

[Dude111]

Very sad...........