I know there has always been and will always be an agenda-pushing, mind-molding aspect to television, but this is from a time when sit-coms actually said something other than disgustingly endless double-entendres:
"Theodore J. Flicker worked on various sitcoms before helping to create “Barney Miller,” the award-winning series about New York police detectives.
According to his wife, Mr. Flicker had developed a show proposal called “My Husband the Detective” when his agent urged him to work with producer Danny Arnold to develop the idea into a sitcom. Mr. Flicker helped Arnold write and direct the show’s pilot, in 1974, and to conceive future story lines. Barbara Flicker said that soon after the pilot, Arnold took control of the show and sought to diminish Mr. Flicker’s role. Mr. Flicker’s involvement ended with the first season, while Arnold remained one of the show’s leading creative forces during its long run, from 1975 to 1982.
Mr. Flicker sued in the mid-1970s, saying he had been wrongly treated; he received a multimillion-dollar settlement. Arnold died in 1995....
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Related: Barney Miller Poll Results
Shutting off the light at the old One-Two.
