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Mary Tyler Moore y Ted Knight en “El show de Mary Tyler Moore”.
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Programs that changed our view of women, at home and at work
i love lucy (1951-1957) America liked Ike, but it was Lucy we love. The next day, 29 million watched Eisenhower’s inauguration, 44 million watched Lucille Ball’s character run to the hospital to give birth. The show, with the first inter-ethnic couple on television (Desi Arnaz, Ball’s co-star and husband in real life, was Cuban-American), influenced all subsequent series.
El show de Mary Tyler Moore (1970-1977) She could go around the world with her smile, but she was the first woman on television defined by work, not a man. So the childish “Waah!” From Lucy gave way to “Mr. On the brink of tears, defying authority, by Mary Richards. GRANT!”
Maude (1972-78) Maude (Bea Arthur) was the liberal answer to Archie Bunker, debating topics ranging from abortion to mental and facial plastic illness.
Murphy Brown (1988–98, 2018) Candice Bergen’s TV news anchor was a boss: irritable, smart, irrational, uncompromising. The show commented on political events; When Vice President Dan Quayle criticized Murphy for being a single mother, it became controversial in real life.
Veep (2012-19) Julia Louis-Dreyfus helped make unsympathetic heroines interesting Seinfeld, though the women of television reached a new peak of cynicism and malice in their hilarious Vice President Selina Meyer.
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