Tv Shows During The 1970s
If you were a teenager during the 1970s, you’ll remember these TV shows: All in the Family, The Carol Burnett Show, Bob Newhart, Little House on the Prairie, The Waltons, Marcus Welby, MD, M*A*S*H, Happy Days, The Rockford Files, The Brady Bunch, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Sanford and Son, Good Times, Dallas, The Jeffersons, Columbo, Hawaii Five-O, and Starsky and Hutch.
Some say that the 1970s were the, “Golden Age of Television.” Unlike, most of today’s TV shows, during the 1970s, television shows were family oriented. They were well written, and provided wholesome entertainment. Unfortunately, today, the majority of TV shows promote and glorify premarital sex, homosexuality, adultery, fornication, violence, and single-parent households. …show more content…
By the time the show was launched, Mary Tyler Moore was already a well-known TV actress who had played a housewife in The Dick Van Dyke Show, which was a popular weekly series that was on TV from 1961 to 1966.
The Mary Tyler Moore Show premiered in 1970 and lasted seven years. In the show, Moore’s character was Mary Richards, a single woman who worked in a man’s world and was determined to make it on her own. The show was groundbreaking. because career women were rarely seen on television, and they were never featured as a show’s lead …show more content…
She described her three marriages and revealed that during her second marriage, she had an affair with another man. After discussing the affair, she wrote, “The Catholic in me was convinced that I was committing a mortal sin. On the other side of the ledger was the undeniable affirmation that I was an appealing woman. I had forgotten.”
Moore also revealed that she and her then-third husband, Robert Levine, helped her 47-year-old brother John Moore attempt to commit suicide. She said that she took a large quantity of painkillers and mashed them up into ice cream and spoon-fed her brother while her husband operated a morphine pump. Her brother survived the attempted suicide and died three months later from natural causes.
The most tragic event in Moore’s life was the death in 1980 of her only child Richie, who died at the age of 24 from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. She had previously lost her 21-year-old sister from an overdose of alcohol and drugs.
Moore struggled with diabetes for most of her adult life. In 2014, it was reported that she was almost blind and was struggling with heart and kidney problems. Prior to her death, Moore was hospitalized with pneumonia. She later passed away as a result of a heart
Some say that the 1970s were the, “Golden Age of Television.” Unlike, most of today’s TV shows, during the 1970s, television shows were family oriented. They were well written, and provided wholesome entertainment. Unfortunately, today, the majority of TV shows promote and glorify premarital sex, homosexuality, adultery, fornication, violence, and single-parent households. …show more content…
By the time the show was launched, Mary Tyler Moore was already a well-known TV actress who had played a housewife in The Dick Van Dyke Show, which was a popular weekly series that was on TV from 1961 to 1966.
The Mary Tyler Moore Show premiered in 1970 and lasted seven years. In the show, Moore’s character was Mary Richards, a single woman who worked in a man’s world and was determined to make it on her own. The show was groundbreaking. because career women were rarely seen on television, and they were never featured as a show’s lead …show more content…
She described her three marriages and revealed that during her second marriage, she had an affair with another man. After discussing the affair, she wrote, “The Catholic in me was convinced that I was committing a mortal sin. On the other side of the ledger was the undeniable affirmation that I was an appealing woman. I had forgotten.”
Moore also revealed that she and her then-third husband, Robert Levine, helped her 47-year-old brother John Moore attempt to commit suicide. She said that she took a large quantity of painkillers and mashed them up into ice cream and spoon-fed her brother while her husband operated a morphine pump. Her brother survived the attempted suicide and died three months later from natural causes.
The most tragic event in Moore’s life was the death in 1980 of her only child Richie, who died at the age of 24 from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. She had previously lost her 21-year-old sister from an overdose of alcohol and drugs.
Moore struggled with diabetes for most of her adult life. In 2014, it was reported that she was almost blind and was struggling with heart and kidney problems. Prior to her death, Moore was hospitalized with pneumonia. She later passed away as a result of a heart