018 -- Television Families: From Yippies to Yuppies

We examine tv shows like The Brady Bunch, All In the Family, Taxi, Sanford and Son, Good Times, Family Ties, The Cosby Show, Magnum PI, Dallas and more in this episode, and try to figure out what they tell us about American society during the Long Seventies.

Source List:

Spigel, Lynn. Make Room for TV: Television and the Family Ideal in Postwar America. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1992.

Leppert, Alice. TV Family Values: Gender, Domestic Labor, and 1980s Sitcoms. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2019.

Bianculli, David. The Platinum Age of Television: From I Love Lucy to The Walking Dead, How TV Became Terrific. New York: Anchor Books, 2016.