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TV Show Openings

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If you want to get any more work done today, do not click on this list of YouTube videos. Many of these videos are 9-minute compilations of various TV show openings from 1979 to 1992. This one from 1983 contains “We Got It Made” (sexy maid) and “Jennifer Slept Here” (Ann Jillian as a ghost). This one from 1981 contains “Mr. Merlin” (Merlin’s alive today as an auto mechanic), an obscure sitcom I’d always remembered but had sometimes thought I’d imagined.

You can also see the cast of “One Day at a Time” change through the years.

Brimley/Stritch

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From an article about the upcoming “Sex and the City” movie:

While the film revolves around Carrie and Big’s wedding, Mr. King was insistent that no mother or father of the bride be shown. “My idea always was that these women were purely creations of New York,” he said. “The prototype of the series is that these are four grown-ups who make a family of one another.”

Also driving Mr. King’s decision was his fear of falling into cliché. “Who was going to play Carrie’s mother? Connie Stevens? It’s such a traditional sitcom limb. It’s the Thanksgiving episode, and there are Wilford Brimley and Elaine Stritch. I never wanted to do anything like that.”

I would pay to see Wilford Brimley and Elaine Stritch as anyone’s parents in a sitcom episode.