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A former Marine who served in the South Pacific, Danny Arnold started his career in showbiz as an actor with some small-time summer stock shows and as a vaudeville stand-up comic.

I just saw the intro on YouTube, Long before my time!
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I just saw the intro on YouTube, Long before my time!
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The Family Viewing Hour went into effect at the start of the fall season in 1975. America's children were safe.

The Family Viewing Hour went into effect at the start of the fall season in 1975. America's children were safe. Simple, right?

That was bad enough, but then the next year an episode of the same show titled "The Outrage" centers of a male teacher who assaults a 14-year-old boy. ... Activists were furious that the show reinforced the gay child-molester trope and organized ....

... Harvey Milk was elected to the board of supervisors in San Francisco. By that time, Milk had become an integral part of the community; locals knew him not only as an icon of queer empowerment, but on a personal level as a longtime neighbor....

Zaps were bold, disruptive confrontations, often organized by the newly formed Gay Activists Alliance (GAA) in New York. Instead of standing on the sidewalk in conservative suits and dresses and handing out fliers, this new style of protestor....

Eve this old TV show foreshadowed discrimination against minorities: Gays, African-Americans....

Sitcoms, traditionally an escape for real-life turmoil, or slow to reflect the shift in American life. What, producers found, fantasy scenarios could provide a convenient metaphor for social change.