Maude (TV series)

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Television series
Original title Maude
Country of production United States
original language English
Year (s) 1972-1988
length 30 minutes
Episodes 141 in 6 seasons
genre Sitcom
music Donny Hathaway
First broadcast September 12, 1972 (USA) on CBS
occupation
Beatrice Arthur
Maude Findlay
Rue McClanahan
Vivian
Bill Macy
Walter Findlay
Adrienne Barbeau
Carol Traynor
Brian Morrison later Kraig Metzinger
Phillip Findlay
Conrad Bain
Dr. Arthur Harmon

Maude is an American sitcom and an offshoot of All in the Family . It was produced by Norman Lear from September 12, 1972 to April 29, 1978 and aired on CBS during that time . The series is set in Tuckahoe , Westchester County , New York .

Maude is a change in television history in the world of sitcoms. While Mary Tyler Moore only represented a change in the classic sitcom structure through her lifestyle, the figure of Maude was able to act out her resistance to patriarchy in her dialogues , albeit in a humorous way. In contrast to the classic sitcoms of the 1950s and 1960s, such as Father knows best , Make room for Daddy or The Donna Reed Show , in which the father of the family was outwardly head of the family, but the mother in the background and with feminine charm was highly diplomatic The actual person who directed the family affairs was clearly in Maude from the start the female title character had all the strings in hand. Maude's husband Walter was often on par with her, but in heated discussions he got the short straw when Maude won them over with her trademark, the saying "God'll getcha for that, Walter!" (like: "God will get you for it, Walter!") ended abruptly. Thus was Maude in stark contrast to other series such as The Brady Bunch ( The Brady Bunch ) , which mediated a traditional family image and the TV seasons 1972/1973 and 1973/1974 in direct competition with Maude was the public's favor.

Maude was also a groundbreaking sitcom in other ways: Much like the producers of the Golden Girls (the second hit series starring Beatrice Arthur), the Maude makers also carefully handled serious issues about it Medium of television comedy. Maude, for example, underwent an abortion in one episode of the first season because at over forty she felt too old to have another baby. This episode, broadcast in late 1972, caused an outcry and public discussion among ultra-conservative viewers. In early 1973, the producing broadcaster CBS Television decided to repeat the series, whereupon over thirty local television stations in the USA removed the series from their programs. Further episodes addressed Walter's alcoholism and the resulting nervous breakdown or taboo topics such as domestic violence and the sexuality of women during or after menopause .

The first four seasons of the 1972/1973 to 1975/1976 seasons were each in the year's top ten of the most successful TV series in the sitcom division. The fifth season for the 1976/1977 season surprisingly did not even make it into the top 30, and after an equally unsuccessful 1977/1978 season, the series ended.

Offshoot

DVD

The first season of the sitcom was released in the US on March 20, 2007 on DVD ( region code 1 ). The complete series has been available on DVD since March 2015 (USA).

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