On C-Span Book-TV, today, I watched an interview with TV producer/writer Norman Lear (now 91 years old), who has a memoir--Even This I Get to Experience--published last month. In the Q&A, a woman recounted the December 25, 1976, episode The Draft Dodger (linked below), and how much it meant to her family, who were all gathered around the TV that night. (In the 1970s, I did not own a functioning TV set, and would never have watched a sit-com, in any case, so I had never seen this 24-minute episode until today.) The dramatic crisis comes about when a draft dodger visiting from Canada shows up at the Bunker home at Christmas dinner at the same time as one of Archies friends who has lost a son in the Vietnam War. The dinner scene is intense and, of course, reminds me of some actual scenes in my own family with my mom and dad. Archie (and my dad) experiences some cognitive dissonance and has to process somes serious information. Canadian citizen Richard Wills: I thought of you. I lived directly across the street from Carroll OConnor, in Malibu, in 1989-90. https://youtube/watch?v=9gQTPv_ENBk
Posted on: Sat, 22 Nov 2014 22:16:50 +0000
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