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Head of the Class (1986)
Good show until ABC ruined it.....
In the last season, TPTB at the network decided that it needed a change and fired Howard Hessman, SMH.
I like Billy Connelly, he was a great stand up comedian. I always thought he was funny, but replacing Charlie was a bad decision. The show turned into a weekly showcase of Billy's comedy act, with very little school stuff left.
I never really watched it back in the 80s, but now that is on TV and s couple of streaming platforms I've been watching it.
The person who said the students never graduated is wrong. At the end of season five they finish high school and are off to college.
Compared to some other sit-coms of the era, this show stands out as one of the best.
M*A*S*H: Check-Up (1974)
It was set in 1950 and filmed starting in 1972
Sexual harassment was not invented in the 1950s. Sure, men harrassed women, but, it is just the way it was back then. You cannot view the show from a 2022 point of view
As far as sexual activities, hey, they were all consenting adults. Adults have sex. Women have needs, too. No one was forced to do anything. Plus, they were in a war zone and knew everyday might be their last, so, " let's live while we're alive," was their motto.
I have watched this show from 1972 when the showed premiered I remember the first time I saw the finale episode. It has been running every day on different networks since it went into syndication. This is a great show. It has informed generations of people about the Korean war, (or Police action as it was also called.)
Watch it, and you will learn just how much that things have changed.
WKRP in Cincinnati: In Concert (1980)
They couldn't ignore it.
The tragedy struck everyone, but especially young people who went to a lot of concerts at the time. If you weren't born yet, in 1979, you don't understand the gravity of the situation.
The way venues opened back then was dangerous, and we knew that it could have been any of is in that crowd. The show covered it and helped get the rules/laws changed. WKRP was a rock-n-roll station and had promoted the show, giving away tickets. All you people who are upset that it covered a serious topic need to get over your selves. Today, November 6, 2021, we have another stampede in the news. This time inside the venue, and it was festival style, people standing on the floor. People who got excited and started pushing forward. I am sure that a TV show will probably do a ripped-from-the-headlines episode about this incident and the deaths and injuries that occurred last night in Texas.
Even in sit-coms, life is not always funny. "WKRP in Cincinnati" handled it in the way that brought the message to the world how crowd control needed to be changed. Yes, it was not a funny episode. It was not supposed to be funny. People died.
If you want to watch the funniest episode of the whole series, you need to watch the Thanksgiving show. "I swear to God, I thought turkeys could fly." If you don't recognize that quote then you haven't seen that episode.