#SongoftheDay Love Is All Around (Sonny Curtis)
Yesterday, when I mentioned what a difference a decade makes, it brought to mind two TV shows: The Dick Van Dyke Show and The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
If I'm not mistaken, DVD premiered in 1961 and MTM in 1970. I watched those two series in their entirety maybe 5 years ago, so I could compare and contrast with the two shows fresh in my mind.
The first big difference is that DVD was broadcast in black and white, where as MTM aired in colour.
The Dick Van Dyke Show holds up well and it's still really funny to a contemporary audience (or, at least to me... I'm partial to Morey and Rose Marie) but there's a lot of that 1960s patriarchy/hegemony/other words I learned in university in there. Even though Rose Marie is a single (successful!) working woman, her character is still obsessive about finding a man.
Mary Richards, MTM's character on The Mary Tyler Moore show, seems to have a lot more freedom. If we fast-forward to the 80s and compare her to a character like Murphy Brown, we're not going to view Mary Richards as a powerful businesswoman go-getter type, but I find MTM's character on the show so relatable because of the lack of confidence and experience she brings to her job. She stumbles a bit, but she does the work and she pays the bills, and she throws terrible parties.
For the time, the fact that Mary Richards was carving out her own path in the world as a single, self-sufficient working woman was groundbreaking. I could be wrong, but I don't think there'd been a character like her leading a sitcom to that point.
Anyway, I'm supposed to be on vacation so I'll cut myself off there, but when it comes to these two TV shows, I could go on and on. If you've never seen them, or if it's been a while, they've got my recommendation.
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