When Syracuse University TV History Professor Robert J. Thompson joined me on my radio show TV Time Machine, we discussed several moments in TV history that changed the medium forever.
Not the least of which was the history of toilets on the tube. Because as far as TV was concerned, human beings never felt the necessity to visit the bathroom. That is, until 1971. That was the year that the ground-breaking situation comedy All in the Family debuted. In that year, the character of Archie Bunker proceeded to go upstairs (literally), treating millions of television viewers to the sound of the “Flush Heard ‘Round the World.”
When All in the Family took that plunge, TV characters finally came out of the water closet–parting the waters for future TV generations!
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Jim Benson
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