Ebook: They'll never put that on the air: an oral history of taboo-breaking TV comedy

Setting the table--and girding for battle -- Of course, you realize, this means war! -- Sockin' it to us from beautiful downtown Burbank -- I am woman, hear me--meow -- A sitcom holds up a mirror, and we see ourselves -- Birth of a genre: the dramedy -- And then there was Maude -- Soap bubbles up--and pops in ABC's face -- A (densely plotted, intricately layered, tightly structured, smartly written) show about nothing.;Interviews on groundbreaking sitcoms and comedy-variety shows in America, including Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In, the Mary Tyler Moore show, All in the Family, M*A*S*H, Soap, and Seinfeld.