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67-804: In addition to The Golden Girls , Batman , and CHiPs , Maude , Xena: Warrior Princess , Will & Grace , Sex & the City , The Mary Tyler Moore Show , Designing Women , Friends , Ellen , The Simpsons , The Odd Couple , Laverne & Shirley , Cagney & Lacey , Kate & Allie , Wonder Woman , Dynasty , and Buffy the Vampire Slayer were also cited in Tickled Pink as shows that "became ‘homosensational’ ", providing gays with characters who were depicted as "strong, independent and outrageous" and whose "bond with their friends resonated with their own lives". According to NPR,

134-444: A congresswoman who unexpectedly died in her home. Maude and husband Walter moved to Washington, D.C. , and the rest of the regular cast would be written out of the show in a prospective season seven. In spring 1978, Bea Arthur said she would leave the series. At least one TV columnist reported that CBS had already decided to cancel the show because of low ratings, and Arthur's announcement was an attempt to save face. Lear still liked

201-461: A digital broadcast network, which has since run the entire six season cycle of the show. In 2015, reruns of Maude began airing on Logo TV during late night/early morning. It airs weeknights on FETV , Family Entertainment Television. As of April 2021, Maude is on CHCH TV in the Toronto (Hamilton) Ontario area as part of their afternoon retro sitcom lineup. It is available in a heavily edited format on

268-647: A follow-up to Seduction of the Innocent concerning the effects of television on children, to be titled The War on Children . Much to Wertham's frustration, no publishers were interested in publishing it. Wertham always denied that he favored censorship or had anything against comic books in principle, and in the 1970s he focused his interest on the benign aspects of the comic fandom subculture; in his last book, The World of Fanzines (1974), he concluded that fanzines were "a constructive and healthy exercise of creative drives". This led to an invitation for Wertham to address

335-594: A former professional football player turned university president. Hanging In premiered in the summer of 1979 but was canceled after four episodes. Sony Pictures Home Entertainment released the first season of Maude on DVD in Region 1 in March 2007. In August 2013, Mill Creek Entertainment announced it had acquired the rights to various television series from the Sony Pictures library including Maude . Mill Creek re-released

402-476: A lesbian, explains. "We hear Gabrielle asking, ‘How was that?’ Xena answers, ‘Very nice!’ Gabrielle says, ‘Really? I wasn’t sure,’ and Xena replies, ‘No, no, you’re doing great.’ Then we see them, [a]nd they’re fishing—naked!" "They’re such a perfect little butch-femme couple." However, the intent is not to affirm or to deny Xena’s lesbianism; rather, the show maintains an ambiguous position with regard to this question, Friedman declares, "the whole point behind subtext

469-438: A million dollars for his buzz") and became so frustrated during his attempts to stop that he struck Maude. Afterward, he suffered a breakdown as a result of his alcoholism and guilt over the domestic violence incident. The arc, which played out in two parts, was typically controversial for the show but gained praise for highlighting how social drinking can lead to alcoholism. The first-season episode "The Grass Story" tackled

536-521: A monster by a mad scientist in Seaboard 's Brute No. 2 (April 1975). Issue No. 1 of Bongo Comics' Radioactive Man shows comics from a young boy's collection that satirize Wertham's negative view of comic books. These include Crime Does Pay (violence and gore); Headlights (women with ludicrously pointed breasts); Stab (pathological fixation on eye injuries); and Tales of Revolting Filth (pretty much subsuming every other category). Wertham himself

603-533: A native of Saint Norman (perhaps a nod to Norman Island in the British Virgin Islands ) in the West Indies , whom Maude initially accuses of stealing her wallet on the subway. Victoria remains until the end of the series in 1978. The character of Victoria was never as popular as her two predecessors, and she was seen only sporadically and was not credited as a series regular. The character of Maude Findlay

670-577: A new housekeeper, Mrs. Nell Naugatuck ( Hermione Baddeley ), an elderly, somewhat vulgar, British widow who drinks excessively and lies compulsively. Unlike Florida, who commuted to work, Mrs. Naugatuck lives with the Findlays. She meets and begins dating Bert Beasley ( J. Pat O'Malley ), an elderly cemetery security guard, in 1975. In 1977, they marry and move to Ireland to care for Bert's mother. Mrs. Naugatuck's frequent sparring with Maude is, arguably, just as comically popular as Florida's sparring. The difference

737-441: A point of conspicuously and awkwardly demonstrating how open-minded and liberal she is. Florida almost quits because of this. Despite Florida's status as a maid, Maude emphasizes to Florida that they are "equals," and insists she enter and exit the house via the front door, even though the back door is more convenient for Florida. Rolle's character was so popular that, in 1974, she became the star of her own series, Good Times . In

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804-544: A psychiatric examination that was used in court. In 1935 he testified for the defense in the trial of cannibalistic child rapist and serial killer Albert Fish , declaring him insane. In 1946, Wertham opened the Lafargue Clinic in the basement of St. Philip's Church in Harlem , a low-cost psychiatric clinic specializing in the treatment of Black teenagers. The clinic was financed by voluntary contributions. Seduction of

871-415: A sanitized subset of superhero comics as the chief remaining genre. Citing one of Wertham's arguments, that 95% of children in reform school read comics proves that comics cause juvenile delinquency (an example of the well-known logical fallacy correlation implies causation ), Stan Lee recounted that Wertham "said things that impressed the public, and it was like shouting fire in a theater , but there

938-438: A sexually ambiguous or homosexual theme, such shows rely upon a subtext created through double entendres, situational irony, intentional ambiguity, and straightforward gay couplings. According to Liz Friedman, producer of Xena: Warrior Princess , the show’s writers played on the ambiguous relationship between Xena and her traveling companion, Gabrielle: "One episode starts with the camera looking at some bushes," Friedman, herself

1005-592: A ‘stealth gay stereotype’ in the still-closeted world of '70s prime time ." Alternatively, some critics contend, "if slobhood is code for heterosexuality and neatness for homosexuality (a trope that persists today in shows like Queer Eye for the Straight Guy ), The Odd Couple might be read as an unconsummated love story between a straight and a gay man." Even during the airing of the show, executive producer, Garry Marshall , remembers that Midwestern focus groups were turned off by The Odd Couple because "they thought it

1072-575: Is also an occasional comic foil whenever she answers the phone and explaining in one episode, "No, this is not Mr. Findlay; this is Mrs. Findlay! Mr. Findlay has a much higher voice." Maude's daughter, Carol Traynor, played by Adrienne Barbeau – in the All in the Family pilot episode the character was played by Marcia Rodd – is also divorced and has one child, like Maude. Carol and her son, Phillip (played by Brian Morrison in seasons 1-5 and by Kraig Metzinger in

1139-535: Is also parodied in the issue. According to the supplementary material of the HBO series Watchmen , within that fictional universe Fredric Wertham created a system for cataloging the mental states of costumed adventurers. The character of Doctor Fredreich "Werthers" on the last season of the CW show Riverdale is based on Wertham. Wertham makes an appearance in the fifth book of Dav Pilkey 's Cat Kid Comic Club series in

1206-698: Is an American television sitcom that was originally broadcast on the CBS network from September 12, 1972, until April 22, 1978. The show was the first spin-off of All in the Family , on which Bea Arthur had made two appearances as Maude Findlay , Edith Bunker 's favorite cousin. Like All in the Family , Maude was a sitcom with topical storylines created by producers Norman Lear and Bud Yorkin . Maude stars Bea Arthur as Maude, an outspoken, middle-aged , politically liberal woman living in suburban Tuckahoe, New York with her fourth husband, household appliance store owner Walter Findlay ( Bill Macy ). Maude embraces

1273-510: Is gay. In an interview with Barbara Walters , Clooney said that, as Batman, he wore "a rubber suit" with "rubber nipples" and, although he "could have played Batman straight," he preferred to portray the character as being homosexual. The portrayal of Batman as gay could have derived from psychiatrist Fredric Wertham ’s 1954 observations about the comic book character and his partner, Robin the Boy Wonder . Maude (TV series) Maude

1340-440: Is that Mrs. Naugatuck often seems to dislike Maude, whereas Florida, on occasion, finds Maude frustrating. Lear said the last name "Naugatuck" was taken directly from the town of Naugatuck, Connecticut , which he found amusing. Due to the popularity of Maude , Baddeley visited the town in the late 1970s and was given a warm, official welcome ceremony at the town green . Maude then hires Victoria Butterfield ( Marlene Warfield ),

1407-464: Is that people can enjoy the show however they wish". According to some critics, the television situation comedy The Odd Couple , starring Jack Klugman and Tony Randall , also played upon the ambiguity of "two divorced, heterosexual men sharing a Manhattan apartment, where they cooked, cleaned (or refused to clean), bickered, and negotiated the dilemmas of everyday existence together," and "Randall’s uptight, opera-loving Felix" may have "functioned as

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1474-771: The Bellevue Hospital Center . Wertham died on November 18, 1981, at his retirement home in Kempton, Pennsylvania , at age 86. After Wertham's manuscript collection at the Library of Congress was unsealed in 2010, Carol Tilley, a University of Illinois librarian and information science professor, investigated his research and found his conclusions to be largely baseless. In a 2012 study, Tilley wrote "Wertham manipulated, overstated, compromised, and fabricated evidence—especially that evidence he attributed to personal clinical research with young people—for rhetorical gain." Among

1541-551: The CTV app for free with ads as part of its “Throwback” library. As of July 2021, Maude is available for streaming on Amazon Freevee . Maude was adapted in Italy airing on Canale 5 in 1982. Maude was adapted in France as Maguy . Maguy aired on Sundays at 19.30 from September 1985 to December 1994 on France 2 for 333 episodes. Maude had previously been adapted in 1980 by ITV in

1608-613: The New York Comic Art Convention . Still infamous to most comics fans of the time, Wertham encountered suspicion and heckling at the convention, and stopped writing about comics thereafter. Before retirement he became a professor of psychiatry at New York University , a senior psychiatrist in the New York City Department of Hospitals , and a psychiatrist and the director of the Mental Hygiene Clinic at

1675-591: The Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency , which he led. In extensive testimony before the committee, Wertham restated arguments from his book and pointed to comics as a major cause of juvenile crime. Beaty notes "Wertham repeated his call ... [for] national legislation based on the public health ideal that would prohibit the circulation and display of comic books to children under the age of fifteen." The committee's questioning of their next witness, EC publisher William Gaines , focused on violent scenes of

1742-557: The Family : the first in December 1971 as a visitor to the Bunker home, and the second, a backdoor pilot setting up the premise of the Maude series, in March 1972. She is Edith Bunker's ( Jean Stapleton ) favorite cousin who has been married four times. Her first husband, Barney, died shortly after their marriage. She divorced the next two, Albert and Chester. Albert was never portrayed on screen, but

1809-587: The Holocaust . To promote this book, Wertham made two memorable appearances on the Mike Douglas Show where he ended up debating his theories with the co-hosts, Barbara Feldon (April 10, 1967) and Vincent Price (June 19, 1967). Excerpts were shown at the 2003 San Diego Comic-Con . University of Calgary professor Bart Beaty, the only person allowed access to Wertham's personal papers before they were unsealed in 2010, reveals that Wertham tried in 1959 to sell

1876-409: The Innocent described overt or covert depictions of violence, sex, drug use, and other adult fare within "crime comics"—a term Wertham used to describe not only the popular gangster/murder-oriented titles of the time but also superhero and horror comics as well—and asserted, based largely on undocumented anecdotes, that reading this material encouraged similar behavior in children. Comics, especially

1943-453: The MTM company's sophisticated comedies toward escapist fare like ABC's Laverne & Shirley and Three's Company . In the sixth season, ratings dived further, and Lear revamped the format. In the last three episodes of that season, the fictional governor of New York appointed Maude as a congresswoman from Tuckahoe, as a Democrat during the 1978 U.S. midterm elections . She helped campaign for

2010-532: The Syndicated Sales Presentation, hosted by Norman Lear; as well as three featurettes called "And Then There's Maude: Television's First Feminist"; "Everything but Hemorrhoids: Maude Speaks to America"; and "Memories of Maude" with interviews by Adrienne Barbeau and Bill Macy, along with newly discovered interviews with Bea Arthur, Rue McClanahan and Maude director, Hal Cooper. In 2015, Shout! began releasing individual season sets. The second season

2077-568: The United Kingdom as Nobody's Perfect . Starring Elaine Stritch and Richard Griffiths , the show ran for two series with a total of 14 episodes. Of the 14 episodes, Stritch herself adapted 13 original Maude scripts and Griffiths adapted one. The original series was screened by certain ITV companies. Fredric Wertham Fredric Wertham ( / ˈ w ɜːr ð ə m / ; born Friedrich Ignatz Wertheimer , March 20, 1895 – November 18, 1981)

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2144-748: The United States and work under Adolf Meyer at the Phipps Psychiatric Clinic at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. He became a United States citizen and married the sculptor Florence Hesketh in 1927. He moved to New York City in 1932 to accept a senior staff position at the Bellevue Mental Hygiene Clinic, the psychiatric clinic connected with the New York Court of General Sessions in which all convicted felons received

2211-855: The Universities of Munich and Erlangen , and graduated with an M.D. degree from the University of Würzburg in 1921. He was very much influenced by Dr. Emil Kraepelin , a professor of clinical psychiatry at the University of Munich, and worked briefly at the Kraepelin Clinic in Munich in 1922. Kraepelin emphasized the effects of environment and social background on psychological development. Around this time Wertham corresponded and visited with Sigmund Freud , who influenced him in his choice of psychiatry as his specialty. In 1922, he accepted an invitation to come to

2278-431: The beginning of the series, Arthur is a widower . Vivian is introduced in a guest appearance that focused on her split with her first husband. She later got involved with Arthur as a divorcée . For the entire run of the show, Maude also has a housekeeper. At the beginning of the series, Maude hires Florida Evans ( Esther Rolle ), a no-nonsense Black woman who often has the last laugh at Maude's expense. Maude often makes

2345-435: The books were to blame for his crimes. Wertham's views on mass media have largely overshadowed his broader concerns with violence and with overprotecting children from psychological harm. His writings about the effects of racial segregation were used as evidence in the landmark Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education , and part of his 1966 book A Sign for Cain dealt with the involvement of medical professionals in

2412-625: The comic book industry. Wertham's work, in addition to the 1954 comic book hearings, led to the creation of the Comics Code Authority , although later scholars cast doubt on his observations. Wertham was born Friedrich Ignatz Wertheimer on March 20, 1895, in Nuremberg to the middle-class Jewish family of Sigmund and Mathilde Wertheimer. Ella Winter (originally Wertheimer) was a relative. He did not change his name legally to Fredric Wertham until 1927. He studied at King's College London , at

2479-426: The complicated and controversial history of Fredric Wertham and comic books in the 1940s and 1950s. The film's goal was to create a more complex picture of Wertham than what had previously been depicted in comic book documentaries. His activism was cited in the 2011 US supreme court decision Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association . Wertham was satirized as a Dr. Bertham who was kidnapped and turned into

2546-528: The concept of a member of a minority group in Congress, and it evolved into the pilot Mr. Dugan , with Cleavon Little replacing Arthur as the lead character. The show was scheduled for a March 1979 premiere, but negative feedback from black members of Congress, granted an advance screening, resulted in CBS deciding not to air the three episodes taped. Lear reworked the project into Hanging In , with Bill Macy playing

2613-524: The crime/horror titles pioneered by EC Comics , were not lacking in gruesome images; Wertham reproduced these extensively, pointing out what he saw as recurring morbid themes such as "injury to the eye" (as depicted in Plastic Man creator Jack Cole 's "Murder, Morphine and Me", which he illustrated and probably wrote for publisher Magazine Village's True Crime Comics No. 2 (May 1947); it involved drug dealing protagonist Mary Kennedy nearly getting stabbed in

2680-414: The criticisms leveled at Seduction of the Innocent are that Wertham used a non-representative sample of young people who were already mentally troubled, that he misrepresented stories from colleagues as being his own, and that Wertham manipulated statements from adolescents by deliberately neglecting some passages while rephrasing others such that they better suited his thesis. Wertham's papers (including

2747-554: The distributors. According to Wertham, news vendors were told by the distributors that if they did not sell the objectionable comic books, they would not be allowed to sell any of the other publications being distributed. Also in 1954, Wertham was the Court's appointed psychiatric expert in the trial of the Brooklyn Thrill Killers . When the gang's 18-year-old leader admitted that he had read simply comic books, Wertham concluded that

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2814-423: The effects of violent imagery in mass media and the effects of comic books on the development of children. His best-known book is Seduction of the Innocent (1954), which asserted that comic books caused youth to become delinquents. Besides Seduction of the Innocent , Wertham also wrote articles and testified before government inquiries into comic books, most notably as part of a U.S. Congressional inquiry into

2881-515: The end of the two-part episode that abortion was probably the best choice for their lives and their marriage. Noticing the controversy around the storyline, CBS decided to rerun the episodes in August 1973 , and members of the country's clergy reacted strongly to the decision. Thirty-nine stations pre-empted the episode. The two-part episode was written by Susan Harris , who would work with Bea Arthur again later on The Golden Girls . The producers and

2948-596: The episode "Poor Albert" revolved around his death, while her second former husband Chester appeared once on the show, played by Martin Balsam . Her fourth and current husband, Walter Findlay (played by Bill Macy ), owns an appliance store called Findlay's Friendly Appliances. Maude and Walter met just before the 1968 presidential election . Maude sometimes gets in the last word during their many arguments with her hallmark catchphrase , "God'll get you for that, Walter", which came directly from Bea Arthur. Maude's deep, raspy voice

3015-461: The eye "by a junkie with a hypodermic needle" in her dream sequence ). Many of his other conjectures, particularly about hidden sexual themes (e.g. images of female nudity concealed in drawings of muscles and tree bark, or Batman and Robin as gay lovers), were met with skepticism from his fellow mental health professionals, but found an audience in those concerned with "public morals", such as Senator Estes Kefauver , who had Wertham testify before

3082-537: The first season on DVD in February 2015. In December 2014, Shout! Factory announced it had acquired the rights to the series. It released the complete series on DVD in March 2015. Among the bonus features, the set includes the two Second season episodes of All in the Family , which introduced Maude ("Cousin Maude's Visit" and "Maude"); two previously unaired episodes of Maude ("The Double Standard" and "Maude's New Friends");

3149-429: The first shows to earn the honor were actresses from the 1970s, who may not have been gay but broke away from the happy homemaker mold that defined too many adult female roles in the medium's early years. "Mary Tyler Moore" fit the bill; so did "Maude," another 1970s sitcom starring Bea Arthur as the outspoken title character. According to producers and critics as well as fans of television shows that are perceived to have

3216-518: The knee-jerk liberal." While the show was conceived as a comedy, the scripts also incorporated much darker humor, drama and controversy. Maude took Miltown , a mild tranquilizer, and also Valium ; she and her husband Walter began drinking in the evening. Maude had an abortion in November 1972 , two months before the Roe v. Wade decision made abortion legal throughout the U.S., and the episodes that dealt with

3283-498: The manuscript to the unpublished The War on Children ) were donated to the Library of Congress and are held by the Manuscript Division. They were made available for use by scholars for research on May 20, 2010. A register of the papers has been prepared that displays the eclectic reach of Wertham's interests. In 2014, documentary filmmaker Robert A. Emmons Jr. produced the documentary Diagram for Delinquents , which details

3350-403: The season four episode "The Analyst" (sometimes referred to as "Maude Bares Her Soul"), Arthur as Maude, speaking to an unseen psychiatrist, was the sole actor on screen for the entire episode. The show's theme song, "And Then There's Maude", was written by Alan and Marilyn Bergman and Dave Grusin , and performed by Donny Hathaway . Maude first appears in two season-two episodes of All in

3417-608: The second-season episode titled " Florida's Goodbye ", Florida's husband Henry ( John Amos ) gets a promotion at his job, and Florida quits to become a full-time housewife. Whereas Maude took place in New York, Good Times took place in Chicago , with numerous other differences in Florida's situation, such as her husband being called James Evans – "Henry" being the name of James's long-lost father. After Florida's departure in 1974, Maude hires

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3484-407: The situation are probably the series' most famous and most controversial. Maude, at age 47, was dismayed to find herself unexpectedly pregnant. Her daughter Carol brought to her attention that abortion had become legal in the state of New York. After some soul-searching, and discussions with Walter, who agreed that raising a baby at their stage of life was not what they wanted to do, Maude decided at

3551-465: The sixth), live with the Findlays. Though single, Carol maintains her reputation of dating many men. She dates various men throughout the early seasons, later forming a serious relationship with a man named Chris (played by Fred Grandy ). Grandy left at the end of the second season. Like her mother, Carol is an outspoken liberal feminist who is not afraid to speak her mind, though they often clash. There are conflicting accounts as to whether Carol's father

3618-493: The tenets of women's liberation , always votes for Democratic Party candidates, and advocates for civil rights and racial and gender equality . Her overbearing and sometimes domineering personality often gets her into trouble when speaking about these issues. Unusually for an American sitcom, several episodes (such as "Maude's Night Out" and "The Convention") featured only the characters of Maude and her husband Walter, in what amounted to half-hour " two-hander " teleplays. In

3685-489: The then-recent Rockefeller Drug Laws , as Maude and her well-meaning housewife friends try to get arrested in protest over a grocery boy's tough conviction for marijuana possession. The severity of the marijuana laws contrasted with the characters' lax attitudes toward drinking and prescription pill abuse. In season four, Maude had a session with an analyst, in which she revealed insecurities about her life and marriage and talked through memories from her childhood. The episode

3752-524: The type Wertham had decried. Though the committee's final report did not blame comics for crime, it recommended that the comics industry tone down its content voluntarily; possibly taking this as a veiled threat of potential censorship, publishers developed the Comics Code Authority to censor their own content. The Code banned not only violent images but also entire words and concepts (e.g. "terror" and " zombies ") and dictated that criminals must always be punished—thus destroying most EC-style titles, and leaving

3819-487: The writers of the show tackled other controversies. In a story arc that opened the 1973–74 season , Walter came to grips with his alcoholism and subsequently had a nervous breakdown . The beginning of the story arc had Maude, Walter, and Arthur enjoying a night of revelry. However, Maude panicked when she awoke the following morning to find Arthur in her bed. This alarmed her to the point that both of them swore off alcohol entirely. Walter could not do it (" Dean Martin gets

3886-484: Was Maude's first or second husband. In the series' first episode, "Maude's Problem", Maude reveals to Carol's psychiatrist that Carol's father was her second husband. The Findlays' next-door neighbors are Dr. Arthur Harmon ( Conrad Bain ), a stuffy, sardonic Republican , and his sweet but scatterbrained second wife Vivian ( Rue McClanahan ). McClanahan confirmed in an interview with the Archive of American Television that she

3953-563: Was a German–American psychiatrist and author. Wertham had an early reputation as a progressive psychiatrist who treated poor black patients at his Lafargue Clinic at a time of heightened discrimination in urban mental health practice. Wertham also authored a definitive textbook on the brain, and his institutional stressor findings were cited when courts overturned multiple segregation statutes, most notably in Brown v. Board of Education . Despite this, Wertham remains best known for his concerns about

4020-473: Was a conservative, prejudiced, working-class Republican. Maude's political beliefs were closer to those of the series creators than Archie Bunker's, but the series often lampooned Maude as a naive " limousine liberal ". They did not show her beliefs and attitudes in an entirely complimentary light. Just before the show's premiere in September 1972, TV Guide described the character of Maude as "a caricature of

4087-499: Was a solo performance by Beatrice Arthur. During the fifth season, Walter suffered another nervous breakdown , this time even attempting suicide , when he saw his business go bankrupt. The Nielsen ratings for Maude were high, in particular, during the first seasons of the program, during the heyday of topical sitcoms, which its presence helped to create, when it was regularly one of the top-ten highest-rated American television programs in any given week. In Great Britain , Maude

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4154-552: Was about homosexuals," and Klugman says that the show’s outtake reels contain "a lot of scenes of us kissing and hugging... because the network was concerned people thought Oscar and Felix were gay, and we were trying to make them nervous". Wonder Woman has long been popular among lesbians because the character lives in an all-female society of Amazons and bests men in combat. Wonder Woman repeats are scheduled for frequent broadcast on France’s "first [television] station aimed at homosexuals". According to George Clooney , Batman

4221-577: Was approached by Norman Lear during the taping of the All in the Family episode "The Bunkers and the Swingers" (1972) to take on the role as a late replacement for Doris Roberts , the original choice for the part. Arthur has been Walter's best friend since the two served together in World War II . He was the one who brought Walter and Maude together in 1968 and "affectionately" calls Maude "Maudie." Vivian and Maude have been best friends since college. At

4288-618: Was little scientific validity to it. And yet because he had the name doctor people took what he said seriously, and it started a whole crusade against comics." Seduction of the Innocent also analyzed the advertisements that appeared in 1950s comic books and the commercial context in which these publications existed. Wertham objected to not only the violence in the stories but also the fact that air rifles and knives were advertised alongside them. Wertham claimed that retailers who did not want to sell material with which they were uncomfortable, such as horror comics , were essentially held to ransom by

4355-539: Was loosely based on creator Norman Lear's then-wife Frances . She first appeared on two episodes of All in the Family as Edith Bunker's cousin. A "Cousin Maud," with a similar role, had also appeared on an episode of Till Death Us Do Part , the British series on which All in the Family had been based. Maude represented everything Archie Bunker did not: she was a liberal, feminist , upper-middle-class Democrat, whereas Archie

4422-568: Was not shown nationally. It was shown beginning in 1975 in the ITV regions of Scottish , Westward , Border , Tyne Tees , Anglia , Yorkshire , Granada and Channel . Satellite station Sky One ran the series in the early/mid-1990s. In the fifth season, Maude dropped from No. 4 to No. 31 in the Nielsen ratings as its lead-ins Rhoda and Phyllis began to struggle. Public taste had abruptly shifted from "relevant" Norman Lear productions and

4489-717: Was released in August 2015, the third season in November 2015, the fourth season in March 2016, the fifth season in June 2016, and the sixth and final season in August 2016. Maude aired on TV Land in 1999 for a brief time, including an introductory "Maude-a-thon" marathon. Maude was later seen on Nick at Nite in the United States in 2001. Reruns of Maude are occasionally shown on Canwest's digital specialty channel, DejaView in Canada. In 2010, Maude began reruns in Chicago, on WWME-CA 's Me-TV . In 2011, Maude began airing on Antenna TV ,

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