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Maude: now you can either come to the table and eat, or you can lie there and feed off your own fat. jim colucci: the story goes that by the time that episode had aired, fred silverman, who was in charge of cbs at the time, had called norman lear and said, get that woman her own show. ♪ and then there's maude... ♪ ♪ and then there's maude! ♪ ♪ that uncompromisin', enterprisin', ♪ ♪ anything but tranquilizin', ♪ ♪ right on maude! ♪ adrienne barbeau: it was not your all-american family. carol: you're getting senile in your old age. maude: thank you darling. i only hope i live...

>> now you can either come to the table and eat, or you can lie there and feed off your own fat. >> the story goes that by the time that episode had aired, fred silverman who was in charge of cbs at the time called norman lear and said, get that woman her own show. ♪ >> that was not your all-american family. >> maybe you're getting senile in your old age. >> thank you, darling. i only hope i live long enough to become a burden to you. >> maude is an independent, strong woman who speaks her mind. she was married to her fourth husband, walter, played by bill macy. >> i don't have time to fix y...

And you realized norman lear is taking us into a whole new realm of comedy. norman lear: the blowback from the public was buried by the excitement and the applause. bob leszczak: the show was number one for a long time. ethan alter: it changed cbs and their brand as a network. as a result of all in the family, they turned to norman lear to create more shows in that image. archie: there's a person at the door. maude! adrienne barbeau: bea arthur played maude as edith's cousin on all in the family. maude: maudie is here. jim colucci: and she could take on archie head to head. maude: now you can ...

At age 90, producer George Schlatter has a lifetime of memories to look back at. Producing the groundbreaking and iconic TV comedy show Laugh-in is just one facet.

The los angeles lakers against the milwaukee bucks. bianculli: young people were interested in relevant things, and so television began to reflect that. man: this is cbs. really it was very simple -- you had three channels, and plus pbs. ken: when the decade turned over into the '70s, television was very rural. cbs had "beverly hillbillies," "green acres." "petticoat junction" and these kind of rural fantasies of mayberry as a -- the hillbilly shows were everywhere, and then they weren't. elana: fred silverman, who was running programming at cbs, said we're gonna get rid of the shows that are ...