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And we were right in the middle of it. >> it was an explosive time with situation comedy and i think many more women started working at that point. >> did you find it fun to be the only girl writer around, though? >> with some men. some men are secure enough to accept it. a lot of them gave me a lot of trouble and they're running candy stores in brooklyn. no, that's true. insecure people don't get any place -- you've got to face it. women are here to stay.

>> somebody asked me to do a situation comedy after i finished being on the show of shows because situation comedies weren't very good, didn't mirror life. i asked myself what piece of ground do i stand on that nobody else stands on? worked as writer/director on variety show and write about what happens at home and home i talk about what goes on at office. >> are you doing this because you're afraid of alan? >> no because i respect alan brady, a man of his caliber has great firing power. >> it's a hybrid of family life, work life, cared about them as family because you saw them together every ...

>> it was an explosive time with situation comedy and i think many more women started working at that point. >> did you find it fun to be the only girl writer around, though? >> with some men. some men are secure enough to accept it. a lot of them gave me a lot of trouble and they're running candy stores in brooklyn. no, that's true. insecure people don't get any place -- you've got to face it. women are here to stay. these days families want to be connected 24/7.

It's in the galoo galaxy. >> how -- how long you going to be in town? >> i didn't want to do a show, "where are your children?" i didn't want to be the dumb dad. >> sit, boy. >> howard, i don't care, i just don't want to make any more decisions. >> people will say, "gee, my dad and i used to watch the show. and it was great." and then you realize you're part of people's lives. ♪ >> the '70s was the era where a certain artistry developed. "m.a.s.h." really changed people's perception of what the sitcom can be. the sitcom could be cinematic. >> "m.a.s.h." was shot like a movie. and "m.a.s.h." ...

Advertisers had fully gotten a grip on how effective this is a way to sell products, the definition of what you were doing was to create entertainment that would appeal to as many people as possible. >> beaver, eat your brussels sprouts. >> i can't. my stomach's filled up to my throat. >> no excuses. >> "leave it to beaver" was something that a lot of families understood. it's the first show that was ever shot from the perspective of a child. >> beaver. >> most people have had a lot of the experiences that the beaver or wally has had and everyone in their life has an eddie haskell. >> wally, s...