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      • His shows helped define prime time comedy in the 1970s and after, launched the careers of such young performers as Rob Reiner and Valerie Bertinelli and made Carroll O’Connor, Bea Arthur and Redd Foxx among others into middle-aged superstars.
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  2. Dec 7, 2023 · The candor and comedy he brought to the airwaves in the 1970s sealed his status, however, and any television show with realism at its core owes Norman Lear a debt.

  3. Dec 13, 2023 · Norman Lear brought the first nuclear Black family to prime-time television in 1974.

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    Lear received many awards, including six Primetime Emmy Awards, two Peabody Awards, the National Medal of Arts in 1999, the Kennedy Center Honors in 2017, and the Golden Globe Carol Burnett Award in 2021. He was a member of the Television Academy Hall of Fame.

  5. Largely responsible for the explosion of bold American television in the 1970s, writer/producer Norman Lear’s name is synonymous with the sitcom. In this excerpt, television writer and producer...

  6. Dec 6, 2023 · He was such a force in television that at one point he was responsible for six of the top ten shows in the nation and some 120 million Americans, more than half the population at the time, tuned in...

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  7. Dec 9, 2023 · The legendary television producer, who died on Tuesday at age 101, was a champion of diverse casts as well as story subjects that tackled real-world social issues including racism, sexism and...

  8. Dec 6, 2023 · 'All in the Family' was a revolutionary change for TV sitcoms It’s hard to overstate the import or impact of his first big hit, "All in the Family" − a thoroughly Americanized version of the ...

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