THE TV PIONEER DIED IN DECEMBER, BUT HIS LEGACY OF BELOVED SITCOMS LIVES ONBy Andrew NodellEnlarge Norman Lear was responsible for some of the most influential shows in television history. “We wanted to tell good stories,” Lear said in a 2015 interview with CBS News. Enlarge Lear debuted ‘All in the Family’ in 1971, and the barrier-breaking series stayed on the air through the rest of the decade. Sets from All in the Family were centerpiece offerings in Heritage’s June 2023 auction of The Comisar Collection, each directly acquired from Lear. “That role was as much [of] me in the way that she was political,” Lear told CBS News.

Source: Forbes February 20, 2024 15:07 UTC