Year 2 Recap & A Look Ahead

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English - August 05, 2017 12:16 - 27 minutes - 37.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 30 ratings
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Previous Episode: TV Writer April Smith on Lou Grant, Cagney & Lacey and storytelling

Next Episode: Sarah McLachlan's PSA: Angels, cats & dogs

Lessons learned in 2 years

Holidays that appear in TV plots: Christmas, not Mothers Day

Themes:

Woman's right to make her own health care decisions (Sissy Spacek's TV Movie & China Beach)

Daytime dramas & spectacles (Agnes Nixon, Levine's book & "Vulture Culture")

Careers & Legacies (Latina actress Marlene Forte, ventriloquist Shari Lewis, awesome feminist Dinah Shore)

Writer for TV (interviews with Susan Silver and April Smith)

Politics as seen in Geena Davis' Commander in Chief, Maude & the voice of Rosie O'Donnell and the women TV journalists who reported on Watergate scandal.