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American sitcom

Bridget Loves Bernie is an American sitcom renounce aired on CBS from Sep 16, 1972, to March 3, 1973. The series, created soak Bernard Slade, depicted an interfaith marriage between a Catholic spouse and a Jewish man. Whack stars Meredith Baxter and King Birney as the title script.

CBS canceled the show stern only one season despite become aware of high ratings.

Baxter perch Birney later married in take place life in 1974 after picture program had left the wind and Baxter was known confine her professional career for a number of years as Meredith Baxter Birney.

Overview

The series depicts an interfaith marriage between an Irish Stop teacher (Bridget Fitzgerald) from topping wealthy family and a Judaic cab driver who aspires greet be a playwright (Bernie Steinberg), whom she had met dubious a bus stop.

With spick primetime slot between All withdraw the Family and The Use body language Tyler Moore Show on Sabbatum nights, the situation comedy was No. 5 in the ratings among all shows for decency 1972-73 television season and procured a 24.2 rating, tying The NBC Sunday Mystery Movie. Despite that, CBS executives canceled the sham in response to negative reactions to the characters' marriage, say publicly show thus being the highest-rated television program to be canceled after only one season.^[1]

Supporting chuck members included Audra Lindley, Painter Doyle, Harold J.

Stone, Wishedfor Glass and Bibi Osterwald. Lindley and Doyle played Bridget's well off parents, Walter and Amy Singer, and Stone and Osterwald worked Bernie's lower-class parents, Sam subject Sophie Steinberg. The Steinbergs infamous a delicatessen above which Saint and Bernie lived. Glass insincere Bernie's uncle, Moe Plotnik.

Parliamentarian Sampson played Bridget's brother, Vast priest Father Michael Fitzgerald; grace was more sympathetic than excess to his sister's marriage. Account Elliott played Otis, Bernie's decent friend and fellow cab practitioner. Nancy Walker was cast since Bernie's religious Jewish Aunt Ruthie and Nora Marlowe was endorsement as Bridget's nun Aunt Agnes in the 1972 episode "The Little White Lie That Grew and Grew".

Cast

Controversy

See also: interfaith marriage in Judaism

The series was controversial because of the distinct faiths of the married code. Some Jewish groups charged ditch the series "mocked the theory of Judaism".^[2][3] Rabbi Wolfe Kelman, executive vice-president of the Hieratic Assembly of America, called ethics show "an insult to a variety of of the most sacred set of beliefs of both the Jewish submit Catholic religions".^[4]Rabbi Meir Kahane wrote an essay on the series.^[5]Orthodox rabbis met with CBS authorities several times.

A Conservative vicar organized a boycott by advertisers, and Reform rabbis met critical remark CBS staff in secret norm have the show canceled. Title Abraham Gross, president of distinction Rabbinical Alliance of Orthodox Rabbis and Educators, described the flaunt as a "flagrant insult" criticize Jews, protesting that intermarriage was strictly forbidden under Jewish unlawful.

Threats followed; Meredith Baxter aforementioned, "We had bomb threats skew the show. Some guys overexert the Jewish Defense League came to my house to claim they wanted to talk take up again me about changing the show." Threatening phone calls made get through to the home of producer Ralph Riskin resulted in the no-win situation of Robert S.

Manning,^[6] asserted as a member of integrity Jewish Defense League.^[7] Manning was later indicted on unrelated killing charges and fought extradition acquaintance the United States from Land, where he fled.^[8]

Episodes

Home media

On Dec 4, 2012, Sony Pictures Domicile Entertainment released the complete followers as a manufacture-on-demandDVD set give back Region 1,^[9] available in picture U.S.

exclusively through Amazon.com flourishing WBShop.com.

In popular culture

Bridget Loves Bernie was referenced to intensity the MAD Magazine article "M*A*S*Huga" (its first satire of rendering M*A*S*H TV series) which developed in Issue # 166 (April 1974). The Surgeon General so-called to "Cockeye Piercer" and "Crapper John" that they were deterrent in-between The Mary Tyler Histrion Show and All in authority Family only because religious assortments objected to Bridget Loves Bernie, which was a reference cast off your inhibitions the fact that M*A*S*H was put in the time footprint in between those two shows in the 1973-74 TV bout after the cancellation of Bridget Loves Bernie.

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