{"id":194,"date":"2006-05-30T07:02:08","date_gmt":"2006-05-30T12:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/2006\/05\/30\/8220bimbo8217s-tv-trivia8221-lives-on\/"},"modified":"2007-05-27T23:30:14","modified_gmt":"2007-05-28T03:30:14","slug":"8220bimbo8217s-tv-trivia8221-lives-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/archives\/194","title":{"rendered":"\u201cBimbo\u2019s TV Trivia\u201d lives on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gruntledcenter.blogspot.com\/2006\/05\/does-medium-show-best-marriage-on.html\">Dr. Gruntled<\/a> has a recent post that gets some of us thinking about how marriage is portrayed on TV. He suggests that &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/title\/tt0412175\/\">Medium<\/a>&#8221; currently features the best marriage and welcomes other nominees for strong marriages on television today.\n<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t found a series that I can get myself to regularly watch since I soured on &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/title\/tt0285333\/\">Alias<\/a>&#8221; and ABC cancelled &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/title\/tt0419323\/\">Eyes<\/a>,&#8221; so I&#8217;ll have to present a more historical survey. Look elsewhere for cliche nominees like The Cleavers, The Petries, Andy Taylor, and Steve Douglas. This is my peculiar take on the subject, in no particular order, but highly influenced by my favorite shows:\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8226; <span style=\"font-style: italic\">Best Single Mom&#8212;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>One Day at a Time | Ann Romano | Bonnie Franklin<br \/>\nStar Trek: The Next Generation | Commander Dr. Beverly Crusher | Gates McFadden<br \/>\nThe Big Valley | Victoria Barkley | Barbara Stanwyck<br \/>\nJulia | Julia Baker | Diahann Carroll\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8226; <span style=\"font-style: italic\">Best Single Dad&#8212;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Byrds of Paradise | Sam Byrd | Timothy Busfield<br \/>\nThe Courtship of Eddie&#8217;s Father | Tom Corbett | Bill Bixby<br \/>\nJonny Quest | Dr. Benton C. Quest | voice of Don Messick<br \/>\nThe Rifleman | Lucas McCain | Chuck Connors\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8226; <span style=\"font-style: italic\">Best Married Couple&#8212;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>thirtysomething | Michael and Hope Steadman | Ken Olin and Mel Harris<br \/>\nFirefly | Zoe and Hoban Washburne | Gina Torres and Alan Tudyk<br \/>\nLife Goes On | Libby and Drew Thacher | Patti LuPone and Bill Smitrovich<br \/>\nLove on a Rooftop | David  and Julie Willis | Peter Deuel and Judy Carne<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Gruntled has a recent post that gets some of us thinking about how marriage is portrayed on TV. He suggests that &#8220;Medium&#8221; currently features the best marriage and welcomes other nominees for strong marriages on television today. I haven&#8217;t found a series that I can get myself to regularly watch since I soured on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,16,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}