[Diahann Carroll played a nurse trying to raise her son after
her husband, an Air Force pilot, is killed in Viet Nam. Six
year old Marc Copage played her son. Lloyd Nolan played her
boss, a doctor at the hospital. Veteran actress Lurene Tuttle
played the head nurse; since this was the first sitcom since
"Beulah" to star a black actress, NBC network executives were
worried about how audiences would accept the integrated cast;
They needn't have -- this was the late 1960s, and the youth
movement had brought about many changes of attitudes so that
this wasn't a factor; in a sense, this series paved the way
for many bolder sitcoms to reach mainstream audiences by
proving the concept of presenting on TV sitcom swhat existed
in the culture at large]
(NBC Primetime, 1968 - 1971)
Composer: Elmer Bernstein (ASCAP/BMI)
1978 Publisher: Twentieth Cent. Mus. Corp. (ASCAP)
2001 Publisher: Twentieth Century-Fox Music Corp. (ASCAP)
c/o WB Music Corp.
of Los Angeles, CA
Copyright Date: 1968, on sheet music
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Composer: Jeff Alexander (ASCAP)
1978 Publisher: Twentieth Cent. Mus. Corp. (ASCAP)
2001 Publisher: Twentieth Century-Fox Music Corp. (ASCAP)
c/o WB Music Corp.
of Los Angeles, CA
Copyright Date:
Renewal Date:
Recordings: