A handful of people within the industry defended the Family Viewing Hour. “The creative people can’t come up with something creative, so they blame the Family Hour,” said Bill Cosby. “The hour should be directed toward the family [so it] can sit down together without being faced with some controversial issue or clinical discussion on abortion.” Showrunners ran into problems right away. CBS spent sixteen hours trying to determine whether or not Archie Bunker changing a diaper was obscene. Censors removed the word “sucker” from an episode of The Jeffersons. An episode of Good Times, written by
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