It's been nine years since the tragic demise of beloved, Emmy-winning actress Doris Roberts. Roberts was best known for her feisty, maternal-in-law role as Marie Barone on TV's classic sitcom, ...

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News about Norman Lear. Commentary and archival information about Norman Lear from The New York Times.

Martin Mull died Thursday at his home after a 'valiant fight against a long illness,' according to his daughter.

"Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman" ran for two seasons beginning in 1976 and featured 325 episodes. The satirical soap opera starred Louise Lasser, Mary Kay Place, Greg Mullavey, Norman Lear himself ...

Pretty soon Lear was claiming that Mary Hartman’s ridiculous traumas “show humanity and comedy true to life in society—but perceived through a bent glass.” ...

Norman Lear created groundbreaking shows like "All in the Family," "Maude" and "The Jeffersons" that took on serious social issues with humor.

A liberal activist with an eye for mainstream entertainment, Lear fashioned bold and controversial TV shows that helped define prime-time comedy in the 1970s.

Producer-writer Norman Lear, whose groundbreaking hit comedies such as "All in the Family" and "Maude" addressed race, abortion and other social issues rarely seen before on U.S. television, died ...

American producer, writer and director Norman Lear, creator of such iconic 1970s television characters as the bigoted blowhard Archie Bunker in the sitcom “All in the Family,” has died at 101.

Norman Lear has died. The producer who made TV topical in the 1970s with the sitcom “All in the Family,” died Tuesday night at the age of 101 years old. “All in the Family” … ...

Norman Lear, the writer, director and producer who revolutionized prime time television with such topical hits as “All in the Family” and “Maude” and propelled political and social turmoil ...