For the bulk of 20th-century television, generations revered the blue-collar figures of counter-culture from Ralph Kramden (Jackie Gleason) in The Honeymooners, Archie Bunker (Carroll O'Connor) in All in the Family, Al Bundy (Ed O'Neill) in Married with Children, and Fred Sanford (Redd Foxx) in Sanford and Son.
Jackie Gleason as Ralph Kramden in The Honeymooners[...]
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Television programming needs to stop using Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" as a template for storytelling, because it's lazy and uninspiring.