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American TV series or program
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
is an American
sitcom
broadcast in the United States by
ABC
as part of its
1973 fall lineup
. It was based on the
1969
movie of the same title
, and produced by Frankovich Enterprises in association with Screen Gems. Only seven episodes were aired before the series was canceled.
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
was of necessity somewhat different from the
R-rated
movie upon which it was based. The film involved sexual liberation, and featured the (short-lived) desire of the two title couples to engage in extramarital affairs, mate-swapping and group sex, all of which would have been unacceptable on U.S. broadcast television in 1973 under the network's Division of
Standards and Practices
. However, the TV series depicted
skinny dipping
,
premarital sex
, and unmarried couples cohabiting, which were still thought by many to be racy topics for network television at the time. As with the film, Ted and Alice Henderson were more conservative than the "liberated" Bob and Carol Sanders. No members of the original film cast reprised their roles in the series.
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Scheduled opposite CBS's Top 10 hit
The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour
and NBC's Top 30 hit
Adam-12
, the series earned very low
Nielsen ratings
, and was canceled less than two months after its premiere.
The show is perhaps best remembered for featuring a then eleven-year-old
Jodie Foster
as Ted and Alice's daughter. (This differed from the movie version where the characters had a son.)
Cast
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Episode list
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*These episodes finally appeared on
USA Network
, with the rest of the series, in 1984.
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