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ALL IN THE FAMILY' STARTED LOOSENING THE LIMITS OF LANGUAGE ON TELEVISION

(St. Louis Post-Dispatch) Ray Mark Rinaldi; Of The Post-Dispatch; 10-15-1998

Television has wrestled with changing mores since its beginning. "Gunsmoke" faced battles over violence when it premiered in 1955. The censors prohibited an episode of "The Avengers" from airing in 1965 because Emma Peel was wearing a dominatrix outfit.
But, like the rest of the world, the TV scene started to change dramatically in the 1970s. Norman Lear entered the small picture, and nothing was ever the same.

Here are some key moments:
"All in the Family" (1971): Archie Bunker shocks the world, using racial slurs like "spic," "jungle bunny" and "spades." Bunker's old- school ways were supposed to show America how far it had come with racial tolerance - and how far it had to go.

"Maude" (1972): This "All in the Family" spinoff is probably best- known for its abortion episode. The word and the procedure were no longer taboo on TV.

"Three's Company" (1977): Gays come out of the closet, sort of. Jack pretends to be homosexual so the landlord will let him share a groovy pad with sensible Janet and sexy Chrissie. Landlords Norman Fell and Don Knotts use every word the writers can concoct to describe Jack's orientation.

"Hill Street Blues" (1981): Lear passes the envelope to producer Steven Bochco, who pushes it even further. Bochco skirts the language problem by having his street cops substitute words like "scumbag" and "hairball" for what they were really saying. But the show fooled no one. One memorable episode: when Frank shaves Joyce's legs in the bathtub, drops the razor, then tries to find it.

"Roseanne" (1988): The artist formerly known as Barr brings "suck" into everyday conversation.

"The Simpsons" (1989): Bart is just a cartoon, but he has kids all over America using the word "butt" and annoying everyone within earshot.

"Beverly Hills 90210" (1990): The Fox network explodes any notion of a "family hour" in the first 60 minutes of prime time, by scheduling this teen drama at 7 p.m. Few subjects are off-limits as the teens talk openly about losing their virginity and getting pregnant.

"NYPD Blue" (1993): Bochco's new series goes on the air with a bang. In the first episode, Sipowicz calls his girlfriend a "pissy little bitch" and has sex with a prostitute. Jimmy Smits ends up with the most famous bare butt on the small screen.

"Beavis and Butt-head" (1993): Just having a "Butt-head" in the title says it all.
"South Park" (1997): Four 8-year-olds sitting around talkin' - dirty. The show is awarded a TV-MA rating, the closest thing television has to an NC-17.