EXCLUSIVE: Norman Lear never was one to be stifled with. When Fred Silverman turned to him for a show to upgrade the image of CBS " the Tiffany network that, through the enormous popularity of The Beverly Hillbillies, Green Acres and Hee Haw, had come to stand for Country Bumpkins Supreme " Lear knew exactly the path he wanted to take. He would turn the sitcom landscape into a minefield where the timid…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:21PM on October 3, 2014