from TV Guide's 1972 Fall Preview Issue

Maude is meant to be the flip side of All In The Family, It's a spin-off from that hit show and is produced by Family's godfather, Norman Lear. Maude Findlay is a caricature of the knee-jerk liberal, played--at the top of her lungs--by Beatrice Arthur. Maude has a wicked tongue, but so does everyone else in her chaotic suburban household. Such as: Walter (Bill Macy), Maude's current husband--her fourth; her daughter Carol (Adrienne Barbeau), a divorcee who's 8-year-old son (Brian Morrison) likes to practice dirty words on his tape recorder; and the black maid, Florida Evans (Esther Rolle), who can match Maude putdown for putdown. Maude: "For the first time in history, the young blacks in the ghettos are trying for a bigger political voice." Florida: "Most of the kids in my neighborhood are tryin' for a hit record." And when Arthur Harmon (Conrad Bain), a Marie Antoinette conservative, drops in from next door, the insults really hit the fan. Whatever became of Ozzie and Harriet? Debut: CBS, Sept. 12. Pictured: Beatrice Arthur.

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