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Bridget Loves Bernie was a CBS sitcom that ran for just one 24-episode season in 1972-73. Starring Meredith Baxter and David Birney, it was based on the long-running Broadway play Abie's Irish Rose. The show's premise was that a young school teacher from a well-to-do Irish-American family falls in love with and marries a poor Jewish cab driver. The show was given an excellent time slot--Saturdays at 8:30 PM, between All in the Family and Mary Tyler Moore--and finished fifth in the overall ratings for the season. Why was the show cancelled? It was widely reported that Jewish groups opposed to inter-religious marriages inundated CBS with hate mail! (Officially, CBS claimed the show's ratings were disappointing.) Bridget Loves Bernie remains the highest-rated show ever to be cancelled after just one season. Birney and Baxter were later married in real life.
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Added: 21st February 2012
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Two helpul advice books for British married couples, Don'ts For Wives and Don'ts For Husbands, published in 1913, are experiencing a renaissance in sales today. Here are some of the timeless pointers contained on their pages:
FOR HUSBANDS:
DON'T try to "drive" your wife. You will be much more successful if you "lead" her.
DON’T scoff if your wife wants to drive the car.
DON’T keep up the “poor little woman” pose too long.
A woman may like to be a plaything for a little while but the novelty soon wears off.
DON’T rush out of the house in such a hurry that you haven’t time to kiss your wife goodbye. She will grieve over the omission all day.
DON’T dwell on the beauty of other women if you know your wife to be sensitive on the point. There is no sense in rubbing sores, although some men seem to find a strange pleasure in it.
DON’T spend night after night at your club, leaving your wife alone to count the hours until your return.
DON’T forget to buy your wife a pair of gloves occasionally. She will always be pleased to have them.
FOR WIVES:
DON’T think your husband not “manly” because he happens to be short and thin and not very strong. Manliness is not a pure physical quality.
DON’T moralize by way of winning back the love that seems to be waning. Make yourself extra charming and arrange delicious dinners which include all your husband’s favorite dishes.
DON’T expect your husband to be an angel. You would get very tired of him if he were.
DON’T try to dictate to your husband on any subject. He won’t stand for it and there will be trouble.
DON’T nauseate your husband with talking “baby” all the time. As baby’s father, he will stand a good deal of it, but remember there are other interests in the world.
DON’T be jealous of your husband’s bachelor friends. Let him camp out with them for an occasional weekend if he wants to. He will come back all the fresher and full of appreciation for his home.
DON’T say, “I told you so” to your husband, however much you feel tempted to. It does no good and he will be grateful to you for not saying it.
DON’T let breakfast be a “snatch” meal. Your husband often does the best part of his day’s work on it and the engine can’t work if you don’t stoke it properly.
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Added: 2nd January 2013
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