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A brief history of TV couples sleeping in the same bed [View all]
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A brief history of TV couples sleeping in the same bed
No, the Flintstones nor the Bradys were not the first to share a bed. Not by a longshot.
Jan 10, 2022, 4:14PM By MeTV Staff
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It all began shortly after World War II…
1. Mary Kay and Johnny
1947
This sitcom racked up a lot of firsts. Easy to do when you are literally the first sitcom in the history of television. Mary Kay and Johnny Stearns were married in real life. That perhaps allowed folks to not get too worked up about them sharing a bed. Or working Mary Kay's pregnancy into the show. (Sorry, I Love Lucy was not the first to do that.) The show premiered on the long-dead DuMont Network, before briefly jumping to CBS and settling on NBC. So why is Mary Kay and Johnny so forgotten? There were only 250,000 TV sets in America in 1947, and the series was largely a regional affair out of New York. And episodes were broadcast live, with little thought of preservation. Only one is known to exist, in the Paley Center.
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A brief history of TV couples sleeping in the same bed
No, the Flintstones nor the Bradys were not the first to share a bed. Not by a longshot.
Jan 10, 2022, 4:14PM By MeTV Staff
{snip}
It all began shortly after World War II…
1. Mary Kay and Johnny
1947
This sitcom racked up a lot of firsts. Easy to do when you are literally the first sitcom in the history of television. Mary Kay and Johnny Stearns were married in real life. That perhaps allowed folks to not get too worked up about them sharing a bed. Or working Mary Kay's pregnancy into the show. (Sorry, I Love Lucy was not the first to do that.) The show premiered on the long-dead DuMont Network, before briefly jumping to CBS and settling on NBC. So why is Mary Kay and Johnny so forgotten? There were only 250,000 TV sets in America in 1947, and the series was largely a regional affair out of New York. And episodes were broadcast live, with little thought of preservation. Only one is known to exist, in the Paley Center.
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