Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1973)

Genre

sitcom

Country

United States

Length

1 season, 13 episodes

Rating

7.5 of 10 from 2 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Two couples navigate relationships and changing social norms. Bob and Carol are more progressive than their friends Ted and Alice. The series adapts the movie's themes for 1970s network television.

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What happens

Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice is an American sitcom broadcast in the United States by ABC as part of its 1973 fall lineup. It was based on the 1969 movie of the same title, and produced by Frankovich Enterprises in association with Screen Gems. Only seven episodes were aired before the series was canceled. Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice was of necessity somewhat different from the R-rated movie upon which it was based. The film involved sexual liberation, and featured the (short-lived) desire of the two title couples to engage in extramarital affairs, mate-swapping and group sex, all of which would have been unacceptable on U.S. broadcast television in 1973 under the network's Division of Standards and Practices. However, the TV series depicted skinny dipping, premarital sex, and unmarried couples cohabiting, which were still thought by many to be racy topics for network television at the time. As with the film, Ted and Alice Henderson were more conservative than the "liberated" Bob and Carol Sanders. No members of the original film cast reprised their roles in the series. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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