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Bob Newhart: 'We were the first married TV couple to have a single bed'
Fox News ^ | September 14, 2017

Posted on 09/18/2017 6:19:49 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement

“We were the first married TV couple to have a single bed,” the 88-year-old told Closer Weekly. “I didn’t think it was risky — I just thought it was about time.”

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TOPICS: Society; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: hollywood; newhart; television
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I thought the Flintstones had this distinction and supposedly an obscure TV show from the 1950s showed an actual married couple.

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1 posted on 09/18/2017 6:19:49 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement
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To: ConservativeStatement

Brady bunch. I believe he was reading Jonathan Livingston Seagull.


2 posted on 09/18/2017 6:23:08 AM PDT by robroys woman (So you're not confused, I'm male.)
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Because Bob Newhart.
Well certainly not because Suzanne Pleshette.

Anyway, didn’t Samantha and Darren have one? I have seen the first few seasons of Bewitched and I’m pretty sure there was one bed.


3 posted on 09/18/2017 6:24:52 AM PDT by Buttons12
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To: ConservativeStatement

What about Petticoat Junction?


4 posted on 09/18/2017 6:25:32 AM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: ConservativeStatement

Brady Bunch.


5 posted on 09/18/2017 6:26:59 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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According to Snopes it was first seen on the Dumont network...years and years ago. Now, we ask, would Snopes fail to tell US the truth?
http://www.snopes.com/radiotv/tv/marykay.asp


6 posted on 09/18/2017 6:29:09 AM PDT by V K Lee (DJT: "Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war. ")
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Right, the first mainstream program to show a married couple together in bed was the Flintstones. I read somewhere that the first non-animated show was Green Acres but I’m not sure about that. I remember growing up thinking my parents were weird because they didn’t sleep on twin beds separated by a dresser.


7 posted on 09/18/2017 6:32:07 AM PDT by jalisco555 ("In a Time of Universal Deceit Telling the Truth Is a Revolutionary Act" - George Orwell)
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Yup! The Brady Bunch was in 1969 .... so that show was first with the double bed.


8 posted on 09/18/2017 6:33:20 AM PDT by Right_in_Virginia
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And now we have a pair of "husbands" taking it up the pooper in a San Francisco "bath house".

Sounds like "progress" to me!

9 posted on 09/18/2017 6:34:49 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (ObamaCare Works For Those Who Don't.)
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Oops ... it was Samantha and Darren first in a double bed in 1964


10 posted on 09/18/2017 6:34:59 AM PDT by Right_in_Virginia
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To: jalisco555

That was it, Green Acres, not Petticoat Junction. My mistake.


11 posted on 09/18/2017 6:35:06 AM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: V K Lee

“Snopes” and “truth” don’t belong in the same sentence.


12 posted on 09/18/2017 6:35:27 AM PDT by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=Bob+Newhart+Big+Bang+Theory&&view=detail&mid=38F118A368A1625AB9DC38F118A368A1625AB9DC&FORM=VRDGAR


13 posted on 09/18/2017 6:35:45 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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Easy mistake. Practically the same cast, same town....................


14 posted on 09/18/2017 6:38:34 AM PDT by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Bob & Emily’s bed was about 200 square feet.

It was huge.


15 posted on 09/18/2017 6:43:03 AM PDT by BarbM (President Trump tells the truth LOUD and CLEAR)
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I thought it was The Munsters.


16 posted on 09/18/2017 6:50:55 AM PDT by pinkandgreenmom
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Oh my, so not in “I Love Lucy” nor the immortal “I Married Joan”, eh?


17 posted on 09/18/2017 7:02:23 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("If I had to go to war again, I'd bring lacrosse players" Conn Smythe)
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According to this guy, who has a whole page dedicated to Samantha and Darren's bedroom:

Who was first? There has long been much confusion about which married couple first shared the same bed on TV. Some have said Lucy and Ricky of I Love Lucy, others have gone for Carol and Mike of The Brady Bunch, Wilma and Fred of The Flintstones, Lily and Herman of The Munsters, and, of course, Samantha and Darrin of Bewitched. Strangely enough, it was none of these. The winner is Mary Kay and Johnny, which first aired on November 18, 1947. This was a 15-minute series that ran for three years. The Flintstones [1960-1966] were next, but are often discounted because they were cartoon characters, not real people. Next would be Bewitched and The Munsters both of which first aired in 1964.

Bewitched first showed Darrin and Samantha sharing a bed on October 22, 1964. The Munsters first showed Herman and Lily sharing the same bed in the episode "Autumn Croakus," which aired on November 26, 1964. The Brady Bunch didn’t come along until 1969. The Ricardos and the Nelsons, for example, always used twin beds.

It's from a blog, so you have been warned. http://www.harpiesbizarre.com/bedtime.htm

To Mr. Newhart: "Hi, Bob. You're mistaken."

18 posted on 09/18/2017 7:17:24 AM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.)
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Adjunct question: Which tv showed actually showed a married couple (sitting up) together in the same bed - rather than just showing the double bed?

Regards,

19 posted on 09/18/2017 7:29:24 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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Never understood why married couples had separate beds in movies and tv.


20 posted on 09/18/2017 7:46:16 AM PDT by AceMineral (One day men will beg for chains.)
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