I don't understand the hate for the show. For one, it wasn't like the Labor Day Telethon was preempting great tv. For my era, it was the 70's. The only thing it blocked out was soap operas and talk shows.

I wouldn't describe him as right wing, I think he was just contrarian. When he wrote Okie, he was bucking the current trend and "in" scene, which was the counterculture and the hippie movement. He wrote Irma Jackson at the same time, which voiced his support for interracial marriage when that was still very taboo in…