Couldn't agree more, Graszka. Hope you'll subscribe!

Pop Goes The Culture TV Yes sure, with pleasure.

Diahann Carroll ! I loved the show Julia.

The character's husband was killed in Vietnam. I liked her relationship with the Lloyd Nolan character, the decent, wise and craggy and sarcastic PCP.

Autumn Bonner I just bought all 4 seasons of PARTRIDGE FAMILY on Amazon for 23 Dollars

It is always dicey when someone says they were "the first" to do something...it almost always turns out there wa someone before them.

Yes, it was Diahann Carroll in/as "Julia", who played a nurse, and it did debut in 1968.

Thanks Sally! Part two goes up Monday!

L Martinez, you are right in asking, the question, you posed. I am a fan of both Diahann Carroll and Shirley Jones and enjoyed watching, "Julia," which aired, from 1968-1971 and, "The Partridge Family," from 1970-1974. Diahann Carroll's TV character, Julia Baker, preceded Shirley Jon'es' TV character, Shirley Partridge, as a working mother. Ms. Carroll's role as Julia Baker was an especially groundbreaking one, for the portrayal of the 1st non stereotypical African-American woman on television. Julia Baker was a college educated professional, who was an RN, who was able to hire a babysitter, to look after her son, Corey. In 1969, Ms. Carroll's achievement led to her being awarded a Golden Globe for Best TV Star- Female (Julia, 1968) and in 1970, Ms. Carroll was nominated by the Golden Globes for Best TV Actress in a Musical or Comedy. In 1971 and 1972, Shirley Jones was nominated by the Golden Globes for Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy. In 2003, (Julia, 1968) won a TV Land Award for the category "Groundbreaking Show." Also in 2003, (The Partridge Family, 1970) was nominated by TV Land Awards for the category of "Quintessential Non-Traditional Family. For a TV music comedy (The Partridge Family, 1970) was groundbreaking in its lighthearted way of dealing with social issues, before a mass audience. These issues were varied, such as energy conservation, whale slaughter, race, religion, battle of the sexes and censorship. This all began with the forming of a family rock band, traveling the road in a Mondrian style painted bus. This type of thing could only happen, in the early 70s.

@@denisejervis8602 Yea there was Julia and other even older shows. Lucille Ball played a working single mother in Heres Lucy from 1968 to 1974. We didnt see any working single fathers until around 1960 with My three sons. Single parents of any gender were not represented until the 1960's.

@@tubester4567 Thanks for your reply, and your mention of "Here's Lucy" (1968-1974). I was almost certain, there might possibly have been other single working moms, before Shirley Partidge, on The Partidge Family. As for single working dads, I remember, there was the TV series, The Courtship of Eddies' Father, starring Bill Bixby (1969-1972).

I literally just said that out loud but I thought maybe I was wrong maybe it was later on in the 70s for Julia great minds and all that

@@denisejervis8602 I should have read your comment before I thought that I was wrong. Thank you

I bought the whole series on eBay 96 episodes for just $17 and I finished watching the other day. I don't remember the song but now it's in my head roller coaster. I thought that was so good. It was featured on the last show

Thanks for being such a loyal viewer Mr. G!

Patricia Lopez 1 thing I never new did DAVID sing TV SHOW SONGS when he was doing his own concerts, David was popular I heard a 14 year old girl had a heart attack because she was so excited to see David

It was rare for a movie star to do TV back in those days because once they went to TV, they rarely got to do movies again. Lucille Ball was the exception because, well, Lucille Ball.

@@PopGoesTheCultureTV indeed. the most brilliant star

Totally, E Z. Thanks for watching! I hope you'll subscribe. Best, David

We upload one new episode a day! Subscribe and tomorrow you'll get part two! Thanks for watching! David

Pop Goes The Culture TV I am subscribed , thank you

Sorry about that. When these were originally done, the interviewer was never going to be heard. We do the best we can. Thanks for understanding.

@@PopGoesTheCultureTV could you tell me what year this was please x

I meant sleep?

Man my typos, Mickey Dolenz of the Monkees.

he just had too much talent and too little time, i suppose

Of course she does. They were close, or use to be.

Why wouldn’t she?

Rest in peace, David and Jack.

It was a very different time. It wasn't until the late 90's that people began to go back and forth between movies and TV. Back then, if you were TV, you were TV. If you were movies, you were movies. Hard to understand now.

After PF ended, Shirley did go back to making films, mostly for TV. One of her best film roles was as compulsive gambler Eleanor Anderson in "Winner Take All".