I beleive her name is Judy

Remind me again -- was Maude a spinoff of Rhoda, or was it the other way around? And if I'm not mistaken, both were spinoffs off Mary Tyler Moore.

Or something like that.

"Rhoda" was a spinoff of MTM (as was a show called "Phyllis", starring Cloris Leachman). I don't recall that either of them lasted very long.

I couldn't tell you the antecedents of "Maude" because Bea Arthur gives me hives.

Maude was spun off from All In the Family.

I wish I could free up the space in my brain that this useless piece of information is taking up.

"Maybe they should call it a TALL Island Iced Tea. ... No, Long Island Iced Tea is better."

Yep, All in the Family begat Maude, and oh how I wish I could do a major file dump on my brain. A while back I amused my GF's daughter by singing the theme song to the Saturday morning animated version of "Spiderman," ca. 1970. It turned out I still remembered all three verses plus the break. She was thrilled, I was appalled.

Yes, but do you remember the Spidey theme from The Electric Company?

You think y'all got useless crap in your head:

All in the Family begat both "The Jeffersons" and "Maude" (and, if you can call it a spinoff, "Archie's Place").

"Maude" begat "Good Times" (Florida was Maude's maid). Which is the only tertiary spin off I can think off.

Then again, isn't "The Simpsons" technically a spin off of "The Tracy Ullman Show"?

I took a short break from the killing pressure of my work as a trouble-shooter for the Counter-Terrorism Unit to google on this, and it turns out that "All in the Family" actually spawned seven spinoffs, including a second tertiary spinoff. They are:

--Maude (1972-1978)
--Good Times (1974-1979)
--The Jeffersons (1975-1985)
--Checking In (1981); tertiary spinoff of "The Jeffersons"
--Archie Bunker's Place (1979-1983)
--Gloria (1982-1983)
--704 Hauser Street (1994)

Sadly, if you ask me about this ten years from now I'll probably still be able to name those shows.

There was only one good thing about "Maude":

Adrienne Barbeau...

Yes, but do you remember the Spidey theme from The Electric Company?

Damn you, Robbo, Damn you to Hell.

MWAAAHAHAHA! - Welcome to my world!

Spidey theme was reprised in an amusing scene in Spider Man 2.

"Spider Man, Spider Man . . .
Does whatever a Spider can!"

Ah, but do you remember Zoom? Or was that a regional thing.

"Zoom!
Come on and zoom zoom!
Come on and zooma-zooma-zooma zoom . . . "

If you're from Boston, you're laughing right now.

Nope, my local PBS station carried it in San Antonio:

Write Zoom,
Zee, double-o, em
Box Three Five Oh
Boston, Mass
Oh!
Two-One!
Three-Fooour!

"Zoom." Ah, yes. Remember the Ubbi-dubbi language?

Discussions like this make me think of Jack Handey, who once said, "When I think of the thousands of hours I've spent sitting in front of the television, I realize that my life has been truly rich in television." I heard him say that on TV once.

Heh.

Evidently you can buy it on video. Not that anyone would want to, mind you.

http://www.stuckinthe70s.com/tv.htm

Scroll down below the disturbing Barry Williams picture.

I think it would be akin to a war crime to subject another generation to Ubbi Dubbi, though. On my school's playground, it was generally understood that anyone speaking Ubbi Dubbi was fair game for a beating.

There were other people on Maude besides Adrienne Barbeau? (grin)...

Actually, Bea Arthur was probably the highlight of Comedy Central's semi-recent celebrity roast of Pamela Anderson: Bea read some racy excerpts from Pam's 'novels' -- that prose, delivered (with a straight face) by that voice, was *hysterical*...

Actually, there is a new Zoom out now, with a hip-hop theme song and "Z-mail" address and... just put me in the retirement home now.