Do you know how the books treated their relationship? Also, wasn't Burr's (who also did Ironside) orientation "buried" until after his death?
On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 10:12 AM Tom Wolper <[email protected]> wrote: > Perry's relationship with Della on the show is simple: they are an old > married couple with no hint of marriage or sex. Code era movies had ways of > letting mature viewers know that characters had sex while leaving the young > or naive unaware and that's not present at all in the series. It's hard to > relate to a modern context because it doesn't exist in a modern context. > They are an exclusive couple with no physical touch. And I don't think it > has anything to do with Burr's orientation. If that hadn't been completely > buried during the run of the show the sponsors would have fled and the show > would have been canceled. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CA%2B_fQPwt9zXFkRsfZ1YW%3Dgpk2wieNKOnjYYQzjc7WqjHz_c%2BhQ%40mail.gmail.com.
