The Glass Teat - Essays Of Opinion On The Subject Of Television - Plot & Excerpts
On the basis of only a few shows. Those were shows produced in execrable taste with a minimum of articulation or inventiveness. Last week I was dragooned into attending a special screening of two Mod Squad episodes produced by Harve Bennett. Mr. Bennett wrote one of them, and William Wood (who is about as golden a writer as this town has seen in many moons, WGAw please note) wrote the other. The first was about a draft resister whose father was a brigadier general in Viet Nam and how his refusal to not only not register, but to use violence of any kind, finally ends in triumph and tragedy. The other show was about a militant black priest who is drummed out of the Church for his activities. Neither show copped-out. The three undercover kids who work for the Laws were used eminently well in context; the acting was, in the main, superlative; the scripts were authentic and honest; and the series has developed into one of the heavier items in mainstream programming.
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