Norman Lear and Brent Miller Are Ready to Recreate ‘Maude’ Abortion Episode for ‘Live in Front of a Studio Audience’
variety.comEmily Longeretta Norman Lear knows a thing or two about timely topics. So, what better time than now to recreate the famous “Maude” abortion episode, which originally aired in November 1972 — two months before Roe v.
Wade made it legal across the United States.The two-part episode, “Maude’s Dilemma,” featured the lead character (played by Bea Arthur) grappling with what to do when she discovers that she’s pregnant, at age 47.
Maude ultimately decides to have an abortion — a rare storyline back then, and a storyline that continued to be rare on television over the next 50 years, even when Roe v.
Wade was the rule of the land. Does Lear think it would be possible to tell through today’s lens?“It’s such an interesting question, and I have no idea,” Lear told Variety in a new interview. “My guess is certainty you can tell it.
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