Benson and Krause
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Doom — 16 years ago(January 19, 2010 08:28 AM)
I agree, otherwise Jessica (from 'Soap') would have ended up with Benson - which is what they've said they wanted to do.
It's just something they couldn't even think of trying at the time
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Morganalee — 14 years ago(September 05, 2011 02:42 PM)
Are you very young, so that the early- to mid-1980s seem like ancient history to you? Interracial relationships were not "very much taboo" at the time. The movie "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" came out in 1967, the year that the Supreme Court overturned laws against interracial marriage in the states that still had them. It is true that interracial couples were somewhat less common in the 1980s than they are now, and that television scripts didn't deal with the subject as often, probably because it made advertisers nervous. But it still must make advertisers nervous: when was the last time that you saw a black and white couple depicted in a commercial?
My point is that things have changed less than you imagine when it comes to interracial relationships on television. The depiction of homosexual relationships on TV is what's changed dramatically in the last twenty-five years.
By the way, Robert Guillaume starred in a comedy, "The Robert Guillaume Show," in which he was supposed to be romantically involved with his white secretary. The show aired in 1989. It didn't last. -
Morganalee — 14 years ago(October 06, 2011 07:21 AM)
Also, the show's scripts flirted repeatedly with the possibility of Benson and Krause as a couple; the episodes "The Rivals" (in which Benson impersonates the governor, who's supposed to be Krause's husband) and "The Honeymooners" (in which Benson and Krause mistakenly marry) are two standout examples. "Benson" was the lightest of family comedies, on the verge of fantasy; it was no "All in the Family," no groundbreaker. If interracial relationships had been "very much taboo" when "Benson" aired, its writers wouldn't have produced such scripts.
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tvnutt — 10 years ago(January 03, 2016 05:34 PM)
There were 2 episodes where Benson and Kraus were married. One occurred during a dream where a comet ended the world and they were the only 2 left on Earth. They had a boy and a girl too. The other occurred when Kraus' mother Fritzi visits and she thinks Benson is Kraus's (unseen) boyfriend Arnold. Also if they married it would totally ruin their dynamic. Like when Tony and Angela(Who's the Boss) married and Fran and Mr. Sheffield(The Nanny) married. Also there was the interacial issue among some viewers. While the writers were forward thinking, many viewers were not. Even when Robert Guillame had his own show and had a white girlfriend, the network was getting a lot of heat from viewers who disliked the relationship.
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