"One Day At A Time" premiered 49 years ago (Dec 16, 1975)

This was it! (This was it!)

Correction (before the pearl-clutching starts) : The title of the musical Lear found Franklin in was titled "Applause". The title of her 'big number' was "Applause, Applause". Sorry.

I remember my mother was shocked when Barbara knowingly referred to her mother as "hot to trot." Such language!

I remember one of the first episodes had a storyline about President Ford's motorcade outside their apartment building. I think there was a sniper (or assassin) on the building's roof (or something like that). It was supposed to be funny. However, in the past 49 years they have never shown that episode in syndication (or they have edited the Ford storyline out). Does anyone else remember this - or whatever happened to the episode ? I'm curious if it was dropped after the attempted assassination of Reagan in March, 1981.

Why was the original title "Three to Get Ready" if at that time there were only two characters?

R5 I think 'Shneider' was always part of the show as the invasive building super. He was the third character.

R4, I remember that episode and it’s included in the DVD set of the show. I believe the title of the episode is “Ann Writes a Letter to the President.” The content of Ann’s letter is passionate and perceived as threatening to the president. I believe Ann gets a bill for $4k from the phone company, gets nowhere in settling it, and this leads to her writing the letter to President Ford.

She looked 31 when she did an episode of "Hazel" 10 years earlier. (1:00 on)

Oh boy, we get to beat the shreds of the shreds of this rag doll again!

Bonnie Franklin was an angry ginger muppet with no acting skills, fried egg titties, and she reeked of dirty pantyhose.

She was an evil dwarf who drove her TV daughters to drug addiction and her TV foster son (or whatever the fuck Alex was to Ann Romano) to homosexuality.

She was as sexy as a pissing toad. Utterly unappealing.

Fried Egg Titties: A Memoir

You know, OP, if there’s one topic that gets short shrift here at the ol’ DL it’s One Day At A Time.

The layout of that apartment made no sense.

Mhm

And this

I'll probably catch hell for saying this, but I hated that show. I was a young girl when it came out so you'd think I would have liked it. I just couldn't stand it when the mother would say " Ms Romano."

I found the program refreshingly now and with it as a liberated 9 year old viewer. Mom, however, objected to the gratuitous out of wedlock sexual relations on the program and nixed it in favor of homework. I was able to rejoin the show once David was out of the picture and the writers erased Schneider’s sleazy girlfriend.

r17 You are not alone here at DL. Ann Romano and Bonnie Franklin have caused so much trauma in the childhood of many here. We welcome you. We hate her, and piss on her grave.

R17 see r10

r10 You get "Post of the Week" here on DL. Congratulations.

Thank you R19! Lol, I didn't realize I'd be the only one! R10, I wouldn't want to get on your bad side!

One of the most dreadful shows to ever be forced upon us. Bonnie Franklin was an unjustifiable ginger cunt.

[quote] I just couldn't stand it when the mother would say " Ms Romano."

This was the 1970s, and it was the height of the 'women's lib' movement.

Just about every CBS sitcom (not just Lear's) set in the present was popularizing the movement in some way, including "Maude", "All In The Family", "Rhoda", "Alice", "Mary Tyler Moore", etc. This character's insistence on being called "Ms." was a reminder she was part of the popular movement.

Bonnie Franklin was a total fraud.

R7 THANK YOU ! I remember seeing it when it originally aired, and again in repeats on the network, but never ever saw it again in syndication once the show went off the air in 1984. Again, I wonder if the attempt on Reagan prompted Lear's production company to remove it from the syndie package to local stations.

Thanks again !

R10 and R11- Better Fried Egg 🍳 Titties than the

Raisin Titties on Irene Cara.

So WUP on the beat! 🎶 WUP on the beat, somewhere there's music playing 🎶

This version of the opening credits really captures Bonnie’s insanity and darkness.

R8 she appeared on an episode of The Munsters too. Which was mid 60s. She wasn’t “new” TV when she accepted the role on ODAAT

Indianapolis is so cosmopolitan R29!

R31 nobody said it was

[quote]r5 Why was the original title "Three to Get Ready" if at that time there were only two characters?

There was a double headed dildo they used together, humorously named Rod.

That was the third character.

I think OP likes dildos, given they're talking to themselves throughout this entire thread.

Hated it and Alice too.

It was just another 70s bad sitcom, until we found out the daughter sucked her daddy's dick, you thought the midget ginger was bad.

I just slow motion jogged out to the mail box. Bonnie would have wanted it that way.

I bet Pat Harrington was kind of hot when he was young.

R38 eew

Didn't Schneider sometimes have VPL?

r40 No

Poor Mary Louise Wilson hated being on this show almost as much as I hated watching her.

I hate to exercise.

[quote]This version of the opening credits really captures Bonnie’s insanity and darkness.

How so?

I really liked the show, and still do.

Judge for yourself R38

I don't remember Schneider ever having a girlfriend.

Schneider looked like a lech. Surprising that Ann Romano allowed the girls to be around him. IRL, Schneider would've been staring at Ann's nips, which were always prominently featured on the show.

See R47, not bad!

Pat H. was a semi-regular on "Make Room For Daddy."

"Don't be afraid of the floor!"

The show was created by Meredith Baxter’s mom and stepfather.

A lot of people, when they fantasize about going back in time to avert tragedy, wish they could have been on the grassy knoll in Dallas, or in Germany to strangle Hitler in art school.

But I know so many of us at DL would choose to go back to the 70s to convince Bonnie Franklin and Linda Lavin to switch roles.

If given the chance, I could have improved the ODAAT theme song with a new version every year -

So up on your feet. Somewhere there's mu mu music playing. Don't you worry none shadooby wah We'll just take it like it comes.

One day at a time! One day a yay a yay at a time! Buh buh buh bah ah ah

r53 100%

[quote]R54 [italic]So up on your feet. Somewhere there's mu mu music playing. [/italic]

That place playing mumu music is RIGHT HERE! Kick off your shoes!

DAMNIT DATALOUNGE!!!!!!

They never show the episode where Julie fucked her dad.

My mom and sisters liked the show and I would hate watch it with them. Julie and Barbara were ok in the beginning but I really hated Ann Romano.

She was a humorless cunt with her tits flopping around under her cowel neck sweaters and sucked the fun out of the room in every single scene.

r60 " She was a humorless cunt with her tits flopping around under her cowel neck sweaters and sucked the fun out of the room in every single scene. "

She was like that in real life also

R48 It was said in conversations (over the course of nine seasons) that he was always having an affair with some tenant in the building, yet we never saw the women they were referring to. He and that kid 'Alex' used to joke a lot about all the 'available' women to Schneider in the building. It was kind of a running joke on the series - Schneider's many 'lovers' who were never seen. Not sure why they tried to make him such a sex symbol like that, but they did. (And Ann, Julie and Barbara used to just laugh along with him about his many girlfriends).

My sister and I liked the show. We really like the girls. Plus we couldn't afford to be but so picky. Hell, we watched What's Happening as well. My mother, however, hate ODAAT. She was more conservative than Ms. Romano. She used to tell us that she couldn't stand Bonnie for being so dramatic all the day and worse yet never wearing a bra. It was annoying.

Also, remember how Ann would run the three steps to her apartment door just looking for a fight. She would throw the door open like "what the hell do you want" attitude.

Also, as a parent, she had a cringe way of delivering that whole schtick about "Sometimes things get pretty tough around here. But we have each other, kiddo. And I think we're doing pretty damn well" (again with the profanity from that ginger snap who was supposed to be Italian?) Her married name should have been Romano as Frank looked Italian and her maiden name should have been Cooper. Or O'Shaunessy with that creamy skin.

My sister and I watched the show every week (as well as all my friends). I had just turned 12 when it started and my sister was 14. My mom and dad were in their early 40s and hated the show (though they loved Berinelli and her character). My parents were very liberal, but really disliked the character of Ann Romano.

How I wanted Barbara's hair back in the early 80s. Just look at it in r29.

My mother couldn't stand Bonnie Franklin or the character either. Seems to have been fairly common.

Why all the face slapping in the show??? And the rapey super with a pass key every episode … any woman using the MS title at that time would have made a huge deal of that!

Bonnie was like Robert Reed (Mike Brady), thinking that ODAAT was a time to show her dramatic acting chops.

I’m another one whose mom couldn’t stand Bonnie. Barbara Eden as Jeannie was her other sitcom hate. ODAAT was my favorite childhood show until that other DL fave Eight is Enough came along.

Coming from Southern Indiana I did think Indianapolis was the sophisticated big city.

I couldn't get into I Dream of Jeannie. I did watch Bewitched, though.

I suspect a lot of Gen Xers like me can locate this show prominently on the map of our incipient gaydom. I'm a bit too young to have watched when it premiered, but it was inescapable in syndication in the early '80s, and I would watch it every day after school.

Glenn Scarapelli as Alex was, in retrospect, my first gay crush. I always loved his episodes the most. At some point, watching it in syndication, I realized there were still new episodes on CBS. I remember tuning in for the first time to find a much more post-pubescent Alex, and how it made me feel ... funny.

I also remember once when I was about 10, I walked up to my 7-year-old sister and slapped her across the face. She of course went apeshit, and my mom was furious at me. "I was being like 'One Day at a Time,'" I tearfully responded as she yelled at me.

Bonnie trying her best to be a Sada Thompson on those ODAAT very special episodes. Oh no! Not a cliffhanger where Julie storms out and runs away back to live with Dad. What was Frank anyway? A used car salesman. That whole family was low rent.

R42 = Bonnie Franklin from the grave.

Fuck off, Bonnie Franklin!

Dammit Julie! Dammit Barbara! Dammit Schneider!

Hold me David, season 1 Ann Romano.

Richard Masur (David) begged for his character to be killed off.

r78 Do you blame him?

Most people unfortunate enough to work opposite that evil ginger dwarf asked for the same fate.

My mom also hated Bonnie Franklin, she referred to her as an "overactress" and hated how she referred to herself as MS Romano. My mom was a feminist so I don't think it was the Ms title that bugged her but how Franklin sanctimoniously said it. I was also too young for the shows initial run but watched it in reruns in the early '80s, my friend Kathy and I used to play ODAAT, but really only Barbara and Julie. Kathy always got to be Barbara, "the pretty one" because she was a girl and I always was stuck playing Julie.

R82 Julie was tougher. But they were all in that sitcom "full character mode" where it was always on. Mac with her acne though under that stage pancake makeup. Her dermatologist bills for unplugging those pores must have been enormous.

There was a lot that didn't make sense on this show, but the one idea where the viewer really had to stretch their imagination was the writers making Julie (Mackenzie Phillips) into some high school sex kitten that every guy drooled over. Those storylines I just could not wrap my head around. And then Julie scores Max (sexy Michael Lembeck) as a husband ???? Meanwhile, beautiful Barbara (Bertinelli) couldn't get a date.

The Ann’s Crisis episode of One Day At A Time is still one of the cringiest moments of sitcom TV history. Melting down about turning…36. Bonnie must’ve thought this was her Emmy clip.

I'd do her.

R86 The original episode written for Franklin ended up being the 'rape' episode on All In The Family, when Edith turned 50. Lear wanted this to be 'Ann Romano's 35th Birthday Celebration' in which she ended up alone in her apartment with a rapist (Schneider and 'the girls' were supposed to be down the street at his 'lodge' preparing her surprise party).

Franklin objected to the script, believing her character would never invite a stranger into her apartment while she was alone. She told Lear she wasn't doing it. He tweaked it a bit and used it for AITF. He then wrote this 'midlife crisis' script for ODAAT, and for some reason changed Romano from 35 to 36.

[quote] Franklin objected to the script, believing her character would never invite a stranger into her apartment while she was alone. She told Lear she wasn't doing it.

Dammit, Norman!

The rapist would've seen her naked and remember that he hadn't eaten breakfast.

Meghan's left arm looks extra-long in the photo.

R4 I remember that one, too. I also remember in that episode that one of the Secret Service guys finds a copy of Playgirl in Barbara's bedroom and starts looking through it.

What R91? Are you on this thread obsessing over Meghan Markle too? Holy shit.

Sorry, wrong thread!

Valerie Bertinelli sure did have great hair.

Eddie looked like he was crying and/or was high. Valerie has got her arms crossed, but her eyes are looking similar to Eddie's.

Ed and Valerie, matching hairstyles.

Our Gal Val was always so needy.

Val had fabulous hair.

She's been dead and down here long enough to have worn a tippy-tappy hole in the iron floor of hell an eighth of an inch deep.

We'll see how far she sinks into her tap hole in a million years.

In Hell, her punishment is to never stop dancing. Everyone else's is to never stop watching.

When did One Day at a Time dislodge The Golden Girls from the position of most seminal DL sitcom?

R104 One Day at a Time threads are where we voice our hatred of a sitcom and its star. The Golden Girls threads are for love.

R104 Golden Girls was perfection in many eyes. ODAT was a train wreck, so it’s fun to talk about. I think Datalounge loves a good train wreck.

Of all the actresses who were around at that time and the right age for Ann Romano, why on Earth Norman Lear chose to cast the shrill, annoying and totally unfunny Bonnie Franklin is a mystery.

Especially considering just three years earlier he struck gold by casting a genius comedic actress, Bea Arthur, as Maude in what was perfect casting.

I love the Gloria Estefan version!

R197 Who do you suggest ? What actress in her early 30s back then would've been better as the young mother with two teenage daughters, who got married at 17 and left her husband at the age of 31 ?

Any of them, r109.

It was so ridiculous how Ann Romano was portrayed as this hot bitch who all the men in Indianapolis found irresistible. They couldn't wait to get inside that ginger snatch.

LINDA LAVIN, R109, YOU DUMB FUCK!

I loved it when Ann was pissed at somebody, she would close her eyes while speaking to that person.

I guess Bonnie considered that "acting."

R109: Shelley Fabares was the same age as Franklin, but always played warm and likable even when she was meant to be assertive.

Bonnie Franklin also played one of Gidget’s friends in the Gidget tv series.

Valerie Harper, maybe, could have played the mother.

I HATED Shelley Fabares as Francine Webster. Ann’s rival at the fake advertising agency where Ann was a high school educated executive.

[quote]advertising agency where Ann was a high school educated executive.

Not to defend the odious Ann Romano, but wasn't that still possible in the 70s?

Yes, slapping in the boardroom was standard practice.

You mean being uneducated yet positioning yourself as a competitive ad executive in a city like Indianapolis in the late 1970s?

No.

Oh, I thought Ann worked her way up from a secretary. She just walked into an ad agency and they made her an executive?

Too bad Shelley didn't chloroform her in the ladies room.

…and a “Welcome Back Kotter” to you too….

I watched that show back when it aired but don't remember anything about it.

It's too bad Ann didn't meet up with Ted Bundy

Surprised that Bonnie Franklin rejected the rape plot. I think the narrative could have been tweaked so that she wasn't some dumbo letting a complete stranger enter her apartment. She wanted DRAMA, had the opportunity to dish out some DRAMA, then rejected the opportunity.

Joanne Froggatt (Anna) on Downton Abbey got a Golden Globe award the season that Anna got raped by a visitor's servant.

Lorraine Bracco (Dr. Melfi) really showed her acting chops during a rape plot line.

Same with Jean Stapleton / Edith Bunker.

Why did Barbara tie a basketball to the roof of Ann's car to move across town? Why not put it in the car? Did Barbara ever show interest in basketball ever again?

Schneider didn't smoke, so why did he constantly have a pack of Marlboros rolled in his sleeve?

That was a tiny apartment for three people, so why didn't they make more use of the big nook by the window and put the dining table in there or something?

The many mysteries of One Day at a Time ...

[quote] That was a tiny apartment for three people, so why didn't they make more use of the big nook by the window and put the dining table in there or something?

That was a huge, wasted space. We'll never know the answer to this question. It was a set design choice, I guess.

As the non-rape 36th birthday episode proved, Franklin trying to show her acting chops was just a shitshow.

“LOnElY mOm?!?!”

Is that the trailblazing episode that ended unexpectedly with prime time's first throuple?

The mother seems insan like a crazy coke shooter! “How bout taking Me on!” How fucking insane and then slaps the kid. She was always hitting the kids. I believe she even slapped the shit out of Alex!

r131 did Ann get spit-roasted?

They should have let Mackenzie play Julie more realistically by having her steal Ann’s jewelry for drug money. Turning up unmarried and pregnant, showing up after being arrested for public vagrancy, having a pimp come to her door looking for her etc etc …. Barbara should have been caught shoplifting makeup and records.

You can see the mind of a mentally ill person unraveling through his replies. Most of which ALL belong to op.

And when Julie rejoined the show, she could have explained her absence by saying she’d been off fucking her dad for drugs.

Then, Ann would really have reasons to slap the shit out of her!

Dammit Julie stop fucking your dad! Dammit Julie take that needle out of your arm!

Family Guy parody

I'm not sure what Linda Lavin would have brought to the show had she played Ms. Romano? Joooo Lee! BaaaawBruh!!!! You gurls come help me fill my Avon ordas. We got bills ta pay and I don't want a hafta go on on onatha date with Shneida to work off the rent!

I thought Schneider was lying about his many ladies to try and look cool.

When i was a kid I was fascinated by Barbara. Her hair was magnificent and she was beautiful and had great things to say.

I was also fascinated by Julie in the opposite direction. She was so unattractive, I doesn't understand how they were supposed to be siblings. She also misbehaved a lot, which was appalling to my young goody goody sensibilities.

Add my mother to the hating Bonnie Franklin list. She didn't like anyone other than the men from Three Men and a Baby, though. But she really found the character of Ann to be extra awful, just too dramatic.

The rape storyline would never have worked on ODAAT.

Edith Bunker was such a beloved character that you could never imagine her in such a dangerous situation. It took real guts to "go there" and the reaction was so visceral that even during the taping men in the studio audience stood up like they were about to rush the stage to save her. The actor who played the rapist recalled being absolutely terrified that he wasn't going to make it out of there alive. They had to stop taping and reiterate to the audience this wasn't real. That is real power.

If that had happened to Ann Romano, I don't believe it would have had nearly the impact. Hell, some viewers would probably have rooted for the rapist to rough her up a bit or think she deserved it.

Stapleton was a great actress (unlike Franklin) and probably the reason Edith was one of the few sitcom characters to "grow" as a person without becoming less interesting.

Only 12 of them, R135.

Don't exaggerate when discussing disorder.

Only 12 of them, R135.

Don't exaggerate when discussing disorder.

I was six when the show premiered, but I remember that my parents stated Mackenzie Phillips was a doper and we didn’t watch that kind of garbage.

It came at a time when my folks had many drug talks with my oldest brother. He made union wages in high school working for a grocery store - plenty of money for party favors. Yeah, he got all his ideas from prime time women’s television featuring nepo-babies.

We would later lose the privilege of watching Stacey Keach.

Ultimately Schneider was just another annoying sitcom character. You just couldn’t wait for him to say his lines and get out of the scene. Ted Baxter was an even more annoying sitcom character- I really couldn’t wait for him to say his lines and get out of the scene.

R140 Even with that, Linda would have been 10 times better than Bonnie.

Someone mentioned Valerie Harper as Ann Romano. ODAAT premiered in December, 1975 - that was just three months in to the second season of Harper's hit series "Rhoda", so she was not available.

I've said for the longest time that Lavin would've been better as 'Ann' and Franklin would've been better as 'Alice'. I think Polly Holliday would've made a rather interesting 'Ann Romano' (though get rid of the Italian surname - none of them looked Italian).

And I've questioned it many times - how in the world did a high school graduate get hired as a ad executive in a competitive ad agency in Indianapolis ? Meanwhile, Alice Hyatt couldn't get out of her waitress position in a Phoenix diner. Weren't any ad agencies hiring in Phoenix back then ? Maybe she and Tommy should've moved to Indianapolis ?

R150 Well said

Vera Hruba Ralston would have been better than Franklin, but a little too old.

So Ann Romano just walked into an ad agency and they said "hey, do you want to be an executive here?" Ridiculous.

R153 IIRC, her lawyer boyfriend David (the woefully miscast Richard Massur who was a semi-regular on 'Rhoda' as Brenda's boyfriend Nick) did business with "Connors and Davenport" ad agency, and set up an interview for her in an secretarial position. Somehow, she wowed them in the interview and she was hired as an ad exec assistant - with a high school diploma. Then the guy she was working under for what seemed a month or so left the company, and she got the position of 'ad executive'.

No higher education for MS Romano in mass communications, public relations, photography or graphic design (all what I went to school for in the 80s when I wanted to get into advertising, which I never did). Just her natural-born talent she never knew she had until she blossomed at 'Connors and Davenport' - millions of dollars in new business for them, just because of her talent.

Larry Tate and Darrin Stephens were left in the dust back in Manhattan. They couldn't compete with the Indianapolis agency known as 'Connors and Davenport'. 'McMann and Tate' were yesterday's mashed potatoes. They should have hired Ann Romano.

Didn’t Ann get that ad agency job because she told a story of why kids love Hershey bars? How she earned them in her mothers brothel?

Jean and Sally Struthers were phenomenal on that rape episode. I agree it wouldn’t have had the same impact had it been done on ODAAT.

I never thought Julie Cooper was supposed to be the sex bomb. More like the girl in high school while not model attractive was pretty and more importantly an easy lay. Almost every high school has one like that. Barbara was a knockout but prudish. A turn off for some hormonal driven guys.

[quote]r154 No higher education for MS Romano in mass communications, public relations, photography or graphic design

Don Draper did just fine without all that at Sterling Cooper.

He and Ann would have made a great team!

The rapist would have fled the apartment in terror after the ginger dwarf slapped the dogshit out of him and said , “DAMMIT RAPIST! YOU CAN’T GET YOUR ROCKS OFF WITH A REAL WOMAN THE NORMAL WAY, SO YOU HAVE TO TRY TO RAPE ME?!?!?”

I thought Ann went to night school.

Glad this thread/op and all of his “talk to self replies” Got the gray out treatment.

Ann went to college in season five. There was an episode where she was taking the same class as Barbara and they had a fight. Barbara was jealous because Ann was the top student in the class.

I always love this scene. From the overly dramatic plant smash and slap to Ann managing to be a bigger, more immature brat than Alex. The audience member yelling out "All right!" is cherry on top.

R162 Jesus. How many times did Ann abuse children in this show?

I actually pity the guy who keeps posting Bonnie Franklin face swaps. This has been going on for years and it’s never been funny.

Children and plants were abused on most episodes.

R164 you are SO right.

[quote] And I think we're doing pretty damn well" (again with the profanity from that ginger snap who was supposed to be Italian?)

You poor dear. How her filthy mouth must have seared your dainty ears with such offensive language!

R161 it doesn’t appear greyed out to me

At R162, who the hell was Alex? The son of one of Ann's boyfriends? The man who comes into the apartment, singing, is the father of Alex?

Alex seemed like a DLer and his acting was pretty good.

Ann was always slapping people, so I'm not sure why she seems so shocked at herself after she slapped Alex.

In fairness, Alex did put his hands on Ann, first. Ann needed to defend herself.

R169 You know the entire story of Alex.

[quote] So Ann Romano just walked into an ad agency and they said "hey, do you want to be an executive here?" Ridiculous.

R153 Why not? Bonnie Franklin just walked into Norman Lear’s office and he said, “Hey, do you want to be the lead in a sitcom here?” Ridiculous.

It is so odd that Bonnie Franklin got the part. She wasn't well-known at all and of course had no comedic acting skills and was annoying and obnoxious.

I think Normal Lear wasn't afraid of strong women characters (Maude, Florida on Good Times, Irene on AITF). This was a misstep. There wasn't any physical resemblance between "mother and daughters."

[quote]R172 It is so odd that Bonnie Franklin got the part. She wasn't well-known at all and of course had no comedic acting skills and was annoying and obnoxious.

To Norman Lear, Bea Arthur must have represented the regal, Earth Mother aspect of Second Wave feminism. Decisive, yet knowledgeable and nurturing.

Bursting terrifyingly from the shadows, Bonnie Franklin was a perfect symbol of feminism’s OTHER face: Bloodthirsty, brutally ambitious to the core, endlessly yapping - and tapping - with inhuman energy.

When the doorbell would ring Bon-Bon would flex her arms at the elbows, lower her head like a bull, and CHARGE the ten feet or so across the set to the front door.

It's called ACTING, try it sometime.

She was always running to answer the door. WTF was that about?

The big 36th birthday episode is such self-indulgent shit, so embarrassing. Bonnie must've thought that was her Emmy moment.

Conversely, Bea Arthur did a monologue episode of Maude where it was just Maude on a couch talking to her therapist. She was brilliant in it.

R175 That whole door-answering thing was so weird.

Linda Lavin would have been more believable as Julie and Barbara 's mom.

When Bonnie got her tits out on the People magazine cover, men all over America couldn't stop jerking off to it.

I read Our Gal Val’s I’m I love again after embracing my body image article in the old People magazine at the hair salon last night.

R180 I highly doubt that

If you want a holiday treat, here's Bonnie and Linda in the Hal Linden variety special. Linda does a tribute to bombshells while Bonnie taps and shakes her ass off starting at 24:50

Poor Cathryn Damon got dragged into this as well.

R184, the coroner could only prove that performing simultaneously with Franklin and Lavin was corelative and not causal to Damon's early demise...