Season 6 • Episode 24
LatestMaude arrives in Washington as a newly elected Congresswoman and has to learn to do things differently.
Well-educated and upper middle class, Maude Findlay is the archetypal feminist of her generation. She lives in suburban Tuckahoe, New York, with her fourth husband, Walter, their divorced daughter, Carol, and grandson Phillip.
Acting
Bea Arthur's side-eye could end careers.
Writing
Lear weaponized the laugh track for abortion debates.
Production
Living room as political battleground.
Creator
Norman Lear
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The 'Maude's Dilemma' two-parter was so controversial CBS affiliates refused to air it; the ones that did lost sponsors.
Maude was TV's first aging female lead who wasn't a grandmother stereotype — she had sex, opinions, and antidepressants.
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