Bud [yorkin] Was The Kindest And Dearest

'all In The Family' Took Ten Weeks To Take Off In 1971, And We Were Lucky To Start In January, Because If It Had Started In The Regular Fall Season Of 1970, I Don't Know If We Would Have Lasted. The Ratings Didn't Take Off Until The End Of That Fall Season, When The Other Two Networks Ran Out Of Fresh Shows.

I Think Somehow I Got A Sense Of The Foolishness Of The Human - My Favorite Phrase, The Foolishness Of The Human Condition.

Bud [yorkin] Broke Out Big When He Did 'the Fred Astaire Show' And Won Four Emmys. His Wife At The Time Suggested That We Team Up. We Got A Lot Of Press In Show Business Papers, And A Number Of Offers...we Eventually Signed With Paramount Pictures. But I Always Like To Say, His Was The Horse That We Rode In On. That Is My Favorite Recollection.

When We Went On The Air, I Didn't Want To Be Interrupted For An Act-one Curtain.

I Wish I Knew How We Achieve The Goal Of World Peace. My Bumper Sticker Reads 'just Another Version Of You.' The Sooner We Agree That We're Just Other Versions Of Each Other - We Human Beings - The Sooner We Will Find Some Sense Of World Peace.