Hot l Baltimore

I don't know...I thought that it was a great TV show, and would like to see all 13 episodes again. The cast was magnificent, particularly James Cromwell. I had only seen him during those days as 'Stretch Cunningham' in several episodes of "All in the Family." There was also a very stout actress in the show whose role was as an appealing character, and a phlegmatic black fellow name of Al Freeman, Jr., also starred in it with Richard Masur and others. Criticism that this program was left-leaning in terms of its politics is well-taken and probably true. Interestingly enough, Cromwell went to high school and played football on the same team in Pelham, NY with Michael "Mickey" Schwerner, one of the three civil rights workers from the north who were killed in Mississippi. Cromwell's father (by adoption), the director John Cromwell, was on the Hollywood blacklist from 1951-58.

In 1975, this show was highly touted as being the next big TV hit. It was marketed along with another new show to the network, "Barney Miller," but Hot L got more buzz. The action transpired like a play, which is probably why it wasn't successful. The writing was good and the cast was notable and did very well with the material. Unfortunately, it never cut it with audiences.

I was 18 when this show ran, and thought it was funny, but in an edgy and somewhat uncomfortable way. It kept me coming back, I was sad when it was canceled.

Bombarded with inflation, Watergate, OPEC, and the entire precarious Nixon administration, the American people were not ready for a sophisticated comedy which was flippant about one night stands!!!.. Though the seventies were paving the way for Pandora's box to be opened wide... The television audience was just getting accustomed to the anything but perfect American family, not for the seedier side of life....Way ahead of their time....Too bad it was canceled right away!!...The pejorative side of human nature presented itself as having such a terribly ubiquitous reputation in this comedy series!!! "Hot L Baltimore" could be intrepidly candid about their comical ramifications!! All in all, the world of sub-poverty, blatant sexual indiscretions, and educated derelicts, evoked a compendium of comedy by circumstances... Incredibly dire circumstances that is!! "Hot L Baltimore" was a very well developed sitcom! It was one of the better ones actually!! When reality gets offensive, the television audience rejects it!! This does not mean that "Hot L Baltimore" was not funny!! The end result of abysmal failure is caused by human error, therefore, there is really nothing else to do but laugh!! This was the summon substance of the television show "Hot L Baltimore". Suffice to say, it was very funny, as well as very entertaining!!!

The best accidents ever made in the history of man .like billions of yrs later it's still fresh. Never misses a beat and hasn't lost A THING a true coffee table book ( if we're a book) a true treasure for all times