Maude (TV series)

Maude
Genre	Sitcom
Created by	Norman Lear
Directed by	Hal Cooper Various (season 1)
Starring	Bea Arthur Bill Macy Adrienne Barbeau Conrad Bain Rue McClanahan Esther Rolle Hermione Baddeley J. Pat O'Malley Marlene Warfield
Theme music composer	Alan and Marilyn Bergman Dave Grusin
Opening theme	"And Then There's Maude" Performed by Donny Hathaway
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	6
No. of episodes	141 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer	Norman Lear
Producers	Rod Parker Bob Weiskopf Bob Schiller Charlie Hauck Gene Marcione
Production locations	CBS Television City Hollywood, California (1972–75) Metromedia Square Hollywood, California (1975–78)
Running time	30 minutes
Production company	Tandem Productions
Original release
Network	CBS
Release	September 12, 1972 (1972-09-12) – April 22, 1978 (1978-04-22)
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Maude is an American television sitcom that was originally broadcast on the CBS network from September 12, 1972, until April 22, 1978. The show was the first spin-off of All in the Family, on which Bea Arthur had made two appearances as Maude Findlay, Edith Bunker's favorite cousin. Like All in the Family, Maude was a sitcom with topical storylines created by producers Norman Lear and Bud Yorkin.

Maude stars Bea Arthur as Maude, an outspoken, middle-aged, politically liberal woman living in suburban Tuckahoe, New York with her fourth husband, household appliance store owner Walter Findlay (Bill Macy). Maude embraces the tenets of women's liberation, always votes for Democratic Party candidates, and advocates for civil rights and racial and gender equality. Her overbearing and sometimes domineering personality often gets her into trouble when speaking about these issues.

Unusually for an American sitcom, several episodes (such as "Maude's Night Out" and "The Convention") featured only the characters of Maude and her husband Walter, in what amounted to half-hour "two-hander" teleplays. In the season four episode "The Analyst" (sometimes referred to as "Maude Bares Her Soul"), Arthur as Maude, speaking to an unseen psychiatrist, was the sole actor on screen for the entire episode.^[1]

The show's theme song, "And Then There's Maude", was written by Alan and Marilyn Bergman and Dave Grusin, and performed by Donny Hathaway.