http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/01/showbi...html?hpt=hp_t3

"One Day at a Time" started in 1975, and was produced by Normal Lear, the same guy behind "All in the Family", "Maude", and later "The Jeffersons" and many others.

Here is the theme song from Season 2. You might notice one of our : emoticons was taken from the song.



The feminist movement was very big in 1975, and this show attempted to capitalize upon that. Prior to the mid-70s, there was somewhat of a stigma against women who left their husbands and "broke up the family". This show attempted to show a woman who did just that (Franklin's character, Ann Romano) in a positive light, and also contained lots of controversial plot points regarding her struggles raising her teen daughters, typical of Lear shows.

The best-remembered character of "One Day at a Time" was not Franklin or either of the teen girls, but rather "Schneider", the perverted, middle-aged building super. Pat Harrington Jr, who played Schneider, is still alive and in his 80s.

Franklin was said to have forced a woman, Mary Louise Wilson, who played Schneider's love interest, off the show. Franklin was afraid Wilson was upstaging her, even though Franklin was 11 years younger.

Carroll O'Connor (Archie Bunker) on "All in the Family" had someone fired in a similar manner. Archie's "best friend" Stretch Cunningham (played by James Cromwell) was killed off because O'Connor was angry that the Cunningham character was becoming too popular.