(Syndicated, 1976 - 1978; CBS LateNight, 1977 - 1978) [Norman Lear (who produced "All In The Family" and the talk show satire "Fernwood 2-Night") produced this soap opera satire which ran for a couple of years; the title character was a droopy suburban Ohio housewife who was afflicted by all the afflictions of many a modern soap opera housewife and then some, notably an embarassing "waxy yellow buildup" on her kitchen floors; another character, Garth Gimble, played by Martin Mull was discovered to be a "wife beater" and he eventually impaled himself on an aluminum Christmas tree stand in the closet; although this was a campy send-up of soap operas, the joke was a hoot for a few years but like the "Batman" series and other satires it got tiresome eventually tiring out its title character who left the series herself before it ended; a few of the supporting cast who appeared in the series included Martin Mull, Orson Bean, Dabney Coleman, Shelley Berman, Shelley Fabares, Richard Hatch and Tab Hunter; the series was first run as a syndicated series, and then was picked up for late-night broadcast on the "CBS Late Movie" when they ran out of movies; after Louise Lasser left the series, the title was changed to reflect the name of the fictional town... aka: "Forever Fernwood" later, after "Forever Fernwood" ran out of steam, producer Norman Lear extended the franchise even further by creating creating a fictional local talk show as fodder for even more satire, called "Fernwood 2-Night"]
[not to be confused with the composer of the pop disco anthem, "Love's Theme", Barry White was the pseudonym of a British composer who wrote for production music libraries; his piece was undoubtedly chosen to play up the parody, since it was a typically lush pseudo-sophisticated library string THEME] Composer: Barry White (British PRS/ASCAP) [pseudonym of Robert Charles Kingston] 1978 Publishers: Southern Lib. Of Rec. Mus., Ltd. (British PRS); and Southern Mus. Pub. Co., Inc. (ASCAP) 2001 Publisher: S L R M/Southern Music Corp. (ASCAP) Copyright Date: Dec. 30, 1965; EF 41 468. Renewal Date: May 5, 1993; RE-627-344. Recordings: [from the "Southern Library of Recorded Music"]