Review of Baby Boom

Baby Boom (1988–1989)
I AGREE **POSSIBLE IF OUT OF DATE SPOILERS**
27 April 2004
Warning: Spoilers
I have to say that I am in total agreement with those that tout this overlooked series trial as fine Television. I watched every episode the season that it aired on NBC, and thoroughly enjoyed it. It was well-written, nice premise, well acted and did some interesting and innovative things with the standard sitcom format. I recall the episode where Jane Wyatt/Betty Anderson and Barbara Billingsley/June Cleaver visit Kate Jackson in a dream after she bemoans her inability to be the kind of mother she sees on television. The message was sweet, simple, touching and delivered by two pros. Another scene in which Kate, after subjecting her daughter to testing by and institute for child intelligence boosting, tells a shocked Paxton Whitehead that he and everything he stands for us utter horse#### was not only hilarious but a touch risky; with only a subtle bleep between the word and out families' ears (wink). All in all a fine series that was given short shrift.
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