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Article: Moonlighting.
- Article from:
- National Review
- Article date:
- November 21, 1986
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SEARCHING FOR HORIZONTAL TELEVISION'S IDEA of class is Dynasty: silk sheets and straight faces. The idea that a lowly sitcom might conceivably aspire to sophistication is anathema; indeed, ABC's Moonlighting, the first plausibly stylish sitcom in recent memory to score with a mass audience, was actually tagged as a dramatic series at this year's Emmy awards. (This, incidentally, is a typical example of television logic at work. Sitcoms are half an hour long. Each Moonlighting episode is an hour long. Moonlighting is thus a dramatic series.)
Being the hottest new show of the season, Moonlighting naturally pulled down 16 Emmy nominations. But television dotes on ...