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"The Courtship of Eddies Father" (1963), "Julia" (starring Diahann Carroll, above; Groucho Marx and the kitten only made cameos) and "One Day at a Time" (1975) portrayed single-parent families with the added bonus of the parents being (in order of shockingness) a man, an African American and divorced.

'Julia' (1968)

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"The Courtship of Eddies Father" (1963), "Julia" (starring Diahann Carroll, above; Groucho Marx and the kitten only made cameos) and "One Day at a Time" (1975) portrayed single-parent families with the added bonus of the parents being (in order of shockingness) a man, an African American and divorced.

Families that changed TV

'Julia' (1968)