Bridget Loves Bernie was an American television comedy program. It starred Meredith Baxter and David Birney as the title characters, and ran for one season, from 1972 to 1973 on CBS. It was seen as a fairly controversial show since the premise featured the marriage of a Catholic woman and a Jewish man. Though it did well, ratings-wise (due partiially to its timeslot -- it was sandwiched between All in the Family and The Mary Tyler Moore Show on Saturday nights), CBS decided to cancel it at the end of the season, fearful of offending members of the two faiths depicted in the series. Meredith Baxter (born June 21, 1947) is an American actress. ... 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year that started on a Saturday. ... 1973 (MCMLXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday. ... CBS (Columbia Broadcasting System) is a major television network and radio broadcaster in the United States. ... All in the Family is a popular and acclaimed American situation comedy that was originally broadcast on the CBS television network from January 12, 1971 until April 8, 1979, when the final original episode aired. ... The Mary Tyler Moore Show was an American television sitcom that aired on CBS from September 19, 1970 to March 19, 1977. ...
Supporting cast members included Audra Lindley, David DoyleHarold J. Stone, Ned Glass and Bibi Osterwald. Audra Lindley (September 24, 1918-October 16, 1997) was an American actress. ... David Fitzgerald Doyle (December 1, 1929 - February 26, 1997), was an American actor, and brother of theatre actress Mary Doyle. ... Harold J. Stone in the third-season episode of the Twilight Zone, The Arrival Harold J. Stone (March 13, 1913-November 18, 2005) was an American film and television character actor. ...
The two stars ended up getting married after the show ended.
BridgetLovesBernie was a reasonably successful 1970s situation comedy about the marriage of two young people from vastly different backgrounds.
The show starred Meredith Baxter as a Catholic girl from a wealthy family and David Birney as a Jewish boy with ambitions to be a writer (the two married in real life after the program ended).
Bernie considers an opportunity that would mean re-locating far from the families in New York.
As for its emphasis on comedy, Wood stated that CBS was "a comedy and variety network," and that its 11 half-hour of sitcoms were indicative of the network's "interest in providing counter-programming, so that CBS will have a personality distinctly different from the others" [3].
On Saturday, BridgetLovesBernie was hammocked at 8:30PM between All in the Family and The Mary Tyler Moore Show; The Bob Newhart Show followed at 9:30PM.
BridgetLovesBernie brought together Meredith Baxter as Bridget Fitzgerald, a practicing Catholic, and Bernie Steinberg, of the Jewish faith.
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