Having TV’s most celebrated single hitched, on what was just the eighth episode of her new sitcom, ended up dooming Rhoda only as it had begun. But the wedding itself? The ceremony? That was a massive television success. Am era-defining cultural happening. The whole country attended.
Fifty years ago: Oct. 28, 1974.
While the show ended with a whimper in December 1978, it advanced a primetime movement in the 1970s—playing out within the greater movement—that led to increased representation of women and gender issues on screen.