I don't know much about actresses from the time period - maybe Mary Tyler Moore?
I doubt they'd be able to get the rights to popular music. I'm not aware of any sitcoms from the period including current songs in their soundtracks.
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (1958-1965): Follows New York City housewife Miriam "Midge" Maisel as she attempts to pursue a career in standup comedy while keeping up with the housework. Features Lenny Bruce playing against type as Midge's long-suffering and indulgent husband, Joel.
Call the...
Mad Men (1960-1970): Situation comedy revolving around the life of Madison Avenue advertising executive Don Draper. A good chunk of the show's humor derived from its parodies of real-life advertising campaigns of the period, making it somewhat confusing to contemporary audiences, but it's...
The Americans, Season 4, Episode 9: RyAN
The Jennings receive a surprising order from The Center: stake out key government buildings and take note of how many lights are on late at night. Phillip is forced to kill a police officer who pulls him over after becoming suspicious that his car keeps...
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe: Scrumptious guide to the best off-the-beaten path restaurants in the Deep South, with an introduction by Rick Bragg.
The Firm: Expose of the British Royal Family's secrets published in 1991, includes Prince Charles and Princess Diana's affairs...
Keeping Up Appearances (1990-1995): Drama featuring Dame Judi Dench as Hyacinth Bouquet, a social climber married to a civil servant from the landed gentry, and focused on her efforts to distance herself from her dysfunctional working-class sisters. Praised by critics for its incisive social...
The film adaptation of Tom Clancy's The Sum of All Fears got fairly negative reviews, in part because critics thought it was 'too soon' after the attacks to release a movie featuring a terrorist attack destroying an American city, and there wasn't another feature film adaptation of a Clancy...
The Crown (2016-): Historical dramedy following the ups and downs in the lives of regulars at a pub in rural Lancashire as they intersect with historical events from the end of WWII to the present.
Heartstopper (2022-): Medical drama starring Olivia Coleman as an overworked cardiologist in an...
I think the most plausible scenario is for the USSR to forcibly relocate all the Jews in its territory to the Jewish Autonomous Oblast, which would then become populous enough to break away as an independent state when the USSR collapses.
Anyone who's spent much time on the Outer Banks will be familiar with the legend of the Lost Colony. A band of English colonists formed a settlement on Roanoke Island, but pretty quickly ran out of supplies. The leader, John White, returned to England but couldn't get back for three years...
I'm not much of an expert on Tumblr, but my understanding is that it's pretty much anonymous whereas a MySpace profile was typically tied to your real identity (I assume you could make a fake profile, but it wouldn't have much utility except for catfishing people), so in a world where...
Somehow butterfly away the social upheavals of the 1960s-1970s and keep a version of the Red Scare going. This means that being avowedly atheist will still be unacceptable in the U.S. because it means you're a Communist, and the appeal of fundamentalist religion as a reaction against rapid...