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Date Posted: 07:33:15 12/28/06 Thu
Author: Islandgirl
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While watching my "Remington Steele" DVDs. . .
In reply to: detoured 's message, "Re: Any TV shows on DVD for Christmas?" on 00:49:02 12/28/06 Thu

When watching my "Remington Steele" DVD's, I was joking with my husband that when the show originally aired in the 1980s, I identified more with Laura, the hot young investigator, but nowadays I identify more with Mildred, their middle-aged secretary! Mildred was portrayed by Doris Roberts, better known as Ray's mother on "Everybody Loves Raymond" and she was the only regular cast member other than Pierce Brosnan (RS) and Stephanie Zimbalist (Laura). DR was in her early 50s when she was on RS.
This got me to thinking. . .are there *ANY* shows on network TV nowadays that feature women in their 50s or older as main characters?? Back in the 1980s you had Mildred on RS and on the similarly-themed "Scarecrow and Mrs. King" Mrs. King's mother was a regular character. During the same era, there was also "Murder, She Wrote" which featured a woman over the age of 50 (Angela Lansbury) as the MAIN Character.
Nowadays, it seems like the "cutoff age" for women to appear as cast members on network TV shows is 49. A lot of the CSI shows feature a "young" woman and a more "mature" woman, but that means one woman in her 20s or early 30s and another in her 40s. I can't think of a single show currently airing that has a woman in her 50s or older as one of the main characters. (I'm not talking about an actress who appears in one or two eps as season as one of the main characters' mother or something like that.) Are there any?

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Replies:

I got a few -- SMH, 19:05:52 12/28/06 Thu

Not this year -- CW, 20:51:07 12/29/06 Fri

Older actresses and XF questions.. -- detoured, 16:11:12 12/30/06 Sat
- Re: Older actresses and XF questions.. -- BDM, 18:29:49 12/30/06 Sat
  - I got -- Stardoe, 05:51:50 12/31/06 Sun
    - DVDs -- detoured, 18:18:22 01/03/07 Wed
      - Astro Boy was the original Japanese Anime (NT) -- BDM, 15:26:19 01/04/07 Thu
      - Astro is really cool. -- Stardoe, 19:49:22 01/04/07 Thu
        I watched Kimba -- detoured, 15:35:10 01/09/07 Tue
        I hate the new song. I still remember the old song. -- Stardoe, 22:51:06 01/10/07 Wed
        Wow, you're a Kimba expert -- detoured, 11:43:28 01/11/07 Thu
        Yes, running through the jungle......along the plain actually . -- Stardoe, 21:29:20 01/25/07 Thu
        Here's the song -- Stardoe, 21:33:35 01/25/07 Thu
        Here's a better web wite -- Stardoe, 21:40:27 01/25/07 Thu