1967 Pitch

Jaime Weinman, our source for all things overlooked yet fascinating, found a description of a TV pitch meeting from 1967 in a book called The Studio: "The key thing here is how [writer-producer Paul] Monash and the writer instinctively – without network prodding, just based on what they know the network will accept – water down a contemporary, relevant issue until it’s something vague and bland that couldn’t offend anyone."