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Julia Baker is a young African-American woman working as a nurse. She is also a widow (her husband died in Vietnam) trying to raise a young son alone. Creator. Hal Kanter. Stars. Diahann Carroll. Lloyd Nolan. Marc Copage. See production info at IMDbPro. Add to Watchlist. Added by 1.7K users. 22 User reviews. 1 Critic review.
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- 1968-09-17
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Previous television series featured African-American lead characters, but the characters were usually servants. The show starred actress and singer Diahann Carroll, and ran for 86 episodes on NBC from September 17, 1968, to March 23, 1971.
During the 1960's the color barriers in Hollywood were broken and it opened the floodgates for other African-American actors to make their stride...After the success of "I Spy", you had other black actors that did the same,and it launch a new era for minorities too.
A young, well-dressed widow is raising an adorable 5-year-old son in a nice apartment while working as a nurse. However, using that middle-class premise for the first comedy to showcase a black...
- Julia (NBC, 1968–1971) Julia was the first weekly TV series that starred a Black woman in a role that wasn't servile. "It was one of the first [series] to show African Americans in a middle-class environment versus a stereotypical environment where they're servants basically," said Marc Copage, who played Corey Baker, the young son of Diahann Carroll's title character, a widowed nurse.
- Sanford and Son (NBC, 1972–1977) The first network series to feature a predominantly Black cast since Amos 'n' Andy in the '50s, Sanford and Son starred Redd Foxx and Demond Wilson as an entrepreneurial father-and-son duo navigating life's ups and downs in Los Angeles' Watts neighborhood.
- The Jeffersons (CBS, 1975–1985) The Jeffersons was one of the first shows to portray an upper middle class Black family, paving the way for The Cosby Show and other successors.
- The Cosby Show (NBC, 1984–1992) When The Cosby Show premiered, it shattered racial stereotypes and highlighted possibilities that many Black viewers actually lived — and that some had never imagined.
The Elegance of Julia. Julia (NBC, 1968–71) was the first television show to depict a black middle-class family and the first since the 1950s sitcom Beulah to star a black woman. Diahann Carroll (b. 1935) played Julia Baker, a registered nurse and widowed mother of a young son.
In 1968, Diahann Carroll became the first African-American woman to have the lead in a hit TV show, starring as Julia Baker, an independent widowed mother of six-year-old Corey (Marc Copage). Her Air Force pilot husband had been killed in Vietnam.
