Potentially the founder, writer, and producer in the annals of tv, prime-time was brought by Norman Lear into step. Using comedy and indelible personalities, his legendary 1970s shows such as All In the Family, Maude, Good Times, along with The Jeffersons, reluctantly cracked open dialog and shifted the federal consciousness, injecting enlightened humanism to sociopolitical discussions on race, class, creed, and feminism.