Yesterday's TV, Today's Economy

By Minyanville Staff Dec 17, 2009 7:45 am

The Jeffersons, Mr. Kotter, the Golden Girls -- where would they be now?



Our favorite TV characters are forever locked in time and place -- it’s always 1970s Upper East Side Manhattan for Mr. Jefferson and some squeaky-clean version of the late 1960s for The Brady Bunch.

But times have changed since Samantha, the sweet and stylish witch, tried to keep her mother-in-law’s magic out of her husband’s advertising job affairs, or since the Golden Girls shacked up together to save some rent on their Miami home. We can’t help but wonder, would life be as carefree today? Would the Ewings have survived the crash in oil prices? And would Mr. Kotter still be clocking in at a public school, or would he have jumped ship for a more lucrative charter school gig?

Here, we put a 2010 lens on the most likely scenarios for some of TV’s most memorable characters.
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