After its pilot episode in September of 1968, Variety magazine printed, “One of the more dubious benefits in the long hard struggle for civil rights has got to be a situation comedy featuring Negroes. This show biz genre is an embarrassment to the entire human race.” Julia (Diahann Carroll) was an African American woman, widowed after her husband died in a tragic helicopter accident in Vietnam. She inherited $10,000 which provided here with enough money to move her and her son into a very nice apartment in an integrated community. The statement printed in Variety magazine implied that the show was a shameless tactic to promote ideas of civil rights and black integration. Still, the article went on to praise the effort, only pointing out one negative criticism. The exposure of prejudice was found to be too blatant. “The show worked well except for the much too obvious prejudice of the personnel manager where [Julia] is to work.” So, with one noticed flaw, Julia went on to become the only NBC program to grace the top ten in the Neilson ratings. The ve

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