A Christmas episode of the beloved sitcom Bewitched, titled 'Sisters at Heart,' aired in 1970 and was written by a group of tenth-grade English students from an impoverished Los Angeles high school. The story behind this groundbreaking episode is as fascinating as the episode itself.
Have you ever watched a sitcom episode and thought to yourself,"Well, that sucked. Who wrote that nonsense, a bunch of school kids?" There's certainly precedent for school kids writing a sitcom episode, only in this case, the sitcom episode is among the genre's all-time best: a simple but effective critique of racism from a group of 10th-grade English students in an impoverished Los Angeles high school.
As a thank you, the class collaborated on a storyline for the show, an episode about black-and-white friendship called"Sisters at Heart." Asher was so impressed that he reached out to veteran writer Barbara Avedon, explaining that the school kids wrote a solid script, and asked if she could tweak it ever so slightly. Author Herbie J. Pilato, in an interview with Avedon, recalled that she was amazed at the script,"as good as any that she had seen from established writers.
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