1970 - According to FBI correspondence, the Carol Burnett Show was "contributing to the breakdown in this nation's respect for law and order..."
1973 - The Carol Burnett Show was targeted by a religious lobby called Stop Immorality on TV.
Stop Immorality on TV wasn't successful in their efforts to have the Carol Burnett Show canceled, but they succeeded in mobilizing a lunatic fringe to writer letters to the editor.
One viewer called the Carol Burnett Show "positively disgusting" to old and young alike.
1968 - When the Carol Burnett Show first premiered it was accused of being "vulgar, nasty" and "practically nude..."
1976 - The Carol Burnett Show was accused of being "in bad taste and very unfunny."
1973 - One letter writer wondered when the networks would "pull such trash" from the air.
1970 - J. Edgar Hoover appreciated those who wrote to him to complain about the Carol Burnett Show.
1969 - CBS censored Carol Burnett's appearance on the Merv Griffin Show because she made an appeal for World Peace on behalf of MLK's widow.
1970 - The FBI opened a file on George Carlin after his first appearance on the Carol Burnett Show.
1972 - While the FBI observed the Carol Burnett Show for subversive activity, and the Stop Immorality on TV campaign condemned the show as a "moral cesspool," Burnett was busy covering the songbook of Carole King:
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