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Podcast: The It Was a Thing on TV Podcast Network
Episode: Episode 291--Hot l Baltimore
Description: This week, we're celebrating Norman Lear's 100th birthday by looking at two of his less successful shows. We start with Lear's adaptation of a play about a seedy hotel with even seedier residents, Hot l Baltimore. Most of the players were relative newcomers, and three went on to much greater success in the decades that followed.