Maude is an
Emmy and
Golden Globe-winning half-hour
American television sitcom that was originally broadcast on the
CBS network from
September 12,
1972 until
April 22,
1978.
Maude starred
Beatrice Arthur as
Maude Findlay, an outspoken, middle-aged, politically liberal woman living in suburban
Tuckahoe, Westchester County, New York with her fourth husband. Maude embraced the tenets of
women's liberation, always voted for
Democratic Party candidates, strongly supported legal
abortion, and advocated for
civil rights and racial and gender equality. However, her overbearing and sometimes domineering personality often got her into trouble when speaking out on these issues.
The program was a
spin-off of
All in the Family, on which
Beatrice Arthur had portrayed the title role of Maude,
Edith Bunker's cousin; like that show,
Maude was a sitcom with topical story lines created by producer
Norman Lear.