Similarities To Soap and Controversy
The series was created by Susan Harris, who in the 1970s had created the wildly-successful soap opera parody Soap. However, Good & Evil shared none of Soap's success.
The ineptitude that blind George demonstrated in attempting to navigate his surroundings, frequently demolishing everything in sight with his red-tipped white cane, led to the picketing of ABC's offices by members of the National Federation of the Blind. ABC insisted that the program was not intended to be in any way realistic, but rather a "parody done to the extremes, and there is not a single character in the show intended to be believable."
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