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   Michael Trew explained on 5/2/2022 :   
   > On 5/2/2022 19:43, Bob wrote:   
   >> On Quora I've already busted the claim that a certain "Leave It to Beaver"   
   >> episode had the first appearance (in 1957) on American TV of any part of a   
   >> toilet.  The claim seems never to have been made before the time DVD sales   
   >> of the series were beginning, and I think they just made up a story of its   
   >> being held up, so as to boost publicity.  The episode air dates and   
   >> production numbers SEEM to back up the story, until you note the others and   
   >> see that MANY of them first aired out of production order.  Anyway, TV   
   >> commercials for at least a decade had been showing toilets quite   
   >> conspicuously, so the claim that network standards and practices had an   
   >> objection doesn't seem apt.  However, someone on Quora suggested standards   
   >> may have been lower for commercials, which I strongly doubt.   
   >>   
   >> So what I'm looking for is any examples of toilets from American TV   
   >> PROGRAMS in 1957 or earlier.   
   >>   
   >> Bob in Andover   
   >   
   > I have always heard that the first reference to "toilet" on television was   
   > the show "All in the Family".   
      
   AIUI, Bob isn't asking about "reference", but about the first time a   
   toilet was in view on camera, and being an item in the background would   
   count.   
      
   I'm not sure what shows were filmed "on location" during the '50s, and   
   a toilet in the background for other shows would require the set   
   builders to build a bathroom (or a plumbing showroom), and I can't   
   recall much of that (admittedly, I can't recall much of the shows I   
   recall, which is the short list of Donna Reed, Father Knows Best, Leave   
   It To Beaver, and My Three Sons; I think kitchen scenes dominated).   
      
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