From: michael.trew@att.net   
      
   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".   
      
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