Julia (1968 TV series)

Julia
Diahann Carroll, Lloyd Nolan, and Marc Copage.
Genre	Sitcom
Created by	Hal Kanter
Directed by	Don Ameche Luther James Fletcher Markle Coby Ruskin Barry Shear Ezra Stone Bernard Wiesen Hollingsworth Morse
Starring	Diahann Carroll Lloyd Nolan Marc Copage Michael Link Betty Beaird Lurene Tuttle
Theme music composer	Elmer Bernstein
Composers	Jeff Alexander Elmer Bernstein
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	3
No. of episodes	86 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer	Hal Kanter
Producer	Hal Kanter
Camera setup	Single-camera
Running time	24 minutes
Production companies	Hanncarr Productions Savannah Productions 20th Century-Fox Television
Original release
Network	NBC
Release	September 17, 1968 (1968-09-17) – March 23, 1971 (1971-03-23)
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Julia is an American television sitcom and the first weekly series to star an African-American woman in a non-stereotypical role. Previous television series featured African-American lead characters, but the characters were usually servants. The show starred actress and singer Diahann Carroll, and ran for 86 episodes on NBC from September 17, 1968, to March 23, 1971. The series was produced by Savannah Productions, Inc., Hanncarr Productions, Inc., and 20th Century-Fox Television.

During pre-production, the proposed series title was Mama's Man.^[1] The series was among the few situation comedies in the late 1960s that did not use a laugh track; however, 20th Century-Fox Television added one when the series was reissued for syndication and cable rebroadcasts in the late 1980s.

Julia was among the first acquisitions made by ASPiRE for its inaugural season in 2012.^[2]