In a msg on , Maureen Goldman of 1:102/125
writes to Zorch Frezberg:
 PA>>  ...and, of course, _Star Trek_ showed the first kiss on 
 PA>> American
 PA>> TV between a white man and a black woman. 
 ZF>> Nope.  Sorry.  The first interracial kiss actually occurred in 1954 
 ZF>> , on an American sit-com carried live on network television, and 
 ZF>> was seen by nearly 12 million people across the US. 
 ZF>> And now, the title escapes me, but it was about a black maid 
 ZF>> working in a white home...title was the name of the lead 
 ZF>> character..."Marigold"? 
 MG>  That title and program description don't sound familiar at all. 
 MG>  I believe that Diane Carroll was the first black female to star 
 MG>  in her own network show, but she didn't play a maid.  Seems to 
 MG>  me that she was the widow of an air force officer, working in a 
 MG>  doctor's office. I don't recall any interracial dating. 
That was in 1969, as I recall, when JULIA was on the air...
The program I'm trying to remember was in the mid-1950s...I had read about 
it, and have seen clips from kinescopes of it on a few TV 
retrospectivedocumentaries...
Something is ringing in the back of my mind that her name was "Marigold" or 
"Maribel"...I believe it was also the first 'spin-off' show, but the only one 
I can think of immediately is the older version of THE LORETTA YOUNG SHOW 
(early 1950s as opposed to early 1960s).
 MG>  In the show you mentioned, was this a romantic kiss between two 
 MG>  adults as opposed to an adult giving a child a kiss on the 
 MG>  cheek? (I don't consider the Trek kiss romantic or erotic in 
 MG>  that it was compelled by outside forces, but at least Kirk and 
 MG>  Uhura were adults.) 
I think this would be technically a kiss between adults...the white male was 
a teenager either en route to or home from college, and was around 19-20...
Damn. It's Mr. Drucker all over again, isn't it?  
Once spent a week trying to remember the first name of Mr. Drucker from GREEN 
ACRES and PETTICOAT JUNCTION, only to wake up at 3AM from a sound sleep to 
yell it out loud so everyone could hear it.
-zf-  Dleeb?
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