Tornado Alley (PROG)

[janice shell]

How weird. But not new. Remember that show from back in the early '70s? It may have been called "An American Family", but I don't really recall. The name of the family was Loud. There were four of them: parents, a teenaged boy, and, I think, a younger girl.

Cameras with real cameramen were brought into the home to film everything the family did in their waking hours. It was then edited, and televised weekly. The family said later that they were surprised by how quickly they got used to having the crew around, and that they barely noticed them.

It was quite a sensation. The first time it'd ever been done.