On this day: A Jewish family on TV - The Jewish Chronicle

Created by a writer named Gertrude Berg in 1928, it began life as a radio programme but 20 years later made the transition to the small screen. Following the drama of life in the Bronx and particularly the meddling Jewish mother Molly, played by Gertrude, it later became a play and a Broadway musical.

Although popular with audiences, its transmission was not without complications as cast and crew became victims of the Red Scare, One of its stars, Philip Loeb was named but Berg refused to drop him from the cast, triggering CBS to stop showing it. Loeb later committed suicide in a New York hotel room.

The Goldbergs went off the air in 1962 and, no doubt, if it were to air a modern audience would be somewhat less comfortable with the blunt humour and obvious stereotypes.