However, the material also allows Dorothy to be funny, which Friendly Fire doesn't.
Although the following year's Friendly Fire is thought of as Burnett's dramatic debut, her Dorothy allows her to present a housewife's frustration, dis-empowerment, and contemplation of infidelity, all which she performs with subtlety and restraint. Based on the novel by Erma Bombeck, the premise allows for the Bensen's to find their new environment just as hostile as their previous one, with Dorothy's role as `hired hand' a worse form of drudgery than she seemed to have in the city.
Produced by her husband Joe Hamilton who had also produced her variety series, Carol Burnett is Dorothy Benson, wife of advertising worker Jim (Charles Grodin), mother of three and would-be murder mystery writer, who instigates the family move from living in New York City to suburban Darkhaven Manners.
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