Remembering Bonnie Franklin, One Day at a Time‘s Single-Mom Hero

Bonnie Franklin, the TV and stage actress who starred in One Day at a Time, TV’s first sitcom built around a divorced-woman protagonist, has died of pancreatic cancer at age 69 in Los Angeles. The Norman Lear sitcom ran for nine seasons from 1975 to 1984. As a kid, I watched the first few years of the show in afternoon reruns on CBS. In retrospect, I’m going to say that the struggles of a divorced woman in Indianapolis, trying to pay the bills and raise two often-rebellious teenage...