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''An American Family'' is an American television documentary filmed from May 30 through December 31, 1971〔("An American Family Screenings" ), Paley Center for Media, 2011, New York.〕 and first aired in the United States on the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) from January 11, 1973〔(- ''An American Family'' )〕 to March 29, 1973.〔(- "Live radio broadcast of March 30, 1973" )〕 After being edited down from about 300 hours of raw footage, the series ran one season of 12 episodes on Thursday nights at 9:00 p.m. The groundbreaking documentary is considered the first "reality" series on American television. It was originally intended as a chronicle of the daily life of the Louds, an upper middle class family in Santa Barbara, California but ended up documenting the break-up of the family via the separation and subsequent divorce of parents Bill and Pat Loud.〔Cf. Loud, Pat, ''Pat Loud: A Woman's Story'', 1974〕 A year after this program was broadcast, the BBC in 1974 filmed its own similar 12-episode program, called ''The Family'', focusing on the working-class Wilkins family, of Reading, Berkshire, England. ==The series== In 2011, ''The New York Times'' reflected on some of the controversy the series engendered: In 2002, ''An American Family'' was listed at #32 on ''TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time'' list. It is the earliest example of the reality television genre. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「An American Family」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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