"The Morton Downey Jr. Show"

Week of Jan. 4, 1988
Television has never seen anything like "The Morton Downey Jr. Show." The host is intentionally rude to "break away the Madison Avenue veneer." TIME agrees: "Downey's verbal slugfest has made Phil's and Oprah's 'lively' discussions look like sherry-sipping college seminars."

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