Sevareid in Popular Culture
Sevareid portrayed himself in movies and on TV. He appeared as himself in The Right Stuff, Countdown to Looking Glass, and on Taxi as Tony Danza's character's fantasy.
The bumbling local-market newscaster Ted Baxter (Ted Knight) frequently compared himself to Sevareid on The Mary Tyler Moore Show. In a second-season episode of The Golden Girls, Blanche says that in certain lighting, Dorothy (Beatrice Arthur) looks just like Eric Sevareid. A spoof of Eric Sevareid named "Eric Clarified" appeared in the "Laugh-In Looks at the News" skits of Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In which ran from 1968–1974. The patriotic character "Sam the Eagle" on The Muppet Show has a 'Sevareid-ian' complex.
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