Quibble Over ‘Cybill’

The moral message of prime-time TV remains at its predictably dismal low. Consider, for example, a recently aired episode of the CBS sitcom “Cybill,” starring Cybill Shepherd “playing herself.”

Cybill stridently complains to her habitually drunken girlfriend of the impotence of a man she had picked up in a freeway traffic jam, and with whom she had just attempted sexual intercourse after their third date. (She grouses to us about his failure to react to her naked body.)

Next, with irony only within the grasp of today’s Hollywood, she then counsels her 16-year old daughter on proper sexual behavior.

Instead of depicting an unmarried woman’s resistance to the temptation of an illicit relationship, this program shows us her determined efforts to get into one. We know the low level to which network TV has descended; the scary question is, what’s restraining it from dropping further?

David Bricker, Tustin

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OK, I watched “Cybill” (CBS) to see what all the fuss was about. Would someone tell me why it was even released? It is pure trash. CBS moved “Love & War” for this? I can now understand why CBS is having problems with programming.

Toni Jacobson, Monterey Park