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Claim: The early TV sitcom Mary Kay and Johnny was the first television series to portray a married couple who slept in the same bed. Status: True. Origins: It's one of the ultimate TV trivia questions: Who was the first couple to be portrayed on a television series as sleeping in the same bed? It may sound like a silly question to younger readers, but those of us who were around for television's first few decades recall how squeamish.
Howard Hawksâ 1938 film neatly followed the template established by âIt Happened One Nightâ in setting up a boy and a girl â in this case soon-to-be-wed paleontologist David (Cary Grant) and prototypical Manic Pixie Dream Girl heiress Susan (Katharine Hepburn) â to bicker and flirt across a series of adventures before falling in love at the end.