Barefoot in the Park (TV series) "The Odd Couple" (Jerry Paris, Harvey Miller, Bruce Bilson and Garry Marshall among others). Barefoot in the Park (TV series) Barefoot in the Park is an American sitcom that aired in 1970 on ABC. Based on the Neil Simon Broadway play of the same name, the series cast members are predominantly black, making it the first American television sitcom since "Amos 'n' Andy" to have a predominantly black cast (Vito Scotti is the sole major white character). "Barefoot in the Park" had also previously been a 1967 film starring Robert Redford and Jane Fonda. Scoey Mitchell plays Paul Bratter, a
Jane Fonda was used as the poster image for the 2018 HBO documentary on Fonda, "Jane Fonda in Five Acts", with a giant billboard sporting the image erected in Times Square in September, 2018. In 2017, she began selling merchandise with her mugshot image to benefit the Georgia Campaign for Adolescent Power & Potential. In early March 2017, in an interview with Brie Larson, published by "People" magazine, Fonda stated, "One of the great things the women's movement has done is to make us realise that (rape and abuse is) not our fault. We were violated and it's not right." She said,