Bea Arthur in the unsuccessful 1974 film version opposite Lucille Ball. In 1981, she appeared in Woody Allen's "The Floating Light Bulb". She made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera in 1994 portraying the Duchess of Krakenthorp, a speaking role, in Gaetano Donizetti's "La fille du régiment". In 1971, Arthur was invited by Norman Lear to guest-star on his sitcom "All in the Family", as Maude Findlay, the cousin of Edith Bunker. An outspoken liberal feminist, Maude was the antithesis role to the conservative Republican character Archie Bunker, who described her as a "New Deal fanatic". Nearly 50, Arthur's tart turn on
Parsley Sidings Mr J.G. Reeder, starring Hugh Burden. It was broadcast between 1969 and 1971. Parsley Sidings Parsley Sidings is a BBC Radio sitcom created by Jim Eldridge. It stars Arthur Lowe and Ian Lavender (who also starred in the television wartime sitcom "Dad's Army" at that time), together with Kenneth Connor from the "Carry On" films. The scripts are by Jim Eldridge (who would later go on to write for many more series, the most successful being the BBC's "King Street Junior"). The show is set in a sleepy out of the way railway station on the main line between London