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2 unusual facts about Ted Baxter


Joanell Dyrstad

Though certainly an underdog in her 1994 attempt for the U.S. Senate, she ran an aggressive campaign in the Republican primary against Congressman Rod Grams, comparing Grams, a former news reporter, to bumbling fictional TV anchor Ted Baxter from the Minnesota-based TV program The Mary Tyler Moore Show.

Ted Baxter

Satirizing the affectations of news anchormen, the character spoke in a vocal fry register parody of the narrator of the old Movietone News film strips that played in movie houses before the television era.



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