The Betty White Show

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The Betty White Show was a sitcom which ran on CBS during the 1977-78 season. Betty White starred as Joyce Whitman, a middle-aged actress, who was starring as a female detective in a fictitious police drama, Undercover Woman (ostensibly based on Angie Dickinson's Police Woman). Much of the humor stemmed from the fact that the show's producer was Whitman's ex-husband, John Whitman (played by John Hillerman), as well as the fact that White and her sidekick on Undercover Woman, a beautiful and much younger actress (played by Caren Kaye), did not like one another and missed no opportunity to trade insults. Also appearing was White's former Mary Tyler Moore Show costar, Georgia Engel.

A contemporary article in TV Guide stated that Miss White was quite the science fiction reader, and that her original preference for the show-within-the-show was a parody of Star Trek rather than Police Woman.