She has spunk and looks very much the part of a dour, serious career Marine but also let's slip the occasional remark that reveals she still has a softer side. For example, one recurring character is Gunnery Sergeant Alva Bricker (Beverly Archer) a career woman in the Marines and Mac's coworker. This occurs not just through Polly's career dilemma's as a new military wife with an established career who now faces being uprooted for hubby's career but also through other female characters. The show also explores questions of women's lib. The stark contrast between the lives they each lived before meeting and marrying creates especially extreme examples of the types of conflict found in these various genres of situational comedy. It combines military humor, workplace comedy, and blended family shenanigans with more serious dilemmas revolving around the conflict between national security (his career and passion) and freedom of information and speech (her career and passion). The sitcom has a little something for everyone. Polly's free spirit and strong opinions must be reigned in a bit to accommodate Mac's career and Mac's character must soften some in deference to suddenly being a middle aged father of three. Both of their lives change radically when they fall in love with each other and, following a whirlwind romance, get married. Polly Cooper (Shanna Reed) is an opinionated, free spirited reporter and single mom with three daughters. 'Mac' Macgillis (Gerald Raney) is an oh so serious career bachelor and also career military officer in the U.S. A product of its era, it follows the ups and downs of a modern family trying to make the two career couple thing work in the face of extra special circumstantial challenges. Without commercials, each episode is 24 minutes long.

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