article_snippet: Pat were the subjects of the first ever television reality show, An American Family, broadcast on PBS in twelve hour-long episodes beginning on January 11, 1973.
article_snippet: American Family wasn't anything like American Family thought it would be.
article_snippet: She told the New York Times in 2013 that the Public Broadcasting Network and the New York affiliate, WNET, viewed American Family as California airheads and coerced She into asking She husband for a divorce on camera.
article_snippet: The couple has The couple own Facebook account under American Family.
article_snippet: American Family wasn't anything like the Louds thought it would be .
article_snippet: An American Family was a premonition of reality TV, an unrehearsed voyeuristic eye, unlike the reality shows of today.
article_snippet: Craig Gilbert, the creator of An American Family, never worked again after the documentary aired in 1973.
highlights_snippet: her says PBS viewed their family as California airheads and coerced her into asking her husband for a divorce on camera .
  