Longtime department store employee Alice Moore is passed over for promotion because she is a woman, prompting Barbara Apple to demonstrate for equal rights and George Apple to become a perfume salesperson, in “The Applicant’ on “Apple's Way" Sunday, April 21, 1974 (6:30-7:30 p.m.) on the CBS Television Network. Harry Harris directed from a script by John McGreevey.
Disregarding the protests of women workers, store president Harold Swanson insists that only a man can manage the sports department, regardless of Alice's qualifications for the job. Egged on by Harold's father H. J., Apple makes a test case by winning one week as the perfume counter ‘‘saleslady.’’
Written by TVgy1960wXc on Aug 5, 2024