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Writers Steve Hattman and Dave Hackel dreamed up the idea for the movie when they were stuck in an L.A. The serious Holocaust drama Playing for Time, which won a number of Emmys, was the most watched program that week. On its debut, the movie was the 14th most watched primetime show of the week with a 17.8/30 rating. Though Ed McMahon refers to the movie as a "semiclassic" in his biography, Rue McClanahan (who plays his wife) admits she did it just to fill a contractual obligation with NBC and said "it was about as funny as Mom and Me, MD", a reference to another television movie she did in 1979. The TV Guide summary of the week's TV movies described it as a film that "provides stale characters in staler situations," but another promotional blurb in the same issue stated "what sets this 1980 TV-movie apart are its flashes of wit, delivered in a running commentary by a glib disc jockey ( Howard Hesseman) and its satirically staged sequences-such as a helicopter's convoy's delivering portable toilets." The movie debuted on NBC on Thursday October 2, 1980. The comedy revolves around a large "all-star" cast getting stuck in a massive Los Angeles area traffic jam, with multiple interweaving story lines among those stuck. The Great American Traffic Jam (alternate title Gridlock) is a 1980 American made-for-television movie which first aired on NBC on October 2, 1980.
Cover of one version of VHS release of movie
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