(Roger and Virginia did not have congenital retardation). What is the worst of the 70's I was talking about? Mainly it has to do with the attitude towards the mentally challenged and sex - that people believed that they are either asexual or over-sexed with no middle ground and that regardless of the cause of the retardation, they must not be allowed to reproduce. Their mutual crush is considered somewhat endearing until it turns to love and they talk of marriage. In particular his mood improves because he meets Virginia. Roger's mood improves when his parents decide to send him to an institution that believes in normalizing the mentally challenged, not warehousing them. It turns out that a "normal" boy from school actually sent the letter.
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It shows how the entire family is effected by Roger's handicap and the depression he is thrown into after being accused by a local cop for sending an obscenity-laced letter to a teenage girl, all because Roger sent her a valentine plus the fact that the mentally disabled were often considered sex fiends in those days. The film shows the life of mentally challenged Roger Meyers (Shaun Cassidy) from his infancy up to the point that he marries Virginia (Linda Purl).
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There was a movie with a similar story line that had aired just a few weeks before starring Richard Thomas and Julie Kavner. There were 11 double-sided discs total spanning all 3 seasons of 59 episodes plus the pilot movie. This movie is apparently based on a true story of a mentally challenged couple that fought and won the right to marry. In 2007, WB released Wonder Woman: The Complete Collection DVD set, which simply repackaged the exact same discs, but this time in an outer sleeve to house the individual season sets.
But then it got and held my attention and really sucked me into the storyline and this young couple's fight to be "like normal people". I was trying to finish up the spring semester at college, and originally turned on the TV as background sound. I remember clearly seeing this film on Friday, April 13, 1979.