Gloria (TV series)
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Gloria is an American situation comedy
that lasted one season on CBS
, from September 1982 to September 1983. It stars Sally Struthers
, reprising her role as Gloria Stivic
, the daughter of Archie Bunker
on the hugely successful 1970s sitcom All in the Family
. Gloria was a spin-off
of Archie Bunker's Place
, which was a continuation of All in the Family.
(who did not appear in the new series), left her and moved away to a commune
. Gloria, to be closer to her father, decided to move with her young son, Joey
(played by Christian Jacobs), and pick up the pieces of her life as an assistant to two veterinarian
s in Fox Ridge, New York. The veterinarians were played by Burgess Meredith
and Jo De Winter
; the character played by Meredith was also, conveniently, Gloria's landlord.
Though Gloria ranked 18th in the Nielsen ratings
for the 1982–83 season, CBS chose not to renew it for a second season, making it one of the few spin-offs of the successful All in the Family not to have a successful run.
which featured a brief cameo
by Carroll O'Connor
as Archie Bunker
dropping off Gloria and Joey at Dr. Adams' clinic and residence. It was repackaged as an episode of Archie Bunker's Place. This pilot was written by veteran All in the Family and Archie Bunker's Place writers Pat Shea and Harriett Weiss and Archie Bunker's Place producer and close Carroll O'Connor
associate Joe Gannon who co-created, wrote and produced the pilot. They were replaced by former WKRP in Cincinnati
writers Steve Marshall
and Dan Guntzelman (who would later find success writing and producing the long running ABC
sitcom Growing Pains
).
The show's production was moved from CBS Television City
to Universal Studios
. According to a December 1982 feature interview with Sally Struthers
in TV Guide
this did not sit well with Carroll O'Connor who, with the rest of the Archie Bunker's Place production staff, were effectively shut out of the production of Gloria. (Even Norman Lear
, who created All in the Family and had some hand in all of its other spin-offs, had no credited involvement in Gloria.) After this, O'Connor chose to be uninvolved in the retooled pilot and series. The characters of Dr. Jim Waynewrite and Ben the handyman were dropped when Marshall and Guntzelman's second pilot was made which went to series. In the second pilot, Joey adopted a black dog which he named Archie after his grandfather, which O'Connor was said to be less than thrilled about according to the same 1982 TV Guide article. In the original pilot, actress Jo de Winter's character, Maggie Lawrence, was an assistant to Dr. Adams. In the second pilot and the series, Maggie Lawrence is a veterinarian
and Dr. Adams' partner in the clinic.
Situation comedy
A situation comedy, often shortened to sitcom, is a genre of comedy that features characters sharing the same common environment, such as a home or workplace, accompanied with jokes as part of the dialogue...
that lasted one season on CBS
CBS
CBS Broadcasting Inc. is a major US commercial broadcasting television network, which started as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System. The network is sometimes referred to as the "Eye Network" in reference to the shape of...
, from September 1982 to September 1983. It stars Sally Struthers
Sally Struthers
Sally Ann Struthers is an American actress and spokeswoman, best-known for her roles as Gloria Stivic on All in the Family, for which she won two Emmy awards, and as Babette on Gilmore Girls.-Personal life:...
, reprising her role as Gloria Stivic
Gloria Stivic
Gloria Stivic , is the name of the supporting character played by Sally Struthers on the American situation comedy All in the Family, which aired on the CBS television network from 1971 until 1979...
, the daughter of Archie Bunker
Archie Bunker
Archibald "Archie" Bunker is a fictional New Yorker in the 1970s top-rated American television sitcom All in the Family and its spin-off Archie Bunker's Place, played to acclaim by Carroll O'Connor. Bunker is a veteran of World War II, reactionary, bigoted, conservative, blue-collar worker, and...
on the hugely successful 1970s sitcom All in the Family
All in the Family
All in the Family is an American sitcom that was originally broadcast on the CBS television network from January 12, 1971, to April 8, 1979. In September 1979, a new show, Archie Bunker's Place, picked up where All in the Family had ended...
. Gloria was a spin-off
Spin-off (media)
In media, a spin-off is a radio program, television program, video game, or any narrative work, derived from one or more already existing works, that focuses, in particular, in more detail on one aspect of that original work...
of Archie Bunker's Place
Archie Bunker's Place
Archie Bunker's Place is an American sitcom originally broadcast on the CBS network, conceived in 1979 as a spin-off and continuation of All in the Family. While not as popular as its predecessor, the show maintained a large enough audience to last for four seasons, until its cancellation in 1983...
, which was a continuation of All in the Family.
Synopsis
The setup of the show was that Gloria had been left at loose ends after her husband, Michael StivicMichael Stivic
Michael Casimir Stivic is a fictional character on the long running American television sitcom of the 1970s, All in the Family. He was the live-in son-in-law of the series's lead character, the bigoted and undereducated Archie Bunker, who frequently called him "Meathead". Michael was the husband...
(who did not appear in the new series), left her and moved away to a commune
Commune (intentional community)
A commune is an intentional community of people living together, sharing common interests, property, possessions, resources, and, in some communes, work and income. In addition to the communal economy, consensus decision-making, non-hierarchical structures and ecological living have become...
. Gloria, to be closer to her father, decided to move with her young son, Joey
Joey Stivic
Joseph Michael "Joey" Stivic is a fictional character who first appeared on the 1970s American sitcom All in the Family. Joey Stivic was the son and only child of Mike Stivic and Gloria Stivic , and the grandson of Archie Bunker and Edith Bunker...
(played by Christian Jacobs), and pick up the pieces of her life as an assistant to two veterinarian
Veterinarian
A veterinary physician, colloquially called a vet, shortened from veterinarian or veterinary surgeon , is a professional who treats disease, disorder and injury in animals....
s in Fox Ridge, New York. The veterinarians were played by Burgess Meredith
Burgess Meredith
Oliver Burgess Meredith , known professionally as Burgess Meredith, was an American actor in theatre, film, and television, who also worked as a director...
and Jo De Winter
Jo De Winter
Jo De Winter is an American actress most notable for her role in the short-lived All in the Family spin-off TV series Gloria. She has had mostly single-episode appearances in TV shows as far back as the 1960s, including The Alfred Hitchcock Hour , The Brady Bunch, Soap , St...
; the character played by Meredith was also, conveniently, Gloria's landlord.
Though Gloria ranked 18th in the Nielsen ratings
Nielsen Ratings
Nielsen ratings are the audience measurement systems developed by Nielsen Media Research, in an effort to determine the audience size and composition of television programming in the United States...
for the 1982–83 season, CBS chose not to renew it for a second season, making it one of the few spin-offs of the successful All in the Family not to have a successful run.
The unaired pilot
CBS rejected Glorias original pilotTelevision pilot
A "television pilot" is a standalone episode of a television series that is used to sell the show to a television network. At the time of its inception, the pilot is meant to be the "testing ground" to see if a series will be possibly desired and successful and therefore a test episode of an...
which featured a brief cameo
Cameo appearance
A cameo role or cameo appearance is a brief appearance of a known person in a work of the performing arts, such as plays, films, video games and television...
by Carroll O'Connor
Carroll O'Connor
John Carroll O'Connor best known as Carroll O'Connor, was an American actor, producer and director whose television career spanned four decades...
as Archie Bunker
Archie Bunker
Archibald "Archie" Bunker is a fictional New Yorker in the 1970s top-rated American television sitcom All in the Family and its spin-off Archie Bunker's Place, played to acclaim by Carroll O'Connor. Bunker is a veteran of World War II, reactionary, bigoted, conservative, blue-collar worker, and...
dropping off Gloria and Joey at Dr. Adams' clinic and residence. It was repackaged as an episode of Archie Bunker's Place. This pilot was written by veteran All in the Family and Archie Bunker's Place writers Pat Shea and Harriett Weiss and Archie Bunker's Place producer and close Carroll O'Connor
Carroll O'Connor
John Carroll O'Connor best known as Carroll O'Connor, was an American actor, producer and director whose television career spanned four decades...
associate Joe Gannon who co-created, wrote and produced the pilot. They were replaced by former WKRP in Cincinnati
WKRP in Cincinnati
WKRP in Cincinnati is an American situation comedy that featured the misadventures of the staff of a struggling fictional radio station in Cincinnati, Ohio. The show was created by Hugh Wilson and was based upon his experiences working in advertising sales at Top 40 radio station WQXI in Atlanta...
writers Steve Marshall
Steve Marshall
Steve Marshall is a writer and producer for film and television. He began his entertainment career in radio, rising to the level of program director of the CBS-owned KNX-FM in Los Angeles in the early 70's....
and Dan Guntzelman (who would later find success writing and producing the long running ABC
American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...
sitcom Growing Pains
Growing Pains
Growing Pains is an American television sitcom about an affluent family, residing in Huntington, New York, with a working mother and a stay-at-home psychiatrist father raising three children together, which aired on ABC from September 24, 1985 to April 25, 1992.-Synopsis:The show's premise is based...
).
The show's production was moved from CBS Television City
CBS Television City
CBS Television City is a television studio complex located in the Fairfax District of Los Angeles at 7800 Beverly Boulevard, at the corner of North Fairfax Avenue...
to Universal Studios
Universal Studios
Universal Pictures , a subsidiary of NBCUniversal, is one of the six major movie studios....
. According to a December 1982 feature interview with Sally Struthers
Sally Struthers
Sally Ann Struthers is an American actress and spokeswoman, best-known for her roles as Gloria Stivic on All in the Family, for which she won two Emmy awards, and as Babette on Gilmore Girls.-Personal life:...
in TV Guide
TV Guide
TV Guide is a weekly American magazine with listings of TV shows.In addition to TV listings, the publication features television-related news, celebrity interviews, gossip and film reviews and crossword puzzles...
this did not sit well with Carroll O'Connor who, with the rest of the Archie Bunker's Place production staff, were effectively shut out of the production of Gloria. (Even Norman Lear
Norman Lear
Norman Milton Lear is an American television writer and producer who produced such 1970s sitcoms as All in the Family, Sanford and Son, One Day at a Time, The Jeffersons, Good Times and Maude...
, who created All in the Family and had some hand in all of its other spin-offs, had no credited involvement in Gloria.) After this, O'Connor chose to be uninvolved in the retooled pilot and series. The characters of Dr. Jim Waynewrite and Ben the handyman were dropped when Marshall and Guntzelman's second pilot was made which went to series. In the second pilot, Joey adopted a black dog which he named Archie after his grandfather, which O'Connor was said to be less than thrilled about according to the same 1982 TV Guide article. In the original pilot, actress Jo de Winter's character, Maggie Lawrence, was an assistant to Dr. Adams. In the second pilot and the series, Maggie Lawrence is a veterinarian
Veterinarian
A veterinary physician, colloquially called a vet, shortened from veterinarian or veterinary surgeon , is a professional who treats disease, disorder and injury in animals....
and Dr. Adams' partner in the clinic.
Episode list
| № | Title | Airdate |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | "Gloria, the First Day" (Pilot Television pilot A "television pilot" is a standalone episode of a television series that is used to sell the show to a television network. At the time of its inception, the pilot is meant to be the "testing ground" to see if a series will be possibly desired and successful and therefore a test episode of an... ) |
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| 1 | "The First Day" | 1982·Sep·26 |
| 2 | "First Date" | 1982·Oct·03 |
| 3 | "Bully for You" | 1982·Oct·10 |
| 4 | "If at First You Don't Succeed" | 1982·Oct·17 |
| 5 | "Pig in a Blanket" | 1982·Oct·24 |
| 6 | "Teacher's Pet" | 1982·Oct·31 |
| 7 | "Malpractice" | 1982·Nov·07 |
| 8 | "F-F-Father's Day" | 1982·Nov·21 |
| 9 | "The Taxman Cometh" | 1982·Nov·28 |
| 10 | "Still Life with Cat" | 1982·Dec·12 |
| 11 | "Miracle at Fox Ridge" | 1982·Dec·19 |
| 12 | "Visitation" | 1982·Dec·26 |
| 13 | "Gloria on the Couch" | 1983·Jan·09 |
| 14 | "Love in the Past Tents" | 1983·Jan·16 |
| 15 | "Truth and Consequences" | 1983·Jan·23 |
| 16 | "Let's Call the Whole Thing Off" | 1983·Feb·13 |
| 17 | "Death Row Dog" | 1983·Feb·20 |
| 18 | "Coming Apart" | 1983·Feb·27 |
| 19 | "It Almost Happened One Night" | 1983·Mar·13 |
| 20 | "Class Struggle" | 1983·Apr·03 |
| 21 | "An Uncredited Woman" | 1983·Apr·10 |