Norman Lear’s “All That Glitters” (Complete Episode #23, 5/18/1977) 💎

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The Museum of Classic Chicago Television (www.FuzzyMemories.TV)

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We interrupt our Christmas-themed videos to bring you a complete episode of a rare Norman Lear series, "All That Glitters", to honor Mr. Lear's passing at the age of 101.
Recorded off of WDCA Channel 20 in Washington, DC, here's a complete episode of the obscure and short-lived (and never re-run) Norman Lear sitcom All That Glitters. (In Chicago, it aired over WFLD Channel 32.)
This nightly series, which lasted all of 65 episodes (from April 18th to July 15th 1977), and showing a world where the script was flipped and women ruled the roost while the men were the sex objects, starred Lois Nettleton, Barbara Baxley, Anita Gillette, Chuck McCann (former New York City children's show host), Wes Parker, Vanessa Brown, Louise Shaffer, David Haskell, Linda Gray (a year before landing the role of Sue Ellen Ewing on the nighttime soap Dallas), Gary Sandy (pre-WKRP in Cincinnati) and Marte Boyle Slout.
Thanks to research by user deepdish73 and confirmed by our head researcher Chris Tufts, we now have the exact airdate and episode number and know that this was Episode #23 out of 65. Wish more would surface but right now these episodes are as rare as hen's teeth! Hopefully they'll release the whole series on streaming or DVD some day.
Includes:
Station ID (with "The Great Entertainer" / "The Great Movies" promo)
Opening titles and credits (the title sequence appears to be done in Scanimate):
Starring Lois Nettleton
Barbara Baxley
Anita Gillette
Chuck McCann
Wes Parker, Vanessa Brown, Louise Shaffer
David Haskell, Linda Gray, Gary Sandy, Marte Boyle Slout
Executive Producer - Stephanie Sills
Produced by Viva Knight
Created by Norman Lear, Ann Marcus
Creative Supervision - Virginia Carter
Developed by Norman Lear
Directed by Herbert Kenwith
(All commercial breaks are edited out of this recording at 06:45, 12:20, and 16:32)
Ending credits:
Written by - Harry Cauley
Executive Story Consultant - Harry Cauley
Executive Script Consultant - Richard M. Powell
Associate Producer - Nicky Weaver
Assoc. Director, Post Production - Marlena Laird
Copyright (C) 1977 T.A.T. Communications Co.
All Rights Reserved
A Norman Lear / T.A.T. Communications Co. Production
World Wide Distribution by T.A.T. Communications Co.
As no known episode guide for this series exists on the web, any guide as to which episode title for this installment would be appreciated.
"So is it any wonder why the men complain, when from the dawn of time it's been a woman's domain?"
This aired on local Washington, DC TV on Wednesday, May 18th 1977 during the 11:00pm to 11:30pm (Eastern) timeframe.
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@cornjobb 3 ай бұрын

i would have sworn i never saw this show, but i recognized the theme song right away.

@edwardrcox 7 ай бұрын

Thank you so much! I have told friends about this show for years and no one ever believed me.

@Attmay 4 ай бұрын

I wish you were just making it up.

@teresapflaumer5717 7 ай бұрын

More episodes please! I've been looking for All That Glitters for years! RIP to the great Norman Lear. He changed TV forever!

@robertpresar9970 6 ай бұрын

Me too!!

@Attmay 4 ай бұрын

#MeToo should’ve gone after him when they had the chance.

@Attmay 4 ай бұрын

Now that he’s dead, let’s change it back.

@Greathall75 Ай бұрын

Beyond rare! Thanks for sharing this!

@Pokemon493Fan 7 ай бұрын

RIP Norman Lear. You gave us some true classics and some obscure ones too, thanks for the work you've done for TV as a whole. Never heard or seen anything about this show, but it's rather interesting and rare to hear no laugh track or anything in a show of Lear's or in the 70s entirely. Even tho this is like a spoof on the soap opera apparently.

@FuzzyMemoriesTV 7 ай бұрын

If I'm not mistaken, Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman was the spoof (though played straight) - All that Glitters was more of a directly straight style, except taking place within the fictional world of gender roles-reversal. I guess you can make your own determination by watching this episode. :-)

@Pokemon493Fan 7 ай бұрын

@@FuzzyMemoriesTV I guess it is played quite straight, like a drama of sorts, but still being a light-hearted kind of one and not being overall too serious. But good to know! :)

@Attmay 4 ай бұрын

MTM Enterprises produced classic TV. It pains me to see their legacy at the mercy of Disney. Norman Lear was a grifter and a panderer, and I am ashamed to say that I fell for the grift until I read between the lines and recognized it as such.

@Attmay 4 ай бұрын

The proper word is sex.

@Portugal2025 7 ай бұрын

WOW!! I remember this show. It was definitely avant garde. It was on late - around 11 on my local channel WDCA TV 20❤

@Attmay 4 ай бұрын

It wasn’t avant-garde. It was degenerate filth by a stealth homophobe. Now I understand why Frances Lear left him. He has no greater understanding of the issues women and Gay people face than the strawman bigots he creates just to be torn down. That call is coming from inside the house.

@mmcost 7 ай бұрын

OMG YOU JUST MADE MY DAY!!!!!BEEN wishing for this to happen forever.yes please show all the episodes in honor of MR LEAR.This show was so ahead of its time its not fair its been kept hidden forever till now.the same goes for Forever Fernwood.plese more-IM SO HAPPY u have no idea

@Attmay 4 ай бұрын

It was not “ahead of its time.“ It was a horrific betrayal of LGB and radical feminism by someone whose own collaborators called him “a racist, a liar, a thief, and a hypocrite.” TV was better before *All in the Family* ruined it. Jim Nabors and Nancy Kulp lost their shows because of this, so there is an element of homophobia involved here. Kulp was only cast on *Sanford and Son* out of guilt for the producers’ complicity in the rural purge that took money out of her pocket.

@newalexanderh 7 ай бұрын

In Memory of Norman Lear (1922-2023). I was expecting the TAT logo at the end, until I saw the year 1977.

@Attmay 4 ай бұрын

I would rather remember the Gay and Lesbian bodies destroyed because of his buckbreaker propaganda.

@rivaridge7211 2 ай бұрын

Wow, Lois Nettleton! I had no idea, or any memory, of her appearing on "All That Glitters." I sometimes watched it back in the day. Well, Lois, I won't tell on you if you don't tell on me.

@dgwaters 7 ай бұрын

Thanks for uploading this! I’ve read about this series for years in TV books but never seen it.

@Attmay 4 ай бұрын

It is telling that Norman Lear’s day-to-day hands-on involvement in his shows curtailed dramatically after this one deservedly flopped. He really crossed the line this time. There is no uncrossing it.

@guyinthebooth 2 ай бұрын

I knew of the show and the premise of the sexual social role reversal, but never got to see it. Thanks for posting

@jackdemus7890 7 ай бұрын

I believe this aired at the same time as another Lear soap, L.A.T.E.R (Life and Times of Eddie Roberts)...both lasted the same amount of episodes.

@Portugal2025 7 ай бұрын

I remember that one. It was on late night like this on Metromedia TV. It was definitely out there but high quality

@Attmay 4 ай бұрын

I have heard of that, but that was not from Lear but from Columbia.

@sCulturefan 2 ай бұрын

0:01 WDCA/20 used the “Great Entertainer” positioning in the late 1970s/early 1980s, WPHL/17 used the same slogan in Philly. Would love to see any of the extra promos and ads from this tape posted - lots of WTTG/Metromedia 5 on KZfaq, but not enough of DC 20!

@sCulturefan 2 ай бұрын

I saw one episode of this series at the Paley Center in LA when it was still open - would love to see more episodes posted if they are available!

@stevecohen11 7 ай бұрын

This just came to mind as I was contemplating Norman Lear’s passing and remembering how much I love this series and how it disappeared

@dpurves28 7 ай бұрын

Absolutely no memory of this, but I would've been 6 at the time so it's possible I did see it and it's long gone from my brain. Lots of shows like this that never got rerun so you had one shot to see it or you'd never get that chance again.

@Attmay 4 ай бұрын

It was probably on late at night where children would not have been able to see it. Now children are being subjected to this. Between those two points in time, *Silver Spoons* tried to make a femboy out of Ricky and made him Derek’s date at a party at his own house as a repayment for saving him from being crushed by a rock on a camping trip. It was their way of saying “in order to get the boy of your dreams, you must become the girl of his dreams.“ That is a price no Gay MAN should have to pay, and certainly not at the age of 12 which Ricky was at the time of taping that episode which aired January 9, 1983. You can buy that episode on DVD but not any of the Franklyn Seales and Alfonso Ribiero episodes. That proves Lear was all talk when it came to race as well as human sexuality. And to those of us who remember exactly how Jason Bateman‘s departure from this show played out, it makes it all the more obvious why they gave him his own unrelated show: Derek Taylor was very likely bisexual and in love with Ricky Stratton, and NBC didn’t want to deal with all the angry calls and letters they would get from taking that any further after all the shit they got for casting Nell Carter as a maid even when she earned two Emmy nominations for it. Disney brought these 2 shows full circle by casting Ricky Schroder and Linda Gray in the 1994 NBC-TV movie *To My Daughter With Love.*

@Summerbrezze 7 ай бұрын

I didn't remember this until I heard the theme song 😂

@CmediaCanada_official 7 ай бұрын

R.I.P Norman Lear (1922-2023), the dude who formerly owns P*I*T*S Films and T.A.T. Communications Company. As we know about his logos, the finding of P*I*T*S Films logo is found at 17 years ago, now all of it's left of T.A.T. Communications Company logo is only partially found on October 21, 1980 recording but the search will might end as we already found the T.A.T. logo by telling the library who wanted to digitalize the tapes to the public as we know if the original version of the tape was found without being edited to be plastered by Sony Pictures Television. As for now, we're still searching and waiting for T.A.T. logo to be found for memorial of Norman Lear

@Attmay 4 ай бұрын

#JusticeForEricMonte

@TaterTwots 8 күн бұрын

I watched this when I was ten! Hahahahah

@mitch6225 7 ай бұрын

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS!!!!! IF YOU HAVE MORE PLEASE UPLOAD!

@Attmay 4 ай бұрын

I have heard criticism of Norman Lear from conservatives and liberals, blacks and whites, gays and heterosexuals, Jews and Christians, men and women alike. Shows like this make me understand their point of view. They can’t all be prejudiced.

@gregman1715 7 ай бұрын

As A 10 Year Old Kid In 1977 Watched Just About Everything But I Don't Remember This Show

@jacksonupperco 7 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@george7226 7 ай бұрын

Watched this series in the 70’s. Was great. Bring it back!!

@Attmay 4 ай бұрын

I think we can safely let this one stay in the 70s. Norman Lear was a buckbreaker.

@robertpresar9970 6 ай бұрын

More please!!! I’ve been waiting for these to be posted 🎉

@Attmay 4 ай бұрын

I can gladly keep waiting forever or until there is full accountability for the genocide of Gays and Lesbians through eugenics in this fashion. It saddens me how many episodes of real soap operas will never be seen again when this outright trash survives. The much-loved Harding Lemay years of *Another World* only exist in the memories of those who watched them because P&G didn’t start archiving until right around the time there did that ridiculous 90 minute experiment.

@-ox9zz 7 ай бұрын

No live audience? No laugh track? Or just No laughs? It's odd that nothing elicits even a polite chuckle. Thanks for posting!

@FuzzyMemoriesTV 7 ай бұрын

As with Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman - it was done straight just like a "regular" soap opera. He didn't spoon-feed the audience in these cases.

@LufifiDruid 7 ай бұрын

It was a spoof of the soap opera genre so they didn't use one. Was on 5 nights a week.

@-ox9zz 7 ай бұрын

I feel bad for the actors! having to deliver the energy with no audience! oof!@@FuzzyMemoriesTV

@-ox9zz 7 ай бұрын

Thank you! Unfamiliar with soaps besides what was on in childhood - but as I recall they weren't playing for laughs. Wonder if a live audience might've saved this show? We'll never know.@@LufifiDruid

@LufifiDruid 7 ай бұрын

@-ox9zz It was meant to be that way. Creative but felt weird to people. Very interesting show and cast. Plus, having the gender roles reversed and the first transgender regular character too!

@gridlockjoe 7 ай бұрын

I can't believe this has resurfaced! Thanks!

@Attmay 4 ай бұрын

I can believe this show was a failure even then. That should have sent the message loud and clear to Hollywood. We don’t want this in movies. We don’t want this on TV. We don’t want this on stage. We don’t want this anywhere.

@peteholmberg3260 7 ай бұрын

Love this!!!

@Attmay 3 ай бұрын

I don’t. I want reparations for this garbage.

@BottleConcreteBlond 7 ай бұрын

So, so happy to see this!

@Attmay 4 ай бұрын

The only good thing about this show resurfacing is that I can finally point to it as proof that Norman Lear did not have the best interests of the LGB community in mind.

@TwinPeaksArchive1 7 ай бұрын

Just as rare as episodes of ‘Forever Fernwood’. I don’t suppose you have any to upload? Besides the first episode?

@hubraden 5 ай бұрын

The restaurant - HERB KENWITH (director) - asked that the set be decorated as a GREEK ADONIS SPA…!

@hubraden 5 ай бұрын

The restaurant waiters attired in classic GREEK MALE ROBES…!

@tubesocksbrigade3031 7 ай бұрын

Wait...is that the same Wes Parker in the cast of this show was also a former Los Angeles Dodger back in the 60s?

@johnpjones182 7 ай бұрын

Yup.

@hubraden 5 ай бұрын

The lady producers wanted their own eye candy…first day of rehearsal with Wes Parker - his costume was a towel - wrapping his waist & butt… the entire stage had all the secretaries from the Lear Executive offices - watching the rehearsal…. Wes Parker was the bait… !!!

@Attmay 4 ай бұрын

Every man on this show had a good case in court to sue the producers for sexual harassment. Even the concept of this show is half-baked. What is g-nd-r in a world where women dominate men? As it is, that word is misogynistic homophobic hate speech that represents nothing but soul-crushing and offensive stereotypes that should have died with the end of the 1950s. Instead, they are rebranded as being “progressive,” making a mockery of that word and everything it stands for just as the meathead made a mockery of the anti-war movement.

@Attmay 3 ай бұрын

@@hubradenSexual harassment of men by women. Not funny at all. Something else I demand reparations for.

@Seras99 7 ай бұрын

We need someone like you to upload the tat communications logo as a way to celebrate his memory. But I know that your not the type of channel to do that but it would be cool since this year alone, a higher quality of PITS Films have been found.

@FuzzyMemoriesTV 7 ай бұрын

If the logo is not there in the recording, then I have nothing to upload.

@Seras99 7 ай бұрын

@@FuzzyMemoriesTV It was said that it first appeared in the facts of life. One day at a time might be another thing to look up.

@Attmay 4 ай бұрын

There is no other explanation for why the first four episodes of *the Facts of Life* have neither logos nor in-credit TAT notices in any version since their original prime time airings, but no early adopters of the show have come forward with proof of what was at the end originally, and though barely anybody watched it before Jo came on, how many of those who did had VCRs and taped it and kept those tapes? It is a longshot after 45 years.

@Attmay 4 ай бұрын

I know the logo exists because I saw it on a *Jeffersons* rerun on WGN in 1994 when I was waiting for *The Simpsons* to come on. It was one of the parts of the 1978 clip show where they were tied up by burglars. I didn’t tape it, unfortunately. It was the only time I ever saw it anywhere. But I never forgot it… Mainly because I never forgot how hideously ugly it was and how cacophonous the jingle was. The Embassy logo was much more professionally done. Even so, you should try getting in touch with somebody who worked at WGN when they had the rights to the show. Maybe they can help point you or whoever wants to see the logo in the right direction. Once they lost the rights, their tapes probably ended up back with Columbia even though they had them before Columbia had the rights. what they did with them after that point is anybody’s guess. TBS’s versions of almost every Lear show but *All in the Family,* which still had Viacom logos, had already had Columbia logos added to them once they got them, and *The Jeffersons* was no exception. By the 90s, everything was replaced by that insipid Columbia TriStar logo that we all called “the boxes of boredom.” The logo aficionados all cheered when the Sony Pictures Television logo first replaced it.

@mikeroenbeck5069 4 ай бұрын

I love those two ladies sitting next to nancy lagston very exciting ❤❤❤❤❤❤

@dgwaters 4 ай бұрын

Now that I’ve seen this series I can see why it didn’t last. Just something about it was a little off. Maybe it was the part where the one guy SLAPPED the guy instead of punching him.

@johnkeating362 6 ай бұрын

Is there any way to see more episodes. Really would like to see Gary Sandy’s butt being ogled by the boss lady, LOL.

@Attmay 4 ай бұрын

Come the revolution, the b-word will be banned along with everything it stands for. Norman Lear is in Hell for giving T0n¥ D@nz@ work after *Taxi* couldn’t even beat *Diff’rent Strokes* in the ratings.

@Attmay 3 ай бұрын

Thank God this failed or he couldn’t star in *WKRP in Cincinnati,* a far superior show.

@Musicradio77Network 7 ай бұрын

There is no TAT logo at the end of the show, but I hope the TAT logo might be shown. If they don’t, it will be a joke.

@Attmay 4 ай бұрын

Apparently, it was only for reruns and not original programming. but it became such a topic of obsession that people even had to be told to stop asking Norman Lear himself about it on Twitter while he was still alive. The whereabouts of a five-second piece of animation is the least of the things he should have had to answer for. The likelihood that his shows will stand the test of time is not great, I’m afraid, if even before his death I had to explain who he was to somebody who actually works in the broadcast industry! His is a name that died before the man, a runner whom the race outran.

@austinl169 7 ай бұрын

I was too young to appreciate the savvy political commentary ATG served up but I always dug the theme song. Another Norman Lear classic. RIP, Mr. Lear.

@Attmay 4 ай бұрын

Savvy? Do you realize the negative implications this garbage has had for the Gay community? Gay activists already had to get *Sanford and Son* to change dialogue implying that a Gay MAN is somehow something less than a MAN. This is why the Black Panthers never should have left his office when they occupied it to address complaints about *Good Times.* They should have taken over the entire company.

@Attmay 3 ай бұрын

Nothing he did was a classic.

@vincegay986 7 ай бұрын

This was sold directly into syndication. Now find Hot l Baltimore!

@Attmay 3 ай бұрын

That could have worked if it had been done by another producer. As it is, I hope they do another adaptation of the play without Norman Lear stinking it up.

@deepdish73 7 ай бұрын

This is Episode 23 of ATG and it aired on May 18, 1977.

@FuzzyMemoriesTV 7 ай бұрын

Source?

@deepdish73 7 ай бұрын

My own research - I looked up the entire series in 1977 TV listings in the newspaper for a book I'm writing.@@FuzzyMemoriesTV

@stephenzamarin3193 7 ай бұрын

@@FuzzyMemoriesTV The May 1977 date might be accurate. The WPIX interview from May 1977 with Chuck McCann shows a clip from this episode.

@phantom6226 7 ай бұрын

I agree with that date. The problem I had was there was no episode information for WDCA's broadcast of ATG on that date.

@FuzzyMemoriesTV 7 ай бұрын

We have confirmed this date with our head researcher. I'll add it to the video description. Nice job, deepdish73 - thanks! Let us know if you want a job as assistant research editor. :-)

@ifermaglich4985 7 ай бұрын

Now all I have to see is Hot L Baltimore and In The Beginning

@Attmay 4 ай бұрын

*Hot L Baltimore* might have been a success if it had been made by another producer. No one who supports eugenics has anything to say about the lives of Gay people worth listening to. Maybe Witt/Thomas/Harris or MTM could have made it work.

@hubraden 5 ай бұрын

McCANN’S set wall decorative groupings - were HUB BRADEN’s - tongue and cheek spoof on NORMAN LEAR’s ART DIRECTOR SUPERVISOR DON ROBERTS … ROBERTS’ decorating - always itty-bitty small framed items hung in wall groupings…!

@Attmay 4 ай бұрын

Don Roberts could never match the exteriors used in the opening credits to the actual exterior sets. When he followed Mort Lachman and Sy Rosen from Tandem/TAT to Alan Landsburg Productions to do the same on *Gimme A Break!,* they just stopped using the opening shot of the house in the credits after the second season for this reason.

@hubraden 4 ай бұрын

@@Attmay there is an explanation - (and a reason) … the decision to go for a series network pilot occurred - despite the format purpose… DON ROBERTS - had to design the stage sets - first and fast after taking the project… fault the Producers for not doing their pre=production homework … for NOT - 1st - establishing (an-opening architectural residential house) film shot…! For set designer to work from…! That was not DON ROBERTS FAULT…!

@hubraden 4 ай бұрын

An interesting bit of TV history … HOLLYWOOD’s TV Production Designers were a tightly knit friendly group, each, having began their studio careers as an Assistant Art DIRECTOR. When ED Stephenson designed the main stage set for the CBS-TV series - “GOLDEN GIRLS” - the opening film establishing photo shot - of their Florida location - was luck- because the location - actually fit what ED had designed…!

@Attmay 3 ай бұрын

@@hubraden it happened every time.

@Attmay 3 ай бұрын

@@hubraden*Golden Girls* was on NBC. The year-long sequel series *Golden Palace* was on CBS.

@stephenzamarin3193 7 ай бұрын

I think that is actress Meg Wylie at 21:25.

@Attmay 4 ай бұрын

Another future *Facts of Life* guest star in season eight as the senior citizen at a Mexican restaurant where Natalie worked.

@wmbrown6 7 ай бұрын

I.I.N.M., WPIX Channel 11 - where McCann hosted kids' shows from about 1959 to 1965 (when he defected to rival WNEW Channel 5) - aired this show in the NYC area. I remember the station's entertainment critic, Jeffrey Lyons, interviewed him about this show - and aired clips of his old WPIX kids' shows.

@Attmay 4 ай бұрын

He worked for TAT after it became Embassy playing Santa Claus on an episode of *the Facts of Life.* That was right before they merged it into Columbia and stopped using a separate logo for it. I think his episode might’ve been the last one to have the big fat E at the end. I watched the later years on NBC concurrently with syndicated reruns of the Charlotte Rae years, but unfortunately I didn’t tape them, and Shout! only preserved the Embassy logos for the Edna’s Edibles years (seasons 5-6) on DVD.

@chantingmammal 7 ай бұрын

Where is the T.A.T logo? We're looking for it!

@Attmay 4 ай бұрын

If it still exists, then it is in the Sony vaults, or on a home recording that nobody has come forward with for fear of retribution from the copyright police. Sony is worse than Disney about this stuff, if you can believe that.

@stephenkraljic5619 7 ай бұрын

@21:37 looks like Elayne Boosler

@shooterboy69 7 ай бұрын

I think the same thing!!! It's not on her IMDB, but I'm certain it's Elayne!!

@NJGuy1973 7 ай бұрын

Pop culture critic Chuck Klosterman: "If you like a band, you appreciate all the things they do well. But if you LOVE a band, the parts of their career that truly fascinate you are the aspects that go wrong. Artists are best understood through their reaction to failure. So if you love BLACK SABBATH, the record you want to think about is Technical Ecstasy. If you love OASIS, you want to think about Be Here Now. And if you love KISS, the record that’s most compelling is The Elder. It’s not even close." That's why this is being uploaded today.

@Attmay 4 ай бұрын

This show is one of many reasons I have become disillusioned with Norman Lear. LGBs owe h3t supporters of the T absolutely nothing. Therefore, Gays owe Norman Lear nothing except contempt for his betrayal of homosexuality.

@Attmay 3 ай бұрын

Another reason TV was better off before Norman Lear ruined it.

@angrybirdsfan2003 7 ай бұрын

R.I.P.

@alondralabute2310 7 ай бұрын

I remember this vaguely since I was a high school senior when it came on (64 now). I guess I see why it didn't really make it. Not funny. Too serious for a Norman Lear show. But I like the concept of women in charge, and men facing the same insecurities women have for hundreds of years.

@Attmay 4 ай бұрын

It was yet another “strawman has a point“ show like practically everything he ever did. It’s easy to see why this failed and Susan Harris’s *Soap* succeeded. Jodie Dallas canceled his sex change operation and learned to accept being a Gay MAN, even if it cost him a hot boyfriend. For all of Harris’s attempts to be a female Norman Lear, her writing was more consistently funny, more imaginative, and demonstrated a better understanding of the Gay MALE sensibility. Lear was just the groundskeeper for the graveyard in which the party of Joe Biden buried every civil rights and social reform movement in this country.

@mikeroenbeck5069 6 ай бұрын

I agree more episodes please also please add Linda Gray she played a gorgeous Trannsexual loved the voice please add note episodes

@hubraden 5 ай бұрын

Linda Gray - the FIRST player as a Transexualité in TV History… top that with - she was dating a very black dark skinned dude… Linda Grey - later was on DALLAS…!

@Attmay 4 ай бұрын

Yet another reason to be glad this show failed. *Dallas* wouldn’t have been the same without her.

@mikeroenbeck5069 4 ай бұрын

@@Attmay 😥

@Attmay 3 ай бұрын

@@mikeroenbeck5069Don’t believe me? Just try watching the last two seasons of *Dallas* after she left. Sue Ellen‘s struggle to get off of booze and be her own *WOMAN* was a key part of the show. Once she was gone, the show’s days were numbered. She was even more wasted here than in the drunk scenes as Sue Ellen! At least there she was only figuratively wasted!

@hubraden 5 ай бұрын

A full 5-nights episodic 14 week - series - was banked, broadcast on LOS ANGELES independent TV CHANNEL 13/ALSO- on a SAN DIEGO INDEPENDENT…station - very Pore audience ratings blunder - the series never had a chance to become a hit… CANCELLED … ironic, as well, BURIED BY NORMAN LEAR…!

@hubraden 5 ай бұрын

Two actors - eye candy - for the female production staff…!

@Attmay 4 ай бұрын

They can’t have them. As if it wasn’t bad enough that they would go on to take the best years of both Ricky Schroder’s and Jason Bateman‘s lives.

@hubraden 5 ай бұрын

Lois Nelson’s performance was always underplayed…!

@mmcost 7 ай бұрын

i would buy this and Forever fernwood in a split second.please SANTA hear me out

@Attmay 4 ай бұрын

I’d rather have the rest of *Silver Spoons* and *227* for Hanukkah instead of this eugenics-enabling bomb.

@kennethhuang371 7 ай бұрын

FROM THE MAN WHO GAVE US… ALL IN THE FAMILY, THE JEFFERSONS, MAUDE, ONE DAY AT A TIME, & MARY HARTMAN, MARY HARTMAN… Another creation from Norman Lear: ALL THAT GLITTERS WEEKNIGHTS AT 11 PM ON WLVI TV CHANNEL 56 CAMBRIDGE/BOSTON. Kenneth Huang. 12/6/23. NORMAN LEAR. ( 1922-2023 )