Gloria was a failed spinoff television situation comedy that lasted one season on CBS, from September 1982 to September 1983. It starred Sally Struthers, reprising her role as Gloria Stivic, the daughter of Archie Bunker on the hugely successful 1970s sitcom All in the Family. A spin-off (or spinoff) is a new organization or entity formed by a split from a larger one such as a new company formed from a university research group. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards and appeal to a wider international audience, this article may require cleanup. ... For other uses, see CBS (disambiguation). ... 1982 (MCMLXXXII) is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Sally Struthers in the 1970s Sally Ann Struthers (born July 28, 1948 in Portland, Oregon) is a American actress, perhaps best known for her portrayal of Archie Bunkers daughter, Gloria Bunker Stivic, on the popular and groundbreaking 1970s sitcom All in the Family. ... Gloria Stivic is the name of the fictional character played by Sally Struthers on the American television situation comedy All in the Family, which aired on the CBS network from 1971 until 1979. ... Archie Bunker on the cover of TV Guide (August 8-14, 1981) Archie Bunker was a fictional character in the long-running and top-rated American television sitcom All in the Family. ... The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1970 to 1979, inclusive. ... All in the Family is a popular and acclaimed American situation comedy that was originally broadcast on the CBS television network from January 12, 1971 until April 8, 1979, when the final original episode aired. ...

The cast of Gloria, circa 1982: Burgess Meredith, Sally Struthers, and Christian Jacobs

The setup of the show was that Gloria had been left at loose ends after her husband, Michael Stivic (who did not appear in the new series), left her and moved away to a commune. (Some viewers thought that this was somewhat of a contrived story about Michael, as over the run of All in the Family he became more conservative and seemingly had left his "hippie" past behind him). 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 veterinarians 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. Gloria Stivic as a plucky assistant veterinarian. 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. Gloria TV Show Spinoff File links The following pages link to this file: Gloria (TV) ... A Commune is a kind of intentional community where most resources are shared and there is little or no personal property. ... Joey Stivic is a fictional character who first appeared on the American sitcom All in the Family. ... The MC Bat Commander (real name: Christian Jacobs), has appeared on various TV shows and movies but now he is the lead singer for a band named The Aquabats. ... Meredith in 1972s Probe Oliver Burgess Meredith (November 16, 1907 – September 9, 1997) was an American actor. ... All in the Family is a popular and acclaimed American situation comedy that was originally broadcast on the CBS television network from January 12, 1971 until April 8, 1979, when the final original episode aired. ...

Caroll O'Connor and Gloria's unaired Pilot

CBS rejected Gloria's original pilot written by veteran All in the Family and Archie Bunker's Place writers Patt Shea and Harriett Weiss and Archie Bunker's Place and close Caroll O'Connor associate and Archie Bunker's Place producer Joe Gannon who co created wrote produced this pilot. They were replaced by were replaced by former WKRP in Cincinnati writers Steve Marshall and Dan Guntzelman (Who would later find success writing and producing Growing Pains) at the helm of Gloria. The Gloria's production was moved crosstown from CBS Television City to Universal Studios This did not sit well with Carroll O'Connor who with the rest of the Archie Bunker's Place production staff who were effectively shut out of the production of Gloria. In Marshall and Guntzelman reetooling Rick Lohman's Dr.Jim Waynewrite and Ben the handyman were gone when Marshall and Guntzelman's second pilot was made which went to series as "Gloria" from 1982 to 1983. In the second pilot Dr Adams No pets rule was gone and Joey adopted a "Gay" Black dog which he named Archie after his grandfather which Carroll O'Connor was said to be less than thrilled about according to a December 1982 article about Sally Struthers in TV Guide. Lou Richards was added to the cast as veterinarian's assistant Clark V. Uhley,Jr. In the original pilot Jo de Winter's Maggie Lawrence is an Assistant of Dr. Adams. In the second pilot and the series that made the air Maggie Lawrence has become Dr. Maggie Lawrence Dr. Adams partner. All in the Family is a popular and acclaimed American situation comedy that was originally broadcast on the CBS television network from January 12, 1971 until April 8, 1979, when the final original episode aired. ... Archie Bunkers Place was a CBS sitcom that had previously been known as All in the Family. ... Archie Bunkers Place was a CBS sitcom that had previously been known as All in the Family. ... Archie Bunkers Place was a CBS sitcom that had previously been known as All in the Family. ... The cast of WKRP in Cincinnati is pictured in this 1978 publicity photo. ... Growing Pains was a television sitcom that ran on the American ABC network from 1985 until 1992. ... CBS Television City is a television studio located in the Fairfax District of Los Angeles West Side at 7800 West Beverly Boulevard, at the corner of Beverly and Fairfax Avenue. ... The current Universal Studios logo Universal Studios, a subsidiary of NBC Universal, has production studios and offices located at 100 Universal City Plaza Drive in Universal City, California, an unincorporated area of Los Angeles County between Los Angeles and Burbank. ... John Carroll OConnor (August 2, 1924 – June 21, 2001) was an Irish-American actor, famous for his portrayal of the character Archie Bunker in the television sitcoms All in the Family (1971-1979) and Archie Bunkers Place (1979-1983). ... TV Guide is the name of two North American weekly magazines about television programming, one in the United States and one in Canada. ... Lou Richards (born March 15, 1923) was an Australian rules footballer, who played 250 games with the Collingwood Football Club between 1941 and 1955. ...

External links

• Gloria Homepage
• Gloria at The Internet Movie Database
• Gloria Image Gallery

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