Gloria (American TV series)
Gloria is an American situation comedy television program and a spin-off of Archie Bunker's Place. It was on television from September 26, 1982, to April 10, 1983 on CBS. The show was about Sally Struthers playing her role of Gloria Stivic, the daughter of Archie Bunker again.
| Gloria | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Sitcom |
| Created by | Joe Gannon Patt Shea Harriett Weiss |
| Developed by | Dan Guntzelman Steve Marshall |
| Directed by | Bob Claver |
| Starring | Sally Struthers Burgess Meredith Jo de Winter Lou Richards Christian Jacobs |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 21 (and 1 pilot (aired as "Archie Bunker's Place" S3 Ep29)) |
| Production | |
| Executive producers | Dan Guntzelman Steve Marshall |
| Editors | Andy Ackerman Marco Zappia |
| Camera setup | Multi-camera |
| Running time | 22–24 minutes |
| Production company | Tandem Productions |
| Original release | |
| Network | CBS |
| Release | September 26, 1982 – April 10, 1983 |
| Related | |
| Maude The Jeffersons 704 Hauser Good Times Checking In | |
The plot
changeThe story of the show is the Gloria Stivic was on her own after her husband, Michael Stivic left her to go live in a commune with another woman in California. Gloria wants to live closer to her father, Archie Bunker so she and her son Joey pack up and move to New York. But Gloria does not want to live in the city so she moves to Upstate New York. She takes a job as a assistant to two veterinarians. Even though the show did good in the Nielsen ratings CBS did not make a second season. It was one of the few All in the Family spin-offs that did not do well.
CBS did not like Gloria's first pilot which had a short cameo by Carroll O'Connor as Archie Bunker dropping off Gloria and Joey at Dr. Adams' clinic and residence. But the episode was put on to Archie Bunker's Place as a backdoor pilot.
Cast
change- Sally Struthers as Gloria Bunker Stivic
- Burgess Meredith as Dr. Willard Adams
- Jo de Winter as Dr. Maggie Lawrence
- Christian Jacobs as Joey Stivic
- Lou Richards as Clark V. Uhley, Jr.
Episodes
changeBackdoor pilot (1982)
changeA backdoor pilot, called "Gloria: The First Day", was first aired as the 29th and final episode of the third season of Archie Bunker's Place.
| Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date |
|---|---|---|---|
| "Gloria: The First Day" | Paul Bogart | Patt Shea, Harriett Weiss & Joe Gannon | June 1, 1982 |
| Gloria begins her new job at a veterinarian's clinic while starting a new life as a single mother. | |||
Season 1 (1982–83)
change| No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "The First Day" | Bob Claver | Dan Guntzelman & Steve Marshall | September 26, 1982 |
| Gloria Bunker-Stivic goes back home to raise her son Joey on her own and works as an assistant to the absent-minded veterinarian Dr. Willard Adams. | ||||
| 2 | "First Date" | Bob Claver | Rich Reinhart | October 3, 1982 |
| Gloria goes on her first date since her senior prom. | ||||
| 3 | "Bully for You" | Bob Claver | Dan Guntzelman & Steve Marshall | October 10, 1982 |
| Gloria tries to stop Joey from fighting a bully. | ||||
| 4 | "If at First You Don't Succeed" | Bob Claver | Dan Guntzelman & Steve Marshall | October 17, 1982 |
| Gloria and Dr. Adams make a near-fatal mistake on an emergency call. | ||||
| 5 | "Pig in a Blanket" | Bob Claver | Lissa Levin | October 24, 1982 |
| Gloria cares for a piglet that makes Clark and Joey jealous. | ||||
| 6 | "Teacher's Pet" | Bob Claver | Lissa Levin | October 31, 1982 |
| Dr. Adams is the substitute teacher as Gloria takes a test in her vet-assistant class. | ||||
| 7 | "Malpractice" | Bob Claver | Rich Reinhart | November 7, 1982 |
| Maggie realizes her mistake when she refuses a lawyer's toaster oven as payment for treating his monkey. | ||||
| 8 | "F-F-Father's Day" | Bob Claver | Story by : Lew Levy & Michael Cassutt Teleplay by : Rich Reinhart | November 21, 1982 |
| Clark tells his father he's engaged to Gloria. | ||||
| 9 | "The Taxman Cometh" | Bob Claver | Tim O'Donnell | November 28, 1982 |
| Gloria signs Dr. Adams up for Social Security, but the computer has declared him deceased. | ||||
| 10 | "Still Life with Cat" | Bob Claver | Frederick Hoffman | December 12, 1982 |
| Joey wants Gloria to go get his friend's cat from the house of a woman who's said to use pets for potting soil and bake children in her oven. | ||||
| 11 | "Miracle at Fox Ridge" | Bob Claver | Lissa Levin | December 19, 1982 |
| Joey may not have a merry Christmas if he learns his father hasn't sent him the bicycle he wants. | ||||
| 12 | "Visitation" | Bob Claver | Tim O'Donnell | December 26, 1982 |
| Joey agrees to visit his father, but he isn't on the plane when it lands in California. | ||||
| 13 | "Gloria on the Couch" | Bob Claver | Rich Reinhart | January 9, 1983 |
| Gloria is the victim of an armed robbery, but she's unable to recall a single detail. | ||||
| 14 | "Love in the Past Tents" | Bob Claver | Story by : Max Tash Teleplay by : Lissa Levin | January 16, 1983 |
| Maggie sees an old flame while on a "house call" to a traveling circus -- Boffo the Clown. | ||||
| 15 | "Truth and Consequences" | Bob Claver | Tim O'Donnell | January 23, 1983 |
| The staff of the clinic tell each other their secrets when a squirrel with the plaque puts them in quarantine. | ||||
| 16 | "Let's Call the Whole Thing Off" | Bob Claver | Lissa Levin | February 13, 1983 |
| Dr. Adams' girlfriend plans to marry someone else. | ||||
| 17 | "Death Row Dog" | Bob Claver | Jurgen Wolff | February 20, 1983 |
| Gloria is happy with the reward she's getting for finding a recently deceased client's dog, but she soon learns the dog's role in the old lady's funeral plans. | ||||
| 18 | "Coming Apart" | Bob Claver | Dan Guntzelman & Steve Marshall | February 27, 1983 |
| Gloria gets depressed when she gets her final divorce papers. | ||||
| 19 | "It Almost Happened One Night" | Bob Claver | Melody Rowland | March 13, 1983 |
| Gloria and Clark are forced to share a room at a honeymoon hotel when their car breaks down. | ||||
| 20 | "Class Struggle" | Bob Claver | Story by : Rich Reinhart & Tim O'Donnell Teleplay by : Tim O'Donnell | April 3, 1983 |
| Gloria does a sit-in to protest the budget cuts affecting the vet-assistant class. | ||||
| 21 | "An Uncredited Woman" | Bob Claver | Story by : Tim O'Donnell & Rich Reinhart Teleplay by : Rich Reinhart | April 10, 1983 |
| Gloria learns that she lost her credit rating in the divorce. | ||||