Gloria (TV series)
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| 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(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 21 (and 1 unaired pilot) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Dan Guntzelman Steve Marshall |
| Editor(s) |
Andy Ackerman Marco Zappia |
| Camera setup | Multi-camera |
| Running time | 22–24 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Tandem Productions |
| Distributor |
Columbia TriStar Domestic Television Sony Pictures Television |
| Release | |
| Original network | CBS |
| Audio format | Monaural |
| Original release | September 26, 1982 – April 10, 1983 |
| Chronology | |
| Preceded by |
All in the Family Archie Bunker's Place |
| Related shows |
Maude The Jeffersons 704 Hauser Good Times Checking In |
Gloria is an American sitcom and a spin-off of All in the Family that aired Sundays at 8:30 pm (EST) on CBS from September 26, 1982 to April 10, 1983. The series starred Sally Struthers reprising her role as Gloria Stivic, the daughter of Archie Bunker on All in the Family.
The set-up 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 for one of his students 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 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.
Though Gloria ranked 18th in the Nielsen ratings for the 1982–83 season and scored an 18.7 rating tying it with Trapper John, M.D., 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.
CBS rejected Gloria's original pilot 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).
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