Gloria

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Gloria was a spinoff 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.

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 apparently did not catch on with viewers, however, and the show was not renewed at the end of its first season.

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"I remember this show when it was first aired. I was 11 or 12. I watched a lot of sitcoms and this one did not impress me. It wasn't funny and I did not like the characters. I remember the opening theme song. There were a lot of "la, la, las" in the lyrics (about 95% of the song). My sister and I used to make fun of it! I usually long to see the shows that were on television when I was a kid, but this is not one of them. " --Tim Duncan