All That Glitters (1977)

Directed by

James Frawley

Genre

soap opera, sitcom, LGBT-related television series

Country

United States

Length

1 season, 65 episodes

Rating

8.5 of 10 from 4 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A soap opera parody set in a world where women hold the power and men are treated as sex objects. It follows the lives of executives at a corporation navigating gender role reversal.

campycomedicsatiricaldatedlightheartedsoap-opera-spoof

What happens

All That Glitters is an American sitcom by producer Norman Lear. It consisted of 65 episodes, running five nights a week between April 18 and July 15, 1977, in broadcast syndication. The show, a spoof of the soap opera format, depicted the trials and tribulations of a group of executives at the Globatron corporation. The twist of the series was that it was set within a world of complete role-reversal: Women were the "stronger sex," the executives and breadwinners, while the "weaker sex" – the men – were the support staff or stay-at-home dads. Men were often treated as sex objects. The series featured Eileen Brennan, Greg Evigan, Lois Nettleton, Gary Sandy, Tim Thomerson and Jessica Walter. Comic actor and cartoon voice artist Chuck McCann was also a regular. Linda Gray played transgender fashion model Linda Murkland, the first transgender series regular on American television. Critically, All That Glitters was negatively received and a ratings disappointment across syndicated television stations. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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