All That Glitters - 70's role reversal show

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In the 1970's one of the most popular U.S . TV show creators / producers was Norman Lear (All in the Family, The Jeffersons, Maude, Good Times, etc.). Some of his shows were legendary flops, like Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman. Others were lesser known, such as All That Glitters in 1977.

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All That Glitters was an attempt at a television series that wasn't quite either comedy or drama, and started off with the gimme that the Christian god was female and created woman in her image, and removed a rib to create man as her companion. (I joke you not; it's in the opening theme song, which got blaspheme complaints.) The cast included Gary Shandy (Andy Travis in WKRP in Cincinnati), Linda Gray (Sue Ellen in Dallas), and Chuck McCann (Barney in Far Out Space Nuts). 

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It seems to be taking the standard tropes and assumptions about "the battle between the sexes" and simply reversing the genders: the men are concerned about their looks, the women are paying more attention to thoughts about business  than to romantic or family matters. The business women often have affairs with their secretaries (male) or ogle restaurant waitstaff (male). Men talk about their pecs and compare their bodies to their fathers'. Some men even dream about helping to create a dual-income household, while others either dream of marriage and a white picket fence or engage in affairs in the hopes of becoming kept men.

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65 episodes were created, but I can only find 2 online: episode 1 and episode 22. I'd post a link, but the site looks down upon that.

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I wonder what guys who are into the concept of "role reversal" would think of this show.

Edited July 15 by Deleted Member

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Ooooooh don’t have any recollection of this at all! Will go have a looksee!!