Goodtime Girls
I take a look at the moment Garry Marshall's nostalgia-fu ran out on him: 1980's World War II sitcom "Goodtime Girls."
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My first credit!!! Glad to join the club, Pab!!! :)
Yes, as a teen, I vaguely remember GOODTIME GIRLS. Now GG was not a bad show. But as you mentioned the cast was too big for a 1/2 hour sitcom. Same problem with another new sitcom FACTS OF LIFE. But NBC gave FACTS another LIFE with less characters. While ABC did not give the GIRLS another GOODTIME.
that reminds me Pab is it possible to do the Dorothy Loundon sitcom from 1979? It was also set in a boarding school and had Linda Manz and Michele Greene in it. When I was a kid I got them confused.
Thanks PAB for listing my name, Jacqueline ADAMSON, in the credits. Because I 💕 13 Week Theatre. And 13WT was worth it to join Patreon.
Did I spell it correctly? I was half asleep by the time I got to updating the credits.
That was one LOOOOOOOOOOOOONG title sequence, too. I assume that was just for the pilot and not an every week thing because...oof. Even the original Bosom Buddies intro isn't that long!
Actually, that's the SHORT version from later in the run.
Millie was my Grandmother-In-Law (Bryan's Bubbe as he called her) and worked in the Pentagon during the War. I used to love listening to some of her stories while she was with us. My two favorites were from her days as a typist. One General had to call her in after reading a meeting transcript and explain "Miss Fogel, when one of us uses a word like that, it's proper to type 'expletive deleted' instead of the actual word.'" She was also the typist who had the distinction of typing the form that demobbed Eisenhower when the war was over. When he got back to Washington he went to the Pentagon and shook her hand saying "I wanted to meet the lady who brought me home." I was 10 when the show debuted and I enjoyed it even though my grandparents never talked about their experiences during the War while I was young. I credit the theme with my appreciation of swing music to this day.
I loved this show when it was on-mostly because it was one of the last TV shows I watched with my grandmother. The dark overtones went over my head-I loved the clothes and the hair. My grandparents getting through WW2 has kept me going the past year and a half-they survived a dark time, I can survive this. Thanks, Pab for the memories-and the dedication is beautiful.