13 Queens Boulevard (TV Series 1979) Poster

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7/10
Cute, harmless, reasonably funny
celiloquy18 January 2021
Of course I'm coming at this show 40+ years later, and I wasn't even born when it originally aired on ABC in 1979. Most of the episodes of the show are apparently lost, only 4 are currently known to survive. I've watched one and a half of the surviving episodes and I have a pretty good idea of what it's like.

What is it like? Cute. Harmless. Reasonably funny. The main actors are all terrific, and have had long, successful careers, so the failure of this show probably wasn't that big of a deal to them. The show reminds me of a kind of proto-Golden Girls, and protagonist Felicia's kitchen even looks like the kitchen in Golden Girls. Coincidence? I don't know.

What's it about? A bunch of women live in an apartment complex and are friends. The theme song tells us repeatedly that we all need friends, everybody needs friends. The theme song is actually better than it would have to be.

I'm hoping the rest of the series does pop up at some point, just because I hate when media gets lost in this day and age. It's 1979! (Sorry, inside joke for those who watched the show)
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6/10
This Is 1979
richard.fuller118 January 2013
Warning: Spoilers
Every time I watch Cold Turkey (and if you can see it unedited nowadays), the little crossing guard lady who cusses out the little girl, I always think I saw her in a briefly aired sitcom.

She was Helen Page Camp, and as I suspected, she appeared on Its A Living. I always had an impression I saw her with Marian Mercer.

Looking over the cast with Eileen Brennan, Marcia Rodd (Carol #1 from Maude on the All In the Family episode), Jerry Van Dyke and Stanley Brock, it appears rather clichéd, safe to bet from that assortment.

But I always remember one bit with Helen Page Camp, as Millie, and I want to say it was probably Marcia Rodd or LIberty Williams, and Millie would say something and a younger woman, again, probably Rodd, would reply, "it's 1979," as tho Millie was living in the past.

Millie would then say, "why does everyone keep telling me that? 'Its 1979'?" Clearly the show didn't last beyond 9 episodes seen here.

Wouldn't mind seeing it now tho. Seeing what it was like.
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