Alice Pearce 1964, Pearce was originally approached to play the part of Grandmama in the ABC television comedy series "The Addams Family". She turned down the part, which went to veteran actress Blossom Rock. In 1964, Pearce joined the cast of "Bewitched" as the nagging and nosy neighbor Gladys Kravitz. Pearce's scenes were almost entirely reactions to the witchcraft she had witnessed at the house across the street. Her hysterical accusations against Samantha, played by Elizabeth Montgomery, and the disbelief of her husband Abner (George Tobias), provided a common thread through many of the series' early episodes. She played the role until
Bewitched fall of 1972, it inherited "Bewitched"’s time slot during its last season on Wednesday nights opposite the first half of the Top 30 hit "The Carol Burnett Show" on CBS and the Top 20 hit Adam-12 on NBC. As a result, the series garnered low ratings and was canceled after one season (26 episodes). In order to help fulfill the network’s contract with "Bewitched", Asher and Harry Ackerman created another ABC sitcom for the 1972-1973 season entitled Temperatures Rising starring James Whitmore and Cleavon Little, which, in its first year, was not only struggling with its format but with the