Gloria (TV series) Family" not to have a successful run. CBS rejected "Gloria"s original pilot which featured a brief cameo by Carroll O'Connor as Archie Bunker dropping off Gloria and Joey at Dr. Adams' clinic and residence. It was instead aired as a backdoor pilot episode within "Archie Bunker's Place". This pilot was written by veteran "All in the Family" and "Archie Bunker's Place" writers Pat Shea and Harriett Weiss and "Archie Bunker's Place" producer and close Carroll O'Connor associate Joe Gannon who co-created, wrote, and produced the pilot. They were replaced by former "WKRP in Cincinnati" writers Steve Marshall and Dan Guntzelman
Whack-O! Whack-O! Whack-O! is a British sitcom TV series starring Jimmy Edwards, written by Frank Muir and Denis Norden, and broadcast from 1956 to 1960 and 1971 to 1972. The series (in black and white) ran on the BBC from 1956–60 and (in colour) from 1971 to 1972. Edwards took the part of Professor James Edwards, M.A., the drunken, gambling, devious, cane-swishing headmaster who tyrannised staff and children at Chiselbury public school (described in the opening titles as "for the sons of Gentlefolk"). The Edwards character bore more than a passing resemblance to Sergeant Bilko as he tried to swindle the