Sharon Gless friends with them. While under contract with Universal, she co-starred in a number of properties, including the 1979 Steven Bochco television sitcom, "Turnabout" (based on the Thorne Smith 1931 novel about a husband and wife who temporarily switch bodies), which failed to be a ratings blockbuster, and, briefly in the sitcom "House Calls" (in which she replaced Lynn Redgrave, who'd left due to a contract dispute). Beginning with the series' seventh episode/first full season, Gless replaced actress Meg Foster in the role of NYPD police detective Christine Cagney on "Cagney & Lacey." (The role had been originated, in the pilot
John Schuck Yoyonovich in the short-lived series "Holmes & Yoyo;" both it and "McMillan & Wife" had been created, and were produced, by Leonard B. Stern for what is now NBCUniversal Television. He starred in ABC's 1979 TV holiday special "The Halloween That Almost Wasn't," a.k.a. "The Night Dracula Saved the World," as the Frankenstein Monster. (He would again use the Universal International Frankenstein-monster makeup format in "The Munsters Today;" see below.) In 1979 John starred in a short-lived TV series version of "Turnabout", in which he and Sharon Gless played a couple named Sam and Penny, who swap bodies. Some installments