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Would it have worked? A Spinoff of both Mike & Gloria perhaps in LA as a college professor? Or even add Lionel to the cast living somewhere in NYC? What do you think? Instead of Rob Reiner and Sally Struthers leaving completely?

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Would it have worked? A Spinoff of both Mike & Gloria perhaps in LA as a college professor? Or even add Lionel to the cast living somewhere in NYC? What do you think? Instead of Rob Reiner and Sally Struthers leaving completely?


It would have been another Joanie Loves Chachi-LOL

It would have been another Joanie Loves Chachi-LOL


Really? Why do you say that?

Really? Why do you say that?

Because watched AITF to see Edith and Archie even they watch Gloria and Mike but not for 3 mins by themselves. Just like I watched the Jeffersons to see George and Weezy even though Lionel and Jenny every ep but I would not watch them 30 min alone-lol

Because watched AITF to see Edith and Archie even they watch Gloria and Mike but not for 3 mins by themselves. Just like I watched the Jeffersons to see George and Weezy even though Lionel and Jenny every ep but I would not watch them 30 min alone-lol

Well, I will admit that Lionel was bland by the time the Jeffersons came along.

I think this show had enough spinoffs.

I think this show had enough spinoffs.

That, as well as the fact, that I don't think Gloria & Mike were interesting enough characters to pull it off - also (and this is just my pet peeve) a little bit of the Meathead went a long way with me. (Alas, and Maudie too - that show didn't really ffly bec. she was too one dimensional - at least to me)

I liked both characters, but I agree that away from Archie and Edith I'm not sure they'd have been as interesting.

Of course, I don't think that Archie and Edith had enough internal conflict once Mike and Gloria left either and honestly, I think the show should have ended at that point.

Some characters are meant to be supporting players - not stars of their own show - and I think this is true for Mike and Gloria.

It was also true for 'Florence Johnston' ("The Jeffersons"), 'Flo Castleberry' ("Alice") and 'The Ropers' ("Three's Company").

It would depend on the supporting characters. On their own I don't think they were that interesting but I did like the Gloria spinoff that Sally did in 1982. It should have lasted longer.

It would depend on the supporting characters. On their own I don't think they were that interesting but I did like the Gloria spinoff that Sally did in 1982. It should have lasted longer.

Any spinoff needs strong supporting characters to really thrive- like Laverne and Shirley or Fraiser for example.

Those that don't have them mostly fizzle or don't last long.

Any spinoff needs strong supporting characters to really thrive- like Laverne and Shirley or Fraiser for example.

Those that don't have them mostly fizzle or don't last long.

Very True.

It would depend on the supporting characters. On their own I don't think they were that interesting but I did like the Gloria spinoff that Sally did in 1982. It should have lasted longer.


I agree, the Gloria spinoff was pretty good.

I don't think Reiner intended to play Mike any more. Wasn't after he left AITF that he got into directing. Otherwise, maybe the Gloria series, a few years later, might have been Mike & Gloria.

There never was a Mike & Gloria spin-off even proposed. Reiner and Struthers had seven year contracts and at the end of those contracts they left. However, rumor has it they were both willing to return for another season, but at substantially higher salaries. When those demands were not met, they left.

it would been cool if Lionel continued to live with the bunkers when he moved in on lionel the live in it could of had lot intresting storylines and lionel mike evans would been better on All in the family

I don't think CBS dropped the ball by not having spun them into their own show at all, the eps where Mike and Gloria had their own storyline wasn't very good. The ep where they were alone and fought then made up in the bathroom was sort of boring. They would have needed a strong supporting cast to pull it off.

it would been cool if Lionel continued to live with the bunkers when he moved in on lionel the live in it could of had lot intresting storylines and lionel mike evans would been better on All in the family
Yeah, the character of Lionel worked so much better on All in the Family than The Jeffersons. The interplay between Lionel and Archie was hilarious.

Well on the True Hollywood Story, it was reported that the producers wanted to bring back Mike and Gloria on season 12 of the show (or season three of ABP) Rob declined but Sally went for it and they proposed the spinoff for her.