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02-23-2023, 10:14 PM
http://comforttv.blogspot.com/2023/02/shirley-you-cant-be-serious-visiting.html
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From (http://www.tvparty.com/70fall71.html) 1971 (https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,879061,00.html), Shirley’s World (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley%27s_World) starred Shirley MacLaine (https://www.newspapers.com/clip/72147266/columbo-season-one-the-man-of-the/) as Shirley Logan, an American journalist and photographer who relocates to London to work for World Illustrated magazine. A co-production (https://books.google.com/books?id=mkWkUof6RBcC&pg=PA206&lpg=PA206&dq=Shirley%E2%80%99s+World+shirley+maclaine+abc&source=bl&ots=-N0sdZEfK2&sig=ACfU3U34anqORXWWq-lrVtdgLuxnZJVEUg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi4k7nxiq39AhW2AzQIHZ4yD9A4PBDoAXoECAIQAw#v=onepage&q=Shirley%E2%80%99s%20World%20shirley%20maclaine%20abc&f=false) of British ITC Entertainment and producer Sheldon Leonard (https://www.flavorwire.com/297897/10-movie-stars-who-bombed-on-tv) (The Andy Griffith Show, The Dick Van Dyke Show), the series lasted (http://www.tvtango.com/series/shirleys_world) just 17 episodes before being canceled. Appearing later on The Tonight Show, MacLaine described the show as “crap.” Was she right?
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The answer, sadly, is yes.
There’s not a lot of background or history about the series available online, but I’m going to guess that this was a show that did not spend much time in the gestation phase. For you fans of bad puns, here’s a show about a photographer that was poorly developed.
Given more time and attention, one assumes someone would have asked the questions that should have been answered before any scripts were commissioned, including the most basic one of all:
Who is Shirley Logan?
Think about how much you knew about Ann Marie or Mary Richards after a handful of episodes. If someone asked you what those characters were like, you could provide a pretty accurate description. But after five episodes I still had no idea who Shirley Logan was.
Why did she become a journalist? Why would she move to London – was she running away from something? Was she just climbing the corporate ladder? And who was she before viewers first meet her? One episode reveals she is originally from Boise, Idaho, but no details are added about her family, or how she felt about living across an ocean from them.
The series itself is as oddly vague as its protagonist. In fact, it took me a few episodes to realize that this was a situation comedy. It wasn’t just the absence of a laugh track that confused me – it was the absence of any actual laughs.
In the premiere episode, she sets out on her first London assignment to interview an English lord. Her editor (John Gregson) tests the rookie by sending her to the man’s private club, not telling her that no women are allowed inside. After repeatedly being tossed out, Shirley rounds up a few strippers and leads an invasion into the club, taking pictures of the mortified members in embarrassing positions.
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From (http://www.tvparty.com/70fall71.html) 1971 (https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,879061,00.html), Shirley’s World (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley%27s_World) starred Shirley MacLaine (https://www.newspapers.com/clip/72147266/columbo-season-one-the-man-of-the/) as Shirley Logan, an American journalist and photographer who relocates to London to work for World Illustrated magazine. A co-production (https://books.google.com/books?id=mkWkUof6RBcC&pg=PA206&lpg=PA206&dq=Shirley%E2%80%99s+World+shirley+maclaine+abc&source=bl&ots=-N0sdZEfK2&sig=ACfU3U34anqORXWWq-lrVtdgLuxnZJVEUg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi4k7nxiq39AhW2AzQIHZ4yD9A4PBDoAXoECAIQAw#v=onepage&q=Shirley%E2%80%99s%20World%20shirley%20maclaine%20abc&f=false) of British ITC Entertainment and producer Sheldon Leonard (https://www.flavorwire.com/297897/10-movie-stars-who-bombed-on-tv) (The Andy Griffith Show, The Dick Van Dyke Show), the series lasted (http://www.tvtango.com/series/shirleys_world) just 17 episodes before being canceled. Appearing later on The Tonight Show, MacLaine described the show as “crap.” Was she right?
aZNRCgMU2-s
The answer, sadly, is yes.
There’s not a lot of background or history about the series available online, but I’m going to guess that this was a show that did not spend much time in the gestation phase. For you fans of bad puns, here’s a show about a photographer that was poorly developed.
Given more time and attention, one assumes someone would have asked the questions that should have been answered before any scripts were commissioned, including the most basic one of all:
Who is Shirley Logan?
Think about how much you knew about Ann Marie or Mary Richards after a handful of episodes. If someone asked you what those characters were like, you could provide a pretty accurate description. But after five episodes I still had no idea who Shirley Logan was.
Why did she become a journalist? Why would she move to London – was she running away from something? Was she just climbing the corporate ladder? And who was she before viewers first meet her? One episode reveals she is originally from Boise, Idaho, but no details are added about her family, or how she felt about living across an ocean from them.
The series itself is as oddly vague as its protagonist. In fact, it took me a few episodes to realize that this was a situation comedy. It wasn’t just the absence of a laugh track that confused me – it was the absence of any actual laughs.
In the premiere episode, she sets out on her first London assignment to interview an English lord. Her editor (John Gregson) tests the rookie by sending her to the man’s private club, not telling her that no women are allowed inside. After repeatedly being tossed out, Shirley rounds up a few strippers and leads an invasion into the club, taking pictures of the mortified members in embarrassing positions.