CBS rejected
Glorias original
pilot which features 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 (who would later find success writing and producing the long-running
ABC sitcom
Growing Pains as well as creating and producing its spin-off show,
Just the Ten of Us). The show's production was moved from
CBS Television City to
Universal Studios. According to a December 1982 feature interview with
Sally Struthers in
TV Guide, this did not sit well with Carroll O'Connor who, with the rest of the ''Archie Bunker's Place
production staff, was effectively shut out of the production of Gloria
(even Norman Lear, who created All in the Family
and had some hand in all of its other spin-offs, had no credited involvement in Gloria''). After this, O'Connor chose to be uninvolved in the retooled pilot and series. The characters of Dr. Jim Waynewrite and Ben the handyman were dropped when Marshall and Guntzelman's second pilot was made, which went to series. In the second pilot, Joey adopted a black dog that he named Archie after his grandfather, which O'Connor was said to be less than thrilled about, according to the same 1982
TV Guide article. In the original pilot, actress Jo de Winter's character, Maggie Lawrence, is an assistant to Dr. Adams. In the second pilot and the series, Maggie Lawrence is a
veterinarian and Dr. Adams' partner in the clinic. ==Cast==