That Girl Meets the Cross-Dressing Cops
Added 2024-11-09 00:21:22 +0000 UTC"A Muggy Day in Central Park" (November 14, 1968)
A contemporary of Bewitched, That Girl aimed for a more sophisticated audience than most sitcoms of its era. Not only does it look more cinematic, in a way that sitcoms generally wouldn't until the 2000s, but it's also more clearly a feminist show, where Marlo Thomas plays a woman braving big city life on its own. This episode does that tired thing where gay men, cross-dressers, trans woman and drag queens are conflated down to a single thing, but it’s nonetheless interesting to see how a progressive show handles queer things fairly explicitly in the ’60s.
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Comments
Mario Thomas had a huge nose before MULTIPLE surgeries
Barry Morse
2025-05-22 20:24:13 +0000 UTCThank you so much for posting this. This week has been exceptionally terrible and it's a great comfort to listen to you both talk about something that is not related to the dumpster fire that is our current political climate.
Rhyxali
2024-11-14 16:40:10 +0000 UTC
