TG Series on British TV

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Reported in Friday's Independent newspaper TG Body Swap series "Boy Meets Girl" on ITV1, starts May 1st.

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/features/...

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Turnabout

Puddintane's picture

Thorne Smith wrote a vaguely similar story in the Thirties, I think, called Turnabout, in which a man swaps bodies with his wife through the intervention of a little Egyptian god who was irritated by their constant bickering. It was made into a film as well, Turnabout (1940), with Adolphe Menjou, playing Phil Manning; Carole Landis, playing Sally Willows; and John Hubbard, playing Tim Willows.

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Puddin'

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The Wayback machine

There also was a brief 1970's television series named Turnabout. Starring Sharon Gless and John Schuck. The series only lasted 6 episodes.

Four or five years after the show went off the air, a few of the episodes were packaged into a movie called 'The Magic Statue' or something and was shown on Cable(Disney Channel) I'm pretty sure. At the time I was living in Maryland and I didn't get a channel and missed a chance at taping the episodes.(Somewhere in a 150 VHS tape collection, I have a copy of the tv pilot 'Goodbye Charlie'. Not wanting anyone to know my TG side, I didn't label the tape and now have no clue which VHS its on. All I know its all the way at the end of one of my collection.) The cable service I had didn't black out a channel you didn't pay for but put put line things through it. I got a couple of very brief glimpses at it.

Einstein described insanity as doing the same thing over and over again and expecting the result to change. Was Albert a reader of TG fiction then?

Daniel, author of maid, whore, bimbo, and sissy free TG fiction since 2000

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