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Turnabout

Turnabout

1979TV Mini Series⏱️ 30m
ComedyFantasy
5.8
IMDB Rating
55 votes

A married couple struggles to cope when a magic statue puts their minds in each other's bodies.

Director
N/A
Writers
N/A
Stars
John Schuck, Sharon Gless, Richard Stahl
Release Date
January 26, 1979
Language
English
Country
United States
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Reviews
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🎭 Top Cast

John Schuck
John Schuck
as Sam Alston
Sharon Gless
Sharon Gless
as Penny Alston
Richard Stahl
Richard Stahl
as Jack Overmeyer
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Bobbi Jordan
as Judy Overmeyer
Bruce Kirby
Bruce Kirby
as Al Brennan
James B. Sikking
James B. Sikking
as Geoffrey St. James
Rick Springfield
Rick Springfield
as Rick
Henry Jones
Henry Jones
as Cyril Carson
Joyce Bulifant
Joyce Bulifant
Candice Azzara
Candice Azzara
as Classmate

🎬 Technical Specs

Aspect Ratio
1.33 : 1
Sound
Mono
Filming Location
Universal Studios - 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, California, USA
Production
Sam Denoff Productions, Universal Television

🏷️ Keywords

marriagehusband wife relationshipgender swapbody swapsitcom

🎯 Categories

SitcomComedyFantasy

⭐ Featured Review

Great while it lasted
by Nozz2000-06-10

"By the 1970's, Thorne ("Topper") Smith's original novel could have been a recipe for disaster: the husband's mind in the wife's body and vice versa? Lord save us from cheap swishy jokes on the one hand and from free-your-mind homilies about our true bisexual selves on the other. Well, the series fell into neither trap. The leads were so masculine (without being handsome) and so feminine (without being a bimbo) that the switch between them was nothing but crystalline humor... except that each episode, if I recall correctly, came down to earth abruptly as the cou..."

💡 Did You Know?

Based on the Thorne Smith novel of the same name, it was previously made into Turnabout (1940), starring Adolphe Menjou and Carole Landis as the turned-about main characters.

📖 Synopsis

A married couple struggles to cope when a magic statue puts their minds in each other's bodies.