Living Dolls

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The Terrible Show That Launched the Career Of….

I was going to use this for a “Weekend Flop” post, but I couldn’t find any episodes of it online; instead I’ll just embed the title sequence here because I can’t think of anything else to post at the end of the day. This is the intro for a one-season flop called Living Dolls, about four teen models who live with their modeling agent (Michael Learned), who acts as a substitute mother to them and teaches them that there’s more to life than just looking good. Oh, and one of the girls was a tough girl from the streets who had a chip on her shoulder but was secretly vulnerable. Yes, we’re talking The Facts of Life with skinny people, and while I’ve never seen the show, apparently it was really, really bad; the Wikipedia entry says that it was the only show of the season to get an “F” from People Magazine, not normally home to the toughest critics in the world. But you’ve heard of at least two of the girls, and the other two, Deborah Tucker and Alison Elliott, have done some other stuff you might have seen.