how do I not remember the show at all

Well, you wouldn't be alone. Part of it could be your age. If you weren't born in 1980 when it premiered on ABC (or if you were very young) that could explain it.

I was 6 years old in 1980 but the show missed my radar until it entered first-run syndicaiton in 1986. The local station that aired the new episodes also had been airing the original 27 episodes that had aired on ABC between 1980-82 and that's how I discovered the show and was eventally able to see it in it's entirity.

What I did like about the later episodes is that they didn't ignore the early shows. All the cast changes were included in the same continuity.

In some markets new episodes of this series aired at earlier times than primetime shows did. That was unusual for sitcoms back then. Plus I think its usual timeslot was on weekends (Saturday or Sunday). So it's possible that if you turned on your TV to watch primetime shows you would've missed It's A Living (known as Making A Living in the earlier part of the series).


Mag, Darling, you're being a bore.

I don't remember this long running series . At least I'm not alone;)

They just started playing this on logo yesterday from what I can gather, and I’d never in my life heard of it. Granted I was 9 when it ended but normally I’d at least heard of a show in reruns.

I was watching thinking “this is fairly entertaining, and there’s Vicky from Full House! And the chick from Wings. Also Nancy is the woman who played Dorothy’s Russian friend on Golden Girls”

I have no idea how you could've missed it. I was a kid when this show first aired and watched it avidly because I loved the cute costumes and glitz (or what I perceived to be glitz).

I do not recall it either. I was 15 in 1980, I watched a lot of TV, and I never saw or heard of this show.

I remember it from around 1980 when I was about 15. I didn’t realize it lasted that long. I remember Ann Jillian being a pinup at the time. I was surprised a few years ago to see her on the original Twilight Zone as a kid.

Can't say I remember it either, and I was 21 in 1980. I do remember Ann Jillian, and the woman in the center of the photo looks a little familiar. Maybe I have forgotten it, but usually things like this will at least ring a bell. It's way too vague to say anything except I just don't remember it.
Good heads up about the syndication situation, and I was more likely to be out and about at that age, but I still paid a lot of attention to TV at the time.