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Someone mentioned Benson in a post I was reading somewhere the other day. So I went digging.
At first I thought that show was a spinoff from Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, but digging further got the right show, Soap.
So I added that to the rotation of what Fay and I watch when we've run out of current episodes of things.
It worked great too. Benson was being Benson within the first five minutes of the first episode. As I expected, Fay loved it.
We wound up watching a second episode, and I'd forgotten that Jodi Dallas (Billy Crystal's character) was not only gay, but trans (at least a crossdresser if not TS). Heck, they even refferred to him as a TS.
Considering that it was a 40 year old comedy program, they actually handled it well.
At first I thought that show was a spinoff from Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, but digging further got the right show, Soap.
So I added that to the rotation of what Fay and I watch when we've run out of current episodes of things.
It worked great too. Benson was being Benson within the first five minutes of the first episode. As I expected, Fay loved it.
We wound up watching a second episode, and I'd forgotten that Jodi Dallas (Billy Crystal's character) was not only gay, but trans (at least a crossdresser if not TS). Heck, they even refferred to him as a TS.
Considering that it was a 40 year old comedy program, they actually handled it well.