The Ugliest Girl In Town
When photographer Gene Blair (Happy Days and Laverne
& Shirley creator Garry Marshall) loses all his shots of
local San Francisco hippies, he dresses talent-agent brother
Timothy (Peter Kastner) in drag, snaps some photos of him and
sends them to a London magazine that hires him.
Thinking they have found the new Twiggy, the magazine's editors
demand that "Timmie" come to London for more modelling.
All of this is just fine by Timothy, who has recently fallen for a
British actress (Patricia Brake) and is only too happy to get
closer to her.
Of course, that means Timothy has to maintain his "Timmie"
guise, and hilarity was supposed to ensue. It didn't, and the
show, which debuted on ABC in September 1968, was gone by the end
of January 1969.
The network had better luck with the cross-dressing theme more
than a decade later, when Peter Scolari and Tom Hanks donned
dresses for Bosom Buddies, which lasted just shy of four
years.
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