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Reading all the reviews here and am amazed at how no one recognizes this series now for it was when it premiered back in 1967: a show that took the premise of "The Sound of Music" and elevated into the world of wacky TV sitcoms. Yes - nuns were really popular back then, not just because of "The Sound of Music" but also because of the movie "The Trouble With Angels", where lively teenager Hayley Mills ends up enrolling in the sisterhood (again, perhaps not coincidentally, in one "Nun" episode, Sister Bertrille shows home movies of her former life as a lively teenager - cue clips from Sally's "Gidget" days!). Heck - even Elvis and Mary Tyler Moore jumped on the nun bandwagon with "Change of Habit"! But back to the TV show and its similarity to "The Sound of Music": Sister Bertrille is the upstart nun who solves difficult social problems, many of them involving children, and very often accompanied by her (dubbed) vocalizing. I wonder what Richard Rodgers and Maria Von Trapp thought of all that??? As for the TV show's merits when compared to other shows of its generation, it's every bit as fanciful as "I Dream of Jeannie", "Bewitched" and "Nanny and the Professor" (a ripoff of "Mary Poppins" - amazing how Julie Andrews inspired TWO TV sitcoms!) - and certainly not as far out as "My Mother The Car"! I can certainly understand Sally Field's dislike of the material: can you imagine hoping to be a "serious" actress and being given scripts for a show that seemed like it would be an outright flop? But - with a great cast of actors (ohhh - that HOT Alejandro Rey on his yacht in that speedo!), the show is still fun to watch - and a reminder of what American families thought of as "wholesome entertainment" back in the waning days of Cold War/Vietnam War era.

I really looked forward to watching this so-named "remake". Kudos for the production team trying to re-capture the pre-Stonewall atmosphere of the play. Unfortunately, the actors - and ultimately the director - are all victims of the current age where we gay men feel "comfortable" in our homosexual skins. There was not tension, no notion that the party as well as Michael's apartment was a space where the boys/"girls" could "let their hair down" due to oppressive mainstream attitudes about being gay. Furthermore, what was also lacking was - and I say this as a gay man who was in his prime during the 80s before the current LGBTQ "openness" was in full-swing - a sense of "competition", where gay men were always trying to "out-clever" one another with swipes at their identities. In this age of "Everyone needs to feel safe", gay men have abandoned - for better or worse - that self-deprecating attitude that united us back then. Yes - it's good that we don't embrace that attitude anymore - but it's deadly when you're trying to revive a gay play - in fact THE gay play - from the past/pre-Stonewall era.