Trivia

Originally, the song, "You Don't Bring Me Flowers," was intended to be the theme song for this series. However, the premise of the series eventually changed enough to the point where that song was no longer considered appropriate and was replaced by "Genesis Revisited." However, the composer, Neil Diamond reworked the song to lengthen from 45 seconds to 3:17 minutes and released it on his album, I'm Glad You're Here with Me Tonight. Barbra Streisand covered the song later, and various radio stations playfully spliced her's and Diamond's recordings together to become a pseudo-duet. The popularity of that editing prompted Diamond and Steisand to collaborate on an official duet recording of the song, which went to #1 on the Billboard chart.

The show's female production staff were a mirror image of the show's scenario. The female cast were located in a corporate kingdom titled "Globatron." Preliminary production discussion centered on a corporate logo for Globatron. Stephanie Sills dictated that the logo should feature a rose, a globe balanced within the open rose blossom, representing a vulva trapping the world power within. In the main board room set, the sculptured logo was featured prominently on the wall behind the corporate director's glass top desk and chair.

Linda Gray was somewhat nonplussed upon being offered the role of transgender Linda Murkland. "I remember meeting Norman and Frances and him saying, 'You'll be perfect for the role.' I didn't know whether to take that as a compliment or what." To prepare for her role, Linda Gray asked Lear to arrange for her to meet with a transgender woman. Gray met with her for several hours prior to the beginning of filming and on a few occasions during production. The character's role also established a romance between a black and a white character, with the pair shown, in bed together. Lois Nettleton reportedly based her character on Clark Gable.

The lyrics for the opening theme tune are as follows: "One morning the Lord, She woke up to say, 'I feel like I want to be creative today. So by virtue of the power I have invested in me I make the heaven, earth and the deep blue sea. Things that swim, fly, walk by, creep and crawl. Now I'd better make someone to name it all. Yes, a human was needed in the neighborhood.' So the Lord made woman and it was good. Now the garden of Eden is no place to be alone. So from the rib of the Madam came Adam full grown. As time went by this groom and bride followed the instructions and multiplied. She'd hunt, he'd cook. She'd work, he'd play. While she administered the government, he crocheted. She wore the mail, he wore the veil. He concubined and walked behind, She was, you'll pardon the expression, the mastermind. So is it any wonder why the men complain that from the dawn of time it's been a woman's domain?".

After "All That Glitters" was in production with an established cast, broadcast as an independent syndicated-prime-time off-network series, Norman Lear created a bickering exiled oil rich Saudia Arabian Sheikh princess Abu Bahn and her prince husband which was based upon his own married relationship with wife Francis Lear. The Lear's asked their friends Rhea Perlman, at age 29 (b.03/31/1948), to be Sheikh Abu Bahn and Danny Devito, at age 33 (b.11/19/1944), to be the Sheikh to perform as the oil rich Suadia Arabian royal couple in their satire.