Glendora

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This article is about Glendora, the Public access television producer . For other uses, see Glendora (disambiguation).

Glendora is a public access television producer and judicial activist from New York. She is the host of A Chat with Glendora, which has broadcast over 4,000 shows since 1985 on the public access channels of cable systems all over the United States.

Her show documuments her life, and her life is about getting her show on as many cable systems as possible. When she encounters problems, she often sues the cable company as a pro se litigant. She has expert knowledge of the law and the courts, and has won a few noteworthy cases.

She has interviewed many celebrities on the show, including Robert C. Wright, then President of NBC. She is known for lawyer jokes, dressing in a white straw hat and wearing white gloves, humming along with the Christian hymns which provide her background music, and for her ethical vegetarianism. She is author of the Glendora Happy Book.

A living television pioneer, Glendora started in this new medium in 1950 with a children's show. She appeared as a guest on the David Letterman Show in 1987.

She was married to Franklyn Buell, a journalist who wrote for the Springfield Union and the Buffalo Evening News. Franklyn died in 2005.