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Post by mrminiver on Nov 10, 2022 6:50:43 GMT
What are your favorite TV shows of the 70s that are forgotten of that most people don't remember or don't talk about.
For me, good or bad I remember these shows.
Apple's Way Holmes and YoYo When Things Were Rotten Tucker's Witch Logan's Run Quark San Pedro Beach Bums On the Rocks CPO Sharkey Lucas Tanner Sixth Sense Karen
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Post by ando on Nov 10, 2022 10:40:59 GMT
You weren’t kidding, Logan’s Run is the only one I recognize! Liked watching it, though. Too bad it was cancelled after 14 eps. Did you ever see the film on which it was based?
my list
Barney Miller Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman The Mighty Isis Shazam
Incidentally, The Internet Archive has the Logan’s Run series streaming for free.
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Post by topbilled on Nov 10, 2022 14:56:51 GMT
What are your favorite TV shows of the 70s that are forgotten of that most people don't remember or don't talk about. For me, good or bad I remember these shows. Apple's Way Holmes and YoYo When Things Were Rotten Tucker's Witch Logan's Run Quark San Pedro Beach Bums On the Rocks CPO Sharkey Lucas Tanner Sixth Sense Karen A 70s show I barely remember, since I was a young kid...but my parents loved watching it, was Kaz. It ran from 1978 to 1979 and starred Ron Leibman who received an Emmy for his performance. There were 22 episodes. About a year ago, someone uploaded the pilot episode on YouTube, which I believe was a TV movie made six months before the show went into full time production. It was just so well-written and Leibman was great. Unfortunately the whole series has never been made available on home video.
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Post by ericj on Nov 14, 2022 23:16:11 GMT
When Things Were Rotten Quark I remember those--Rotten wasn't prime Mel Brooks, but it's still easily funnier than "Men in Tights". Quark, however, had some amusing ambitions to parody Star Trek, but went downhill FAST. And I only saw a couple of CPO Sharkey eps in their original run, but I'm tempted to look up the rest on TubiTV. I recently went on a nostalgic jag for digging up Project UFO on secret YouTube channels, and...discovered how actually skeptic and anti-UFO the series concept was supposed to be, with our Dragnet-style Jack Webb Air Force Blue Book heroes trying to calm the 70's mania by ingeniously busting the simplistic reasons for another fake UFO sighting every week. Granted, that wasn't what NBC had in mind when they tried to cash in on '77 Close Encounters mania, and tried to fix the second season's endings with tacked on "A fake...or was it??" epilogue scenes. And while trying to find clips of the 1974 summer reboot of Your Hit Parade, does anyone remember, during the 70's Match Game golden age of afternoon game shows, the "musical variety game show" Musical Chairs from 1975?
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Post by mrminiver on Nov 20, 2022 10:37:31 GMT
You weren’t kidding, Logan’s Run is the only one I recognize! Liked watching it, though. Too bad it was cancelled after 14 eps. Did you ever see the film on which it was based? my list
Barney Miller Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman The Mighty Isis Shazam Incidentally, The Internet Archive has the Logan’s Run series streaming for free. I did see the film and liked it. The series itself had good reviews but not ratings to sustain it. It also was on Monday night and competed with Monday Night Football. How do get a fair shake going against that? I always said this was destined for a remake and from I've seen it's been attempted but nothing yet. If done right, this could make a great limited series.
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Post by mrminiver on Nov 20, 2022 10:49:39 GMT
A 70s show I barely remember, since I was a young kid...but my parents loved watching it, was Kaz. It ran from 1978 to 1979 and starred Ron Leibman who received an Emmy for his performance. There were 22 episodes. About a year ago, someone uploaded the pilot episode on YouTube, which I believe was a TV movie made six months before the show went into full time production. It was just so well-written and Leibman was great. Unfortunately the whole series has never been made available on home video. I was also was also a young kid but remember this show. Since I've never seen "repeats" I can only remember the title and the star and that i watched it. So many of those shows we remember but for me I haven't seen since. Not sure how many of them hold up after all these years. Cop shows, attorney shows, comedy etc... From Hawkins to Banacek to Baretta. Good or bad they were part of our past.
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Post by mrminiver on Nov 20, 2022 11:01:06 GMT
I remember those--Rotten wasn't prime Mel Brooks, but it's still easily funnier than "Men in Tights". Quark, however, had some amusing ambitions to parody Star Trek, but went downhill FAST. And I only saw a couple of CPO Sharkey eps in their original run, but I'm tempted to look up the rest on TubiTV. I recently went on a nostalgic jag for digging up Project UFO on secret YouTube channels, and...discovered how actually skeptic and anti-UFO the series concept was supposed to be, with our Dragnet-style Jack Webb Air Force Blue Book heroes trying to calm the 70's mania by ingeniously busting the simplistic reasons for another fake UFO sighting every week. Granted, that wasn't what NBC had in mind when they tried to cash in on '77 Close Encounters mania, and tried to fix the second season's endings with tacked on "A fake...or was it??" epilogue scenes. And while trying to find clips of the 1974 summer reboot of Your Hit Parade, does anyone remember, during the 70's Match Game golden age of afternoon game shows, the "musical variety game show" Musical Chairs from 1975? I don't think any of those will ever be considered classics but they were one's that I remember for whatever reason after all these years. I also remember some anthology series from those days. Night Gallery and Sixth Sense but also series like "Next Step Beyond". I know there's more I'm forgetting. Remember watching those on Saturday afternoons.
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Post by nipkowdisc on Nov 28, 2022 3:23:33 GMT
I think nbc shoulda given exo-man a weekly shot despite the weaknesses of the tv-movie. it takes wheelchair bound david aykroyd the whole movie to finally rev up his exo-suit.
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Post by nipkowdisc on Nov 28, 2022 3:26:28 GMT
What are your favorite TV shows of the 70s that are forgotten of that most people don't remember or don't talk about. For me, good or bad I remember these shows. Apple's Way Holmes and YoYo When Things Were Rotten Tucker's Witch Logan's Run Quark San Pedro Beach Bums On the Rocks CPO Sharkey Lucas Tanner Sixth Sense Karen A 70s show I barely remember, since I was a young kid...but my parents loved watching it, was Kaz. It ran from 1978 to 1979 and starred Ron Leibman who received an Emmy for his performance. There were 22 episodes. About a year ago, someone uploaded the pilot episode on YouTube, which I believe was a TV movie made six months before the show went into full time production. It was just so well-written and Leibman was great. Unfortunately the whole series has never been made available on home video.real beach bums woulda been smoking grass and hitting on the beach babes.
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Post by uncle charlie on Nov 28, 2022 4:43:25 GMT
The anthology series I loved as a kid (besides Night Gallery) was Circle of Fear. I’ve never seen it since it’s original run 50 years ago and I’m afraid to seek it out because I’m sure it’s pretty bad. The series, originally called Ghost Story, was canceled after just one season.
Edit - I can’t tell you how depressing it is that I can now remember stuff that happened 50 years ago.
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Post by Lucky Dan on Nov 28, 2022 8:48:01 GMT
"The Super" came and went pretty quickly on ABC in the summer of 72. An urban comedy about a building superintendent (maintenance man) and his family. Richard Castellano had the title role, fresh from The Godfather, and Bruno Kirby played his son.
Bruno later played the younger version of same character Castellano had played in The Godfather, Pete Clemenza.
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Post by sepiatone on Dec 4, 2022 18:02:33 GMT
What are your favorite TV shows of the 70s that are forgotten of that most people don't remember or don't talk about. For me, good or bad I remember these shows. Apple's WayHolmes and YoYo When Things Were Rotten Tucker's Witch Logan's Run Quark San Pedro Beach Bums On the Rocks CPO Sharkey Lucas Tanner Sixth Sense Karen I liked APPLE'S WAY. Made me a quick fan of Ronny Cox. There was also a short-lived sitcom based on a comic strip called THE DUMPLINGS with James Coco and Geraldine Brooks. I liked both the strip and the show. It had a short life in '76. Sepiatone
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Post by marysara1 on Dec 4, 2022 18:53:52 GMT
I remember those--Rotten wasn't prime Mel Brooks, but it's still easily funnier than "Men in Tights". Quark, however, had some amusing ambitions to parody Star Trek, but went downhill FAST. And I only saw a couple of CPO Sharkey eps in their original run, but I'm tempted to look up the rest on TubiTV. I recently went on a nostalgic jag for digging up Project UFO on secret YouTube channels, and...discovered how actually skeptic and anti-UFO the series concept was supposed to be, with our Dragnet-style Jack Webb Air Force Blue Book heroes trying to calm the 70's mania by ingeniously busting the simplistic reasons for another fake UFO sighting every week. Granted, that wasn't what NBC had in mind when they tried to cash in on '77 Close Encounters mania, and tried to fix the second season's endings with tacked on "A fake...or was it??" epilogue scenes. And while trying to find clips of the 1974 summer reboot of Your Hit Parade, does anyone remember, during the 70's Match Game golden age of afternoon game shows, the "musical variety game show" Musical Chairs from 1975? I don't think any of those will ever be considered classics but they were one's that I remember for whatever reason after all these years. I also remember some anthology series from those days. Night Gallery and Sixth Sense but also series like "Next Step Beyond". I know there's more I'm forgetting. Remember watching those on Saturday afternoons.
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Post by marysara1 on Dec 4, 2022 19:01:54 GMT
I made the mistake I've getting Next Step Beyond from Japan. It was dubbed in Japanese. Tucker's Witch is on Amazon. I think in the 70's they had a spin-off of Bewitch called Tabitha with Lisa Hartman.
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Post by sepiatone on Dec 5, 2022 16:55:34 GMT
How many remember in the '70's both SHA NA NA and Kenny Rogers and The First Edition had weekly syndicated musical-variety television shows? They would primarily be shown on weekends( usuallt late Sunday afternoons) and didn't last too long. I think Kenny Rogers' show was a Canadian production.
And after the success and popularity of the movie COAL MINER'S DAUGHTER Loretta Lynn also had a short-lived weekend musical-variety show. And like the others I think too it was usually on sunday afternoons.
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