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Post by mrminiver on Nov 10, 2022 5:26:02 GMT
Most of mine have been mentioned.
MASH Happy Days All in the Family Soap
I'll add in Quincy, Love American Style, Wait Till Your Father Gets Home, When Things Were Rotten, Family, Rockford etc...
It's a tossup to be honest.
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Post by jinsinna13 on Dec 2, 2022 14:30:30 GMT
Mine: - The Bob Newhart Show
- The Mary Tyler Moore Show
- The Odd Couple
- The Rockford Files
- Hawaii Five-O
- WKRP in Cincinnati
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Post by topbilled on Dec 3, 2022 2:20:42 GMT
Mine: - The Bob Newhart Show
- The Mary Tyler Moore Show
- The Odd Couple
- The Rockford Files
- Hawaii Five-O
- WKRP in Cincinnati
Yeah, WKRP is a classic. So many eclectic characters, all of them good and memorable.
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Post by galacticgirrrl on Dec 3, 2022 6:45:32 GMT
I clearly watched too much tv in the 70s. Cutting it down to 5 was next to impossible. Some shows were faves at the time but not now and visa versa. Loved almost every single detective show. Loved watching Lawrence Welk and Tommy Hunter just to spend time with my grandmother. Cripes, I even watched Bowling for Dollars! Not counting all the great ones already posted by others:
Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries Phil Donahue Show Scooby-Doo, Where Are you! James at 15 The NBC Wednesday Mystery Movie programs /Sunday night NBC Mystery Movie (cheating here of course to squeeze in a ton of shows like Banacek and McMillan and Wife)
Honorable mention to The Love Boat for all the guest stars they had that you maybe hadn't seen in a while.
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Post by jinsinna13 on Dec 3, 2022 14:13:40 GMT
Mine: - The Bob Newhart Show
- The Mary Tyler Moore Show
- The Odd Couple
- The Rockford Files
- Hawaii Five-O
- WKRP in Cincinnati
Yeah, WKRP is a classic. So many eclectic characters, all of them good and memorable. My favorite characters are Andy (Gary Sandy), Bailey (Jan Smithers), and Jennifer (Loni Anderson). I also like Andy and Jennifer's outfits.
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Post by sepiatone on Dec 3, 2022 17:42:16 GMT
I won't repeat my rant from the beginning of my "Top five favorite TV shows from the '60's" Just take for granted it's here.
But for favorites of the '70's I'll go with}
ALL IN THE FAMILY KUNG FU THE MARY TYLER MOORE SHOW WKRP IN CINCINNATI (and Jinsinna....not Johnny Fever?) MAUDE Honorable mentions; SOAP STREETS OF SAN FRANCISCO MASH McLOUD SANFORD AND SON THE FLIP WILSON SHOW
Sepiatone
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Post by galacticgirrrl on Dec 3, 2022 19:38:28 GMT
Oh nuts. I woke up this morning and immediately realized I had missed a few gems.
The 70s surely was the heyday for crystal skulls, Bigfoot, Bermuda Triangle, glass skulls.
Brian Linehan's amazing interviews, Patrick Watson time travel interviews...and Leonard Nimoy - aye me.
In Search Of...(1976-1982)
Witness to Yesterday (1973-1976)
City Lights (1977–1987)
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Post by topbilled on Dec 21, 2022 6:49:39 GMT
I've been watching some episodes of Starsky & Hutch on Amazon Prime. I had never seen this show before. Some of the episodes I have really been enjoying.
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Post by sepiatone on Dec 22, 2022 17:57:31 GMT
I wasn't really fond of that show. But a brother in law of mine(at the time) liked it so much he even bought a Ford Gran Torino! I do believe he even heard the theme from the show playing in his head every time he drove it. Sepiatone
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Post by nipkowdisc on Dec 23, 2022 21:14:14 GMT
this is by far the best TV series of the 1970s...
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Post by Newbie on Jan 31, 2023 0:24:23 GMT
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Post by topbilled on Jan 31, 2023 0:45:17 GMT
Sad. Rest in peace.
The show was better when it was set in Milwaukee, though I did like some of the L.A.-based episodes.
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Post by Newbie on Jan 31, 2023 1:28:29 GMT
Sad. Rest in peace.
The show was better when it was set in Milwaukee, though I did like some of the L.A.-based episodes. Yes, I almost forgot about the move to LA!
Although the headlines will be about Laverne and Shirley, Ms. Williams was also in some good movies (as everyone knows here) The Conversation and American Graffiti.
RIP.
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Post by Newbie on Jan 31, 2023 1:59:30 GMT
Here 's more about the end of Laverne & Shirley. I had forgotten that Williams wasn't on the show at the end:
"At the end of the seventh season, Williams, married to actor-musician Bill Hudson (who earlier was married to Goldie Hawn), became pregnant with her first child, Emily. “I thought I was going to come back and they’d hide [her baby bump] behind benches, couches, pillows, and that wasn’t it,” she said in 2015 on the Today show.
“When it came time for me to sign my contract for that season, they had me working on my due date to have my baby. I said, ‘You know, I can’t sign this.’ And it went back and forth and back and forth, and it just never got worked out. Right after that, [shows] would build nurseries on sets.”
In 1982, she sued Paramount for $20 million, seeking to get paid for the episodes she would miss because she was pregnant. After a settlement, she was written out of the series, and Laverne went at it alone, without her best friend, for the final 20 episodes."
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Post by topbilled on Jan 31, 2023 2:45:19 GMT
Here 's more about the end of Laverne & Shirley. I had forgotten that Williams wasn't on the show at the end: "At the end of the seventh season, Williams, married to actor-musician Bill Hudson (who earlier was married to Goldie Hawn), became pregnant with her first child, Emily. “I thought I was going to come back and they’d hide [her baby bump] behind benches, couches, pillows, and that wasn’t it,” she said in 2015 on the Today show. “When it came time for me to sign my contract for that season, they had me working on my due date to have my baby. I said, ‘You know, I can’t sign this.’ And it went back and forth and back and forth, and it just never got worked out. Right after that, [shows] would build nurseries on sets.” In 1982, she sued Paramount for $20 million, seeking to get paid for the episodes she would miss because she was pregnant. After a settlement, she was written out of the series, and Laverne went at it alone, without her best friend, for the final 20 episodes." Yes, Cindy Williams leaving Laverne & Shirley was controversial, and she only appears in one or two episodes at the beginning of the eighth and final season, before Penny Marshall soldiers on solo. Those last 20 episodes were still presented under the original title, though Shirley was no longer around (having gotten married and moved away). It became the Laverne Show by necessity. I don't think Penny wanted to continue without Cindy, but she faced being sued by Paramount, if she walked, since she had already committed to the full season.
Cindy's exit was on the heels of Suzanne Somers' firing from Three's Company and Lynn Redgrave's dismissal from House Calls. Suzanne Somers lost her lawsuit, since the producers on her show finished paying her for the rest of the season where she just appeared briefly in phone scenes. And they were within legal rights not to renew her contract after that.
Lynn Redgrave filed a lawsuit against Universal for being replaced on House Calls with Sharon Gless. Similar to Cindy's case, though slightly different, Lynn was not allowed to breastfeed her baby on the set, which she claimed was a discriminatory practice on the part of the studio. Universal has never reran the series or issued it on home video.
Valerie Harper also had an abrupt departure several years later from her self-titled sitcom, Valerie, at Warner Brothers...which was retitled The Hogan Family after she was replaced with Sandy Duncan. Like House Calls it has never been issued on home video or shown in syndication because they'd have to pay Valerie Harper's estate, and she won her lawsuit against them.
Getting back to Cindy Williams, at least her lawsuit with Paramount did not result in Laverne & Shirley being withdrawn or being kept out of the public eye like House Calls and The Hogan Family. So Cindy's legacy as one of TV's best comediennes of the late 70s/early 80s remains intact.
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