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Been hunting up a few fun late 60s early 70s bits on youtube since I've been nostalgic the last few days.  Anybody watch "The Ghost and Mrs Muir"? 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkBSO4pZEnA&feature=related
How 'bout "Nanny and the Professor"?  Stumbled across the theme the other day. 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtQlPaf45IM 
About 2.5 minutes in, the terrific theme starts; what a great little jingle.  Love it. 

What are you looking at 1960s or 1970s television? 

Okay, I'll have this dialogue by myself.  Early '70s THE NIGHT STALKER... I have both of the TV movies on one DVD, and just love them and recently glutted myself on them and I'm still not satisfied.  I need THE NORLISS TAPES.  The series pales, but DARREN McGAVIN is never not interesting.  "Cheryl Hughes on route to her doom... "
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2H3xuhkZuY  This is a wonderful montage that's about 7 minutes.  SUPERIOR! 

At least this has the music and images, can't find much thru the sludge that youtube has become.   :bluesad: 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BS9WE5TpNbI 

"Please Don't Eat The Daisies" 

I do rather wax nostalgic when it comes to 70s television.

My mind id blanking on a lot of shows right now; probably because I have been spending a bit of time collating resources to put together a directory of 70s television shows for one of my sites.

I've picked up a copy of Epi-log magazine dedicated to Sci-Fi shows, and includes episode guides for Gemini Man and Planet of the Apes.

Found a copy of Starlog no. 9, which has features on shows from the times including Wonder Woman, Man From Atlantis, and Logan's Run.

Also found a copy of Twilight Zone Magazine that has a complete episode guide for Night Gallery.

Can't live without episodes of Charlie's Angels. Cheryl Ladd was my favorite.

Ran across a DVD today of episodes of Beretta.

Ark II was a favorite of mine, and I'll eventually get the DVD set of it.

I'm not that big of a science fiction fan, not any more than anybody else, but it seems like science fiction television from the 70s really stands out for me.

There were also lots of great made for TV movies from that era. Even though budgets for these were pretty low, they usually ran the gamut from cheesy as hell to brilliant, and everything in-between, but were always entertaining. Seems like they can put a big budget behind made for TV movies today and create nothing better than a cure for insomnia.

What was my favorite part of 70s television which had nothing to do with the shows themselves? The late movie, and the late, late movie. TV had lots of movies back then, not everybody's and their brother's slicer and dicer for sale or how to eat rats on a deserted island.

On a typical Saturday morning, you could wake up at 7 a.m. to watch an old matinee western like Red Ryder or Roy Rogers, then on to cartoons and especially some of the live action Saturday shows, catch wrestling around noon (a regional show, not some goddam monopoly), spend time out during the day, catch several sitcoms later in the afternoon and evening, and stay up to 3 or 4 in the morning watching movies; and all of this without cable.

I don't like TV today; I don't watch it anymore.

ditto Here's when it was still good: 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkD4IHC_5x0&NR=1 
Here ya go, all I care to see are openers, themes, and credits. 
Or how 'bout TRILOGY OF TERROR? 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOEJkeLPSRQ

I have Flash disabled. This old antique of a computer I am using has enough issues right now that a thread full of YouTube frames would bring it to even more of a crawl that what it's already at.

I did mention Fernwood 2Nite in another thread (http://www.badmovies.org/forum/index.php/topic,121235.0.html).  Unfortunately, not many people saw this, but those who did remembered it.  Here's another clip (sorry, the sound's not very good):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGlee4kzjjc

I don't really get nostalgic for 60s/70s TV.  Most of what I liked growing up was stuff like THE DUKES OF HAZARD and LOVE BOAT, which I hate today.  My favorite 60s show I liked in reruns growing up, that I still like today, was THE DICK VAN DYKE SHOW. 

I love too many of the old shows to put You Tube clips to them all. Many are very cheesy, but wonderfully entertaining to me. A list:

Gilligan's Island
Green Acres
Get Smart
Hogan's Heroes
Fernwood 2Nite
The Dick Van Dyke Show
The Bob Newhart Show
The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
The Beverly Hillbillies
The Andy Griffith Show
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
Gomer Pyle
Fantasy Island
Bewitched
Happy Days

TV and movies are the ONLY thing about the 70's to wax nostalgic about. 

I mean, bell bottoms, mood rings, Jimmy Carter, and triple digit inflation . . . .

when I teach my U.S. History unit on the 1970's, I call it "The Decade Without Taste."

Ahem...

Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Lynard Skynard, Jim Croce, Muscle Cars, Pam Grier...the list goes on and on and on. :tongueout:

Matter of personal taste there  . . . I prefer the music of the 80's!

Banacek was a big favorite:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4ReSTFDAHU#

The New Avangers:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MowxeqPG0zQ#

Space 1999:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DF9nDJZrdA&feature=related#

Nothing beats Get Smart! Nothing!

Anybody remember Love American Style?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8Wzs74B0I8#

Dragnet!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Twre6ItGEI

..you got me a-scarit,Joe!

I also recall watching regularly these shows, which I have since, in a fit of right thinking, blocked from my mind:

Donny and Marie
Sonny and Cher
The Bugaloos
Shields and Yarnell

I still admit to enjoying these in addition to my first list:

The Hudson Brothers
The Smothers Brothers
Laugh-In
The Dean Martin Show

Granted, I was too young to understand much of what went on during those last three, but I still enjoyed them.

Heh. We could start a whole sub-thread on "entertainers who were given variety shows where they read lame jokes off teleprompters alternating with music performance". For some reason in the 70s TV producers thought this was a good idea, and kept using it over and over.

Am I hallucinating, or did Tony Orlando & Dawn get one of these? I seem to remember watching that one more than once, as I (blush) sort of liked their stuff.






I don't know if Laugh-In wears that well with age. It's pretty bizarre to contrast the Goldie Hawn you see later with the 18-year-old airhead from Laugh-In and her early movies. Still, there were some great comic talents that started out there.

But Smothers Brothers? Are you calling that a guilty pleasure? The Smothers Brothers were great!!! They never get old! Bizarre footnote: I've heard that they still entertain but they've switched personas, so Dick is now the dumb one. That's just not right.

Another possible hallucination: Did the Smothers Brothers have a TV sitcom where Tommy was an angel, or did I dream that?



Sadly, yes.

How about Love Boat?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icAwcByaNtY

I wouldn't say that The Smothers Brothers were a guilty pleasure, just one that didn't come to me when I posted my first list. And yes, Tony Orlando and Dawn is another of those "I block thee from my brain" shows. Thanks for bringing it up again.  :lookingup:

Others to add:

The Carol Burnett Show
Batman
Monty Python's Flying Circus
Are You Being Served?
The Red Skelton Show

60's shows (some of the earlier ones I caught on rerun in the early 70's on backwater UHF channels)
1.the UNTOUCHABLES
2.HIGHWAY PATROL
3.the HONEYMOONERS
4.GREEN HORNET
5.BATMAN
.GREEN ACRES
.7 BEVERLY HILLBILLIES
8. GOMER PYLE (I LOVED that show as a little kid!)
9.FLIP WILSON
10.my dad watched the GLEN CAMBELL Show all the time!
11. DISNEY's WONDERFUL WORLD of COLOR! (too bad our tv was b+w!)
12. ED SULLIVAN
13.RED SKELTON
14.LOST in SPACE
15.TIME TUNNEL
16.LAND of the GIANTS
17.STAR TRK
18.JOURNY to the BOTTOM of the SEA
19.the TWIGHLIGHT ZONE
20.NIGHT GALLERY
21.the OUTER LIMITS
70's....hmmmm...
1.IN SEARCH of...
2.M*A*S*H (the early ones...before they got too preachy....)
3.DOUBLE CREATURE FEATURE (local channel 28 )
4.reruns of old Hopalong Cassidy episodes on channel 46.
5.Sunday Early Morning movie (local...showed cool gangster fliks-like WHITE HEAT,the ROARING TWENTIES,the BLACK LEGION....)
6.BIG TIME WRESTLING
7.Roller Derby!
8.SOOOOOOOULLL TRAIN! (those hot chicks!)

Roller Derby was th' sh1t!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNEgIzpR5RA

Love that sh!t...  :smile:  Here's more:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IwaGuLo3Bc

Happy Halloween! 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcppoM2bByE

"...Can he swing from a thread?  Take a look overhead!  Hey there, there goes a "Spiderman!"   
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4o29VoxtsFk
"...Action is his reward... to him... life is a great big hangup, wherever there's a hangup, you'll find a Spiderman...!!!"

Heh... :smile:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCYpk0ivqjo

I watch them all when they're on. I borrowed my mother's collection of COMBAT! so much, she won't loan it out any more.Mostly, I just watch Gunsmoke every day just to relax. Really upsets my girlfriend.

When in doubt, what would sgt. saunders do?

* U.F.O.
* HEE-HAW
* SPACE: 1999
* THAT GIRL!
* HERE'S LUCY
* ADAM-12
* MANNIX
* THE F.B.I.
* THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E.
* THE TIME TUNNEL
* LAND OF THE GIANTS
* THE INVISIBLE MAN (with David McCallum)
* THE ROOKIES
* S.W.A.T.
* THE STREETS OF SAN FRANCISCO
* BARNEY MILLER
* THAT'S MY MAMA (blaxploitation sit-com!)
* GET CHRISTIE LOVE!
* POLICE WOMAN
* THE DORIS DAY SHOW
* TOMA
* PETROCELLI
* CARIBE (short-lived Stacy Keach series)
* ALIAS SMITH AND JONES
* HERE COME THE DOUBLE DECKERS (British kids show that aired on Saturday mornings in the U.S. - - a wacky group of kids uses an abandoned double decker bus as a club house . . . I actually had a Double Deckers lunch box)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLAFSAu2mt0


Ahhhh . . . the memories . . .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_JhwUpIjbY&feature=related

I bought the whole U.F.O. TV series on DVD and we've been watching it during dinner every evening.  The 1969 vision of what the future (1980) will be like is just awesome.   :teddyr:

I'm surpised you don't hear much about the shows Emergency! and Adam-12. I grew up watching those shows and they were highly influential. Adam-12 ran for 6 or 7 years I think. I'm sure Emergency! inspired many a kid to want to be a firefighter or a paramedic. Even though these were prime time dramas, these shows even inspired lunchboxes. I had an Emergency! lunchbox in elementary school and I'm pretty sure there were Adam-12 lunchboxes as well.

My cousin had an EMERGENCY board game.  I think it was a map of a city and I remember there were little plastic fire engines that you had to move around the board to complete missions.  I also remember a Mad Magazine parody of ADAM-12 . . . I think it was called BOREDOM-12.

Funny. Adam-12 could be slow-paced sometimes, that's true. It was definately a drama. It influences alot that came after, because it had alot of the staple "police drama" conventions, a veteran cop who just lost his partner takes on an emotional maverick rookie. That's like the staple of all staples.

I watched a lot of The Jeffersons and Sanford And Son (my grandma LOVED Sanford and Son, and she was one of the most racist people I ever knew).  Reruns of I Dream Of Jeannie (the animated opening scared me when I was very little) and The Munsters I also watched frequently; Bewitched and Green Acres I loved too.

Just finished watching UFO on DVD.  The 1969 version of what the far off future of 1980 will look like  :bouncegiggle:  The stories could have been better, but I really got a kick out of the whole look of the show.  The girls on Moonbase with their purple wigs were my favorite. 

Anyone remember Space 1999?. Mid to late 70's sci-fi series with an unusual concept. In the future, an explosion of nuclear waste that has been stored on the moon send the satellite into space on it's own, with the members of a lunar colony still on it. Wow.

Sure we used to watch that; I think it was produced in England, syndicated to independents and local stations (WPIX channel 11 out of New York for my area) starring MARTIN LANDAU and BARBARA BAIN.  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WZW4groJro

EMERGENCY and ADAM 12 were both created by JACK WEBB i beleive

Did Adam-12 have theme music? As a child I remember the show would open up with the sound of a radio call to "Adam-12", but I don't remember theme music.

Yes - and a quite cool one at that:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzFaxky60QA

Created AND directed by Jack Webb!

Oh yeah, I've got the first season on DVD.  It was made by the same people who made UFO, Gerry and Sylvia Anderson.  The first season was awesome, if a bit languid in the pacing department.  I remember the second season descended into silliness though.

ADAM 12 notice the large fourdoor police cars they used back then

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdNpAFi-EPA

1 adam 12, 1 adam 12, see the man on the corner,

If I remember right (which is rare), the show used Plymouth Belvedere's in early episodes and AMC Matador's in later ones.

REFLECTIONS OF MURDER (1974) a made-for-TV remake of DIABOLIQUE... here's the end... spoiler alert:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQT-9V0MUJE&feature=related  

YOU'LL LIKE MY MOTHER (1972 - this is the opening - it's all available on YouTube) often showed on late night '70s TV:  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVYVmwCGrpg&feature=related

Whenever Dorothy fought with ex-husband Stanley on The Golden Girls this 70's show came to my mind:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6m7x9GDxwY

This is what Robbie Rist was doing right after his Cousin Oliver drove a stake in the Brady Bunch's feeble hearts.

Here's a typical episode description:

Peter Panic

First aired: September 18, 1976

John must find out who is stealing cookies from his pantry.


Believe it or not, this series only lasted one short but memorable season.

"The Undersea World of JACQUES COUSTEAU"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Zsf52C8aJA

That's cool, they were running a marathon of Jacques on TCM last weekend.   narrated by Rod Serling.

Streets of San Francisco is one of my favorites.  Dig that funky theme music!

I saw some of the JACQUES COUSTEAU marathon on TCM which reminded me of this thread... and we used to watch "The Streets of San Francisco" in my house, too. 

And what could be better than GEORGE CARLIN and "The Midnight Special". 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPq44A-iQlA

From the "SONNY & CHER Show", MERV GRIFFIN... our middle brother (I am the youngest of 3 brothers) often mimicked and ridiculed MERV for this performance, and we used to watch that show, but until I found it on Youtube, never made the connection!  We haven't seen this bit in 2 or 3 under 40 years!!! 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iu7FfqjuJ7s 

There is a conspiracy...:
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Bah bah bah!


One of my favorite bits ever from The Sonny and Cher Show:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMOQkW4t1Ks

<SPOILER!>

I love the murders, complete with Hanna-Barbara sound effects.

There were quite a few of these cartoon versions of pop songs around in the early 70's  - but 'Dark Lady' is the best.

For kicks - Here's Sonny & Cher's 'Bad, Bad Leroy Brown'.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38GH4JUVksw

I LOVED Good Times. This was great TV when I was a kid. I related to being poor and broke. Wasn't Black but I an Brown.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wjvp-WKk2s

RE-Rerun was in the house

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2rDgZWqvhY

"Good Times" is a classic, and holds up better than it's grandparent show "All In The Family" which though groundbreaking and damned funny in its time, comes across now terribly dated when compared with it's contemporaries, like "Good Times". 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZMZElVoFQc

Oh yeah, a definite winner. I have the entires series on DVD and re-watch some of the Robinsons' most daring exploits on a regular basis. 

As far as my pick for the thread,  I always liked The Monkees.  Here's a rare clip of the show's original opening and closing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiHGQnIVHoQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tTUYYSV1-k 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09VP92asuQA

Here's a complete episode of "Please Don't Eat The Daisies".  I remember this show fondly, it was one of the first I cited when I started this thread 2 years ago.  I found this complete episode - haven't seen one in, well, a very long time - and it's just right for HALLOWEEN.  
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knKnvw8mZHQ  
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2ZJfDJj3sI&feature=related  
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xI38iNwY6Aw&feature=related  

I had posted the opener to "Nanny And The Professor" but it was quickly yanked by youtube, here, I've found the theme, apparently the full length, but with clips from the show, so...  
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWIsUUVIHmE 

Found another good 'un: "The JACKIE GLEASON Show" 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZ7HVqGe2s8&feature=related

This was a very short-lived series with Phyllis Diller, but my siblings and I still sometimes greet each other with "Howcha do, howcha do, howcha do, my dear?".
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gL3vX-62z1k

It's amazing what sticks in your mind.

How could you possibly remember that???  You're not old enough... eh, but I remember "Please Don't Eat The Daisies" and I'm not old enough... (you believe me don't you?)  :wink: 

I remember this, too ( :lookingup: I must be old)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZMy6PeED_0

I was but a wee babe, but that song stuck with me... particularly since it's still sung by my family to this day!  :cheers:

Here's another one I remember by theme only:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1G-TsdNWGg

Mainly because my older brother's obnoxious best friend used to go around singing "It's about time, it's about place, it's about time to slap your face"... which he'd then do.  :hatred:

Anybody remember DIAHANN CARROLL as the "negro" nurse, "JULIA"?? 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoX2sby0oSU 

This clip is worth double clicking to watch on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwMAr4Vh5ao&feature=related

My earliest TV memory must be this show, which I really don't remember, yet... 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQTqKcojrVY