Your Top Three Seventies TV series or TV Movies, Then & Now

POSTED BY: chrisisall
UPDATED: Tuesday, September 6, 2011 00:26
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RIONAEIRE

Thursday, March 3, 2011 12:40 AM

I wasn't around in the 70s, but my favorite show from the era is MASH, though I think that crossed the barrier into the 80s.

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CHRISISALL

Thursday, March 3, 2011 1:50 AM

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Originally posted by YT:

Haunts of the Very Rich

Cool spookieness with Lloyd Bridges, if memory serves!

The laughing Chrisisall

TRAVELER

Thursday, March 3, 2011 4:20 AM

All in the Family
Little House on the Prarie
Green Acres

Had to strain my brain to think back that far.

http://www.imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=28764731
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JEWELSTAITEFAN

Sunday, April 3, 2011 5:03 PM

There was a lot of dreck in the 70's TV, much of it listed in this thread.
I know the Six Million Dollar Man Pilot was a TV movie, but most of the rest I just thought were cinema films from the past few years, so can't list much of them.

Tough to make it 3, but I'll go with
The Six Million Dollar Man
Charlie's Angels
Rockford Files

Others I considered:
Baa Baa Black Sheep.
Hawaii Five-O
Kung Fu
Hogan's Heroes
Starsky & Hutch
Men from Shiloh
Mission: Impossible
Emergency
SWAT
Harry-O
Switch
Eischied
Ellery Queen
Serpico
CHiPs
Project UFO
Vega$
Logan's Run
WKRP In Cincinnatti (why was Jan Smiithers taken away from us?)
Three's Company

Now, I like Baa Baa Black Sheep better than I did then (I served in the Corps Air Wing - including VMA-214 - between then and now), so it probably knocks Angels out of the top 3.

YT

Sunday, September 4, 2011 12:00 PM

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Originally posted by chrisisall:
Quote:
Originally posted by YT:

Haunts of the Very Rich

Cool spookieness with Lloyd Bridges, if memory serves!

Your memory serves you well. @the time, I thought of it as an acid trip

Keep the Shiny Side Up,

YT

GWEK

Sunday, September 4, 2011 1:13 PM

I was born in 1970, so most of my favorites from then are from the end of the decade. As a lifelong Star Wars fan, of course Battlestar Galactica and Buck Rogers are near the top of my list. Although they're from the early 1980s, I also fondly remember the crop of Indiana Jones-inspired stuff (Tales of the Gold Monkey, The Quest, Frank Buck: Bring 'Em Back Alive!, and even Casablanca: The TV Series).

Another remnant of my childhood (that I don't think is on DVD yet) is The Great Space Coaster.

For comedies, I remember loving the "classic" Tuesday night line-up: Happy Days, Laverne and Shirley, and (when my parents would let me stay up to watch it) Three's Company and Too Close for Comfort.

During the first season or two, Saturday Night Live had some Jim Henson bits, so my parents would wake me up to watch SNL as a 4 or 5 year old! (They also took me to see JAWS and most of Burt Reynolds's sex farces in the theater, so sometimes I question how drunk they may have been...)

I also enjoyed WKRP IN CINCINNATI (only years later realizing that the whole idea, including the credits song, was stolen from a Harry Chapin song) and TAXI. Even at an early age, I had an affinity for "workplace comedy," it seems.

Unfortunately, with DVDs readily available for a lot of these, the years have not been kind. BSG and Buck Rogers still have some legs if you're willing to view them with your tongue firmly in your cheek, but I've tried Tales of the Gold Monkey twice and been stopped so cold that I'm afraid to watch the others. (The Quest was actually not terrible--I got a bootleg--but it's only 4 or 5 episodes, so it doesn't have too much time to get too bad).

Time has been far crueler to the comedies, since my sense of humor, as well as the national sense of humor, has changed to so much. I've caught a few episodes of Three's Company, and maybe they still inspire a chuckle, but the show seems so juvenile these days. WKRP and even the classic MASH are largely unfunny nowadays. Taxi stood up much better than many other shows of the day, but it's tinged with such an air of sadness that I never got the second disc from netflix.

I see at least one person mentioned Alias Smith and Jones. If anyone knows where I can find a decent bootleg of that, or the Casablanca TV series, let me know.

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DJD

Sunday, September 4, 2011 3:37 PM

Favourite shows would have been -

Dr Who (Pertwee and Tom Baker)
The Rockford Files (so pleased to see it getting so many hits in this thread! Stands the test of time really well)
Blakes 7

The first two of these would still be in my top shows from the 70s. Generally I think tv has improved massively since those days- especially US tv. Rockford would make my all time top ten along with- firefly, BSG (new version), Deadwood, Rome, Poirot, Sherlock Holmes (Jeremy Brett), Band of Brothers, Robin of Sherwood and Buffy.

My dog is named Rockford :-)

CLJOHNSTON108

Sunday, September 4, 2011 9:08 PM

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And now for a related thread hijack. I'm looking for the name of this TV movie/pilot that was from the 70's or very early 80's.
It featured a man who survived a lightning strike and could then power light bulbs by holding them or use a typewriter by pointing his fingers at it. Basically he could discharge electricity but he only had so much before needing to recharge. He was given a watch to show how much charge he had. During a fight at the end he lands in some metal pipes whilst 'electrified' and you think he's dead, before he obviously comes back and gets the bad guys.

Any ideas?

Hey! I remember that one, because my Dad taped it for me: The Power Within starring Art Hindle!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081365/

As for the topic at hand...

Then
• The Six Million Dollar Man
• Emergency!
• Man From Atlantis

Now
• The Six Million Dollar Man (First season and a half only)
• Battlestar Galactica
• M*A*S*H

'Course there're so many Honorable Mentions!
http://epguides.com/menu/year.shtml#1970

LWAVES

Monday, September 5, 2011 5:14 PM

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Originally posted by cljohnston108:
Hey! I remember that one, because my Dad taped it for me: The Power Within starring Art Hindle!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081365/

Yeah that's it. Thankyou very kindly CLJ and well remembered. You've just made my day and probably my week. Now to see if I can find it 'by any means necessary'.

Browncoats Rule!!!

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SHINYGOODGUY

Tuesday, September 6, 2011 12:16 AM

We're simpatico here EC:

Mash
Soap
Kung Fu
BSG
Barney Miller (where our sheperd started)
Taxi
Columbo
Green Hornet/Batman (before it got campy)

Not in any particular order. I was into sports and girls, but still managed to see some shows.

SGG

Tawabawho?

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