God what a great year for TV. Charlie’s angels, Starsky and Hutch, Six Million Dollar Man, Happy Days, Laverne and Shirley, Bionic Woman, What’s happening. All great themes.
Me too bro I cried those times are so magical and wonderful and won't care what anybody says much simpler the old black and white with the antenna ears with a little aluminum foil wrapped around them for a clearer picture
That Sunday Night Movie bumper brought back memories; the only time our family sat together in the same room without fighting was watching these movies on TV!
Growing up in the 70’s I remember these shows vividly. The theme from Baretta was the coolest. I miss those days, much simpler time, looking back I get a tear in my eye
The Bionic Woman was a perfect compliment, and I still wonder to this day where they got such great IC chips to make those Fembots? Man, that would have made a MUCH better stereo receiver!
What a line up...no wonder I watched so much T.V. as a kid. Sammie Davis Jr singing Baretta open sensational. Omg Welcome Back Kotter and What's Happening on same night. Whoever ran programming at ABC that year should be in the Hall of Fame for tv.
You can thank the late Fred Silverman for that, bro. Aside from a couple of stinkers that year ("The Brady Bunch Hour" immediately comes to mind), Silverman singlehandedly reversed ABC's misfortunes practically overnight during the 1976-77 season, thanks almost entirely to "Happy Days," "Charlie's Angels," and, of course, the groundbreaking, Emmy Award-winning miniseries "Roots."
that intro to the ABC Sunday Night Movie brings back automatic great memories. All three networks played movies during the week but this intro always seemed extra exciting even if the movie that night wasn't so great.
The ABC Sunday and Friday Night Movie has a very catchy orchestra as well as a narrator that grabs a persons attention. Most of the movies they had I watched from beginning to end.
Thank you for an amazing trip down memory lane - amazing to compare these shows with what we see today. No comparison, they don't make 'em like they used to!
Thanks for some great memories of these shows Loved growing up in the 70's. Family time together and then watching some of your favorite shows. Sure miss those moments we spent together and Mom would make popcorn and a couple snacks for Sis and me and some of our friends.
This is great. Takes me back to my childhood, especially the Sunday (Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew, Six Million Dollar Man, Sunday night movie), Tuesday (Happy Days, Laverne & Shirley), Wednesday (Bionic Woman), and Thursday (Welcome Back, Kotter, Barney Miller)night lineups. Guess the other times we were watching NBC or CBS....
1976-1977 and 1977-1978 were two of the best years of my youthful life. Grade 6 and 7 at a great school with the best teacher I ever had, Mr. Keith Dix and some of my best elementary school buddies as well as my first school crush on a girl 🥰... Tv shows here only made it better 😎
What a wonderful trip down memory lane. I would like to personally thank you for all the time and hard work it took to make this videos. Your work, I'm sure, is very much appreciated by all who watch. Thanks again!
+Chris Wells No probs. Though I should forewarn you, and others, that RU-vid's copyright infringement nonsense is beginning to get out of hand, so there may be fewer of these vids if they keep blocking my efforts. This one has given me about a dozen "infringements" which I've already contested. Once contested, they let it go until some nutcase decides he wants to give you a hard time and exercise his right to block the video worldwide - all it takes is one to do it. I've had about a handful blocked worldwide out of the over 145 I've uploaded so far, but these notices I keep getting are becoming more of a pain to deal with. We'll see how long this video will stay up before it might get blocked. I'll consider myself extremely lucky if all dozen complainants leave it alone.
You have to have a good lawyer to arrange clearances when you get to this level of archival excellence, and unfortunately pepper the video with today's commercials that suck.Be diligent and wise, you aren't the first to go down this road. Compromise is the necessary evil.
ABC had some great 70s hit shows back in the day like Barney Miller, Superfriends, Schoolhouse Rock, Happy Days, Welcome Back, Kotter, What’s Happening!! Laverne & Shirley, Charlie’s Angels, Starsky & Hutch, Family, Three’s Company and lots more!!!!!!
I'm glad this is still up almost 4 yrs later:))) Was my 10th grade year, I didn't discover some of these until '78, maybe because of school/homework distractions, I know I was watching Happy Days, Charlie's Angels, Laverne and Shirley, Baretta, Starsky and Hutch, Six Million Dollar Man, and I think the ones that came later were Eight is Enough, (lost Diana Hyland in March of '77?) What's Happenin' and Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew.... loved all of these, it is rejuvenating to see this:) Like a cheerful sunlight into my brain!
Boy, ABC was in the catbird seat back in '77, thanks to the efforts of Fred Silverman! And the groundbreaking, Emmy Award-winning miniseries "Roots" was definitely the cherry on the top of ABC's sundae of success!
The Welcome Back, Kotter/What's Happening!!/Barney Miller/Three's Company lineup is amazing! I own DVDs of each show (and every episode of 2 of them). This would be near the peak of all 4.
Thanks so much for presenting not just the show themes but the nights and times when they aired. It was a trip back through time for me--when I was 12 years old and a walking TV Guide magazine!
The TV Guide was my bible back then. I would keep the schedule edition of the TV guide for a few months. I could have kept it longer, but my mom would find them and got rid of them.
Nothing wrong with being a walking TV guy magazine dude I still am I still have some of those TV guys bro and I just wish it was that time all over again nothing better including the movies the clothes and the music I don't care what anybody else says it was much simpler times too
Ah TV WAS SON SIMPLE THEN BACK IN 1977,Living in Denver in 1977,Broncomania was born ,Orange Crush and with their 1st ever trip to the SB. ABC Sunday night at the movies was great,along best cop show Starsky and Hutch. I was 13-years old in 1977. Thanks for the great memories of my child hood.
Him running fast looked Kool too.... On that country road with white fence.... Serious look on his face too.... I'm 54 and I still make those jumping sounds to reminisce..... Ahhhhh the 70's
Six Million Dollar Man, Bionic Woman, What's Happening, Barney Miller, Laverne & Shirley, Happy Days, Charlie's Angels, Welcome Back Kotter, Three's Company....all this in the same year? Damn, ABC in 1977 was epic!!
Grant Goodeve from Eight Is Enough hosted Northwest Backroads in the Seattle area for years. I used to see him at a local Starbucks. Good looking guy in real life too.
I was 8 years old in 77. I can remember watching a lot of these shows on tv then I can still see my dad in his chair smoking his pipe and tobacco with those 70's sideburns.
Holy crap, I was a kid in 77 and I sure am glad I missed that Curse of the Black Widow movie. That would've gave me nightmares for years! Oh, and and if there's a nuclear war, only two things will survive: roaches and Abe Vigoda.
Didn't they try to do an Abe Vigoda series not too long ago ? Maybe it was back in late 90's early 2000's. I couldn't believe he was still alive or relavent. Could be wrong.
There was a TV movie called Trilogy of Terror, with Karen Black, that aired in the early 70s. The third story was about a possessed little doll that kept stabbing her. It was terrifying. I just knew he was waiting under my bed every night.
All four series didn't last long. "BLANSKY'S BEAUTIES" was spun off from "HAPPY DAYS" ("Nancy Blansky" was a relative of "Marion Cunningham", and "Arnold" had a coffee shop in the Vegas hotel she worked at). It lasted 13 episodes.
my god what a line up !!!! such classic shows back then and this was just 1 network. we had 3 channels back then 1pbs station and 1 uhf station and there was way more to watch back then now we 500 channels that usually show one show on each all day long
1977 was THE YEAR for great tv shows. Laverne & Shirley, Happy Days, What's Happening, Welcome Back Kotter, Barney Miller, Starsky & Hutch, Charlie Angels, Three's Company and more. The TV execs who greenlit TV shows that year, got it right!
Awesome programing. Here in Canada with cable we had 13 channels but never without good programs to watch. Today in with over 130 channels often there is nothing much to watch.🤔
