Ditto. I would go and buy it a 7-11 the Tuesday it was to come out I remember TV guide we hit the stores on Tuesday every week without fail. The network's and local TV stations used to spend big bucks on ads in those magazines at the time and those season premiere issues were huge and that was before cable TV.
@<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="660">11:00</a> Wow! William Daniels' voice is so unique, you can pick him out of any crowd. He's so young and handsome in that clip and as always, a very fine actor.
I was 15 in 1975. Out of all that, I'm only aware of Starsky and Hutch, Ellery Queen, Switch, Welcome Back Kotter and Phyllis. The rest of those shows must have come from a parallel earth. Then again, at 15 I was always outside with my friends causing trouble, so maybe I just didn't spend too much time in front of the TV set.
I watched them filming Starsky & Hutch in a hotel on Hollywood Blvd, just west of Western Ave. THE car was there. Almost got run over by Paul Michael Glaser in his black BMW (or Mercedes) during a break. Met Lynne Marta who was in the episode.
Fun! They used to film on my block of McCadden Pl near Highland and Sunset. They would block it off for hours and it would be hard to get to my apartment.
Funny, I didn't see "Big Eddie" in this montage...it debuted on CBS in August and lasted until November (it was scheduled opposite NBC's "Sanford and Son" on Fridays, hence its sudden cancellation). In any case, this was a wonderful montage! Thanks, RwDt09!
Big Eddie was added at the end, as a photo insert from TV Guide's Fall Preview, along with a few other shows for which no TV intros or promos have been found to date.
Thank you for commenting, RwDt09. I spotted the TV Guide fall preview excerpt for "Big Eddie" at 28:54. I tell ya...my eyesight just ain't what it used to be.
I've always thought it was interesting that When Things Were Rotten was completely different than Mel Brook's movie Men in Tights. I remember at the time thinking that MIT would be an update of the TV show and it's really completely different.
Sort of...and yet not. It's hard to say "Parody of Robin Hood" and have similarities. The WEIRDEST thing is that when asked where he got the idea for "RH: MIT", Mel said he just got the idea one day....he NEVER EVEN mentioned his OWN show, WTWR!!
I was 12 and on a total Robin Hood kick. I watched all the old movies, read the stories, and loved the PBS series. This spoof made me take a step back and have a good laugh at it, which I really enjoyed. Too bad it got cancelled so soon!
@@tolfan4438 And Irwin Allen kept going to the disaster movie trope until When Time Ran Out bombed. At least Paul Newman put his salary for that movie to good use......
In looking at these shows, something kinda sad came up in my mind. I feel that shows back in the 70s where much more diverse than shows now. I am sure that stereotypes were running rampant, but I like to see different kinds of people doing everyday kinds of things.
Today in tv and movies they generally see what sells and just put out 30 clones with different people in them. That has always been the case but now it's the standard in the industries of film, tv, and music.
Loved Starsky and Hutch. Met my BFF over a love of that show. Both David Soul and David Michael Glazer remained friends. Sadly, I recently saw a photo of them. David Soul has lived and worked in the UK for decades and DMG was visiting him as Soul is quite ill. The photo was of DMG pushing Soul in his wheelchair down a street. You remember them as young but forget time catches up with all of us.
I recall watching Saturday Night Live with Howard Cossel at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="300">5:00</a>pm Arizona time. A trip down memory lane to a simpler time. No computers, cell phones, or social media. Children played outside. I miss the 70’s
At the <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="657">10:57</a> mark during the NBC promo for the short-lived medical drama "Doctors' Hospital" you see George Peppard with William Daniels. By the 1982-83 TV season for NBC, Peppard would return to fame as John "Hannibal" Smith on "The A-Team" and Daniels would star on "St. Elsewhere" as Dr. Mark Craig and also voicing K.I.T.T. on "Knight Rider".
I forgot about most of these shows except for the more well known ones like Welcome Back Kotter and Starsky and Hutch. There some really great shows in the 70s, but a lot of others that seemed like "lets throw it against the wall and see if it sticks".
Ellery Queen (<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="269">4:29</a>) was I've if the best series...period. It was created for TV by Levinson and Link, who also gave the world Columbo. The writing and plots really pull you in. Unfortunately it didn't do terrific, ratings-wise (thank goodness I've got them all), and it fit pulled relatively early.
I loved the Ellery Queen series. I thought it was so cool when he would talk to the audience towards the end of the show about clues during the episode and asked if you figured out who did it.
I loved Welcome Back Kotter, Switch, Starsky and Hutch. I remember Medical Story but as a kid I didn't watch it. I remember Swiss Family Robinson and Phyllis too but didnt watch.
In 1975 I was a junior in high school and spent most of my time drinking beer and smoking pot with my buddies.I didn't watch too much TV,but I remember Starsky and Hutch.WTF was up with that show Holvak? A preacher who lays in bed with his preteen son?Somebody was ahead of their time,lol.
I thought Vincent Van Patten was one of the Van Pattens that fell off the face of the Earth, but it turns out he was in Rock 'n' Roll High School and had a recurring role on Baywatch.
Since this video was posted, one more of the new shows of Fall '75 has popped up here on RU-vid: episode #5 of "The Montefuscos" (called by critics "The Monte-fiascos"), posted by one of the show's child stars, Robby Paris (as he was then known).
Thanks for the alert. Now I've got a copy of its intro, as poor quality as the video is. I believe in my video above the show appears in just a promo form because there was no intro for it that I could find at the time.
Missed it the First time I watched this video (heck, forgot I'd even watched it a month or so back) but a LOT of shows (75%? ) seemed to be named after the Lead Character(s)
I was watching TV in 1975 and yes... it was this bad. Even worse most of us had only 7 channels plus PBS, some had only 3, or even 2. We read a lot or, at least a lot more than most do now -
out of all those 27 shows, 21 of them were cancelled after the first season and few episodes, Phyllis and Doc lasted two seasons, Switch lasted three season and Only Welcome Back Kotter and also "Starsky and Hutch" lasted four season. People seem to not give shows a chance.
I don't think I'd ever seen Alex Rocco positioned as a Lead on anything before... he's almost been universally cast as 'the tough guy', a Gangster, or somebody's dad (who Is or Was thought to be a gangster/Tough guy)
That all came later in laugh for Rocco. The Famous Teddy Z, of course...and s surprising likeable, sensitive performance opposite Joan Rivers on The Love Boat. EVEN JOAN is likeable...
The brain an amazing organ. Although I don't remember most of these clips, some of them felt so familiar that I felt like I saw them only last year, and I definitely haven't seen them since they came out 48 years ago. I mean, how much data is in this brain of mine? Gigabytes? Terabytes? Petabytes? Not only did I recognize many of the clips, but occasionally I knew what I was going to see one second before I saw it.
Well, the 90s TV show Seinfeld devoted a whole episode to two guys (Jerry's friend George Costanza, and another guy who was a friend of Kramer) fighting over a parking space, in front of Jerry's building...that was "insanity" personified!
I never got what was happening in that scene. It looked like the bad guys chased the cops into the parking lot and then didn't resist when the cops arrested them.
Starsky and Hutch are supposed to be undercover, but nothing about their car was, big bright red, and a loud engine and one of a kind, so you knew it was them on your tail or sitting out side waiting to bust you!
