I was younger than you in the '70's I was 7-8 to 17-18 in the 1970's. I love being a kid in the early part of the 1970's and then by the middle of the 1970's I was a teenager. It was a nice time and I miss it. Love from Marysville, California
All that TV goodness in just ONE of the three networks of the time. Man, I miss the 70's, Fred, high school and bellbottoms lol. I remember the bicentennial. Hard to believe we're only a few scant years away from our semiquincentennial (look it up kids), if we make it.
I was a kid through the 70's. Up here in Canada once my family moved to where we got cable we finally got the big three American channels, plus a few independent stations and of course PBS when it was a good network. It was very enlightening to have these channels above the two main Canadian channels, CBC and CTV at the time. I remember most of these shows on US t .v. It's amazing with less than 12 channels to choose from through the 70's we had more entertaining and memorable tv shows to watch as compared to over 125 channels I currently have. Unless you lived through this era and tv entertainment, it's impossible for me to explain the cool vibes and hold tv back then had on you as a viewer.🤔
My family lived in Halifax, N.S from 1967 to 1974, we didn't get cable until either two years later or at the start of the seventies, until '75, when I got into my teens, I was too young to stay up late to watch these series, except the Six Million Dollar Man, which was on a reasonable hour for us kids to enjoy, before going to bed.
We had cable growing up on Vancouver Island when I moved here in 1970. I remember I could watch a new Partridge Family episode on Monday nights at 8pm on CBC then watch the same episode again on Friday nights on ABC. I could watch a new Brady Bunch episode on CTV on Sunday nights at 7pm then watch the same show again on Friday night on ABC.
But that was also an America that looked the other way despite what Bill Cosby, Robert Beretta and O.J. Simpson were doing. That was not a better time.
I thought about getting my white bicentennial passport in '76 but put off my travel plans till next year so I missed the chance. College years between '74 and '77 kept me away from TV but I did watch the Oscars and still do. 🤷🏽♀️ Thanks for the memories, Fred. 💜🤟
0:53 - I've recognized Robert Middleton in lots of places (including an old tv commercial) since I started seeing him on MeTV so much. 1:08 - THE SIXTH SENSE has been added in syndication packages for NIGHT GALLERY, with introductions added by Rod Serling. 4:03 - That mid-70s ABC promo is from 1975. WHEN THINGS WERE ROTTEN, featured among the promos, lasted 13 weeks that fall. 6:27 - Jason Miller shows up twice as a big name on ABC, but I don't recall ever seeing a single appearance he's made. 6:50 - I used to enjoy occasional awards shows back around the 1970s & maybe early 1980s, but I don't go anywhere near them now. 7:30 - Regarding THE ROOKIES, that show lasted 4 seasons. Were they all still rookies by the end? 8:14 - Maureen McCormick made a single memorable appearance on HAPPY DAYS. 8:56 - Ted Lange, a couple years before he started serving drinks on THE LOVE BOAT.
"THE SIXTH SENSE" episodes were butchered into half-hour segments for the syndicated "NIGHT GALLERY" package {Rod asked for $100,000 to film 25 new openings for them in 1973- and he got it}.
Remember Robert Middleton in the Court Jester? ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-WzmnSyqv37A.html I noticed Maureen McCormick instantly. I wish she had been a regular -- she could have just said one-liners to Richie's friends. Most of these shows I didn't like, but I did like their specials.
WOW!!! This is a Time Machine that takes me back to the best years of my life!!! I was 11 years old in the beginning of the 1970s and now 64 going on 12!!!
Well, if I've learned anything from being a FredFlix subscriber, we can probably look forward to follow-up vids showcasing NBC and CBS. Right Fred? Wink wink 😉
Turned 50 in March. I do have vague memories of the bicentennial. Because there were only 3 networks back then, we shared a common mass culture. Not all the shows were memorable, but the time spent gathered with loved ones watching them together was. Always a pleasure to come visit this channel.
Another Fred-tastic Flix…Awards nights, back when people actually watched award shows…and Karl Malden, the reason why I still don’t carry cash…and I still remember the episode where Marcus Welby performed that risky double transplant…tonsils and appendix…
I spent the mid 80s through the 90s making my own promo/commercial collections first on vhs and then on dvd❤️Haven’t been able to continue my passion these days, but thanks so much for carrying the torch and still digging up goodies I’ve never seen. You’ve got everything I had and so much more !You’re the best, Fred ! 👍👍👍
ABC led the way with contemporary, pleasing graphics and music. Their shows were more pitched to the young and modern. That was the niche they found to rise from distant 3rd place to be even with the other two networks.
the seventies. turned 2 in 70 so from the bicentennial forward i remember very well. and all the summer reruns of show from earlier in the decade of course. thanks again
Another Great compilation Fred! I enjoyed so many of these TV shows growing up in the 70's. I loved The Partridge Family, The Mod Squad, The Rookies, and when I was about 10, I mailed in the little entry form (cut out of a magazine most likely) in order to join The Six Million Dollar Man official fan club 😊. Simple fun times!
I can do a little better than mid-70's for that second promo. With clips from the Mel Brooks Robin Hood spoof _When Things Were Rotten_ and the appearance at 4:37 of William Shatner as government agent and master of disguise Jeff Cable from _Barbary Coast_ confirms that this is definitely for the 1975 Season. I'm really glad you collected these. Interesting thing about the announcement of _Welcome to Xanadu_ is that after this announcement it was broadcast under the title _Sweet Hostage_ which is also the title of the DVD. The Xanadu thing was the title of the original novel. Then the preview featuring S.W.A.T. was also the 1975 season as well. I forgot that the 1976 miniseries _Rich Man, Poor Man_ aired on ABC. That was a huge hit and served as actor Nick Nolte's breakout role.
It’s amazing that somebody saved these 50, give or take a few, years!!! What’s more amazing is that you found them!!! Then shared them!!!! Thank you Fred!!
I've been watching this channel a lot lately for glimpses into the past, way before I was ever born. This stuff is like crack to me right now, in a good way of course. I love it all, thanks so much for posting all of this!
If I remember correctly, the 1976 season debut of ABC's Monday Night Baseball saw something no one would have expected in a million years: Pittsburgh Pirates lefty John Candelaria threw a no-hitter against the Los Angeles Dodgers on national TV.
Thanks Fred. The VO from 4:03 on was the legendary Ernie Anderson aka "The voice of ABC". For three consecutive seasons starting w/ the 1977-78 season ABC used an altered version of the Orleans song "Still The One " for their promos.
I remember that each network would really push its Fall Schedules and had their own little slogans, but the only campaign I could remember from the 70s was "Still the One" by ABC (and a couple of the network's Saturday Morning Schedule slogans like "Funshine Saturday")
One thing I thought was hilarious about the Big 3 Networks was the hype they would put behind their Saturday Morning Fall Schedule -- big advertisements in the newspapers, constant commercials on Saturday mornings repeating the slogan -- then every season half of the schedule would be dumped by Xmas, the slogan would never be heard from again, and we would be reduced to watching reruns of Bugs Bunny and the Jetsons all winter and spring
The movie Attica was from 1980- a back story about this movie - the production company rented local cars from private owners that were from the late 1960s to 1972 for up to $40.00 a day to be used in the movie as drivers and to be parked on the street in Attica,NY and elsewhere.
This channel is one of a kind. Between the state of my life and the state of our world, I'd risk my life to travel back in time to any year between 1950 and 9/11.
Then NBC fired Fred Silverman and hired a kid named Brandon Tartikof who turned things around and sent ABC to the bottom of the pile during the 1980's and 1990's. Rest in peace, Mr. Tartikof. You are missed. Gone too soon.
"In the year 2000"- that once sounded so futuristic! I couldn't find ANY information on "Woman's Day", which is apparently about a woman becoming president in 2000. It's 2023 and it STILL hasn't happened!
No show did more damage to the medical profession than Marcus Welby, or as Mad Magazine deftly called it, “Makeus Sickbe.” The show disseminated medical misinformation, including “gay conversion therapy,” and primed the public to expect their doctor to cure them every time and hold their hand 24 hours a day during their hospital stay. Doctors said the Welby mindset helped lead to the malpractice insurance crisis.
Lee Majors was in two of these promos. Owen Marshall and The Six Million Dollar Man. The first 1973 Six Million Dollar Man 90 minute TV movie was produced while Lee was on a break from Owen Marshall.
5:04- "Woman's Day" was never produced. "Welcome To Xanadu" was shown as "Sweet Hostage". "The Night The Martians Landed" was shown as "The Night That Panicked America". The title became "Katherine".
5:22 The "War of the Worlds" broadcast did NOT cause anything close to widespread panic. (Hell, hardly anyone was listening, as the show- Mercury Theatre" had LOW RATINGS) Newspapers "hyped" the story to discredit radio, as they saw radio as a threat. It's an "urban legend" that persists till today...But It didn't actually happen.
