Best TV Shows of the 70s

[Khadaji]

List your favorites:

1. Favorite Sit/Com
2. Drama
3. Variety Show
4. Cop/Detective
5. Sci/Fi (ish)



Mine:
1. Happy Days
2. ??? Unsure I may cast a vote after I see others
3. Sonny and Cher
4. Rockford files
5. Night Stalker

[tdn]

1. The Bob Newhart Show
2. Little House on the -- nevermind.
3. The Big Show
4. MacMillan and Wife
5. Quark

[zamboniracer]

1. Favorite Sit/Com: The Bob Newhart Show
2. Drama: Emergency!
3. Variety Show: The Flip Wilson Show
4. Cop/Detective: The Rockford Files
5. Sci/Fi (ish): Star Trek TOS syndicated reruns

[JohnT]

1. Favorite Sit/Com: MASH
2. Drama: Emergency!
3. Variety Show: Carol Burnett
4. Cop/Detective: Hill Street Blues
5. Sci/Fi (ish): Land of the Lost (hey, I was a kid in the 70's, cut me some sleeslack!)

[Green Bean]

5. QuarkOMG! Somebody other than me remembers that show!?!? I was beginning to think I had imagined it.

1. Favorite Sit/Com: At the time--MASH. Now--Barney Miller
2. Drama--Quincy
3. Variety Show--I don't remember watching any (ETA--I just saw JohnT's mention of Carol Burnett. I'll change my vote to that.)
4. Cop/Detective--Quincy (does that count?)
5. Sci/Fi (ish)--Land of the Lost. Eek! Sleestaks!

[Sauron]

1. Favorite Sit/Com - Barney Miller, or Mork and Mindy
2. Drama - Emergency!, or S.W.A.T.
3. Variety Show - Carol Burnett
4. Cop/Detective - Starsky and Hutch
5. Sci/Fi (ish) - Quark

[PapSett]

1. Favorite Sit/Com- All In the Family

2. Drama- Emergency!

3. Variety Show- Carol Burnett

4. Cop/Detective- Charlie's Angels

5. Sci/Fi (ish)- Fantasy Island

[Swallowed My Cellphone]

Due to re-runs, I would have to separate it into what I watched as a child then, and what I have grown to appreciate in syndication now.

1. Favorite Sit/Com: then Three's Company now Laverne and Shirley and Muppet Show
2. Drama: then Charlie's Angels now Columbo
3. Variety Show: then Carol Burnett Show now Carol Burnett Show
4. Cop/Detective: then CHiPs, now MacMillan and Wife[/i]
5. Sci/Fi (ish): then [b]Six Million Dollar Man, Incredible Hulk and Wonder Woman, now Doctor Who

[Two Many Cats]

1 Sitcom - All in the Family (Barney Miller a close second)
2 Drama - Little House on the Prairie (also Grizzly Adams)
3 Variety - Carol Burnett
4 Cop - McCloud/Columbo
5 Scifi - Doctor Who

[tdn]

OMG! Somebody other than me remembers that show!?!? I was beginning to think I had imagined it.

*high fives Green Bean*

But does ANYONE remember The Big Show? No one? Apparently not even I do, because several Google searches turned up nada.

It was a 90 minute show starring, I believe, Steve Allen. I think that there were only 6 episodes, all of them killer good. I only remember a few things from it, one of which was Peggy Fleming skating to the sounds of Victor Borges' piano playing.

And there was a skit about a European restaurant, with subtitles.

"FUNEX?"

"S, VFX."

"FUNEM?"

"9"

"IFCDM."

"VFN10EM!"

[don't ask]

1. Favorite Sit/Com: Hard choice Barney Miller because it doesn't go in 4.
2. Drama: Kung Fu, never missed it and was going to buy DVDs recently but they aren't cheap
3. Variety Show: Don't know if the Carol Burnett Show qualifies but it was very funny.
4. Cop/Detective: Rockford Files only saw it on sale today and remarked what a great forgotten favorite of mine it is and bought season one.
5. Sci/Fi (ish): The Survivors a British series was the only SF series that wasn't absolute nonsense.

[Icerigger]

FYI Quark is on DVD.

[Simmerdown]

1. Fawlty Towers
2. Upstairs Downstairs (not a Brit, really)
3. Hee Haw (but not JUST PBS)
4. Baretta
5. Dr. Who

[kelly5078]

"Monty Python's Flying Circus"
"The Good Life"
"All in the Family"
"Mary Tyler Moore"
"I, Claudius"

[bup]

1. Favorite Sit/Com - M*A*S*H
2. Drama - Waltons
3. Variety Show - Carol Burnett
4. Cop/Detective - Rockford Files (I mean, c'mon! This one's not really a matter of opinion, is it?)
5. Sci/Fi (ish) - Kolchak the Night Stalker

[Sauron]

"Monty Python's Flying Circus"
"The Good Life"
"All in the Family"
"Mary Tyler Moore"
"I, Claudius"


I think my favorite Mary Tyler Moore episode was the one where she and Rhoda broke up that prostitution/cocaine ring.

[Simmerdown]

"Monty Python's Flying Circus"
"The Good Life"
"All in the Family"
"Mary Tyler Moore"
"I, Claudius"

Or when Claudius had Gemellus' head taken off with a light saber...

[Intergalactic Gladiator]

Man, I loved the hell out of Emergency when I was a kid.

In kindergarten I had the Emergency fire helmet; my friend and I would pretend to be Roy and Johnny and rush in to save the girls who were trying to play house. There'd be a kitchen fire three times a day at their house.

[tdn]

I think my favorite Mary Tyler Moore episode was the one where she and Rhoda broke up that prostitution/cocaine ring.

Run by Sue Ann the Happy Homemaker and Gordy the weather man?

[Krokodil]

Drama: Lou Grant. Differs from the parent show substantially in a way that, say, Maude or Rhoda did not. Lou Grant still holds up 30 years later in a way that few network dramas from the same era do.

[Khadaji]

1. Favorite Sit/Com: Hard choice Barney Miller because it doesn't go in 4.
2. Drama: Kung Fu, never missed it and was going to buy DVDs recently but they aren't cheap
3. Variety Show: Don't know if the Carol Burnett Show qualifies but it was very funny.
4. Cop/Detective: Rockford Files only saw it on sale today and remarked what a great forgotten favorite of mine it is and bought season one.
5. Sci/Fi (ish): The Survivors a British series was the only SF series that wasn't absolute nonsense.
OK, there it is, my vote for favorite drama. Kung fu. Never missed it either.

[Gail]

Sitcom: Mary Tyler Moore
Drama: The Waltons
Variety: Carol Burnett
Cop/Detective: Rockford Files
Sci Fi ???

[faithfool]

1. Favorite Sit/Com -- Barney Miller, then Maude
2. Drama -- Family
3. Variety Show -- Carol Burnette
4. Cop/Detective -- Barretta
5. Sci/Fi (ish) -- Fantasy Island

Runner Up -- WKRP and Taxi