Best TV Shows of the 70s

Cafe Society
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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
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  1. The Bob Newhart Show
  2. Little House on the – nevermind.
  3. The Big Show
  4. MacMillan and Wife
  5. Quark
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  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
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  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!)
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OMG! 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!
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  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
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  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

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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
  5. Sci/Fi (ish): then Six Million Dollar Man, Incredible Hulk and Wonder Woman, now Doctor Who
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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

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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!”

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  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.
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FYI Quark is on DVD.

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  1. Fawlty Towers
  2. Upstairs Downstairs (not a Brit, really)
  3. Hee Haw (but not JUST PBS)
  4. Baretta
  5. Dr. Who
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“Monty Python’s Flying Circus”
“The Good Life”
“All in the Family”
“Mary Tyler Moore”
“I, Claudius”

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  1. Favorite Sit/Com - MAS*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**
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I think my favorite *Mary Tyler Moore *episode was the one where she and Rhoda broke up that prostitution/cocaine ring.

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Or when Claudius had Gemellus’ head taken off with a light saber…

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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.

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

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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.