It was based on an actual case in New York City. The TV movie Trackdown: Finding the Goodbar Killer (1983) was about the investigation of the murder.
Guess again.
What about my guess? (Even though I was wrong about who the killer was).
Oh, and I knew at 11 that the book was based on a true case, but after I read it I got the feeling that the author was saying “allegedly good girl, but really a bad, bad girl, gets what she deserves.”
Ok, enough of this hijack. Someone else bash Rerun for knocking Heywood Nelson out of the way so that he could claim to be the sex symbol from What’s Happening.
Oh, bloody hell. Nothing personal, teleute12, but I’m gonna go lay down for a while now.
Yeah, and wasn’t there a live-action Spiderman show? I’m thinking it was the same night as Wonder Woman. (I missed part of 1978, it might’ve been in there.)
Here’s a weird memory for you: My husband is 10 years older than I am and was watching the 1979 episode with me. When they got to the Muppet Movie he said “Oh I remember when that came out…it played at the theater I was working at.” He paused a minute and said “Steve Garvey and Ron Cey came to see that. Together.” That’s sort of a head scratcher, huh?
YES!! My friend and I went through tons of these. We wore them out just hopping around my driveway for hours. I wish we’d used them at gym, then I wouldn’t have fantasized about falling down the stairs and breaking my arm every gym day. 
We finished watching all of the episodes this weekend, so I don’t think we’ll ever have to set eyes on them again. Phew!
Now what’s all this about the 80’s striking back? Lordy, I hope they just rerun the original series. I’ve got stuff to do!
I haqven’t seen the series, but I do note that a lotta stuff listed here was firmly 1960s stuff, not 1970s.
–Clackers were big when I was in grammar school in the 1960s
– The Bugs Bunny Show, with “Overture! Curtains! Lights!” is from the early 1960s. They may have rerun it in the 1970s, but it was originally made for TV in the 1960s.
– Ditto for Shazzan! It was part of the Saturday mrning cartoon lineup in the 1960s. “Isus”, however, was firmly in the 1970s.
– Captain Kangaroo dates back to the 1950s, and the bit with the ping pong balls goes back to at least the 1960s.
– Wonderama also started in the 1950s, ran through the 1960s (when I watched it) and into the 1970s. Sonny Fox (who I later learned was in the “Quiz Show” scandals of the 1950s) was the host in the 1960s, and the show ran for four hours then.
I do know that many of these things started in the 60s (or even 50s). The only point I really meant to make was that they were still important in the 70s, for those of us who were growing up at the time. Did I even mention Magic Garden? With those two hippie chicks? Great psychedelic stuff And what about The Point??? Talk about hippie americana.
Re: Mr. Goodbar…yeah that reaction is definitely colored by a feminist view lol. Degrading oneself by sleeping with random pickups/hookups met in sleazy bars…well what do you THINK is going to happen? In a city? I mean it’s just common sense. A cautionary tale? Yeah. But there is such a thing as a REASONABLE degree of caution!
I enjoyed the 80’s series, but this one is best! I was 12 in 1970. I remember all this stuff—except that freaky Blythe doll. Ick! I thought it was just my “scrambled” brain cells, but I’m glad you folks have straightened me out that these “phenomena” are not in the right years.
I **know **the Clackers were when I was very young—must have been around '71 or so. God, remember the bruised arms?? Actually, we called them Knockers (pronounced “Kuh-Nockers.”)
They’ve left out so much. Did they mention Elton John?
Since when do people in Birmingham, Alabama say, “Oh, bloody hell?”
You’re confusing the TV series Shazam! (1974-1977) with Shazzan! (1967-1969). I Love the 70s featured Shazam!.
The other series you’re thinking of is Isis (1975).
My family started saying it in 1937; that’s when Theophilus Eugene “Bull” Conner was elected Commissioner of Public Safety.
Hey, I’m from Sheffield, Alabama and I say, “bloody hell” from time to time. Maybe we’re showing solidarity with our English sister cities/namesakes. Okay, well, I can’t speak for Sauron, but really I just think it sounds cool, and is a good verbal intensifier since using in the US doesn’t have the same vulgar connotation as in the UK.
They covered Elton John early in the series,Dolores
There was the dreadful The Amazing Spiderman series that as a kid I liked until I realized there were no real supervillains just guys in suits with snub-nosed .38s running around. I don’t think they mentioned it, no great loss looking back.
Did they leave out The Rockford Files or did I miss it? If they left it out, what a majorly lazy oversight. Cool theme, cool car, a lovable loser hero, interesting supporting charcters, and Jim Rockford always losing anybody that tried to tail him in a car.
- The pointless sarcasm emanating from Mr. Rocca and about a dozen other smug nobodies mars a series which was otherwise painstakingly assembled. …In years to come, do you really think Greg Proops will be worth mentioning in VH1’s future salute to the current decade, “I Love the '00s”?*
Ouch. I agree, but ouch.
Y’know, it’s kinda funny that someone would question colloquialisms while engaged in a discussion regarding a show on a multinational cable network. It’s even funnier that the discussion is taking place on an Internet message board with members from literally around the world who interact on a regular basis. And what frosts the cake is the fact that the person being questioned has taken his screen name from the most popular fantasy work of all time – which was written by a man from the country which made the colloquialism in question famous.
Or, to put it more succinctly: 
Just finished watching the Labor Day “I Love the 70’s” marathon. . . wow. . do I feel old now! (graduated high school in 1979)
I agree that the fact checking was sloppy because the writers of the show definitely got some dates wrong, like featuring songs from Saturday Night Fever in 1978 when the movie was released in 1977 or attributing Scooby-Doo to 1971 when it actually first aired in 1969.
And they left out so much. . . Logan’s Run, Space: 1999, the Watergate hearings that were on TV all day every day, Dawn of the Dead, Sally Field in Sybil, a young, muscular, and HOT Nick Nolte in Rich Man, Poor Man, feathered hair, REO Speedwagon, Molly Hatchet. . . I could go on.
I think you and others have misunderstood the dating system. The presence of some '70s cultural artifact in one of the year episodes means only that it was popular in that year, not necessarily that it first appeared that year.
Why do it that way? Easy explanation. Some years were more cram-packed with items than others. If the producers had limited themselves to showing an item in the year it first appeared, some episodes would not have time enough to deal with them all. So they “evened out” the number of items by allowing them to be discussed in years in which they were popular.
For instance, although the Bee Gees songs How Deep Is Your Love, Stayin’ Alive, and Night Fever were all released as singles in late 1977, they were on the Top 40 chart for 26, 22, and 18 weeks respectively, well into 1978. In fact, Stayin’ Alive and Night Fever didn’t hit #1 until Feb. 1978 and March 1978, and How Deep Is Your Love held the #1 spot for the first two weeks of 1978.
So, as cultural milestones of the 1970s, it’s just as correct to deal with those songs in 1978 as in 1977.
Likewise, while shows such as Captain Kangaroo debuted in 1955 and Sesame Street in 1969, they were every bit as popular in the 1970s as they were previously, and thus were part of the cultural scene. On I Love the 70s, it’s not when you were born, it’s when you flourished.
WARNING: Long geeky nostalgia mode ahead!
::: runs in late to the party :::
Has anyone mentioned in this thread, and certainly during the series, the TV show “Kids are People Too”? I loved that when I was little and just knew they’d show it because it was a cultural phenomenon around our parts (Dallas, TX.) but if so, I’ve missed it. I even saw Elton John and Kiki Dee (!!!) on it singing “Don’t go Breakin’ My Heart”. And as everyone said, they left out quite a lot or just skipped it, in favor of lousy commentary by folks who certainly weren’t old enough to have remembered more than cartoons by the end of the decade. Specifically, Michael Ian Black and Mo Rocca can bite me. Although, I adore Hal Sparks and would be thrilled to see more of him.
I am disappointed that they’ve skipped over the more serious/dramatic aspects (like Watergate, the gas shortage, and Jonestown, as previously mentioned) or got the dates out of whack, but I suppose they didn’t have time for all of it or the proper research and it struck me that they just threw this together to cash in on the popularity of that the 80s batch must have garnered.
There was more that I also can’t believe they didn’t touch on… Leif Garrett (no matter what you think of him now) was huge, as was Scott Baio. And like gobear listed, “Sybil” was in the same ground-breaking sense almost, that “Roots” was. Mini-series as a whole were just worshiped. Where was the cool Chuckwagon commercial??? I thought that was so neat, as well as the one where the man walking in the rain with his umbrella, steps off the curb into a puddle and disappears, absolutely rocked! Does anyone else remember these?
Not to mention, what about food fads of the 70s? There had to be something other than just Pop Rocks. Didn’t TV dinners really come into their own then? How about Now and Laters? Tab? Diet Dr Pepper in a blue can? I also think that there’s a movie or two that could have been added, like The Adventures of the Wilderness Family (that my mother was obsessed with) and its sequel and Herbie, the Love Bug! I know the original came out in '68, but many more followed during the next decade and we just ate them up. Gah, right up there with Benji. 
As far as horror movies go, where was It’s Alive? That thing scared the bejesus out of me as a kid, just like Soylent Green did. Oh, the horror!!!
To catch up to others… Yes, the bicentennial was SO big and we all were dressed up for the parades in our respective red, white and blue with appropriate props. I had a Big Wheel, gouchos, a Lemon Twist and a Which Witch is Which? game. My dad had a CB and my handle was Holly Hobby. They missed her too. 
So they mentioned Judy Blume, but not her big counterpart, Beverly Cleary, with the Ramona books. That just didn’t make sense to me because they almost go hand-in-hand.
And this I might be completely off about, but wasn’t there a game show called Treasure Hunt or something? Where contestants wondered through a studio amongst giant-assed gifts picking which ones they wanted. That’s all I remember but the set always looked pretty to me. Oh, I also would like to know why ‘elephant ear’ pants were NOT considered the pinnacle of chic. I mean, to me, they epitomized the most cool kids there were. 
I am so addicted though. I’ve taped the whole thing and now I wanna reminisce all day. Brings back fond memories of being enraptured watching “Grease Day USA”, the Keane brothers (who I had such a crush on!) and The Sour Grapes, and reading Tiger Beat. How could they not mention that teenage girl right-of-passage?! I was heartbroken. I mean, I know I’m a sap and rambling, so I guess I’ll go dig out my best of The Bee Gees album, put it on with my humongous headphones, light the lava lamp and lounge around in my high-heeled sneakers (or would I be better off with the original Pop Wheels sandals?), knee socks with toes and head-to-toe terry cloth, then eat some Jiffy Pop. Ah, the good old days.
I DO LOVE MY 70s!!!
Leif Garrett was on every episode of I Love the 70s. How did you miss him?
I didn’t miss him, as far as ‘seeing’ him went and his painful little segments easily displayed why his acting never amounted to much. But what I meant was his career, if one could have called it that, where he was supposedly a singer and actor. You know, the requisite blow-dried teen dream up on my bedroom wall. Sorry I wasn’t more clear in my Purple Haze-induced reminiscing. I’ve really got to work on that if I ever want to teach. English, no less. Go figure.