# TV Show about a bar from the 1960s or 70s? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 17, 2019, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-about-a-bar-from-the-1960s-or-70s/827913 "2019-01-17T08:26:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![edwardcoast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cab0a1/32.png) [@edwardcoast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/edwardcoast)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2019, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-about-a-bar-from-the-1960s-or-70s/827913/1 "2019-01-17T08:26:14Z")
Before Cheers, there was a TV show about a bar. I don’t remember the name of the show or the bar. I thought it was something like Kessler’s, but I don’t see that in imdb. Anyone remember the name of it? ---
**Author:** ![pool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pool/32/4152_2.png) [@pool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pool)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2019, 8:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-about-a-bar-from-the-1960s-or-70s/827913/2 "2019-01-17T08:54:30Z")
Archie Bunker’s Place? ---
**Author:** ![edwardcoast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cab0a1/32.png) [@edwardcoast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/edwardcoast)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2019, 10:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-about-a-bar-from-the-1960s-or-70s/827913/3 "2019-01-17T10:15:19Z")
> [@pool](#): > > Archie Bunker’s Place? No, it wasn’t All in the Family related. ---
**Author:** ![edwardcoast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cab0a1/32.png) [@edwardcoast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/edwardcoast)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2019, 10:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-about-a-bar-from-the-1960s-or-70s/827913/4 "2019-01-17T10:19:18Z")
I just remembered an actor who was in it, and found it! The TV series was called The Corner Bar: > **[The Corner Bar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Corner_Bar)** > > The Corner Bar is an American sitcom that aired on ABC from June 1972 to September 1973. > The Corner Bar revolves around the lives of the patrons of a tavern called Grant's Toomb. The series is notable for its inclusion of the first recurring gay character on American television, Peter Panama (played by Vincent Schiavelli). > > This article relating to a comedy television series in the United States is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2019, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-about-a-bar-from-the-1960s-or-70s/827913/5 "2019-01-17T12:22:22Z")
> [@edwardcoast](#): > > I just remembered an actor who was in it, and found it! > > The TV series was called The Corner Bar: > [The Corner Bar - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Corner_Bar) I got here too late to give the right answer, which was the first thing I thought of when I read the thread title. it starred Gabriel Dell, who was well-known before this as one of the Dead End Kids/east Side Kids/Bowery boys in, first, the movie _Dead End_ and its sequels, then in a few series produced by various mostly poverty-row studios, making almost fifty of these films. After that, unlike many of his Bowery Boy alumni, he continued to act, showing up in a lot of unexpected places. He’s rumored to be the original voice of Boba Fett in _The Star Wars Holiday Special_. He was only 68 when he died in 1988. Huntz hall, who was in the various kids series from the very start (and was most famous as Horace Debussy “Sach” Jones) made an appearance in _the Corner Bar_. ---
**Author:** ![edwardcoast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cab0a1/32.png) [@edwardcoast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/edwardcoast)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2019, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-about-a-bar-from-the-1960s-or-70s/827913/6 "2019-01-17T19:46:37Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > I got here too late to give the right answer, which was the first thing I thought of when I read the thread title. > > it starred Gabriel Dell, who was well-known before this as one of the Dead End Kids/east Side Kids/Bowery boys in, first, the movie _Dead End_ and its sequels, then in a few series produced by various mostly poverty-row studios, making almost fifty of these films. After that, unlike many of his Bowery Boy alumni, he continued to act, showing up in a lot of unexpected places. He’s rumored to be the original voice of Boba Fett in _The Star Wars Holiday Special_. He was only 68 when he died in 1988. > > Huntz hall, who was in the various kids series from the very start (and was most famous as Horace Debussy “Sach” Jones) made an appearance in _the Corner Bar_. Thanks for the info! One of the things which I found out in the WIKI, it had the first gay character in a TV series. There are only production stills from the series online, I don’t see any video of it anywhere.