The Chevy Vega was Motor Trends car of the year in 1970. Believe it or not. Actually, although it was a piece of crap, I think the looks have aged well.

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Very amateur post.

Those vintage intro themes are so incredibly evocative....

Wish all of your loved ones a happy and healthy year with a carton of holiday smokes!

Ricky Nelson has a new album out?!

I played my copy of 'Indiana Want Me' to DEATH. God Bless My Poor Forgiving Parents!

DVD & MTM forgot about the special they did almost 10 years earlier, "Dick Van Dyke and the Other Woman". It was such a hit that CBS offered MTM her own sitcom, and she & her husband founded a company to produce it & many other great (and sometimes not-so-great) shows.

I gather Neil Armstrong considered “much ado about nothing” as a first utterance

good ole Ronco

Anwar Sadat paid the ultimate price for making peace with Israel. He was murdered by those who hate Israel. Siskel and Ebert were idiots for swallowing Hollywood propaganda. Star Crash was so awful. Marjoe Gortner was alwys in bad movies. But Caroline Munro was easy on the eyes. Thanks Fred.

the Iranian situation is still a issue today . i remember when it first started

Star Crash : The spaghetti space opera.

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thank you for another great trip down memory lane fred! i love dire straights, great band back then and forever. this year was also memorable because 1979 was the year that two of my favorite bands of all time formed that year, the replacements and husker du❤❤

The last month of March of the 1970s (March 1979).

I wasn't born until 1970, but I appreciate a lot of the music, movies and television from the 60s. And I really enjoy reading the comments of all of you who were alive at that time, with all your personal remembrances, and connections to things in the videos. Almost makes me feel like I was there in some way. I'm a very nostalgic person. I even enjoy other people's nostalgia. 🙂 Thanks for sharing everybody, and thanks for continuing to make these videos, Fred.

Beautiful work again, Fred!👌🏻

Ahhhh, to be 21again.

Wow! I still remember these cartoons. They were amazing. Much better than what children watch today although animation had many lmitations due to technology. Imagine these cartoons nowadays with all the technology available? They would rock! I used to love the Herculoids, Birdman, Fantastic 4, Thundar The Barbarian.... Well, all of them.

I enjoyed the early days of Jeopardy with Art Fleming.

I was still in grade school.

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The month before I was born. Thank you for posting all of these Fred you have the best retro and nostalgic content out of all of them. Nobody Does it Like You

Don't believe in that crap

The number of videos with audio problems is confounding. How do people rip these videos from tape and not notice they forgot to plug in the right channel or whatever? It's especially bad when they have something wired stupidly and end up with the channels out of phase (none of those here).

Fred I watched this yesterday (on my tv) but forgot to comeback here and comment--thanks for another great one, you're capturing '79 so well! BTW, I just watched that tv movie with Richard Thomas & Julie Kavner here on youtube last month! Love 'em both and the movie was a great time capsule but nothing like your vids of course

I was 17 and had just bought my 1970 Mustang. What a great memory. Thanks Fred!

That Three Mile Island accident was the best advertising they could have for The China Syndrome, an excellent movie that;s not talked about much anymore. Dear Detective: 'He wants her to trade her badge for an apron.' Yeah, good luck with that Thanks as always Fred

Nice to hear the Sultans of Swing, and the ABC News theme, immediately recognizable to me, despite not having heard it in decades. Great to see the poster for Real Life, Albert Brooks' great, comic exploration of the beginnings of what would become, decades later, the reality TV craze. Hilarious film. The basketball footage brings back memories of my dad watching basketball on TV on the weekend, which I would sometimes join him for viewing. And then something I don't remember at all was the pre-Alex Trebek Jeopardy!. Admittedly, I was 9 years old at the time, and while I occasionally watched game shows, I probably would have watched something a little more colorful than something as comparatively intellectual as Jeopardy!. I probably watched more of The Price is Right (which my father-in-law was on, and won the showcase showdown, I believe in this very year, 1979), with their various games and such, or Let's Make a Deal, with all the audience in crazy costumes, at least at nine years old. But interesting to see that early version of Jeopardy!. And even more interesting to see the amazing precision of that whale picking up a watch. That was absolutely flabbergasting to me, for it to pick up something so small in its huge mouth and carry it that way. Animals (and specifically in this case, mammals) are amazing...

The commercials are more memorable!

I never saw Billy it must have been canceled after a few episodes. Also never saw Miss Winslow or Dear Detective. Never heard of these shows.

Filthy cigarettes stole the lives of my mom and sister!! Loathing I have for ANY product that promotethat promotes lung cancer.

Aw, that Art Fleming sign-off got me. Also appreciate the network bumpers of unsuccessful shows - that's entertainment!

What ever happened to the Marlboro Man? Probably died of cancer.

March of '79 was another month closer to graduating from high school. It's still surrealistic, at least to me, that the Three Mile Island disaster and 'The China Syndrome' in theaters happened at the same time. (BTW, Jack Lemon was great in that movie!) Thanks for another great flashback, Fred.

Mission Impossible wins it all. Room 222 (first season) is an underrated classic. But Mannix over Barnaby Jones or Ironside? No way.

We still are the Sultans of Swing, even with a few years behind us now! Love that song. I was 24 in ‘79 and fully trusted all network news reporting. Today’s media landscape has experienced seismic shifts with the internet. Thank you for this very interesting and fun video, great work!

I was 21 in March 1979 when my wife died in a car accident. 1979 was kind of a blur after that. Thanks for showing the world back then. I really missed a lot.

I love Freddy flintstone and Rubble goofing off and puffing away while their wives are working their asses off! How thoughtful!

The month I was born

I was 15! Awesome time

June 65' is when I arrived. Great to see what was goin on. 😊

Magic Johnson and MSU!

The big event in the television industry was the March 5, 1979 network affiliation switch in Minneapolis-St. Paul as longtime NBC affiliate KSTP Channel 5 switched to ABC (considered ABC's biggest coup at the time), with NBC switching to Metromedia-owned independent WTCN (now KARE) Channel 11 and former ABC affiliate KMSP Channel 9 going independent (now Fox). It's what got me interested at a young age in the whole business side of television.

We lived right near Three Mile Island. I remember an SNL skit where Garrett Morris played a giant cleaning woman. We did not think that was funny at all.

Intro music sounds like the MoTab under Jerold Ottley.

I was 9 in 79’ and still had most of family then. I really miss having family. Those were the days!

I loved those Merlin Jones movies! They were just so...comfortable.