19 MORE GOOD, BAD AND UGLY 70s TV INTROS (+2)

[@stevenwatchorn9816]

In the first few minutes, I think I flashed back to every lousy "educational" film I ever had to watch in school.

[@pauldelgadillo1827]

Hey, "America' with Allistar Cooke, a naturalized Brit as narrator, was a bigtime hit when it ran on PBS.

[@rbbonotto]

It is a good series, designed like Kenneth Clark's 'Civilisation.' Why 6 Wives is here - which is British - I don't know.

[@dngillikin]

Because CBS aired it from August 1st to September 5th, 1971. My mother was addicted to it and also caught it years later as it was run on PBS as pledge drive programming.

[@dougghiz8339]

R.I.P. To all of the deceased actors & actresses who starred on the shows on this video.

[@flicewatter]

The 70's really were awesome..some of the stuff was so bad it was good..lol

[@momster64]

Lucan - found in "the wilds of northern Minnesota" - as a Minnesotan myself that just cracks me up no end!

[@paulcoy9060]

I guess it sounded better than "Near the suburbs of Ontario".

[@karenford9797]

The Texas Wheelers lasted for about four episodes on ABC in the fall of 1974, on Friday night between The Six Million Dollar Man and Kolchak: The Night Stalker. Kodiak, with Clint Walker, lasted the same four weeks until the network moved Kung Fu to Fridays.

[@tommchang82]

Hamill said if The Texas Wheelers had a second season, he wouldn’t been able to do Star Wars.

[@BRBTheFireball]

"Out of the Blue" was ill-conceived, but most of the actors went on to better stuff. Dixie Carter starred in "Diff'rent Strokes" and "Designing Women". Jimmy Brogan became a writer for Jay Leno. Tammy Lauren starred in another Miller-Milkis production, "Angie". Clark Brandon starred in "Mr. Merlin" with Barnard Hughes and Elaine Joyce. Olivia Barash starred in the final season of "Fame". And Eileen Heckart was just a legend.

[@michaelfoster5714]

But I love that theme song.

[@francesbacon7825]

I don’t remember Dixie Carter on Different Strokes.

[@BRBTheFireball]

@@francesbacon7825 She played Maggie, Mr. Drummond's second wife, for one season before being replaced with Mary Ann Mobley for the remainder of the series run.

[@luisreyes1963]

Of course, Mr. Merlin was a huge flop for CBS.

[@lawsondesrochers8765]

Wow, another great compilation, I love all your videos, I guess I watched more television than I thought.

[@hiridavidfeign]

Imagine the alternate reality in which these shows were big hits. Yeesh.

[@jeffw1267]

Well, in this reality, Simon & Simon lasted about seven years. So think about that.

[@howardlevin2753]

Or an alternate universe where "Sara," "Max Headroom," or any other series better than most of this batch were hits.

[@GoGreen1977]

I started high school in the fall of 1969 and received my Master's degree in the spring of 1979. I guess I was too busy taking classes, studying, going to football, basketball and hockey games and dancing at discos to remember most of these shows. I thought I had watched my fair share of TV, but I guess not because many of these I've never heard of.

[@OldsVistaCruiser]

I was born in 1964 near Philadelphia. I have not heard of a single one of these shows.

[@cannedmusic]

Black Sheep Squadron is never mentioned in these intros, it was a great show with a great intro.

[@fododude]

Wasn't there a show called Baa Baa Black Sheep with Robert Conrad?

[@cannedmusic]

@@fododude yeah, it was called Black Sheep Squadron, the last three words sung at the beginning of the theme was Baa, Baa, Baa, and people, even me, used to call it what you did, until my dad pointed out the show's name just before Robert Conrad came onto the screen. www.imdb.com/title/tt0073961/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_1

[@michaelfisher7170]

Jack Elam AND Gary Busey?! Sign me up..after I've downed a twelve pack!

[@seaningram4434]

13:20 Robert Costanzo. I knew I recognized that face. Remember Die Hard 2: Die Harder? He was the brother to the Airport Police Captain "Carmine Lorenzo", played by Dennis Franz. "Sgt. Vito Lorenzo" was the guy's name and he was having the car that John McClane was driving, towed. And later, John was introduced to "Vito" and Vito said to him "Merry Christmas."

[@shawnn1412]

Each November 15, a buddy of mine used to announce that it was his birthday, the same day as Whitman Mayo. "You know, Grady...from Sanford and Son!" He was kinda weird.

[@Portugal2025]

Shawn N Sounds like a pretty interesting guy. Hang on to friends like that. Fun to have around

[@wdh47211]

Thanks for posting. Great stuff

[@jimmyface71]

I like the different intros for the same shows. Good stuff!

[@LRS905]

You know you are in a piece of shit show when scott baio appears in it and a dog is given equal billing...

[@themightycelestial]

Before Starbuck flew amongst the stars in the Battlestar Galactica, he flew amongst the skyscrapers in the Chopper One.

[@kronos5385]

Chopper One is still showing in reruns on the Crackle Network. There's only so many episodes that you can use a helicopter in to save the day.

[@bruceburnett1584]

Anyone else notice that Blanskys Beauty's turned into La Verne meets Shirley at Arnold s during Happy Days?

[@calvada1]

bruce burnett Caren Kaye was a major babe, though.

[@Portugal2025]

calvada1 I’ll second that. A comedic trainwreck otherwise

[@recordman64]

It's a Happy Days spinoff in a sense. She was either Howard's cousin or Marian's cousin.

[@hoagie1978]

It appears Spencer's Pilots opening credits were designed by the same company that did Dallas. They even use the same color and font for the words and the split screen concept.

[@phdtobe]

The Smothers Brothers' show was great and had a dedicated following. It was cancelled by the network execs because they spoke out against the Vietnam War and the Nixon administration.

[@Carrots43]

phdtobe Funny now Dick Smothers has changed and is a born again christian and conservative now.

[@alfredoprime5495]

If they were against the Vietnam war, why were they speaking out against Nixon?! He was the one that ended it.

[@phdtobe]

@@alfredoprime5495 First, in fall of 1968 while LBJ was negotiating a peace treaty with the US and North Vietnamese on behalf of South Vietnam, Nixon committed treason by secretly sending the South Vietnamese government a message that he would get them a better deal after he became President of the US. That secret offer by Nixon caused South Vietnam to unexpectedly announce that they would not agree to any peace treaty with North Vietnam, which most likely extended the US’ involvement in the war well into Nixon’s first term in office. Second, Nixon intentionally kept the US’ involvement in the war going during his first term in order to use a strategy of dramatically increasing the bombing campaigns to terrorize the North Vietnamese to extract pretty much the same terms as LBJ was on track to achieving in the fall of 1968. That extension of the war resulted in the deaths of an addition 20,000-25,000 additional US military personnel, as well as about 500,000-1,000,000 more Vietnamese. Furthermore, Nixon’s expansion of the bombing campaign into Cambodia ended up destablizing that country to the point where enough of citizenry ended up siding with the Khmer Rouge, who took over the country and ended up killing about 3,000,000 in purges of people who they deemed dangerous to their radical Marxist rule. So, yeah. Nixon deserves a mountain of scorn for how he handled the US’ involvement in that war.

[@jeffw1267]

@@Carrots43 That's because people gain intelligence as they grow older. Well, usually.

[@yaywhewclips242]

Anthony Burgess also wrote the original novel A CLOCKWORK ORANGE

[@mmorris7419]

Oh,and as usual,Rw,ya done good!👍👍👍👍👍

[@MsRT76]

Ok, but is anyone else wondering WTF over Joe Cocker's rendition of "You Are So Beautiful" being the intro music to Struck By Lightning?

[@gaywizard2000]

Wtf was that show about!?

[@gaywizard2000]

And yes!

[@dangraphic]

"Lucan"! God I used to love that show.

[@luisreyes1963]

At least someone remembered Lucan.

[@DavidBDavis-lz7bt]

@@luisreyes1963 I remember Lucan!🌞 Liked it a lot. I recently saw Kevin Brophy on a show called Strange Inheritance.

[@katbowl9971]

@@DavidBDavis-lz7bt Me too. He and Peter Barton. What an odd way to inherit something. Lol

[@DavidBDavis-lz7bt]

@@katbowl9971 True, but that, I think, is what made the show interesting. I tend to like classic TV, but there are occasional gems in today's broadcasting; you just have to dig really deep to find them(lol).

[@katbowl9971]

@@DavidBDavis-lz7bt Yes, I agree. I like that Strange Inheritance show. It's interesting.

[@kyokogodai-ir6hy]

I would have watched "Arnie" just for Sue Ann Langdon. I think she is one of the most beautiful women Hollywood has ever seen!

[@Oppeldeldoc1]

It's one of those one-season shows that almost everyone thinks should have lasted.

[@Portugal2025]

I saw Herschel Bernardi do Tevye in Fiddler about 30 years ago. It was great. Not an actor we had seen enough of which is unfortunate. Had somewhat of an abridged career earlier unfortunately because he was caught up in the Hollywood blacklist crap

[@recordman64]

The three lead actors were all great. Sue Ane Langdon was indeed gorgeous. Bernardi was a hell of an actor. Roger Bowen was always good as a nebbish.

[@DavidBDavis-lz7bt]

@@recordman64 I totally agree. Even though I was little when Arnie debuted, I still loved her. A few years ago, I saw a rerun of McHale's Navy that featured her as a Russian exchange officer temporarily assigned to the PT-73. Toward the end of the episode, she was dressed in a sarong. Yowza!💓(lol).

[@themightycelestial]

Lucan needs to rebooted as a show for today. It really is a good premise for a TV series.

[@TimelordR]

Angel Medina Intriguing. Maybe Hulu could do it.

[@TJ52359]

Such a good Premise that - The Fugitive used it 14 years Earlier - The Incredible Hulk used it the next Fall - The Pretender used it in the 90s

[@woodsz33]

wow no doubt the censors of the '70's did not know to what John Prine's Illegal Smile was referring to exactly to let that slide.

[@hippiechic65]

3:20 rest in peace, john ...

[@sschimel]

Interesting to catch a typo in credits. During the intro to Grady, written is spelled witten.

[@divingduck1970]

Sanford and Son's Grady had his own spin-off. I'll be.

[@bobbyslater1198]

I thought that was Grady.

[@luisreyes1963]

Sanford and Son had 2 spin-offs: Grady & The Sanford Arms. Both bombed.

[@howardlevin2753]

@@luisreyes1963 As did "Baby, I'm Back," with Demond Wilson. Word on the street was that "Sanford and Son" tapings retook for at least two reasons: Redd Foxx broke up the set; Demond Wilson couldn't act his way out of a paper bag.

[@LRS905]

Fucking "Out of the blue" intro never ends. It gets more annoying as more seconds pass, ugh.

[@MarkusDarkscribe]

The Smothers brothers was the only one I ever heard of. good show

[@NeptuneRising70]

Me: starts video Video: “Murcia.”

[@2up3rm4n1]

I'm a bit dismayed to see that, as a child of the seventies who thought I spent too much time watching tv, there was a lot of stuff I never saw or heard of! I remember Texas Wheelers, didn't watch it. Bustin' Loose was actually pretty good, mainly for Arkin's dry delivery like his dad. I've since learned there was a show called Flatbush that the residents of Flatbush requested it be removed from the air because of the way they would be perceived. Bustin' Loose didn't have that problem, thankfully. I've seen a lot of the episodes here on youtube. Still like it. Struck By Lightning should have been on ABC on Friday nights to work. I remember wanting to watch it, but just couldn't find it. Out of the Blue, I recall, but never watched that thing. It's obviously based on the tv movie with Billy Crystal and Nancy Walker called Human Feelings, which also seems to be intended for a pilot of sorts. Throw into that Good Heavens, with Carl Reiner, from 1976, and it makes you wonder what was going on.

[@eydie57]

Arnie was a good show. One of my favorites back in the day. I'm pretty sure it ran for a couple of seasons.

[@angel4everable]

"Arnie" was very popular for a while. I seem to remember in ran on Saturday nights.The "blue-collar guy" gets to be management trope never gets old.

[@luisreyes1963]

That CBS sitcom never had a chance against Lawrence Welk (1st season) & Monday Night Football (2nd season), both on ABC.

[@Robster543210]

I liked it.

[@emmaduncan2991]

the worst thing is, I remember a lot of these.

[@r0ckstar666]

I don't remember any. I remember Grady from Sanford and son but did not know he had his own series.

[@ericscarburry8527]

I was around in the 70’s. I must not have watched TV. I don’t remember any of theses. But I was high a lot then too

[@ccarmean1968]

The world will never know how many lesser known Happy Days spin-off shows there were.

[@finderskeepers5343]

Was too busy living and trying to survive as a teen. Never had time for TV shitcoms.

[@emmaduncan2991]

out of the blue was about an angel...a bit of an Happy Days spin-off, I believe,

[@nashbr549]

yes it was --- they had a episode with the lead person from the show----- one where fonzie was about to be taken away by the devils nephew.....

[@RandalBauer11]

No idea what shows on this compilation would be considered ugly but 'Out of the Blue' would undoubtably be considered among them.

[@joorcawhisperer9733]

Yea I was born in 1968 and I only remember smothers brothers comedy hour

[@bobbyslater1198]

I remember when The Who were on the Smothers Brothers show, smashing up their instruments. Keith Moon had dynamite in his drum kit.

[@icedogfan1]

Is it just me or are some of these intros for mini series?

[@willielarimer7170]

Its amazing how alot of these shows have lasting memories, but didnt even last 4 or 5 episodes

[@Ronin4614]

I was in the service then and about the only one I ever saw was The Smothers Brothers.. When will TV/movies ever bet if right with rotary winged aircraft? They generally get the pilot and copilot seats mixed up.

[@monkeyboy4746]

I remember a few of these shows, they were mostly safe, except the Smothers Brothers, they have never been safe.

[@mrcydonia]

Who could forget Herschel Bernardi and his catch phrase "Oh boy"? I know I could.

[@Forcemaster2000]

Wow, what a collection of oddballs and oddities! Besides Lucan and the Smothers Brothers, I don't remember any of the others!

[@RwDt09]

With the exception of Arnie, all were short-lived series that lasted no more than half-a-season, some of which ran as summer fillers.

[@30nash30]

And the craziest thing is, I remember almost all of these shows!!

[@michaelmapes4224]

Chris Wells America, Da Vinci and Henry VIII were shows that were on PBS in the 70's. I watched them when I was a kid (Weird huh?) and almost forgot about them until I seen the intro's again

[@RwDt09]

Michael Mapes Those shows might've had some later PBS airings but America originally aired on NBC in '72-'73 and Henry VIII and Da Vinci on CBS as short-run summer series.

[@markjeffries3684]

RwDt09 And the title sequence for "Six Wives" is the BBC title sequence--the CBS title sequence had a voice-over by Anthony Quayle setting up and recapping the episodes--the CBS version was also the version used for U.S. syndication.

[@1985OldSkool]

Mark Hamill and Gary Busey later went on to star in some of the biggest films of the late 1970s and beyond.

[@markdeming6224]

+1985OldSkool Really? Is that true? I had no idea. What are your sources?

[@1985OldSkool]

+Mark Deming Yes. Mark Hamill played Luke Skywalker in "Star Wars" (1977) and the entire "Star Wars" film franchise, and Gary Busey played Buddy Holly in the title role in "The Buddy Holly Story" (1978). I looked that up in both Wikipedia and the Internet Movie Database (IMDb).

[@zapkvr]

1985OldSkool he was famous for Eight is enough.

[@lp-xl9ld]

Barring ARNIE and BUSTING LOOSE, I can safely say I saw *none* of these; some I hadn't even heard of prior to seeing this video.

[@NinaEye]

I was born in 1975, so I only remember most of these stars making flop show appearances in the 80s. I didn't know they were making flops in the 70s too.

[@psf334]

so blansky's beauties was a spinoff of happy days, since mr. myiagi is playing arnold.

[@hoss73ford]

this man this monster It lasted about three months in 1977.

[@greedyd5524]

Caren Kaye. Damn!!!!

[@jerseytomato100]

and Carmine from Laverne & Shirley, playing Joey this time.

[@tolfan4438]

Let's not forget Scott Baio was in there I think pre Happy Days

[@recordman64]

For some unknown reason, they retooled this as Who's Watching the Kids, retaining Caren Kaye and Scott Baio and bringing in Jim Belushi. It still tanked.

[@mrcydonia]

Blansky's Beauties was an odd show. It was sort of a spinoff of "Happy Days" in that characters from it and "Laverne and Shirley" showed up, but to make things more confusing a bunch of Happy Days actors were also in the show but playing different characters, and also it was sent in the present day (i.e. 1977) whereas "Happy Days" was at that point set in the 60s. Just a mess of a show that got a deserved early death.

[@gaywizard2000]

I remember and as a child I thought it was too much!

[@Cinefan1958]

Strange, I remember Pat Morita playing a character in Happy Days called Arnold. Well, one of these so-so shows called Blansky's Beauties, there is Pat as Arnold again.

[@snarkus63]

Jeffrey J. Sabo "Blansky's Beauties" was,believe it or not,a spinoff of "Happy Days"...Nancy Blansky (Walker) was supposed to be related to Howard Cunningham. Although Eddie Mekka and Scott Baio weren't playing their characters from "Happy Days" (in Mekka's case,his character from "Laverne & Shirley",another spinoff),I cannot say with certainty that the "Arnold" character from that show is the same one from "Happy Days".

[@DavidTSmith-jn5bs]

+snarkus63 He was. He sold the diner in the series and "moved on" to this show. In an episode, Mekka's character said that he was a cousin of Carmine Ragusa.

[@zapkvr]

Jeffrey J. Sabo wasnt Nancy Walker in it? she was in Macmillian and Wife with Rock Hudson and Susan St James

[@Cinefan1958]

I believe she was.

[@zapkvr]

Jeffrey J. Sabo You believe correctly

[@algomaone121]

I remember Blansky’s Beauties, but I did NOT remember it as a strange spinoff of Laverne & Shirley and Happy Days! All I remember of it is my father complaining about how ugly Nancy Walker was and he couldn’t stand to look at her face...

[@robertdesantis7536]

There was an episode of happy days where they were doing a charity show and Howard’s sister (Blansky) had a troop of dancers in Las Vegas that she brought. I think it was more of a way to introduce a new show to ABC through an established show rather than an actual spinoff.

[@hydrolito]

Henry was married to his first wife longer than the other 5 combined and she also lived the longest.

[@robertdesantis7536]

Why would the change Eddie Mekka’s name to Joey when the show was a spin-off of happy days and they kept Arnold’s name the same

[@torresongs2]

Do you know where I could see the opening to "Fay" starring Lee Grant?

[@MrLourie]

Though many of the stars are familiar to me, none of the series are except for the Smothers Brothers show. I was only a child at the time, but somehow the Smothers Brothers caught my eye.

[@chrisn7259]

With the exception of a very few, most of these actors in supporting roles (and some of the leads too) were seldom or never heard from again.

[@bobbyslater1198]

YAY for Nancy Walker!

[@archer1949]

Like, who the hell was Herschel Bernardi?

[@luisreyes1963]

@@archer1949 Look him up in IMDB.

[@luisreyes1963]

@@bobbyslater1198 Obviously, you don't know her disastrous debut as a film director for "Can't Stop The Music".

[@NinaEye]

I will always remember Pat Morita as Mr. Miyagi.

[@middletech]

I believe the last resort was a summer replacement. They noticed that most of the action was happening in the bar. The reroute the series and came out with cheers.

[@Coolbindus]

Smothers brothers were bad? didn't know that...

[@bobbyslater1198]

What was the name of the sitcom that starred Noel Neil, aka Lois Lane?

[@luisreyes1963]

She never had a Sitcom, she did made a cameo in the 2006 movie Superman Returns.

[@DavidBDavis-lz7bt]

@@luisreyes1963 She and Jack Larson often visited Metropolis, Illinois for their annual Superman celebration🌞.

[@algomaone121]

Lucan = plots of Incredible Hulk + Tarzan + the Fugitive

[@pretorious700]

Wow, I never knew Anthony Burgess ever wrote for TV.

[@LaDracul]

Why can't I find any full episodes of "Struck by Lightning", dangit?! The "Happy Days" universe is a strange one, but I think there was another paranormal sitcom on TBS a few years later which was about an angel who becomes a nanny to a human family...I can't recall what it was called though...

[@tolfan4438]

Nanny and the professor?

[@tammyparish263]

Starred dick sargent and kyle richards.

[@mrcydonia]

I think it was called Out of the...Pink? Ah, it'll come to me eventually.

[@LaDracul]

@@tolfan4438 No, this was from the '80s.

[@tolfan4438]

@@LaDracul was it a woman or a man? Ann Gillian played a ghost that helped out around the house.

[@simplysteve68]

Was "Blansky's Beauties", an unofficial spinoff of Happy Days (I would have given it a subtitle of "Occasional Happy Days with Laverne and Shirley." 😆)? I ask because it had 3 of the occasionally seen actors from it, Pat Morita (having the same name, as his drive-in restaurant owner character of Arnold) Scott Baio, the actress that would later become (Ron Howard) Ritchie Cunningham's girlfriend (I forget her character's name), and the actor that played occasionally seen Laverne & Shirley character Carmine! Lol

[@jb888888888]

Yes, it was considered a _Happy Days_ spinoff. Pinky Tuscadaro even showed up in an episode IIRC.

[@DavidBDavis-lz7bt]

Nancy Blansky was Howard Cunningham's cousin, if I remember correctly.

[@theannoyedmrfloyd3998]

If Spencer's Pilots had been about airplane repo, it would have been a hit.

[@abe_froman8360]

I like watching these and thinking of all the old people who are now dead.

[@hankaustin7091]

Just think.. except for a handful of those actors (and the Smothers Brothers of course), the rest we've never ever heard from or heard of again.. I'm sure at the time, they all thought "here's my BIG BREAK making it in show biz"....... nope, sorry, not even close.. most of them are probably at the moment waiting tables STILL waiting for that "one big break" to come their way, or retired from whatever profession they ended up doing, or died.

[@muddyduck64]

im at a loss here... wasn't the smothers brothers a show from the 60's?

[@mmorris7419]

"Arnie" would be a GREAT candidate for a reboot! But who could follow a Class Act like Herschel Bernardi?

[@luisreyes1963]

Jon Polito or perhaps Tony Sirico?

[@DavidBDavis-lz7bt]

Good question! I like to think that no one could replace Sue Ann Langdon, though(lol). Even as a little boy, I thought she was cute and I wanted to marry her. But she was taken, dammit!(lol).

[@mmorris7419]

@@luisreyes1963 It would have to be Sirico,as Jon Polito is dead.😭

[@Laceykat66]

"Out of the Blue" - Boy, TV has really tried to have a successful "Angels among us" show, haven't they? It seems each decade had one or two of these. And for those who like "Fresh off the Boat," we have "Mr. T & Tina." & "Free Country." Ah. modern television. Thank you for this trip down memory lane, but weren't the Smothers Brothers in the 1960s?

[@Laceykat66]

I don't think so. The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour[1] is an American comedy and variety show television series hosted by the Smothers Brothers and initially airing on CBS from 1967 to 1969. - Wikipedia

[@RwDt09]

Laceykat66 NBC aired another Smothers Brothers Show in the winter and spring of 1975 on Mondays at 8 pm. It only lasted a few months.

[@emmaduncan2991]

+Laceykat66 they kept getting into trouble with the CBS censors...their show was eventually yanked off the air and replaced with...hold on to your seat...HEE HAW.

[@TheGreenDragon7777]

They also tried it out in the 80s too.

[@hoss73ford]

Pat Morita literally became a star on Happy Days so they figured a show of his own would be a sure thing but Mr T & Tina was awful. I think I watched one episode. By then I had pretty much got away from TV. I preferred being in the garage working on something.

[@morgan8757]

if I recall correctly struck by lightning only lasted two weeks

[@agriperma]

had to look that up, only 3 episodes aired. but what was really interesting was, there were 11 episodes made. I wonder if those episodes are in storage somewhere.

[@paulcoy9060]

Based on the intro, it looks like Jack Elam is Igor, and the guy inherits his family's castle, and learns he is a Frankenstein. Igor, or, a modified Adam.

[@StopFear]

Wow. Mr.T & Tina is so bizarre and racist. How could people of the time not acknowledge what garbage it was?

[@luisreyes1963]

A slapdash Sitcom featuring an archetypical Japanese family, a white woman for the guy's kids & a "hip" black dude for diversity. What could go wrong? 😧

[@MegaPrankzter]

Wow the Arnie credits seem very dated even for 70s. More 60s.

[@davidwise3426]

Moses The Lawgiver was a good mini-series actually. Dull intro though.

[@steven2212]

Some truly bad television.

[@recordman64]

If you want your show to tank, just cast Tammy Lauren. She's the kiss of death for most TV shows.

[@telenostalgiker]

In Deutschland kennt man nur ''Spencer's Pilots'', auch bekannt als ''Spencers Piloten'' (1977, Deutsches Fernsehen).

[@jeffbarnes54]

How many flop sitcoms did they try with Stockard Channing? They all lasted like three episodes, much like all of these shows. You can tell the networks had little faith in them by the cheap production values of the intros. "Here, have Stockard run around a used car lot in gym shorts" that will be the opening.".

[@zaq55]

@ 3:23 - John Prine on the theme song

[@StopFear]

The 70s were an ugly brownish yellow time. Of course not everything and not everywhere was ugly. But the tastes were worse than they were before or after.

[@LePrince1890]

The historical or semi-historical shows ("Henry VIII", "Moses", "America") were quite good. But "The Texas Wheelers" and "Mr. T. And Tina"? From the sublime to the ridiculous. And Pat Morita gave up his regular slot in "Happy Days" as the owner of "Arnolds" for the shot in "Mr. T."!

[@DavidBDavis-lz7bt]

He did come back to Happy Days for awhile. Arnold came home.🌞

[@Portugal2025]

So glad Pat Morita managed to find deserved fame as Mr Miyagi and not have these dreck comedies as his legacy though he was funny in many better 70s comedies

[@catmandude1800]

I actually liked Just Friends and Struck By Lightning. Channing and Gerit Graham [ Used Cars & Phantom of the Paradise] were great together. Jack Elam was pretty cool as Frankenstein's creature in SBL.

[@luisreyes1963]

CatmanDude Stockard Channing's sitcom was a starchy, ingratiating & talky sitcom that had nothing going for it. Arnie was probably 50x funnier.

[@ferociousgumby]

Is Mr. T and Tina kind of like Jack Douglas and Reiko?

[@muddyduck64]

BBC programming should not be rated as good or bad... its trying to be educational, not entertaining.

[@heatherferreira4225]

It sure seems Boyett/Miller secretly planted a bomb underneath "Out of the Blue" to make sure that series never took off. I really don't think you can produce a less appealing TV show opening. Was it Brogan who pissed them off, I wonder, or the Kalishes?

[@luisreyes1963]

Not everything Miller, Milkis & Boyett touched turned to gold. Shoulda stuck with Happy Days & Laverne and Shirley.

[@recordman64]

This was probably the most obscure Happy Days spinoff. Brogan's character of Random the angel was introduced on Happy Days.

[@jsat5609]

Struck by Lightning was a sitcom about the Frankenstein Monster. It was apparently so bad, it only lasted for 3 episodes in the US: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Struck_by_Lightning_(TV_series)

[@luisreyes1963]

It was put out of its misery (along with fellow CBS Sitcom turkey, The Last Resort) by Eight Is Enough on ABC & Real People on NBC.

[@recordman64]

Produced by Arthur Fellows, who used to be Quinn Martin's right-hand man. He probably regretted leaving the comfort of QM for this crap.

[@archer1949]

What the hell was “Struck By Lightning”?

[@luisreyes1963]

A subpar sitcom that ran on CBS in 1979. It got cancelled after 3 episodes.

[@recordman64]

Frankenstein done as a sitcom, with Jack Elam slumming as the famous monster.

[@jerseytomato100]

Caren Kaye (Blansky's Beauties) was so pretty

[@zzzombie888]

I was crushin on her in the 80's #ItsYourMove

[@muddyduck64]

how many happy days spin-offs were there?

[@bobbyslater1198]

Never heard of her but now that I've seen her... WOW!

[@recordman64]

@@bobbyslater1198 You need to see her best-known role, in the movie My Tutor. She's absolutely ravishing in a bikini, and I think she's topless in it as well.

[@the-chillian]

Scott Baio's career has been one dumpster fire after another, hasn't it? He even joined _Happy Days_ the season it literally jumped the shark.

[@zapkvr]

Hey Joanie loves Ciaci was a hit in these parts

[@zapkvr]

ChrisC and he will be in Trumps cabinet so it all worked out

[@OldsVistaCruiser]

He also backed Trump, another loser.

[@ravenkahne8484]

Scott Baio proved you dont need talent to get a paycheck in Hollywood.

[@tammyparish263]

How rude!

[@charlessedlacek5754]

How true!

[@rbbonotto]

'Out of the Blue' looks painful. Poor Eileen Heckert.

[@bryanburnap4537]

Why do I find the Smothers Brothers so not funny at all !! I understand they were supposed to be cutting edge and politically aware and used humor to talk about social issues of the time and that is great and all. But Im 49 and maybe just don't get it but they were not funny !! Sorry

[@TimelordR]

What was it that made Chicago a magnet for inane sitcoms during the 70's?

[@zapkvr]

There was literally nothing wrong with the VI wives of Henry VIII why would you say there is?

[@zapkvr]

whom would literally say that

[@annapaulikonis2433]

Kevin Russell I remember that being an excellent 📺 series along with the life of LeonardoDiVinci.

[@RaveDave871]

Just Friends sooo boring title, but probly ratings winner if 🏐🏐 to name it Just F*kbuds 😛