1972-73 Short-Lived TV Shows

[@OsbornTramain]

I had forgotten how well "Bridget loves bernie" had done in the ratings. My Mom loved the show and we watched it as a family every week. We were an Irish family living in NY with many close Jewish friends. We totally loved the humor. I remember how sorry my Mom was when it was cancelled

[@Blaqjaqshellaq]

I think it was based on the play ABIE'S IRISH ROSE.

[@ApothecaryGrant]

I was a little kid in heavily French affected Cajun Lafayette Louisiana … new cultures ( to me ) fascinated me . Not a lot if Irish and even less Jewish influence here and then .

[@frankdenardo8684]

@@ApothecaryGrant The opening is kind of cute 😍

[@arthurcrunden6107]

Their real marriage turned out to be a nightmare

[@ApothecaryGrant]

@@arthurcrunden6107 I’ll say

[@denisesmith2745]

Thank you so much !!! It’s Easter Sunday, and my wonderful parents have both passed. Your video made me feel like I did once upon a time and they were sitting here with me❤

[@robertsretrorewind5853]

I'm glad I could help with some nostalgia, in going back a number of years. Have a happy Easter Denise!

[@denisesmith2745]

@@robertsretrorewind5853 Thank You, Robert!!! You made mine so happy !!! Happy Easter to you, too !!!! I got to be transported back in time

[@jackwells8107]

I'm amazed at the number of variety shows that were released each year.

[@timburr4453]

Always loved Sandy Duncan. Thought she was beautiful, fun, and full of life and energy. Picking up some Wheat Thins right now!

[@Rockhound6165]

You can see the tumor surgery messed up her left eye. In the Wheat Thins commercial her left eye is looking slightly to the left but at the end of the intro of her TV show her eyes were symmetrical. IIRC she had almost no vision in her left eye. She was still cute as corn but it's a shame her health issue derailed a promising TV show.

[@halseyknox]

She was/is still cute. My mom ate wheat thins all the time and I occasionally still do....ah the good old days when we were still kids and those familiar faces were alive and young.....fun watching this stuff, it's going to be a long night 😁

[@everetttauscher8377]

I had a crush on her.

[@milesmayhem5440]

My sisters and I would always try figure out which one was her glass eye.

[@millenniumman75]

Contrary to popular belief, she does not have a glass eye. They were able to save her eye, but not her vision. The optic nerve was affected by the tumor. The issue was that she had complained of headaches toward the end of Funny Face's filming in 1971. They put the show on hiatus to allow her to go through the surgery and recovery. Any kind of eye issue is scary when there is a potential to lose vision.

[@musicroom7185]

I am loving these compilations! Especially enjoy the trivia following telling Nielson rankings etc. Thanks for your efforts!

[@robertsretrorewind5853]

Thank you very much! More to come!

[@b3j8]

Of this bunch SEARCH was by far my absolute favorite! The concept of the miniature camera pendant, and other electronic goodies, were yrs ahead of their time. Stories were good, and Angel Thomkins was easy on the eyes.

[@robertsretrorewind5853]

Yes to 'Search', and on Angel Thomkins! I especially like the Tony Franciosa episodes. Extra bonus, that Anitra Ford and Annette O'Toole were in the same episode!

[@ogami1972]

this was really, really well done. i really liked the little touches of commercials for context, etc. good job!

[@robertsretrorewind5853]

Awesome! Thank you!

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

One.moment.please.

[@darrelldavis9402]

I really like these! Thank you for doing them. This is when I was in junior high and high school and watched a lot of television. Back then the new season was a big deal and a special copy of the tv section would come out. Even if I had not seen the show back then, it usually has actors in it that I am familiar with and it is interesting to see what they were starring in at that time.

[@robertsretrorewind5853]

Thank you Darrell! I like the familiarity (myself) with knowing the actors, especially the character actors. I love playing a game, that whenever I watch a QM Production, I try to name the actor's name before they announce it in the credits.

[@cbalducc]

Richard Widmark’s “Madigan” was part of NBC’s “Wednesday Mystery Movie” wheel series. To my knowledge, “Quincy” was the only one to become a hit.

[@CrazyCooter-ld6sz]

I miss the catchy theme songs on old shows. Most rarely even have one anymore.

[@robertsretrorewind5853]

Exactly!

[@CarolinaPine]

Amen!

[@goodoldbubba6620]

Yes. I miss every element to be honest. The shows had actual writing. The stars were actually just that- stars. I do miss those days. The really sad part is I should not have to because it ought to still be this way.

[@TuckFrump-r9h]

They take valuable air time. But Curb Your Enthusiasm has a memorable one, which I think nods to the Dick Van Dyke show of the early 1960s.

[@CrazyCooter-ld6sz]

@@TuckFrump-r9h most of the old ones like welcome back kotter, taxi, Barney miller, magnum p.i., green acres, love boat, Adams family, A team, hardcastle and McCormack, b.j. and the bear, Dallas, green acres, Munsters and numerous others were fairly short. I would say some left you wanting more and were even better than the actual show itself. I remember waiting for the intros to many shows to come on and just go ready for the show. Chips, Dukes of Hazzard, magnum, six million dollar man incredible hulk, Baretta, Rockford Files, Jeffersons, All in the family, etc. Just iconic. Man I couldn't wait to hear the first few bars of some of these. Anyway, I could name a bunch. Those were the days (get it)

[@mjg263]

Wow, Burns and Schreiber was only on for one year? I must’ve seen every single one of them, I thought that show was on for a while and I never missed it. Circle of Fear with Sebastian Cabot and Ghost Story, never missed ‘em!

[@cbalducc]

Burns and Schneider worked together in the 1960s.

[@SirManfly]

Some of these shows we used to get in my part of the world like Search, Banyon and Ghost Story. Never missed an episode of any of these !!

[@LostTV-sy3gb]

Thanks for this video. I've found many of these shows on KZbin thanks to you.

[@robertsretrorewind5853]

You're welcome! Thanks for watching!

[@AusNetFan13]

I love the series Search. The pilot episode title was Probe. They couldn’t use the Probe name as another show already had that name. I’m glad about 10 years ago Warner Brothers released the series on DVD. I got a copy for me. Would love to see a Blu Ray version. I really hated the time slot it was in. I greatly miss that series.

[@toma2233]

Wednesdays were my TV day - Mystery movie (really loved Banacek and Cool Million) followed by Search, then over to PBS for Monty Python, No Honestly, and finally the International Animation Film Festival. Stayed up way too late on Wednesdays.

[@AusNetFan13]

@@toma2233 I love Jean Marsh of International Animation Film Festival. She was also on Twilight Zone.

[@miz_logo_lee]

I loved the TV Guide Fall Preview synopses. I collected the magazine (sadly no longer have the copies) and would try to guess which shows would last. I was a tween.

[@frankdenardo8684]

Those fall preview issues are fetching a lot of money these days. Each week, a new show with the title of the series, a photo of the celebrities, synopsis, or premise of the series, includes debut date, network, and time slot.

[@CraigBarron-z4f]

Anna and the King was a lovely show.....It aired in Australia when I was 12 and I thoroughly enjoyed it, "etc., etc., etc.,!!"

[@SirManfly]

Some of these shows were good like Banyon too but most of them were forgettable !

[@MONGOOSE1ful]

The 1972-1973 TV season was of particular interest to me, because at that time, i was a Sixth Grader in Oahu's Mail'i Elementary School, and I did poorly, but my Primetime TV viewing that season was pretty active, and one of the TV shows that caught my eye in 1972, was NBC's "SEARCH", launched from NBC WORLD PREMEIRE's TV movie, "Probe" in February 1972, the Warner Brothers produced TV series was actually TV's first "spy fi" series, due to its unique "high tech" content, as well as being the creation of Leslie Stevens, the man who was responsible for "THE OUTER LIMITS" (1963-65), "STONEY BURKE" (1962-63), and "THE NAME OF THE GAME" (1968-1971), this NBC series used the rotational format, with Hugh 'O Brian, reprising his role as "Lockwood" from "Probe", along Doug McClure as "CR Grover", and Tony Franciosa as "Nick Bianco", with Burgess Meredith as "VCR Cameron", overlord of Probe Control, Unit One, a NASA like room, filled with computers and other technical equipment, as Probe was a division of private firm, World Securities Corporation, which was something of "space age detective agency, with their agents called "Probes", as "Hugh Lockwood", a former NASA Astronaut turned private investigator for Probe Control, using technology that was some thirty or more years ahead of its time! The NBC series ran for only 23 episodes, and loyal fans had to wait until early 2014, when Warner Archive finally released the series on MOD DVD. Another Primetime 1972 favorite, of course, was ABC's "THE MEN", whose Trilogy TV shows, "THE DELPHI BUREAU", "ASSIGNMENT VIENNA", and "JIGSAW", were also of interest to watch, but "THE DELPHI BUREAU", which was created by "THE MAN FROM UNCLE" creator, Sam Rolfe (who also created "HAVE GUN, WILL TRAVEL" in the 1950s), was my ultimate favorite out of the three rotation shows (The Theme to "THE MEN" was done by Issac Hayes, composer of "SHAFT"), otherwise, most of Primetime TV in the 1972-73 season was memorable, and fun to watch!

[@robertsretrorewind5853]

Thank you for sharing that! I really like 'Search' as well, especially Tony Franciosa's character. Lots of great information in your post!

[@MONGOOSE1ful]

What made "SEARCH" exceptional, was some of the producers, of the series like Robert H. Justman, who was also an associate producer for "STAR TREK", and also worked for Leslie Stevens' Daystar Productions in the early 1960s on both "STONEY BURKE" and "OUTER LIMITS" as a first assistant director. Justman was later replaced by Anthony Spinner, who was also a producer of "THE MAN FROM UNCLE" and associate producer on Quinn Martin's "THE INVADERS", but "SEARCH" really had something of a science fiction look to it, which made it a "spy-fi" series, and the first of its type! many of the series' sound effects were also used on "STAR TREK" and "LOST IN SPACE", along with many of the computer props that were used in Irwin Allen's TV series. After "SEARCH" was canceled in 1973, Hanna-Barbera Productions produced a cartoon series for NBC's Saturday Morning lineup called "BUTCH CASSIDY" which also borrowed some of "SEARCH"s high-tech concepts. portions of The Probe Control sets were later used in other TV shows like "QUARK", "THE NEW ADVENTURES OF WONDER WOMAN", and "THE FANTASTIC JOURNEY" as all these TV shows were all filmed at The Burbank Studios in the 1970s.@@robertsretrorewind5853

[@Chartreuse03]

I was 7-8 years old then, and Circle of Fear was really scary. I vaguely remember Madigan, Cool Million, and Banacek in some kind of Wednesday rotation; I liked Madigan the most.

[@davidmitchell6873]

They reran the Paul Lynde show on MeTv a few years ago on Saturday late nights.

[@robertsretrorewind5853]

Very cool!

[@JoeMahan]

Great job. Search had a good theme song. I didn't know Robert Conrad had so many one season shows.

[@robertsretrorewind5853]

Thank you Joe! I LOVE that theme song. I had to get "creative" to make it work. There's no way I couldn't have that in the video. That's right about Robert Conrad.

[@ScottLuvsRenFaires]

Even though I LOVE The Wild Wild West, I have to say that I think Robert Conrad was not that great as an actor. Great in a fight scene, and good looking, but really pretty wooden.

[@danl4238]

7:45 Wow. That's a long forgotten relic of the past. Instantly transported me back in time 50 years. Thanks including it!

[@robertsretrorewind5853]

I'm glad you appreciated that; and first person to point it out btw!

[@markjamesmeli2520]

Wow!! You really set some memories loose on me. I must've spent a LOT of time watching TV that year. I remember nearly all of them.

[@millenniumman75]

3:38 - the New Bill Cosby Show Theme in 1972 would become the theme to The CBS game show Now You See It with Jack Narz in 1973. The theme was written by Quincy Jones. Another track on this album was the theme to Sanford and Son from the same period.

[@InappropriateFab]

I remember when 'Bridget Loves Bernie' premiered and reading that some people were scandalized by it. Thankfully a lot has changed since then.

[@jeffw1267]

Not sure I'd necessarily agree with the "thankfully" part. We've definitely got more Sodom and Gomorrah going on these days.

[@adambaum9732]

How about this idea for a show, "Bridget Fonda Loves Bernie Sanders"?

[@frankdenardo8684]

@@adambaum9732 That's a real knee slapper.

[@morganm9040]

I was 9 when these were on my buddy and I watched Ghost Story / Circle of Fear until it stopped. Corner Bar with Anne Meara (Ben’s mom) Stiller looked good. Anything with Shelley Fabares! Bridget Loves Bernie with Mrs. Roper! Audra Lindsey. Garry Marshall was trying out lots of things until he hit gold with Happy Days,etc.

[@robertsretrorewind5853]

Yes, anything with Shelley Fabares!

[@nassauguy48]

A lot of these shows were socially groundbreaking, but the general audience was judged as not being ready for them. I remember an episode of The Brady Bunch in which friends of Mike and Carol Brady (the husband was played by Ken Berry) had adopted three boys from different races (Asian, Black, White) and were facing criticism from friends, neighbors and relatives. This was supposed to be a spinoff series, but it never happened.

[@Rockhound6165]

Actually only the neighbor gave them guff about it.

[@RevLeigh55]

I believe it was called Kelly’s’ Kids. I think there was a pilot episode.

[@chevycamaro78]

@@RevLeigh55 The Brady Bunch episode was the pilot episode.

[@EdKazO-Vision]

Why did these shows bomb? They kept casting the same six people over and over. Great job putting this painful exercise together!

[@robertsretrorewind5853]

Thank you!

[@petercourtien4581]

LOL…Police and Detective dramas with men in their 50s galore. Variety shows too!

[@Rockhound6165]

A big reason for bombing was the time they were on Summer TV shows rarely did well which is why the more successful regular season shows weren't on but in reruns.

[@mikematusek4233]

Wow, I remember some. what would TV look like today with just 3 networks? I always thought that Bridget Loves Bernie, and Anna And The King had longer runs.

[@heidifedor]

I didn’t know William Castle also produced television. He’s mostly known for 1950’s/1960’s B-movie schlock.

[@kevinhouse4376]

Castle also produced the classic horror film "Rosemary's Baby."

[@afwalker1921]

Castle and Corman... never forget...

[@kirkrjb]

I can remember several of those shows. We had just gotten cable so we, as a family, wanted to checkout every channel and each show.

[@ApothecaryGrant]

I miss the style of this age . The presentation . The polish .

[@j.tshark3313]

Corner Bar while it had 16 episode it was part of the wave of Summer shows that networks had in the 70's and 80's. It ran for two summers

[@robertsretrorewind5853]

That's true. I generally stick with shows that lasted for just under a year, but I make exceptions here and there. Seeing how it only had 16 episodes, I felt like I had to include it. Also, I don't know if I'll ever get a chance to mention it again (in future videos). Too (relatively) obscure to pass on.

[@frankdenardo8684]

​@@robertsretrorewind5853I believe the TV show Cheers was loosely based on the Corner Bar that aired in the 1970s. Cheers ran from 1982 to 1993.

[@geoffreyfox9801]

The Julie Andrews Hour was excellent. I bought a bunch of bootleg DVDs on the internet. I love them, Julie sang beautifully in each episode. She had Rich Little on as a regular, and he was great. I wish a box set of the DVDs would be released for sale. Also, music CDs, Julie sang many contemporary songs and did them well. She had some fantastic guest stars: Angela Lansbury and Mama Cass Elliot.

[@oliverbrownlow5615]

PBS should restore these wonderful shows and re-air them as they did the Judy Garland shows and the Julie Andrews version of Rodgers & Hammerstein's *Cinderella* (1957).

[@TEMindset83702]

I saw Sandy Duncan on Broadway 40 years ago when she played Peter Pan. She was wonderful. And ticket prices were affordable for college students.

[@oksteve6368]

I'm 56 and I remember some of these shows(don't ask me how).I remember The Bobby Darrin Show.Unfortunately,his show went off because he died in '73.Much too soon.Keep up the good work.I enjoy taking a trip to the past and seeing again what tv was like back then.I didn't see most of these shows because my parents and I were usually watching the popular shows like everyone else.

[@robertsretrorewind5853]

Thank you Steve! More to come...

[@ApothecaryGrant]

I am 55 and I too have snippets of memory from back then . Don’t ask what I had for breakfast , though . I wouldn’t know

[@frankdenardo8684]

​@@bobdavis4848He was Dean Martin's summer replacement in 1972 with a show titled "Dean Martin Presents: The Bobby Darin Amusement Company." Interesting fact about Darin is his last name Darin was from a club he saw called the Mandarin. All they did was drop man.

[@frankdenardo8684]

@@bobdavis4848 I remember watching a documentary about the life and times of Bobby Darin. He was a talented singer and actor who unfortunately had a bad heart and he passed away before Christmas of 1973. Was married to actress Sandra Dee who appeared in Come September. It has been 50 years since his passing but his legacy lives on. The music on my channel is what I grew up listening to. My dad has albums of Johnny Mathis, Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughn, Julie London and I inherited his collection after he passed away.

[@geoffreylee5199]

When networks had summer replacement shows to test future programming ideas, or bought programs from UK to fill spring or summer time slots.

[@Jdwify]

I very much remember the show Circle of Fear. My parents went out on Friday nights, so I would watch that when they were gone. I remember one episode where a man kills his wife, buried her in the shed, then sees his actions on his TV. At the end, she is digging herself out of the ground to come back from the dead. Many of the episodes were really creepy.

[@Fungii001]

That EP is called "The Dead We Leave Behind." It stars Jason Robards and Stella Stevens and if you search KZbin for that title the EP is available to watch, it's the full episode and free.

[@artykohl1118]

I covered my eyes when they came for him, in shadowy figures. Jason Robbards was good in "The Dead We Leave Behind." That was the first in regular series. The Pilot, "The New House," was the scariest. Months before the series began. But later they got less scary.

[@rebeccareisner7722]

This was fun. Thanks for compiling.

[@robertsretrorewind5853]

I'm glad to hear that! Thank you Rebecca!

[@SuperBeachbum74]

Loved the Bobby Darin show, deserved better. Also loved Banyon, a Bogart type detective !

[@JohnSmith-pn4it]

It's interesting to note the common denominators between the shows that were successful then and the ones that weren't. The ones that made it were edgy for the time, had a solid concept, great writing, great characters with good chemistry and of course, a memorable theme song. One thing a lot of these shows had in common was that network executives didn't like them. The ones that bombed were probably usually the idea of a network executive who was either stuck in the past or treated tv viewers like they were 12 years old.

[@cbalducc]

Sometimes, netwood executives didn’t like good shows.

[@martinhyizna3299]

Bridget Loves Bernie was somewhat controversial if you can believe that, due to its religious comingling theme.

[@DaleRibbons]

I vaguely remember seeing Anna & the King, Search, Here We Go Again, A Touch Of Grace, Bridget Loves Bernie, and the Burns & Schreiber Comedy Hour. My parents must have watched at least one episode of each. But the one I remember best is Ghost Story/Circle Of Fear. It was one of those shows that was scarier when I was a child than when I was an adult.

[@knife-wieldingspidergod5059]

Ghost Story/Circle of Fear episodes are still pretty scary for me as I just recently discovered this TV show.

[@jeraldbaxter3532]

Will you be including "Kolchak: The Nightstalker," and "Hot L Baltimore" in your episode for '74 - '75?

[@robertsretrorewind5853]

Definitely. I like that you cited "Hot L Baltimore" in particular!

[@jeraldbaxter3532]

@@robertsretrorewind5853 Thank you!

[@knife-wieldingspidergod5059]

@@robertsretrorewind5853 can you do a deep dive on Kolchak: The Nightstalker TV show?

[@Rockhound6165]

The Nightstalker is an interesting one as the TV movie from 1972 was a ratings boon(54 share which is incredible) but the TV show, probably because it was produced 2 years too late, flopped. I loved it myself and on, I believe, Retro it was being aired on Saturday nights. I liked Hot L Baltimore as well. The show may have flopped but James Cromwell, Richard Mazur, Conchita Ferrell, and Charlotte Rae went on to bigger and better things. I believe Hot L Baltimore was the first TV show to have a openly gay couple on it but I could be wrong.

[@jeraldbaxter3532]

@@Rockhound6165 I have never liked horror \ suspense movies or tv (my ceiling for suspense is somewhere around "will Lassie be able to save the day?!") but, with that said,I love "The Nightstalker".How or why it got around my tension threshold I have no idea. Friday nights, circa that one year, I would eat supper, then go to my room, lay in bed, in the dark and watch " The Donnie and Marie Hour" (my excuse was that it preceeded "Nightstalker" and "Hot L Baltimore" and I'm sticking with it). My parents didn't understand why I liked "Nightstalker," and they would have been shocked, to say the least, at "Hot L Baltimore," if they'd ever bothered to watch an episode. But they did not, so I have that happy memory to hold on to.

[@mrled8555]

I never heard of Corner Bar but from the look of the intro it was a prototype for Cheers. I didnt know all these shows were on during the year i graduated high school. Guess i was busy😅

[@steelers6titles]

TV popularity is unpredictable. Yul Brynner played the King of Siam onstage in thousands of performances, and the movie "The King And I" was a big hit. Yet he could not succeed in the same role on the small screen. Maybe the lack of the hit score had something to do with it. This is a puzzlement.

[@oliverbrownlow5615]

A bigger puzzlement is why this series has never been released on any form of home media or streaming.

[@paulkitt-er9dr]

Another wonderful compilation of short lived tv shows..Corner Bar looked an early variation of cheers, thicker than blood with Julie Harris and Richard long looked interesting, jigsaw with James Wainwright deserved a longer run.

[@robertsretrorewind5853]

Many thanks Paul!

[@porflepopnecker4376]

Very entertaining video! Well done.

[@robertsretrorewind5853]

Thank you kindly!

[@fromthesidelines]

Bobby Darin had previously hosted Dean Martin's 1972 summer replacement, "DEAN MARTIN PRESENTS THE BOBBY DARIN AMUSEMENT CO.". It was successful enough for the network to ask for a mid-season replacement, featuring Darin in a more traditional comedy/variety format. It tanked......and sadly, Bobby died at the end of 1973.

[@gregmark1688]

It was pretty tragic, really. He was just making a kind of a comeback (or trying to), after having been huge 10 years previously. I grew up with his music, my parents loved him.

[@janetwilhelm4435]

I love Bobby Darin and his Shows! Miss him so Much!❤

[@thunderdeed1]

My grandmother loved the show Banyon.

[@yankeechicken61]

Search is still a favorite of mine, to this day. I saw them all first run and now I own the series on DVD. Ahead of it’s time.

[@robertsretrorewind5853]

Definitely! I love that intro, and they did a really great job on those transfers.

[@GeorgeMaster-xg7lg]

Two shows I can think of from the 1972-73 season are The Paul Lynde Show and the reboot of I've Got A Secret with Steve Allen as host.

[@ScottLuvsRenFaires]

Even though I was barely a teenager, I liked A Touch of Grace with Shirley Booth and J. Pat O'Malley.

[@robertsretrorewind5853]

I can appreciate that someone (here) saw it! On another note, Marian Mercer is a definite bright spot when she was on "It's a Living".

[@frankdenardo8684]

​@@robertsretrorewind5853 I remember Shirley Booth from her Oscar winning role in the movie Come Back Little Sheba and the TV show Hazel.

[@Markus465]

At first, I was kind of surprised at the large price tag on the complete season of Ghost Story aka Circle of Fear on DVD. Then realized that it's made on demand so the high price for it makes sense.

[@robertsretrorewind5853]

I bought "Angie" for about $30 on Amazon two years ago, it was at $10 about a year ago, and now it's up to $100 (if it's even in stock). I wanted to buy "Barnaby Jones", it was at roughly $50 a year ago, the last time I had checked, it was priced well over $100!

[@fromthesidelines]

"HALF THE GEORGE KIRBY COMEDY HOUR" was produced in Canada (by Winters-Rosen Productions), and initially telecast on the CTV network. It also had about half the production budget of American variety shows. Westinghouse syndicated the series in the United States- and like most syndicated variety shows of the 1970's, lasted one season.

[@fromthesidelines]

17:52- Robert Kaufman had previously written an episode of "I DREAM OF JEANNIE" during its first season. But creator/producer Sidney Sheldon wasn't satisfied with his first draft script, "Oh, Them Golden Slippers" (for one thing, there was no "Doctor Bellows" in the story). Sheldon, however, agreed to buy Kaufman's script and produce it- provided he rewrote it and share screen credit with him. Bob agreed.....and it became "My Master, the Thief" {April 2, 1966}.

[@fromthesidelines]

Fred Silverman *really* wanted Sandy Duncan's second series to succeed. He even went so far as to insist she appear a guest on "THE NEW SCOOBY-DOO MOVIES" {"Sandy Duncan's Jekyll and Hyde", October 21, 1972}, so that kids would notice her and be encouraged to watch her that Saturday night [he was well known for cross-promoting his network's stars on other programs, including their variety shows and specials].

[@tomloft2000]

I think they were hoping she would catch on like Doris Day,but it didn't happen.

[@davanmani556]

I’m surprised that he didn’t get Jane Pauley.

[@fromthesidelines]

She was a reporter at WISH-TV in Indianapolis, Indiana at the time.

[@fromthesidelines]

Yes, Fred Silverman promoted her on their show as well. I still recall the "McTavish Aspirin" musical commercial parody she did during her appearance.

[@alangray9117]

Robert Conrad just before he started doing Ray O Vac battery commercials and because a pop culture icon.

[@Kw1161]

Thanks for the memories. I remember Banachek one of my dad’s favorite and Madagan which as 12 to 13 year old…😮! Now I see the appeal, I remember Tony F’s show, and later in the 80’s in one of my favorite 80’s Twilight Zone reboot episodes “Crazy as a soup sandwich “ where he played the head Demon that was (helping?) a loser trying to get his soul back. I liked Tony’s show because all the agents carried those neat cameras on a pendant…never can happen today…😂! Dad had the TV when Bridget Loves Bernie came on so…don’t remember seeing an episode of it. The Circle of Fear I remember seeing with Mr French the narrator. Too bad he died soon after,along with Bobby Darin whose show I’ve only seen in parts is on KZbin. Allot of the other shows were on after I was supposed to be in bed so…they will live on your video. Have a great day!

[@robertsretrorewind5853]

Thank you, and you too!

[@rft2001]

Ghost Story/Circle Of Fear is one of my favorites of all time. Probably my favorite horror tv series ever. We watched it all of the time growing up and even in reruns up until the late 80's. Now, I have the dvd set. I also remember watching The Paul Lynde Show and The Sandy Duncan Show and enjoyed both.

[@georgecoons6872]

wow i came into this crummie world in 1967 and still cant remember seeing 1.

[@MrDRUID27]

I remember a lot of these shows. I was about 11/13. I liked Corner Bar and watched it. My father who passed in 2015 at 92 said a lady who was on that show was from LYH VA. That is where I live. Recently my brother found her picture in an E.C. Glass year book. Cool!

[@robertsretrorewind5853]

That's awesome! Thanks for sharing that!

[@bobtnner]

I was in junior high during this time frame, just started noticing the opposite sex and I sure noticed Sandy Duncan and her tight sweaters and Shelley Fabares and her long silky hair. Also, it should be noted that Funny Face, as mentioned here was Sandy's first show and was doing very well in the ratings but was halted when Sandy fell ill with a brain tumor which eventually cost her one of her eyes. When she recovered, her show became The Sandy Duncan Show, which did not do well in the ratings.

[@jonnywyattgreengreen3301]

Brilliant Video. I watched Anna as a kid in the uk . The Search was brilliant show .definitely should got more seasons .I watched in the 1970s in my teens in uk bbc tv . I got the series on Dvd .

[@robertsretrorewind5853]

Thank you Jonny!

[@sandrap6321]

Sat if front of a TV my entire childhood & realize now how much I absorbed & was shaped by it. Sandy Duncan & Mary Tyler Moore & Julie Andrew's were big role models. Seems like early TV tried to be a moral compass...not like today where anything & everything goes on TV & internet. Grateful to be a Baby Boomer.

[@Markus465]

Did Burns and Schreiber do another variety show? I seem to recall watching them and I enjoyed the show (as a 7 & 8 year old kid). I thought it went longer than 4 episodes. LOL

[@mjg263]

I thought the same thing. Maybe the few shows they did were very memorable lol!

[@MountPindos]

I *think* they were semi-regulars on the Dean Martin show. ?

[@waynetompkins3006]

I remember their Doritos commercials.

[@robertversluis5744]

Your compilations are fantastic. I have worked in television for twenty years. I have worked for the heads of ABC (L.Braun) CBS (Lesley Moonves) NBC(Jeff Zucker) and FOX(Gail Berman) so I know how all of this works, and this is just wonderful. I hope the 80's and 90's are coming! Great!!!

[@robertsretrorewind5853]

I really appreciate that Robert! That's very encouraging. I'm definitely going to be covering the '80s (and the '60s) over the coming months. Needless to say, you have a fantastic resume! Wow, all four networks! Thanks for watching. More to come...

[@CUDA1970Terry]

Banyon and Burns & Schreiber Hour are the only two that ring a bell. Burns & Schreiber was pretty good. Enjoyed their banter.

[@TonyBaseballs23]

"Search" was awesome! I would've been 10-11 years old during this TV season and I still remember that show.

[@edgardagosto1917]

Those 8TRACK tape days

[@arkady714]

First off, thank you for taking the time and trouble to create this interesting video. One thing of note was just how many people thought that David Birney was Jewish in real life. He wasn't.

[@robertsretrorewind5853]

Thank you kindly!

[@frankdenardo8684]

​@robertsretrorewind5853 I'm a Catholic, and my girlfriend is Protestant. We are both Christians ✝️

[@waynetompkins3006]

I didn't know that. He was Irish Protestant and like many people, I had always believed he was Jewish.

[@waynetompkins3006]

The other one that threw me was Paul Sand. Because of his name and the types of characters he played, I always thought he was a Jewish guy from Brooklyn. He was actually born Pablo Sanchez to Mexican-American parents in East LA.

[@robertsretrorewind5853]

@@waynetompkins3006 Interesting that you bring Paul Sand up, I was just doing some research on him an hour (or so) ago.

[@margaretpratt5963]

The Julie Andrew’s show was fantastic. Great production values. I was so disappointed when it was canceled.

[@fromthesidelines]

Helen Reddy was Flip Wilson's 1973 summer replacement.

[@lindawilliams141]

Hollywood was thinking if they're stars on the "Silver Screen," it would be the same on television!! Some did, some didn't.

[@texterity3873]

I loved the world of network TV back then.

[@fromthesidelines]

*WHY* "THE CORNER BAR"? Martin Starger, ABC's chief programmer from 1969 through 1975, was a close friend of comedian Alan King, who produced the series. He gave King three shots at making the series a success (the first time was a 1971 unaired pilot, "THE BAR", featuring Fred Gwynne)........and struck out on all three. Starger was also buddies with Lew Grade, who was head of ITC and the ATV network in England. That's why Julie Andrews got her own variety show in the 1972-'73 season.

[@robertsretrorewind5853]

Great posts, very informative! Thank you!

[@fromthesidelines]

You're VERY welcome!

[@williamdavis3609]

Really loved Search. Hated when it was cancelled. The original pilot/ movie with Hugh O brian and Elle summer you can still occasionally find.

[@wyldemusick]

I appreciate what appears to be a gag with "Search" -- are you referencing the title change there? I remember seeing a couple of episodes in England, at my Grandad's house and it actually carried both titles as "Search/Probe" though Wikipedia coaims it went out as "Search Control." Interesting series in that it lifted the rotating lead from "The Name Of The Game" -- and one of that show's leads as well.

[@robertsretrorewind5853]

No, I had to do that as a workaround. Not all clips/scenes are accepted when uploading them. I had to be a bit "creative" working-in that particular intro. Believe you me, that's one of the best intros (song & design) I can think of. Good call on "Search" borrowing from "The Name of the Game". It's funny, I've been rewatching "Search" episodes recently, I didn't care for Tony Franciosa the first time I watched it, and I have a completely different view of him now. He's very charismatic.

[@nickpoff1739]

I remember years later watching "Star Spangled Girl" on the late movie and realizing they swiped that shot of Sandy on the bus for her TV show.

[@robertsretrorewind5853]

Thanks for pointing that out Nick. I did find it a tad odd that she'd be sticking her head out the window when she only has one good eye left.

[@179cpv]

I actually remember “Love Thy Neighbor” and its theme song when I was a kid. “Search” had the best theme music of any unsuccessful TV series ever.

[@robertsretrorewind5853]

I completely agree with you on "Search".

[@johnclark4593]

Well, I heard the voice of The Robot from Lost in Space at least once...

[@johnclark4593]

...twice.

[@alvincash3230]

If my memory serves me correctly (I was 14 at the time), Sandy Duncan had to take a hiatus from the well received "Funny Face" to have an operation on a tumor in her eye. By the time she returned in "The Sandy Duncan Show" the momentum was lost and it flopped. I watched "Funny Face" and remember it as a cute show. But I didn't see her other show.

[@richardharepax123]

The corner bar was what precheers

[@ernestcruz6316]

One other thing about The Men: the umbrella theme song for the show was a hit single for its composer, Isaac Hayes. It gave a glimpse into what was to come, musically speaking; the song had a disco sound and beat just a couple of years before disco really became a thing. The series however...not so much. The Corner Bar featured a lot of TV commercial veterans: Bill Fiore (Right Guard's "Hi guy!" guy), Ron Carey, Shimen Ruskin, J.J. Barry, and Eugene Roche (the dishwasher guy in 1970s ads for Ajax dish soap).

[@tomloft2000]

Was The Corner Bar the springboard for Cheers?

[@msr1116]

It probably was. In some cases, a show's premise is a really good one but its success heavily depends on a variety of relatable and likeable characters and their chemistry with one another.

[@ForeignerFan74]

Thanks For Sharing!

[@robertsretrorewind5853]

Thank you for watching!

[@kbob1163]

I was 9 years old during this TV season, and most of the shows we regularly watched lasted for more than one season. However, we did watch "Bridget Loves Bernie" and "The Little People." I also remember seeing "The Burns And Schreiber Comedy Hour," and am now shocked to see that it only lasted for four episodes. I knew it was short-lived, but sheesh.

[@normanschenburn343]

I've seen Brigette Loves Bernie a couple of times when it first came out and most recently in reruns. It was in a "binge" showing weekend that one of the stations had. I only saw one or two episodes, or whatever you want to call it, of The Burns and Schreiber Comedy show. I remember seeing one while I was on vacation with my parents, and we stayed in a hotel for one night and there wasn't much to do and we had to catch a car ferry from Michigan to Wisconsin and they turned on the TV and it was on. I thought that it was funny. It wasn't until I was older that I got to really know what they did, together as a duo, like appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show, and did separately, like Burns was on an episode of Love American Style and did voice-over work. Schreiber was in My Mother the Car and appeared in the movie Scavanger Hunt. I thought that Schreiber was the funnier half.

[@CatsCrazyWorld]

Thank You for the newest entry, keep them coming!

[@robertsretrorewind5853]

Thank YOU for watching! More to come...

[@steelers6titles]

Joan Blondell played wisecracking blondes in the 1930s. Four decades later, she played a wisecracking blonde in "Banyon", set in the 1930s.

[@recordman64]

Sam Rolfe created The Delphi Bureau. It seems like that guy created a short-lived series every year in the '70's! And is that Nilsson singing the Little People theme? It sure sounds like him!

[@rdumontdebeque]

Nothing says “comedy hour” like Martin Landau and the Doobie Brothers.

[@brianarbenz1329]

I loved Brigit Loves Bernie. Their relationship was so classy. I was angry when it was pulled from the air, but in recent years I’ve understood the pleas that with no shows about Jewish families on TV since The Goldbergs in the late ‘40s, it was undercutting to Jewish Americans to essentially say that only an intermarriage can be shown.

[@davanmani556]

Would the Bob Newhart show count as that?

[@tammylewis2408]

Thirty years after BLB, the Nanny featured a Jewish character who cared for a widowed producer's three children before marrying the producer, who was British, and their wedding merged Jewish and Protestant traditions. Nobody complained about the show and is still shown in reruns.

[@TEMindset83702]

With only three main broadcast channels, ABC, CBS, and NBC, competition must have been fierce for limited airtime. These shows might have had a following on cable tv.

[@steveb1164]

"The Julie Andrewa Hour" was NOT cancelled: her contract with Lew Grade was to do a US series for one year, thaen do a series for a year in Englnd.

[@robertsretrorewind5853]

Hey Steve, I agree with what you're saying. I'm lumping (most) shows that lasted a year, together, and they did not necessarily need to be cancelled since they were just summer-fillers or something with an expiry date like "The Julie Andrews Hour". I simply label it (thumbnail) as "Short-Lived", which technically, it is a short-lived TV show. And yes, it wasn't cancelled (how I understand it).

[@oliverbrownlow5615]

Did she do the show in England?

[@ralphsanchico2452]

Madigan definitely deserved more Tube Time. Maby because I’m a native New Yorker or maby he wasn’t in good health. After all! He was getting up there in the 70’s era. But the few episodes they had were great! Oh well!

[@BruceStephan]

I miss when TV networks weren't owned by movie studios . Back then they actually tried to make TV shows and NO REALITY 💩 .

[@ricknibert6417]

There seemed to be some connection between Universal Studios and NBC. The NBC logo depicted wasn't used until 1979.

[@Oppeldeldoc1]

Burns and Schreiber are one of the most underrated comedy teams. Maybe not underrated when they were together, but when it comes to nostalgia.

[@MONGOOSE1ful]

Ironically, Burns & Schreiber also hosted ABC's 1973 Saturday Sneak Peak Preview of ABC's Saturday Morning cartoon shows (which included the debut of "SUPER FRIENDS", the second season opener of "The ABC SATURDAY SUPERSTAR MOVIE", "Lost In Space", and "LASSIE'S RESCUE RANGERS"). Burns & Schreiber also host NBC's "TWO IN A TAXI" Fall 1966 lineup (which included the debut of "STAR TREK").

[@ApothecaryGrant]

Burns was obnoxious .

[@770WT]

I thought they were sort of dull and outdated back then .

[@ApothecaryGrant]

@@770WT Schrieber wasn’t so bad . Low key humorous . Burns was annoyingly over the top . Cliff Clavin’s more annoying brother .

[@gregmark1688]

I remember thinking they were brilliant, but I was 10 or 11, so my comedy tastes were not quite fully developed, yet. Hell, I thought the Hudson Brothers Razzle Dazzle Show was probably the single funniest thing that had ever been on TV. Clearly, I had a lot to learn about humor. lolol

[@blipblip88]

...and they all appeared on Colombo at one point or another!

[@allanfolsom9369]

"The Finder" in the 90's was a great show. Only one season. Sad.

[@KRW628]

I loved Bridget Loves Bernie. I was sad they took it off... and F****N insane about WHY they took it off.

[@ronatopaz2793]

CBS were conservative and risk-averse. Ask the Smothers Brothers..

[@YouDummy]

How in the hell is there a stereo mix of Assignment Vienna?