1972 ABC Fall Preview Part 1

1972 ABC Fall Preview Part 1

[@Market-ro1gp]

Sure does bring back memories! I was 9 years old!✌️

[@anthonymeans9702]

Before the vcr.Before dvds,video stores ,dvrs and cable.Having to wait for the movie of the week to see your favorite movie after it left the theater.Those were the days.

[@laurie2346]

Shoot this ABC theme song used to make me cry like a big old baby when I heard it ... thank you for posting it, I thought I was crazy for a minute there

[@NoEntertainment]

Why did it make you cry? '~'

[@laurie2346]

Remember when these movies used to be a major event? I remember having neighbors come over to watch because we had the first color TV in my neighborhood ... we went all out with food and snacks and I don't know if my parents charged but those were the good old days

[@caliden3785]

Candace Wharton my parents had cocktail nights around anything but I would not trade my childhood for anything.my beautiful mother always sitting around our pool with a Martini and we had good times.R.I.P. Marianne Bayer you lived to be 76 you smoking everyday old woman.

[@oliviajohnjohnolivia8142]

They did 😅

[@fredvannoller3657]

This was when television was worth watching, Not the garbage of today.

[@Beowulf975]

yes

[@jonimichalski1403]

Definitely

[@christopherdunne4048]

TV has never been the same since they canceled Muffin the Mule in 1955.

[@richardduval770]

Most of these old ABC Movies of the Week are available on KZbin for free.

[@kengeorgejones6855]

Those cartoons are very creative, especially the election one. I can't imagine those TV-movies were all that hugely acclaimed...I know the Burton/Taylor one was hated all around (and the director wasn't thrilled either). Interesting to see some of the shows in their last seasons. Some didn't even last to January.

[@case139]

Periodically, ABC would set aside some time after a prime-time movie (which would purposefully have to be run short) to play these previews, usually done at the end of the prime-time lineup and just before the local news.

[@relathan1]

THAT'S when I remember seeing them. I knew I had watched these as a kid, but had no idea where they would be placed in the program schedule.

[@davidbaise5137]

I thought these promos were for the potential ad buys where the networks would preview their programs.

[@richardduval770]

The ABC MOVIE OF THE WEEK theme music is NIKKI written by Burt Bacharach.

[@bradjames6748]

My mom's favorite show was owen Marshall

[@luisreyes1963]

Doctor Doolitlle was a box office bust that somehow wound up on ABC's Sunday Night Movie.

[@furyvideo1]

Partridge family room 222 Fri night block....memories

[@oliviajohnjohnolivia8142]

Oh yeah ❤

[@jonimichalski1403]

70s tv was good Legendary classic s And Classic Stars

[@SeattleFab5]

yeah Case was right and it was also sometimes on Sunday in mid-September at 7p before the ABC Sunday Night Movie feature or series premiere of a new series

[@jamiewillkner8742]

5:13 reminds me of Alley-Oop!

[@camcordernonsense5264]

Guess I missed all these

[@AstralPixie]

7:27 the promo for the movie of the week "Haunts of the Very Rich".

[@eddyeroyal6024]

Times were uh simpler

[@jonimichalski1403]

Love Two CBS Stars being on ABC🤣🙂

[@furyvideo1]

ABC 1972....

[@jonimichalski1403]

NOT AT THE TIME BUT LATER ON ED ANSNER BE CAME EMMY AWARD WINNER. FOR MARY TYLER MOORE SHOW, AND LOU GRANT RIP ED ANSNER

[@zibbyzubb]

did these Fall Previews air on TV back then or were they meant for ABC affiliates?

[@frankdenardo8684]

zibbyzubb all ABC stations whether owned and operated by the network or an affiliate being that they are owned by third party.

[@ArmpitStudios]

Does anyone know what technology was used to create those great line graphics? Like the opening ABC logos zooming at us?

[@whatdidoursurveysay]

Armpit Studios Scanimate, probably.

[@toplonghorn]

Armpit Studios Slit scan, I think it originated with 2001: A Spade Odyssey (1968). ABC used it quite a bit soon thereafter, such as with its movie of the week opening (and this).

[@ArmpitStudios]

toplonghorn Their other animation ABC used earlier or later (probably earlier) was slitscan. But I believe supremetaco is right about this being Scanimate. It has the same look as many other Scanimate samples.

[@toplonghorn]

Armpit Studios You are correct, this is a different technology than the slit scan ABC used otherwise. I now realize the difference.

[@renn__e__7912]

0:09 The ABC Stargate

[@6400az]

Alberto Juantorena, post Olympic glory ?

[@DavidBrown-in8hi]

Good shows tooo

[@Mark-yy2py]

Good, but not as good as the 1971 fall prom.

[@darrylborgman4409]

For the life of me, outside my siblings I have never found anyone else in person that even REMEMBERS that beautiful song. But it hit me like few others, and I still hum it occasionally to this day.

[@jonimichalski9193]

Beautiful Oh Mr.Grant Oh Phyllis 🤣😆

[@elianaveron1085]

0:01

[@kwyz1234]

2:12 🤨