1979 ABC Fall Preview Part 1

1979 ABC Fall Preview Part 1

[@darcymoon2109]

These videos help me work through my ptsd from my childhood.

[@richardcourchene7477]

weird thing is that 36 years later and I can still remember this promo song.

[@violinda.]

Awww... the sound of the end of summer...

[@Robert-rr7kw]

The days of fireflies and the sound of that slamming screen door...

[@TANTRUMGASM]

when 3 channels were seen by the entire country. no internet. This was it.

[@starmnsixty1209]

👍📺

[@debfan74]

When the networks actually cared about the programs they took pride in showing and giving us to watch

[@josephwestin8996]

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[@rickysantino4038]

@Joseph Westin instablaster =)

[@josephwestin8996]

@Ricky Santino I really appreciate your reply. I got to the site through google and Im in the hacking process now. Looks like it's gonna take a while so I will reply here later with my results.

[@josephwestin8996]

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[@rickysantino4038]

@Joseph Westin No problem =)

[@camcordernonsense5264]

I remember the cookout and the blending of casts from other shows!

[@JHollowayNetwork]

The Ladies of the Network were Hot such as Suzanne Somers (Three's Company), Susan Richardson (Eight is Enough), Lynda Goodfriend (Happy Days), Donna Pescow (Angie), Penny Marshall (Laverne & Shirley), Shelley Hack (Charlie's Angels) and Lauren Tewes (The Love Boat).

[@JHollowayNetwork]

Yeah, even for her role in Laverne & Shirley as Laverne DeFazio.

[@ArmpitStudios]

+j.denino57 You've obviously never really looked at her body back then.

[@tcidolfan]

Kwadwo Holloway What about Jaclyn Smith and Cheryl Ladd??

[@hamsterking91]

When we had cool tv shows and the networks worried about good content and family shows....

[@franceslarsen4037]

love this, a few wks before my 18th birthday:)

[@blachubear]

As a network ABC starting to slip to the No.2 network. Still better than NBC at the time. Too bad the audience overlooked "The Associates" & "Lazarus Syndrome".

[@fromthesidelines]

ABC WAS thinking of bringing Lou Gossett back in a revised version of "THE LAZARUS SYNDROME" (as "MAX SINCLAIR, M.D.") the following season, but the plans fell through.

[@jonimichalski9193]

Beautiful

[@pacificblue3955]

From a time when tv was worth watching

[@ArmpitStudios]

A hot air balloon silhouetted against a sunset with ABC's version of Orleans' "Still the One" playing. What could be more '70s? So good. When did networks stop putting these Fall Previews together?

[@blachubear]

Late Eighties or early Nineties.

[@blachubear]

Well Keith, John Bonham(Led Zeppelin), Buddy Rich & Neil Peart(Rush) are the greatest on the kit.

[@PIXPromosMore]

They still do...it's just the promotional campaigns that are extinct.

[@TheNameisPlissken1981]

Only one hit out-of five for the new sitcoms of the 79 - 80 season. Benson!

[@martinmoore2468]

We're still the one with ABC.

[@jamiewillkner8742]

Mork calling Orson! Barney Miller was like Brooklyn Nine Nine before it's time!

[@tolfan4438]

Yeah the first time I saw that show it reminded me of something that seemed familiar Barney Miller is it

[@rEdf196]

TV shows and commercial music productions went disco crazy in 79. A backlash was inevitable.

[@marcofalzone6469]

Funny thing is this jingle was blatant use of Orleans hit song "Still the one". Definitely NOT a disco tune. When they MOR a genre of pop music then you can surmise, yes a backlash will happen soon.

[@Robert-rr7kw]

I wish a backlash would happen with today's 2022 tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick zeros and one computer ?music? You hear it at the gas station; you hear it at the red light; Who is this drummer getting all these record albums this person gets to play on??? Tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick ----mehhh

[@marcofalzone6469]

@@Robert-rr7kw definitely ain't Ringo

[@LoneWolfAttack]

"This fall, five new shows round out the already-impressive comedy special"... followed by four new comedy shows, because Ron Moody's "Nobody's Perfect" -- originally slated to premiere in September -- was blatantly hacked out at 6:52. (Sorry, "Detective School." Including you at the last minute would have cost them too many shekels.) And of course because ABC was just that competent, they leave a shot of Moody in the second part of this upload. Thanks for posting this; in one half hour, it admirably summed up everything that was wrong with that network in '79 and why they would soon deservedly go into the toilet. The sched they put together was horrible too, and they killed multiple hits in the process. How the hell did "The Lazarus Syndrome" even get picked up? How could they have watched that pilot and thought, "Yeah, here it is. This is the one."

[@fromthesidelines]

Ron's series (originally offered to John Cleese, who wisely declined) was originally intended to be titled "HART IN SAN FRANCISCO". Instead, the network waited until June 1980 to "burn off" the eight episodes that were produced.....as "NOBODY'S PERFECT".

[@fromthesidelines]

ABC tried to revive Lou Gossett's series as "MAX SINCLAIR, M.D." in 1980 (with a much lighter tone than the original). It never got past an unaired pilot episode.

[@johnnyballenatl]

CBS apparently took notice, and by season’s end, they were back on top (with 60 Minutes as the #1 show).

[@fromthesidelines]

It WAS to have been titled "HART IN SAN FRANCISCO". Instead, ABC "sat" on the eight episodes already produced, until they needed something to pair "BARNEY MILLER" with on Thursdays in June 1980. Then, it was telecast as "NOBODY'S PERFECT". And quietly burned off.

[@LoneWolfAttack]

ABC changed the title because they picked up "Hart to Hart" -- and, obviously, that was the better title. Interestingly, in the U.K. it got to keep "Hart" in the title. It was called "Hart of the Yard" over there. Because ITV already had a "Nobody's Perfect." Presumably, that's what it would have ended up being titled here had "Hart to Hart" not been a thing.

[@camcordernonsense5264]

All my early child eyes could take in Was my plan then.

[@Robert-rr7kw]

Honestly, is anyone actually aware of any TV programs on ABC NBC or CBS these days?

[@starmnsixty1209]

No.

[@Robert-rr7kw]

@@starmnsixty1209 I second the motion.

[@markofly76]

Nope. CBS is not close to Lookin' Good. ABC still hasn't been The One in a while. NBC is smart as a peacock, but nothing else.

[@Bobsworld76]

Where and for whom was this shown?

[@fromthesidelines]

This was shown at an ABC affiliates' convention in the summer of 1979, just before the season began.

[@kmac7689]

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[@jeffreymcfadden9403]

Back when lake Meade had water!

[@Robert-rr7kw]

800,000-year icecore study: Within the bubbles studied, high concentrations of carbon was found within the air bubbles at the dawn of the industrial revolution. What else do people need to know? Now, from my life experience, my childhood friends know more about corporate sports teams as opposed to scientific fact.. Lake Mead is the cart before the horse. You need snow in the Rocky Mountains to feed Lake Meade.... It's sad our culture just not want to own up to climate change, but they sure do know about corporate sports teams..

[@JHollowayNetwork]

mostly in Season 4 of Barney Miller. Ron Glass went mustacheless as seen in this clip at 4:30.

[@tolfan4438]

It was written into the storyline he had to shave it for undercover work dressing as a woman getting mugged