22 NEW SHOWS OF FALL TV 1977

[@judyholiday1794]

I was 11 years old in 1977, and that year holds a very special place in my heart..I would love to be able to jump through the screen, and take a trip back to that special time in my life..Sadly, that is just not possible so I will sit here and watch all of these memories that you have shared with us on your channel..Thank you!

[@davehester7349]

While you did that Judy I was marching around a parade deck at Paris Island becoming a Marine in Aug of 77 while I was getting read graduation from boot, we heard that Elvis had died. Wow what a trip down memory lane.

[@lolitadiaz0113]

I feel the same 😶😣😭

[@not-so-smartaleck8987]

I was 15 in '77, in high school and having fun!

[@suzycreamcheesez4371]

@Smith & Wesson What's with the random caps?

[@suzycreamcheesez4371]

@Smith & Wesson merry Christmas from militarybrats.com I grew up in strategic air command and pacific air command air force. aloha!

[@kittiekat7819]

Ah. Back in the days when there was only three channels and always something to watch. As opposed to 500 plus and nothing worth watching

[@brinsonharris9816]

Kittie Kat Ain’t that the truth.

[@PerpetualArt]

Why is that? Because all the current writers have no idea what will work. I miss the good old days!

[@cs5384]

I think we were just more easily amused back then. Think hard on these shows. They were, at best, mildly entertaining.

[@PerpetualArt]

The Contrarian + But the ones that were good were very good for the time. Obviously most of them didn't make it from this clip, but 70s TV wasn't bad. Then again I didn't turn 10 until April of 79.

[@Devo13]

I would go back in a second. Back in the time of my favorite shows. Lucan. The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries.Man from Atlantis. Logan's Run. Monster Squad. Ark II. The Red Hand gang.

[@MrEZE36]

Redd Foxx walking on stage with cigarette in hand. Definitely the 70's.

[@chrisw6164]

“Our two families became one after a tragic plane crash in Hawaii” - Wow that got dark quickly

[@steveb802011]

There were a lot of great theme songs in 1977! Thanks for posting all these openings!

[@rolandstracke5989]

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[@zxccxz164]

theme songs YES - quality shows....wellllllllllllllllll

[@sonicplayg]

ABSOLUTELY... Music on TV was incredible in the 1970's.. TV show theme songs, incidental music.. even music in TV commercials! The bar was high back then..

[@ccbsnyc]

Really? The ones that sounded mostly like takeoffs from disco or porn movies, those were the good theme songs. The others, instantly forgettable. "Love Boat" is a classic theme song, of course.

[@vladimirenlow4388]

SOMEBODY WORKED THEIR ASS OFF BUILDING THAT HUGE-ASS SET FOR REDD FOXX AND THE DAMN SHOW ONLY LASTED TWO EPISODES WTF

[@PlasmaCoolantLeak]

I have a friend who was inspired to go into the CHP because of "CHiPs." He's now a sergeant.

[@mlongpre100]

bullshit

[@gial.1854]

👏😃💜

[@not-so-smartaleck8987]

I didn't watch CHiPs and can't remember offhand, but I assume CHP stands for California Highway Patrol(?)

[@StarfieldRailway]

@@not-so-smartaleck8987, that's right.

[@dougghiz8339]

Did he ever get the opportunity to meet the celebrities who starred on the show CHiPs?

[@shaheedturner9485]

In the fall of 1977 ABC NBC and CBS had some great new and returning shows in the fall lineup like Soap, Operation Petticoat, Redd Foxx, Carter Country and many other shows too Well all shows were getting tired like The Six Million Dollar Man, The Bionic Woman, The Bob Newhart Show, The Carol Burnett Show, Kojak, Maude, was cancelled in 1978!!!!! Awww the memories!!!! Thanks for posting this video!!!! I love it!!!!! I love the 70s!!!! Can you dig it!!!!!!!

[@sarawallace8581]

Yes, I can!

[@blugold94]

Apparently the producers of "Rafferty" thought popping his name on the credits over and over again would be ratings gold.

[@haveanicedave1551]

I thought maybe Rafftery was deaf and somebody kept calling his name.

[@James-iy9oz]

The intro to Rafferty was reason enough not to watch

[@MsJamiewoods]

I was a freshman in high school fall 1977. I always enjoyed the "Lou Grant" show. Not just for the topic of the week, but also for the overall journalism theme of the show. Not surprisingly I was a reporter for our school paper and became a journalism major in college. Then I worked at small market dailies and a few weeklies for a while.

[@calvada1]

Jamie Woods Cast my vote for Lou Grant too.

[@SallySallySallySally]

Lou Grant was the best production of the lot by far. They even had an episode where Maureen McCormick (Marcia Brady) played the role of the niece of the publisher Mrs. Pynchon (played to perfection by Nancy Marchand) who was desperately hiding a secret. McCormick exhibited some great acting skills that would never be revealed in The Brady Bunch. Here's an interesting observation: When well-known movie actors are interviewed, it's routine to ask them about working with famous directors like Hitchcock. Ever since the Lou Grant show, the same well-known actors will be asked about working on Lou Grant. The talent on that show, from the writers, directors, actors, camera and all the crafts, were nothing but top-drawer. We'll certainly never see anything like it again.

[@brianarbenz7206]

Lou Grant was the best look at crucial issues in the world. On one episode a Rupert Murdock-like character threatens to buy the paper and tabloid-ize it. This foresaw the present political crisis in the U.S. precisely.

[@darrellludlow]

@@SallySallySallySally Nancy Marchand later played Tony Soprano's mother. She wasn't yet 50 when Lou Grant started.

[@bigbabysld]

OMg...THE LOVE BOAT, Their wasn't a saturday that passed for 9 years where me and my grandma didn't watch this show...the good old days

[@hoss73ford]

bigbabysld One thing I liked about The Love Boat was over the years they often got older actors out of retirement to appear as well as currents who had had some hard luck in landing roles. Plus Lauren Tewes was the same age as me so I had a huge crush on her.

[@bigbabysld]

That's the thing, they got celebrities my grandmother grew up with...she could name them left and right, I had no idea who I was looking at, I just liked Gopher, I thought he was hilarious.

[@hoss73ford]

bigbabysld Fred "Gopher" Grandy later became a politician after the show ended it's run.

[@beckigreen]

+Mark Muffs Fred Grandy also got burned badly when they were shooting on location in Turkey, I believe. They were in a taxi with balloons, and someone lit a cigarette, and it started a fire that burned him.

[@kevinmeerschaert9487]

Actually he left before the show ended when he was elected to congress.

[@foundingfodder8225]

In the 70's the Station Wagon was the modern day SUV.......

[@DiegoRuiz1991]

All SUVs nowadays are just "lifted" station wagons. Most SUVs nowadays have NO true offroad capabilities.

[@newstarcadefan]

Yup, in those days all a kid needed was his friends, a vista cruiser, and a few bucks between them for a cruise on friday.

[@alonenjersey]

Oh so true. from 69-75 my Dad piloted our Ford Country Squire station wagon many times as if it were a tank.

[@vividwatch47]

The first S.U.V. was the Chevrolet Suburban, which has been in production since '35.

[@mamadouaziza2536]

Yeah and thats not even a 1977 station wagon, it looks more like 1971.

[@heidigolden6880]

I was born Sept 6th, 1977-- so I too premiered in Fall of 1977 🤗

[@julieanderson-smith1692]

A high school classmate of mine came up with an even better name for "The Love Boat" back in 1984 - "The Screw Canoe".

[@SmithMrCorona]

Rafferty - the man who walks through parks on warm days

[@drjohnson98]

Thanks for uploading. Great to see some of these again. Amazing how few I ever saw, even though I was in high school at the time. Also amazing to think they played those extended intros every week, like Mulligan's Stew.

[@johnp4008]

TV Executives: Hey folks, 1977's gonna be a winner!!

[@fromthesidelines]

For ABC, yes......

[@GeekGameCulture]

SOAP holds up today. I remember Comedy Central rerunning it a lot and was hooked by it. Of course, the first season was where they tended to have a lot of what made the show such a success and such a head turner for the topics and characters they did that were unheard of for their time (an open homosexual that wasn't a stereotype, topics with racism and class equality and that) and made some purists angry. They were able to do a lot in a way that made everything seem like it fit with the story they were telling and made you care about what they were going through, and didn't need to force anything like some shows need to do today. Easy to say that the show STILL holds up.

[@danieldaniels7571]

Great show. It launched many careers, too.

[@frankbonini9128]

I Remember Reading About How the Producers Had Hire Casey Kasem to Do the Voice-Over, & He Immediately Quit Because the Show's Concept Went Against His Religious Beliefs (Christian)

[@bobm7250]

Rod Roddy did the voiceover, before he told contestants to come on down to "The Price Is Right".

[@gregoryevans8179]

In Memphis we did not see Soap the first season it was on, local station claimed it was to fast for us. We didn’t get to see the first season until the summer at it was late at night.

[@maundamartin59]

That BASS LINE FOR CHIPS. THAT SHIT "ROCKS".❤

[@scottlarson1548]

Operation: Petticoat looked like belonged on television ten or fifteen years earlier.

[@BrianandSnoopy1]

it would have made more sense. but when i saw the show i didn't know there was was a movie before it.

[@DavidTSmith-jn5bs]

The biggest irony regarding "the movie" was that Jamie Lee Curtis's parents were IN THE MOVIE!

[@not-so-smartaleck8987]

+David T. Smith I didn't know JLC's parents were actors (just plucking a name out of the air, was Tony Curtis her father?)

[@DavidTSmith-jn5bs]

Yes, he is, and her mother is Janet "Psycho" Leigh. If you REALLY didn't know that her father was an actor, look for films like "Houdini," "Some Like It Hot" and "The Defiant Ones" as well as the original film "Operation: Petticoat." Incidentally, Tony's BIRTH name was "Bernie Schwartz." I found that out years ago when I watched "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In."

[@not-so-smartaleck8987]

Wow, you're a fountain of information! Thanks

[@jasondownsnet]

I remember being a tiny kid and still remembering these openings. I had to be around two to three years old and I still have flashbacks of these and where I was when I watched them.

[@JohnQ1127]

That's the disco version of the Chips theme that they introduced in season 2 in 1978.

[@eyehatefarcebook11]

JohnQ1127 Yes, the instrumental, horn ensemble lasted season 1 only.

[@MsJamiewoods]

Wow!! The rarely seen today in reruns original opening of "Lou Grant." Most versions of show's reruns do not show the logging and paper mill part. And in the first season they still used typewriters in the newsroom. That was the era when video display terminals connected to a mini computer and the phototypesetting (cold type) machine were just starting to replace typewriters in major and some medium size market news rooms.

[@eyehatefarcebook11]

Jamie Woods Yeah, I haven't seen a complete rerun episode anywhere in at least 25, maybe 30 years. Probably because of that 90 year old SOCIALIST PRICK ED ASNER won't sign-off again on re-runs.

[@barbarafield3968]

This really does take me back. Interesting how TV shows have changed in the past 43 years.

[@Susquehanna80]

Amazing how many well known TV actors appeared in flops before they found their niche show.. Patrick Duffy, Gregory Harrison, etc

[@dollydagger4306]

Susquehanna80 Patrick Duffy went off to play Dallas that year, after The Man of Atlantis.

[@not-so-smartaleck8987]

Some of them were in their niche show BEFORE they were in these crappy shows. Ed Asner, Elinor Donahue, ...

[@daviddavidson8050]

Wow! Some really cool shows for a 1977 fall line up. Thanks for sharing!

[@StevieStitches]

The Love Boat, Soap and CHiPs became hits.

[@mamadouaziza2536]

Lou Grant was on air until the early 1980s and even made the top 10.

[@kudukilla]

And Benson was a spin-off.

[@christophermichaelfuller5448]

" With a name like Smucker's, it has to be good... is what we'll place in this page 4 ad. " ---- Charlie, helping out the advertising dept.

[@straak]

Without even "googling", I can tell that this is the season after EIGHT IS ENOUGH launched, and that every other network said, "we need one of those!"

[@jamesfetherston1190]

Also: make them Irish! Giant Irish family is more believable!

[@mcatuara1]

Looks like Love Boat, Lou Grant Soap and Chips where the sole survivors

[@photomanwilliams4147]

LOL your right, and in hindsight, 3 of the 4 that did survive weren't that good.

[@demelof1913]

Soap hung out for a while ...

[@gallery7596]

@@demelof1913 Yes, and "Soap" (for the first 3 seasons) was the best of the bunch, too.

[@classichost]

Actually getting four shows in a year that get remembered is a pretty good batting average in my book.

[@robjohnson8861]

God, Mork, Starsky, Baretta, Six Million, Movie of the Week, Three's Company, Carol Burnett, Donnie, Brady Bunch, All in the Family. I don't remember the vast majority in this video. They must have really sucked.

[@ftsjr]

I was in the US Navy then. In early September of 1977, my ship went overseas. By the time we returned, 7 months later, most of these shows had already been canceled, and I hadn't seen any of them.

[@gentillyguy1]

It seems the big problem with a lot the shows that didn't last more than season was that the opening theme music was more memorable than the actual show.

[@aldofhister6859]

The only thing I remember about 1977 as I was 18 and walked around with a perpetual hard on

[@mel1nda12ax7]

gentillyguy1: But those opening theme songs were so cool! And yes, oftentimes they WERE the best part of the show! Still, it's by far better than today's shows that pretty much have NO theme songs anymore.

[@mel1nda12ax7]

gentillyguy1: A prime example of this is the ABC show "The Men", even though it ran back in 1972-73, which had a SUPER COOL opening sequence and theme song (written and performed by Isaac Hayes), and the theme song was a hit on the charts, but I just don't remember much about the rest of the show, and it only lasted the one season. Does anybody out there remember the show "The Men"?

[@not-so-smartaleck8987]

Or in some cases, the opening theme music was even worse than the show (Rosetti and Ryan, 13:55)

[@JenniferMcMullenMusic]

How the heck was Redd Foxx able to sanitize his stand-up act for network television in 1977?

[@digital2500]

A lot of sketch comedy on that show. Actually Foxx did a good job with this show.

[@homelesshannah50]

Richard Pryor was able to do it too

[@fromthesidelines]

Yes- but NBC was too "wary" of his reputation as a "dirty" comedian, and worried some of that might taint his weekly series. They had originally agreed for him to tape 10 hours, but cut that order to five before the series began. THEN, they threw the show against "HAPPY DAYS" and "LAVERNE & SHIRLEY".....and Pryor never hosted another prime-time series again.

[@homelesshannah50]

Barry I. Grauman He didn't need TV anyway he was better off doing movies

[@ysmigraarzygler8387]

Pryor quit his show after only a couple episodes. I don't remember the reason but I'm sure network censorship surely played a role.

[@Turtle152]

The weird thing about "Lou Grant" was, even though it was built around a character from the "Mary Tyler Moore Show," it was a straight-up drama.

[@StelyDn]

Interesting Fact: Ed Asner won Emmys in Comedy and Drama for the same role...

[@christopherdieudonne]

@@StelyDn Wow, that *is* interesting. When I was a kid, I always wondered how a comedy spun off a drama.

[@Easy-Eight]

Of the T.V. class of '77 about the only one worth a damn was "Lou Grant". I remember one episode where a reporter broke up a dog fighting ring and the ring figured out the reporter was a rat. The next day he came into work sporting bruises and black eyes. BTW, wasn't "Taxi" and "One Day at a Time" part of the class of '77?

[@AnnusMirabilus]

what is even weirder to me: Ed Asner is still alive... If you showed these visuals to me and I had no idea I would say, "he died in the '90s, right?" He didn't look like the healthiest guy. But I'm glad he is alive. Read or listen to his interviews. He is a very bright man.

[@richbrown932]

Not a big deal, but I know for a fact that this was not the intro used during the premier year for Chips or Lou Grant. Both of these intros were from later seasons. The original intro for Lou Grant started off with a couple of the characters talking on the phone, and the original Chips intro was a little less Disco.

[@cellytron]

13:00 I appreciate them telling us, no fewer than four times, the title of the program in question??

[@demoskunk]

What was the name of that Rafferty show again?

[@unitedplankton2866]

_G-Force!.._

[@theonemodifier]

"Man With Coat on Shoulder"

[@TJ52359]

Patrick McGoohan will stare into your soul

[@chriscma1]

I just want to know what it was about.

[@TJ52359]

@@chriscma1 I looked it up on IMDb... for lack of a better term It'd say it's 'House' meets 'Trapper John MD'

[@westfield90]

Thank you for these videos. I love them

[@billdohman8944]

"SOAP" was AWESOME!!!! A CLASSIC !!!

[@danieldaniels7571]

One of the best shows ever. Shame its last season never got made.

[@margaretgarana911]

The best

[@rick3747]

Great flashback to when I was 11. Thanks...

[@beckigreen]

I guess one person disliked the new shows of 1977. I disagree. These shows are better than what's on tv today!

[@luisreyes1963]

Becki Green Hell, ANYTHING is better than today's shows IMHO.

[@ciecie1959]

most of the shows today are crap! thankfully there is hallmark, antenna tv, tcm, inspiration tv, hallmark movies and mysteries.

[@CaptainSpalding72]

Becki Green not all for God's sake. Watch Breaking Bad, Battlestar Galactica, This is Us, Veronica Mars, Buffy Vampire Slayer, The Office, Parks & Rec....

[@desertdispatch]

MUCH BETTER THAN TODAYS SHOWS

[@desertdispatch]

Winning Grinn true.

[@ricardoog3655]

I loved 1977! I was just 9 years old but I remember everything. Star Wars, Close Encounters of The Third Kind, disco music, gas and groceries were cheap, fireworks were legal, family TV shows, and especially my first crush on a cute girl in grade school 😊 Dang I miss that year!!

[@rob46711]

Well we already know the plot of each episode of The Oregon Trail, everyone died of dysentery. LOL

[@DetroitLives313]

The start of my senior year in high school. Great time, great memories.

[@stylecollective-qt9um]

The music scores for tv themes were so much more sophisticated in the seventies: you used to get string, horn, and in some cases, full orchestral arrangements. I kind of miss that. 🎧

[@mel1nda12ax7]

stylecollective: And there's no reason they can't still have theme songs with such arrangements now. They just don't want to, just because someone decided that theme songs were somehow old fashioned. I really miss them too!

[@msr1116]

Networks and/or production companies figured out a way to eliminate theme music requiring the payment of royalties with each airing. It was money. It always is.

[@speedracer1945]

​@@mel1nda12ax7they sound like the same band doing arrangements.

[@mel1nda12ax7]

@@speedracer1945: Who sounds like the same band doing arrangements?

[@hepchaos]

''77 was when I started paying attention to the prime time shows more, not just the kiddie shows. I liked the bad sci-fi shows like Man from Atlantis and Logan's Run, but also Lou Grant. The one I didn't get that became popular was CHiPs. They didn't really do any police work, just road around on their bikes arguing with each other. In this time was also the easily exploded car. Every time a car would go over a cliff or a hill, it would explode. If it rolled over, it would explode. If it got hit by another car, it would explode. They acted like all cars were '74 Pintos. :)

[@wheninrome345]

Your post is too funny!!!!

[@lorimiller4301]

hepchaosSuch crazy times. The worst has to be hearing a car squeal out on gravel. ;)

[@caliden3785]

hepchaos Well Chips was a platform to make Erik Estrada a sex symbol which I recall my older stepsisters and my gay stepbrother had posters of him all over the wall.

[@dwightalexanderwalker1756]

MattShizzle Most people the world over hate gays. Go to Africa or any country in the middle east and see what happens to gay people. The only countries that gays actually can live without fear of death are White Christian Nations . ( White Western Europe , Canada , USA )

[@MsJamiewoods]

Every week CHIPS had at least one major traffic pile up on an LA Freeway. The only thing that changed was who was at fault and why. One week might be a distracted driver. Another week it might be a drunk driver. And Ponch and John almost always were the first to arrive, on their bikes of course. Some weeks there were two major pile ups on the freeway.

[@big_b_radical3985]

10:45 - Dang, I wish more shows would fully explain their entire premise to me like this. I especially like how she explicitly tells us who the pretty one is and how she is 18 years old, so we don't feel too bad admiring her.

[@StukInBuf]

Wrong "CHiPs" intro theme; they didn't use the "funky disco" theme until the 1978-79 season.

[@slotuck]

You're right...been watching them on Amazon Prime and first season music was a little different.

[@chinfuzzchet3616]

Correct, season 2 brought the funk!

[@steelers6titles]

Redd Foxx and Richard Pryor flopped in their own separate variety series, which, as a genre, were on the way out by this time. Carol Burnett's series was the last, ending in 1978.

[@ebob1967]

I never realized that Suzanne Crough was in anything other than The Partridge Family.

[@donaldpaluga]

I wonder whatever happened to that young lass Helen Hunt.......

[@not-so-smartaleck8987]

Suzanne Crough, RIP

[@MrSpuzzz]

I was too young to appreciate Soap when it first came out but I recall my parents enjoying it. It looks like it may provided quite a bit of inspiration to Arrested Development.

[@steadfastcoward]

If Carter Country did one thing right, it was to go off the air in time for many of it's stars to get roles they would be FAMOUS for. I LOVED Operation Petticoat! The person who wrote the theme for On Our Own probably wrote all those cheesy local news jingles. And Andrew Stevens! Helen Hunt! Jimmy McNichol! A family of nine in a station wagon without seat belts! And Lou Grant, which was every bit as good as the Mary Tyler Moore Show. Then there is CHiPs, how could we ever forget, Jack Webb meets roller disco :)

[@MarkBBlue]

That brings back memories from my early teen years. The only shows that had extended runs were The Love Boat, Soap and CHiPs if I remember correctly. Interesting to see a very young Helen Hunt pop up in the cast of The Fitzpatricks which I believe only lasted a few episodes. It is interesting too how the 3 networks constantly and quickly tried to make similar shows. The Fitzpatricks and Mulligan's Stew were CBS and NBC's attempt to do an hour long large family drama similar to Eight is Enough which was a success a season earlier on ABC.

[@garyodle5663]

I was stationed at a remote radar site in Alaska from January 3, 1977 until January 3, 1978 and we didn't get television shows that the rest of America got. Looks like I didn't miss a thing.

[@624radicalham]

What kind of television did you get?

[@danieldaniels7571]

First season of Soap was great.

[@briansmith6292]

my sweet lord I watched a ton of TV in the seventies

[@ciecie1959]

me too! that's back when tv was great!

[@charles1203]

I remember teachers getting pissed off how popular tv was even in the 80’s.

[@transitdude3352]

There was nothing else to do! 😀 good memories!

[@margaretgarana911]

Good times!!

[@kevinmcguire5696]

3 shows starring 4 actors who had just finished the Mary Tyler Moore Show. 2 out of 3 were hits (not bad). One, Lou Grant, is probably the only show in history where a character transitioned from a 1/2 hour sitcom to a 1 hour drama. That's pretty impressive.

[@margaretgarana911]

Bizarre transition that worked

[@Scorchy666]

Lou Grant was a very, very good show.

[@fromthehaven94]

*I hate spunk!*

[@rogervondrasek5677]

Also, Phyllis just ended, and Rhoda was still on another year

[@mikedecarlo9057]

Ed Asner won Emmys for both shows too.....

[@joshstephens3650]

I was six months old in the fall of 1977. I watched some of these shows as an older child in syndication.

[@ChedricBigby]

Me too man

[@stevend.bennett427]

10:30 Michele Tobin and Helen Hunt in the same house at the right age. Might play differently today.

[@shaner743]

Somebody find me a time machine, I want to go back...

[@derrickzupf7559]

Shane R - me too... how about a month in the 70's... then another month in the 80's?!

[@shaner743]

Sounds good to me, it’s like so many people comment here on KZbin, time just seemed so much simpler... : )

[@Tikki-cy1wk]

I'm going out on a limb here, but I think the name of the show is Rafferty.

[@BigWallyFilms]

You mean the one that says "Rafferty"???

[@margaretgarana911]

What a bizarre intro

[@chrisw6164]

I’m a big Patrick McGoohan fan, and now I have to find a way to watch Rafferty.

[@TheMadMaple]

That "Oregon Trail" show looks interesting. Too bad the entire cast died of dysentery....

[@roberthaworth9097]

Well, they'd already lost half the draft oxen crossing a river, so there was little point going on, anyway.

[@demetriusdillard2863]

Due to heavy competition from ABC's sexy crime drama "Charlie's Angels" on Wednesdays, NBC pulled "The Oregon Trail" from its schedule in October of '77 after only six episodes (leaving seven additional episodes unaired; they subsequently aired overseas in the United Kingdom). In 2010, Timeless Media Group released "The Oregon Trail" on DVD, consisting of fourteen episodes (the feature-length pilot film that aired on NBC in January of '76 and the thirteen episodes that followed it, including the seven episodes that didn't air in the U.S.).

[@ladyi7609]

Came looking for this comment, was not disappointed.

[@srj34]

YOU HAVE DIED OF CANCELLATION.

[@ARTSIEBECCA]

😂😂😂

[@timothywalters2614]

I had been in the Marine Corp for a year at this time , amazing how time just zooms by .

[@cesardominguez]

3:08 "The Betty White Show: Undercover Woman" caught me off guard!! The plot revolves on a borin' lady that falls sleep in front of the TV set and dreams away that she's a cool detective with choppers and crashing cars on flames?!

[@ma55aracin9]

#ForeverBettyWhite

[@beckigreen]

My dad was Master Control of our city's ABC affiliate at this time. I went to work with him every Sunday.

[@MsJamiewoods]

I know what that was like. I worked master control for the old Fox 32 in Appleton, Wis. for a while in 1977. That was when Fox only ran on Saturday and Sunday nights along with the late show at 10 p.m. weeknights. No doubt you father had you pulling and putting away 3/4th-inch or perhaps Quadcart tapes. That was unless the station had a separate tape room and your dad did not have to load, cue up, run, and put away commercials.

[@CaptainSpalding72]

Becki Green I worked my NBC affiliate in the late 90s in the evenings and from 97-02, I got to see every single episode of Late night with Conan O Brien. Awesome gig. The only perk.

[@CaptainSpalding72]

I could not imagine doing that job without some computer assistance. What was it like hauling all those tapes for each segment?

[@MrAlumni72]

13:54 - headphones off, or else kiss your left ear goodbye!

[@MsKiTTy1138]

OMG FUNNYEST COMMENT EVER. DAM NEAR LOST MY LUNCH LAUGHING SO HARD, EVEN WELLED UP MY EYES.

[@clasystems]

@@MsKiTTy1138 For me it's the right channel.

[@heidigolden6880]

Wherever Redd Foxx showed up it officially became a party

[@conwayjefferson9527]

Only worth watching for RAFFERTY at 13:00 to 14:00 with the great Patrick Mcgoohan.

[@TH3DANKs]

Betty White was the original Cougar back in 1977.

[@jimcrovatt6988]

I don't recall watching any of these shows; but I sure as hell sat through this clip.

[@michaeljordan6008]

Most of these shows were truly phenomenal in terms of writing, acting and musical score.

[@RD-vt9uu]

Are you high? All but four were canceled.

[@clurkroberts2650]

Phenomenal?

[@Rob-lz5iz]

"most" = 3 😁

[@jerseytomato100]

On Our Own looks like a Laverne&Shirley ripoff.

[@kerryincolumbus]

You are exactly right, it was CBS's answer to Laverne and Shirley's popularity for ABC. It was SUPPOSED to be a high-end, more sophisticated version of L & S, but, it never took off like L & S. It never gained as wide an audience because people knew it was a total knock-off of L & S.

[@TheJer1963]

Can't say I ever heard of On Our Own before. I was 13 then and watched my share of tv.

[@mel1nda12ax7]

It's funny, because I REMEMBER Bess Armstrong and Lynnie Green together in something at that time, I remember watching their show, and for some reason, I always thought the show they were in was "We've Got Each Other"! I only learned from watching THIS just now, that their show was actually "On Our Own", and "We've Got Each Other" was an entirely different show, that also premiered around the same time as this one, and just like this one, only lasted a couple of months!

[@mamadouaziza2536]

It was very funny and well written but it couldn't find an audience

[@DucNguyen0131]

In 1977, Aaron Spelling overtaked Quinn Martin as the producer of 1970s hour-long TV.

[@kimberlywiederhold627]

Did you mean overtook?

[@newking70]

@@kimberlywiederhold627 😂😂

[@RJSchex]

The "CHiPs" opening isn't from Season 1. The first season had a slower-tempo, slightly more orchestral, version of the theme (otherwise the same).

[@1964DB]

Oh my gosh! I'd completely forgotten about Soap! Growing up in the Bible thumpin' south, I remember it well. concerned parents tried to get it off the air. Some local stations refused to show it. My friends and I would sneak to watch it and then discuss it the next day at our religious private school. Ironically, all those moms who were so against it never failed to watch their daytime soaps. LOL!

[@dollydagger4306]

1964DB Soap was hilarious...also has the most juiciest cliffhanger at the time before they knew it was going to be cancelled!

[@dennisbradley4848]

Our local station refused to air it the first year. 2nd year they aired it Saturday night at 10:30. For the rest of the years they aired it in primetime. My how times have changed.

[@samuelparker9882]

Dolly Dagger Jessica was SEXY HOT. SHE WOULD'VE GOT IT!

[@kentondickerson]

I thought it was hilarious.

[@Chariots1981]

I loved "Soap." I remember at first my mother used to secretly watch it on her own but my brother and I caught her and made her let us watch. It was less of a big deal for us than my mother thought it was (and we lived in L.A., not the Bible belt). Hilarious and with a great cast-- especially liked Richard Mulligan.

[@kayp.7757]

The theme music to "Rafferty" was beautiful! I don't remember the show, though. I do remember pre-Dallas Patrick Duffy as the Man from Atlantis.

[@major600]

It's funny that they'd make a TV show out of the movie "Operation Petticoat" 18 years after its release. It's even funnier that Jamie Lee Curtis, the daughter of a star of the movie, was in the show.

[@TJ52359]

the 70's had a Crush on the 50s (Happy Days, MASH, American Graffiti, Grease, etc) so I'd imagine that played a part... and Hiring Jamie Lee was likely an attempt at synergy (You think Mom's role in Psycho didn't inspire Jamie's casting in Halloween?)

[@DavidTSmith-jn5bs]

Jamie's dad, Tony Curtis, was in that movie as well!

[@624radicalham]

@@DavidTSmith-jn5bs That's what the original post said ... Jesus

[@DavidTSmith-jn5bs]

@@624radicalham The original post didn't clarify Tony Curtis was in it along with Janet Leigh! Jesus! ;)

[@624radicalham]

@@DavidTSmith-jn5bs Sure it did! It said Jaime Lee Curtis, "the daughter of a star of the movie " was in it :)

[@davidlitzelman9884]

Wow - what happened to TV today. I really miss this era. I was a teenager back in the 1970's!

[@sabster74]

What's up with the intro to "Rafferty"? Are they worried you're gonna forget the name of the show?

[@arielfilmsinc1926]

WELL IT DID NOT work

[@jillionsofcrafts6255]

“Rafferty,” why?? It’s like producers say, ‘Hey, what if someone looks away from the screen? So let’s flash the show’s title several times throughout the opening credits.’

[@bobm7250]

"Rafferty" was cancelled after the November 28, 1977 episode.

[@MsJamiewoods]

I wasn't aware Richard Pryor had a network TV show. Keeping him on script must not have been easy. Pryor was known for liberal use of the seven words George Carlin famously said cannot be said on American TV. The first time Richard Pryor hosted Saturday Night Live, NBC engineers had to run the show with an eight or so second electronic delay just in case he said one of those seven words.

[@jimcarter6669]

Jamie Woods I don't think the FCC even cares now!

[@richardgazinia5482]

They produced 4 total episodes of The Richard Pryor show and before it even aired Pryor and NBC argued over content. The fights were so bad that Pryor opened his first show naked with his "junk" blurred. Pryor was protesting against NBC's censorship. All of the shows I believe are available on KZbin. Look for a pre Mork and Mindy Robin Williams in the Pryor show episodes.

[@jmwild1]

Wow Soap and Love Boat both premiered in 1977. I was 4 and watched a helluva lot of Love Boat and didn't discover Soap till I was a bit older.

[@danieldaniels7571]

I was 6 but didn’t actually watch Soap until I was in my late 30s. Super funny show, but little kid me wouldn’t have understood it at all.

[@michaeljordan6008]

La Wanda Page was gorgeous!

[@jeffreyjohn816]

Maiden voyage of the Love Boat? Betty White as a cop? Helen Hunt with braces? The title that repeated so many times I forgot it? Yup, the 80s are coming!!!

[@solracer66]

Betty White starred as an actress that played a cop on TV, a little meta there I know...

[@paktype]

I watched tons of TV in the '70s (I hated doing homework). Here are the shows I remember: Carter Country was a decent show, I remember watching it - Victor French was very good in it; Operation Petticoat was also pretty good - Jim Varney was on it and played Seaman Broom; Everyone remembers The Love Boat, the haven for out of work actors and Charo;; Everyone also remembers Soap - it was a groundbreaking show - with the young Billy Crystal; Lou Grant was an interesting show - after years of being on a comedy, Ed Asner played Lou in a drama; The intro to CHIPS in this post was NOT the first season intro - the first season had a much slower paced theme song; it was changed to a more disco-ish version in the later seasons - that is what is heard here; Logan's Run was OK, but the theme song is BRUTALLY BAD - the earlier movie with Michael York was better and the still-earlier novel by George Clayton Johnson was the best of all; I vaguely remember the others - most of them were very short-lived.

[@moorrule385]

+paktype Carter Country --- edgy adult humor if I recall like Barney Miller with racial satire I think. Operation Petticoat --- chicks in skirts. A lot for my 8-year old mind to digest. Love Boat --- Charo 'cuchi-cuchi' and bouncing around. See Op Petti above... Logan's Run --- yeah the movie was better. Man From Atlantis --- hell yeah! I tried to swim like him (very hard) at the YMCA because of this show. Patrick Duffy before Dallas. And FTH (F--k The Homework ha)

[@not-so-smartaleck8987]

I beg to differ about Soap. I certainly didn't watch it at the time, and don't remember it being mentioned much through the years (and/or shown in reruns) except for occasional, passing references to it either on TV or on the Internet, and it doesn't seem compelling enough for me to want to watch it now. / Jim Varney, later of "Ernest..." fame?

[@danieldaniels7571]

@@not-so-smartaleck8987 Soap was a big deal when it was on, but my parents didn’t watch it and wouldn’t let me. At 6 I absolutely wouldn’t have understood it anyway. I did watch all like it’s spin-off Benson a few years later. About 15 years ago I found the first season box set at Goodwill, watched the whole thing and loved it. Bought the rest of the seasons too, and was crushed when I found out the sequel to the last season’s cliffhanger never got made.

[@EdwinYuen]

Great job tracking these down, although you should note that the CHiPs intro you have is from the later seasons, not Season 1 from 1977.

[@slotuck]

I just traveled back to 8 years old :)

[@kawythowy867]

Those were the days. So simple. So many less people and people were...better. I’m glad I was raised growing up in this generation and would have it no other way.....

[@paktype]

Redd Foxx' real name? John Sanford. Yes, as in Sanford & Son.

[@TJ52359]

seeing as it was adapted from a British Series (Steptoe & Son) Redd likely 'suggested' the character name

[@kimberlywiederhold627]

He played Fred Sanford. I didn't watch the show and I knew that.

[@CopperNoir]

Fred was his brother's name.

[@boopah4365]

Nobody watch more tv than me in the 70's,& I havnt heard of 90% of these shows!

[@caatcher]

Rebecca Balding and her character were replaced on Lou Grant after the third episode by Linda Kelsey. I'm mentioning this only because the thumbnail features Rebecca.

[@bufnyfan1]

Sanford Arms (0:58) was a total bomb. It only lasted 8 episodes and was canceled. I believe that Redd Fox made unreasonable demands to stay on Sanford and Sons and left. Sanford Arms was supposed to be an offshoot of Sanford and Son and failed miserably

[@RJSchex]

Quite unusual is the opening to "Rafferty"-the title appears on the screen *five* separate times.

[@kimberlywiederhold627]

The title keeps appearing on the screen so you remember what your watching. I'd ask what it was sbout but I don't want anyone to think I care.

[@juanmonge8]

He was a Doctor.

[@michellepost5232]

I watched Carter Country when new, and thought it was funny. Operation Petticoat was good, it was of WW2. I never skipped an episode of Love Boat. I was age 17 during this premiere, and a Junior. We could only get 3 channels, but EVERY evening was great shows, sitcoms and dramas, plus some movies. The dramas were a big variety, too. Also the ads were terrific!!

[@MsJamiewoods]

Carter Country. How long did that show run? Perhaps as long as Billy Beer was on the market. For those who no longer remember or were born years later, Billy Beer was a short-lived beer named after President Carter's beer-swilling, auto mechanic at a gas station brother, Billy.

[@darenlawrence2024]

Handle it, Roy. Handle it! Handle it!

[@pippishortstocking7913]

Love Wanda La Page and Whitman Mayo. Never heard of that spinoff Sanford Arms though

[@kimberlywiederhold627]

I was the one that watched it. I watched it because the daughter of the new owner was from Days Of Our Lives.

[@DavidTSmith-jn5bs]

Sandford & Son without Sandford...or Son! Weird premise that didn't last very long.

[@danieldaniels7571]

@@DavidTSmith-jn5bs I watched it a couple times. Without Redd Fox or Demond Wilson it was sorely lacking.

[@alcoholic2412]

I remember. We had 3 channels (4 if you count PBS)

[@CuteKittyMeep]

Worth it for the Chips opener and the shots of little Helen Hunt. But Soap is the only one I would bother to re-watch today if it were on.

[@CuteKittyMeep]

+BuzzCrumhunger well, shoot. I was a big fan of Man From Atlantis when I was 6... I had no idea then that Patrick Duffy would go on to star in such a douchey show as Dallas.

[@homelesshannah50]

They did a parody on That 70's Show

[@laguns64]

@@annieonymouse4467Yes, on Saturday at 6:00.

[@dianec5382]

I was 15 in 1977. I was old enough to have memories of TV programs of that time, but I have no recollection of most of these shows, except for Love Boat, Soap, Chips, Charlie's Angels, etc. They must have all bombed after a few episodes.

[@ERASEREPLACEPLACE]

You're not kidding. JODIE: There were a lot of famous gays in history, Ma. Plato was gay! JESSICA: Mickey Mouse's dog was gay?!?!

[@jeanmarcks6269]

Diane C ya I was 15 and don’t remember most of them either

[@danieldaniels7571]

Most of these shows were flops.

[@paulpayton1348]

In case you didn't catch it, his name is RAFFERTY. But, on the upside, it's nice to know the Prisoner finally escaped the Village.

[@ciecie1959]

it's a good thing man from atlantis and logan's run weren't hits. if those shows were hits, Patrick duffy and Gregory Harrison wouldn't have been available to play bobby ewing on dallas and George Alonzo "gonzo" gates on trapper john md.

[@not-so-smartaleck8987]

I forgot all about Trapper John MD...now I just gotta remember who starred in it (besides Harrison).

[@mikejohnson515]

Mrrs. Pynchon reminds me of Geraldine Saxon on the soap "The Edge of Night" !

[@karltork6040]

Just don't get Momma Soprano mad at you💀

[@tackyman2011]

What are those grey things everyone is reading? Oh, yeah. Newspapers.

[@dncarac]

What DO they put under bird cages now?

[@dncarac]

@Roy G Biv I desperately want to be offended by that, but I can't seem to disagree

[@lindaeasley5606]

The producers of Carter Country must have been confident Jimmy Carter would get a second term because it seemed rather risky to name your show after a sitting president .By the next election,if your show had staying power,it's name would be outdated