FANTASY 70s TV LINEUP: 1974-78

[@shaner743]

Oh man did I love S.W.A.T. as a kid in the 70's. One of the best TV themes ever... : )

[@bellydancer3146]

SWAT .Big Wheels, Green Machine.. damn I miss the 70's

[@shaner743]

@@bellydancer3146 I'm 53 years of age and still miss my Big Wheel... 😉

[@TyrSkyFatherOfTheGods]

I remember absolutely loving the "Lou Grant" intro. So imaginative. I still do - and the music is great, too.

[@deborahchesser7375]

Oh man that’s why I watch all the old shows, some I didn’t like as a kid but now they have a whole new feeling

[@JimJones-gd2jy]

58 years old, I know all about this stuff 😂 💕 the 70’s were great !

[@unchainedwiththecapt]

It's amazing to see how much TV has changed over the years.

[@AllRequired]

Not for the better.

[@caliden3785]

thanks I needed this tonight.grew up in the 70s and watched TV alot obviously.😀

[@Sammydx1]

I used to watch Barney Miller all the time with my Grandfather who was a retired NYPD Detective. He was tell me all about what they did wrong and what he would have done. By the end of the 3rd season I could have probably passed the detective test myself

[@ChipWhitingtonIII]

I love how many of the old show intros sort of spelled out the premise for you. You don't see that anymore.

[@bmasters1981]

Are you saying that they used the visuals of these title sequences to tell you what you were watching?

[@Clonetrooper1139]

Loved Nightstalker. A shame.it was only 1 season. Without Carl Kolchak...there would be no Fox Mulder.

[@SamSung-xz7jt]

I always thought Heath Ledger's Joker came from Kolchak.

[@jgarrison1309]

Black Sheep Squadron! Classic! It never hurts to create a show that includes narration! Run that back to back with SWAT and every guy in America can enjoy the evening.

[@ianmangham4570]

Forget about it

[@Perktube1]

ahh Quark. The first Sci Fi spoof I remember. And I wish you had included Salvage 1.

[@Daehawk]

Ha Salvage 1 with Andy Griffith. Loved it. Also Merlin with Barnard Hughes...wait that was 81 or so.

[@protorhinocerator142]

Salvage One was pretty good at first but then got super ridiculous.

[@gatorman295]

I have to say, I'm enjoying these lineups you're putting out! There's a lot of thought being put into these, and while there are some snubs, it's nevertheless an enjoyable ride! I'm looking forward to the 1966-70 lineup, but there's so much that's great about those years that I'm sure it's a difficult one to make. I've tried dabbling in this myself. Here are my picks: SUNDAY 7:00: James at 15 (1977/NBC) 8:00: How the West Was Won (1977/ABC) 9:00: The Amazing Spider-Man (1977/CBS) 10:00: Ellery Queen (1975/NBC) MONDAY 8:00: Little House on the Prairie (1974/NBC) 9:00: Friends and Lovers (1974/CBS) 9:30: Soap (1977/ABC) 10:00: Kolchak: The Night Stalker (1974/NBC) TUESDAY 8:00: Family (1976/ABC) 9:00: Quincy, M.E. (1976/NBC) 10:00: Lou Grant (1977/CBS) WEDNESDAY 8:00: The Texas Wheelers (1974/ABC) 8:30: Barney Miller (1975/ABC) 9:00: Three's Company (1977/ABC) 9:30: Hot l Baltimore (1975/ABC) 10:00: The Rockford Files (1974/NBC) THURSDAY 8:00: CHiPs (1977/NBC) 9:00: Medical Story (1975/NBC) 10:00: Baa Baa Black Sheep (1977/NBC) FRIDAY 8:00: When Things Were Rotten (1975/ABC) 8:30: Good Heavens (1976/ABC) 9:00: Quark (1977/NBC) 9:30: C.P.O. Sharkey (1977/NBC) 10:00: Dallas (1978/CBS) SATURDAY 8:00: The Jeffersons (1975/CBS) 8:30: Ball Four (1976/CBS) 9:00: One Day at a Time (1975/CBS) 9:30: Doc (1975/CBS) 10:00: The Richard Pryor Show (1977/NBC)

[@davidwilliams2661]

Every Friday night me and my grandma watching Dallas!

[@javierbaron1856]

David Williams I know. I can even smell the cookies coming out the oven. (*sob)

[@imasonofadeadbeat2928]

Ikr! Hee Haw on Saturday nights.

[@mikethebike2456]

🏍️ Hope you watched INCREDIBLE HULK and DUKES OF HAZZARD too. 📺

[@Daehawk]

Watched CHiPs at my aunt and uncles house next door every time it came on. Always watched Rockford Files with dad each weekend. Man I miss dad and that show and time. Police Woman. Dad let me draw on his cigar during one ep. I went to bed green and had to get up and barf. Taught me a lesson. hahaha. Oh holy hell!! Baa Baa Black Sheep!! One of my all time favorites. its why I pick the Corsair as my favorite WW2 fighter to this day.

[@zombiegeorge749]

Ahh, The Night Stalker, My favorite of this line up.

[@johnoman6617]

Agreed, shame it only lasted 1 season.

[@dannypayton9579]

Same here.

[@3piper]

Loved Night Stalker.My parents would not let me watch because I was too young. My older brother would tell me about the episodes.IT took me years but as an adult I bought the series

[@thomasjoseph9363]

I was ok until I read your main comment and some of the other comments, now I must vent. Network TV has a long history of KILLING good shows. The Night Stalker was just another of their victims. Why do the Networks even bother with any sort of Sci-Fi type shows when they are simply going to put them on nights and times that nobody ever watches them? I friggin' HATE the main 4 Networks. If a Cable Network would have been around during this time and had this show, it would have probably made 5 years for sure. Granted, yes, monsters would have run short after a couple of years, but with any sort of creativity, they could have made up some new ones. Look at just the Legends and Myths of creatures around the world, let alone the nation. Hell, even up in Northern Minnesota we have one called the Vergas Hairy Man.

[@3piper]

Another Nightstalker fan.The old one I loved ,it just took me years to finally watch it. The newer one with Stuart Townsend was dreadful.X-Files survived because it was on Fox Network

[@peterrice7739]

Angie Dickinson, who starred in the series "Police Woman", was one of a number of actresses who played action heroines on television during the 1970s and 1980s. Others include Lynda Carter as "Wonder Woman", Lindsay Wagner in "The Bionic Woman", Sharon Gless and Tyne Daly in "Cagney and Lacey", and the late Farrah Fawcett, Jaclyn Smith, and Kate Jackson in "Charlie's Angels". Miss Dickinson is a fine actress who has starred in many films from the late 1950s up to the 1970s. She will be celebrating her 90th birthday on Sept. 30. If she's lucky, she'll live to be 100. Let's hope she does.

[@maundamartin59]

They PUT ALOT OF ❤ INTO THEIR THEME SONGS.

[@johnoman6617]

Enjoyed the video, thanks for going to the trouble to make it. I don't see what anyone saw in James at 15. Watched it once and hated the hell out of it. If that kid had showed up at my high school, he would have gotten his ass kicked every day.

[@PhaQ2]

Darren McGavin and my grandfather were close friends. I was fortunate enough to have met him, but I was all of 7 years old and had no idea who he was.

[@mmorris7419]

While I don't agree with all your choices (this is YOUR fantasy line-up,after all) you are nevetheless. a TV Hound Extraordinaire, and for that I salute you! 🙋

[@RwDt09]

Thanks. When one goes through 4 years worth of lineups to draw up an ideal schedule, it shouldn't surprise anyone how much junk aired at the time, or at any time, so the intros in this video really are of shows I consider to be the better and the best of the lot within the 1974-78 period. Aside from these, I viewed about a half-dozen or so others that could've also qualified, including some due to their reviews and/or popularity, i.e. Soap, but I never got much into any of them or Soap, having always found its satire belabored, so, this lineup being my creation, Soap got the boot, while at the same time some, or most, would probably question why I included Baby I'm Back or The Bob Crane Show - simply that I found they were among the lesser "better" ones that still managed to entertain in a way Soap never seemed to for me. Perhaps because I expected less from them and got a bit more, whereas the reverse was the case with Soap. But then, that's just me and my sense of humor. Everybody's got their own fantasy lineups, but when push comes to shove as to which lesser or questionable shows get included to complete the lineup after all the best ones have been selected, it can get a bit tricky in trying to reason some of them out. This is almost like a job, I should get paid for this.

[@mmorris7419]

I agree. There's a small handful I don't remember at all (Dads, Family Man). Your memory is strong, my friend.

[@dswynne]

Man, seeing these intros really take me back. Thanks!

[@Sammydx1]

Betty and Betty. TV you have my FULL attention

[@DavidTSmith-jn5bs]

My favorite Double Mint Twins!

[@MrSplat1972]

Valerie Bertinelli was one of my first celebrity crushes ..Then she had to go and develop and run off with eddie dashing my fragile prepubescent dreams .. never forgave him for running off with my woman

[@DavidTSmith-jn5bs]

I met Pat Harrington at a media/SF con once. I asked him if he'd heard from Valerie recently and he told me about a phone call he made after seeing those weight-loss ads she did and he opened the conversation with "OH-MY-GOD!" I thought "Preach, Brother Pat! Preach!" Nice guy with a wonderful sense of humor.

[@brianshaffneraclc]

Lesson: Always be yourself. Unless you can be Eddie Van Halen.

[@brianarbenz7206]

I was in college and had a crush a co-ed -- named Valerie! Then I'd watch One Day At A Time. Valerie crushes everywhere I looked!

[@protorhinocerator142]

Yeah she was really hot. Especially when contrasted against McKenzie Phillips. Good ol' Valerie. Yes sir.

[@dougghiz5957]

These bring back a lot of memories.

[@Sammydx1]

Still watch CHiPs on a rainy day

[@WilAdams]

WOW Thanks for this. Before viewing this I had forgotten that with shows like The Bob Crane Show, Baby, I'm Back and Harry O, TV in the 1970s really was a waste land. Then to see the hubris of people like Tony Randall thinking that his name alone would cause people to flock to see a tv series with him in it--astonishing. What I did find amazing was how people like Kim Fields and Tim Thomerson would survive loser shows to go on to something memorable. Of course, we can't forget that this showcase also allowed us to remember that there was truly talented people who jumped from one series to another within just a couple of years. For example, James Garner became known for the early TV series Maverick and then a decade or so later became known to a new audience as Rockford. Thanks for that.

[@timmyinmodesto]

Love this! I watched a lot of TV in those years. Watched most of these series but there's a few that I never knew about. Guess they were on opposite the series I watched.

[@RIXRADvidz]

The NIghtstalker was GREAT, like an adult Scooby-doo, very scary story lines that sometimes didn't turn out and were left a mystery, great show!!

[@protorhinocerator142]

The Rakshassa, the Zombie, the Vampire. There were so many good monsters. And everyone treated Kolchak like he was an annoyance, when really he was saving the city from doom.

[@daveyhouston]

How the west was won was a mini series that went on forever back when they lasted for weeks

[@TarHeelBrit]

Kolchak, The Night Stalker one of the best shows to come out of that period. Carl Kolchak expertly play by Darren McGavin. This series is a regular in out DVD player.

[@johannelarue560]

I too adored The Night Stalker (precursor to The X-Files) but what strikes me in this line-up is how much 70s TV was a man's world...

[@arnoldnellis6120]

at that time it still was a mans world. as the saying goes "You've Come A Long Way Baby!" it would be interesting to see what a future generation thinks of the latest shows based on their culture.

[@brendaproffitt8520]

Totally awesome love it sweet wonderful job on this video too thank you so much

[@breeinatree4811]

I had forgotten about Quark. I loved that show. Too bad it didn't last long.

[@nickhill8612]

Quark must have been on NBC. I remember no matter how many times we turned the antenna we couldn't pick up NBC and I missed some great shows.

[@hisanoritsukada7324]

Without the Night Stalker, no X-Files.

[@pacetti07]

Hisanori Tsukada THE NIGHT STALKER was shown on many CBS stations in the 1980's before they got a successful late night talk show. If I'm remembering correctly they had a special opening for the syndicated release of the series that featured the various supernatural threats our hero faced over the course of the series.

[@jpowell180]

One of the writers of the Night Stalker, David Chase, went on to create what is arguably the finest TV series of all time.

[@jpowell180]

I still revisit some Night Stalker episodes, every few months or so; sometimes I love the scenes at the INS office even more than the mysteries. In the late 70s, CBS would air Night Stalker reruns late on Friday nights, just before the Friday Night Late Movie; I remember one Friday night when I was a kid, I had a buddy over to spend the night; we camped out in the living room, watched The Night Stalker, followed by The Devil's Rain....trippy late night viewing, to be sure.

[@thealaskan1635]

Yeah,X Files is a ripoff

[@DavidTSmith-jn5bs]

I bought the entire series on DVD years ago. They tried to remake the series but I didn't like it.

[@taninhada8191]

James Garner saudades, tema que nunca esqueci ... Angie Dickinson, maravilhosa.... CHiPs ótima serie.....Harry O, nunca me esquecerei do tema e do ator David Janssen,.. Dallas, serie muito boa...

[@jefferysteen1041]

Classic shows!!

[@protorhinocerator142]

I used to watch just about every one of these shows.

[@gretchenjaenisch1826]

I loved the Night Stalker!

[@markusdaxamouli5196]

amazing to realize cop dramas were really a go to

[@DavidTSmith-jn5bs]

Cop/private eye show, medical drama, lawyer show...rinse, dry, repeat...

[@brianfuller7691]

So many great programs here.

[@raymondsharpe4638]

Loved Rockford and Police Woman in NBC Fridays❤

[@alltaken678]

The Petrocelli opening should show him trading in a souped-up white Dodge Challenger for that beat-up camper.

[@Zoomer30_]

Heard the bird start chripping and thought "Lou Grant". Been watching them on KZbin for a while.

[@alanhutchins5916]

The theme tunes bring it back..... Pure nostalgia and love it....

[@lucasboydjr]

TV was entirely different back in the day...

[@Robby4291]

High-School for me.

[@javierbaron1856]

Everything

[@Zoomer30_]

Chips went from a Lawrence Welk intro to pure disco.

[@javierbaron1856]

What I wouldn’t do to go back to 1974. Compared to todays. The country was much freer back then.

[@brianarbenz7206]

Watergate. Cointelpro by the FBI. Domestic spying by the CIA. Same-sex marriage illegal. No disabled access to libraries and schools. That's from 1974. Not freer.

[@v1e1r1g1e1]

Kolchak was brilliant!!

[@magnusrising8487]

Tuesday and Saturday night I'd be staying in.

[@dorothydromgoole4649]

Love Chips. The things that they did....or the Rockford Files..If it weren't for bad luck James Rockford would have none. I love them all. The '70's was a groove time.

[@SG-jw8mo]

I was too young for a lot if these, that were more adult fare. The ones I did like or watch were James at 15, CPO Sharkey, Petrocelli and ofcours Dallas, although I would define Dallas as an 80s show, even though it started in the 70s. Mum and Dad watched Hiwvtte West was one, it would be interesting to see a young Bruce Boxleiter. I'd like to see Baa Baa Black Sheep and Night Stalker. If we're going obscure, I would add Apples Way, Swiss Family Robinson, Planet of the Apes, Logan's Run, Blankseys Beauties. For hits I'd add Happy Days, Charlie's Angels, Six Million Dollar Man and Sonny and Cher.

[@wdh47211]

Thanks for posting....good stuff

[@upandawaygames]

It's weird seeing 1974 shows mixing with those of 1978. Such different times. Anyway, suspect only three really hold up today: Rockford Files, Petrocelli and Harry O

[@Perktube1]

Rick Heli never heard of petrocelli

[@upandawaygames]

Yeah, it wasn't on long enough to reach syndication. But you can see glimpses of it here on youtube. Still popular in Germany.

[@upandawaygames]

Really? Hmm...

[@upandawaygames]

not this people ;)

[@hizzlemobizzle]

Rockford files, Night stalker and Barney Miller . Great thing about the 70s was that the shows sucked so bad it inspired us to get out of the house.

[@corrbenbernsten4902]

This is awesome

[@gallaxian]

That S.W.A.T. truck bears a surprising resemblance to a modern-day UPS delivery truck.

[@michaelmerck7576]

The unforgettable saga of Dallas

[@usrt46]

Angie Dickinson...Can you say HOT!

[@robertthomas5196]

Getting up from the table. WOW.

[@upperleftcoastchelseafan7718]

Your kidding right? Ugh, old stretch-mark face-lift been done by every producer in L.A. skank. Wouldn't coitus her with your genitals.

[@upperleftcoastchelseafan7718]

@@robertthomas5196 Too what, throw-up?

[@lp-xl9ld]

You could probably do another "fantasy lineup" consisting of shows from this era that didn't make the cut here...I'd scarcely know where to start. But I can't see much to complain about with *this* one.

[@brianarbenz7206]

I'm sure you're a nice person, RwDt09. But if we were roommates in the mid 1970s, we'd need separate TVs. Other than Lou Grant and One Day At A Time, we don't share any favorites.

[@RichardKurbis]

is this what my death flashback will look like???

[@monkeyboy4746]

Bonnie Franklin's tummy!

[@daveyhouston]

I loved james at 15! He was my same age taken from the movie of the same name he lost his virginity to a swedish exchange student out of a playboy teen magazine today they would have decide to wait like any guy would do that!! Way before snowflakes.

[@ThomasTalbotMD]

Not bad - LOVED the theme music!

[@SmallWorldAcademy]

I've always loved the theme from, "How the west was won."

[@jamesschaefer5455]

Love playing around with this kind of stuff - Sunday 7:00 Donny and Marie, 8:00 Wonder Woman, 9:00 Cher, 10:00 3 Girls 3 Monday 8:00 Rhoda 830 Phyliss, 900 Lou Graant 10:00 Andros Targets Tuesday 8:00 Eight is Enough, 9:00 James at 15, 10:00 Dallas Wednesday 8:00 Little House on the Prairie, 9:00 How the West Was Won, 10:00 Baa Baa Black Sheep Thursday 8:00 Welcome Back Kotter, 830 When Things Were Rotten, 9:00 Barney Miller, 930 Tony Randall, 10:00 Beacon Hill Friday 8:00 Hardy Boys, 9:00 Rockford Files, 1000 Police Woman Saturday 8:00 Jeffersons, 830 Chico and the Man, 900 One Day at a Time 930 Alice, 1000 Van Dyke and company

[@harlandted]

Wow um... I lived these ages as a teen. It’s great to see some (Kolshak I watched under covers and didn’t sleep) but many chosen were great reminders but some only a many shown are too niche to know of.

[@davidanderson-22]

Really? No Cannon? No Barnaby Jones? No Streets of San Fransisco? Just messing with ya. You need a follow-up line up. Really enjoyed this.

[@ericjonmagnuson2728]

All of those shows debuted before '74--and, therefore, would've been ineligible here. Quinn Martin's new shows during this era ('74-78) tended to be flops--although some (e.g., The Manhunter) may have deserved a better fate. (Edited to note that Streets does appear in the 1970-74 fantasy lineup--along with two other QM shows [Dan August and Banyon].)

[@davidanderson-22]

I must have overlooked the part that said they debuted during that time. Makes since now. Thanks Eric.

[@atrocchia]

TV was at its best in the 1970s & 1980s.

[@Perktube1]

atrocchia cough cough

[@jgarrison1309]

Baby... I'm Back is the answer to TWO trivia questions. What did Demond Wilson do after Sanford and Son? and How did Kim Fields get here start?

[@DavidTSmith-jn5bs]

And what did Denise Nicholas do after "Room 222?" I even remember those "Love, American Style" segments she did along with that "Night Gallery" story "Logoda's Heads!" Jaw-drop of an ending!

[@ianmangham4570]

Attention all unit's, chips will return in a moment.

[@daveyhouston]

I lived for baa baa black sheep

[@unchainedwiththecapt]

Fucking CHiPs. I had to watch that shit every week when I was a kid. Every episode is the same.

[@sartainja]

Unchained With The Captain Amen. Great waste of time and brain cells.

[@johnoman6617]

CHIP's sucked.

[@scottlarson1548]

I loved how they used one section of uncompleted freeway in L.A. to stage every one of the elaborate multi-car pileups.

[@Janovus]

John Oman b

[@Datrebor]

I loved CHiPs watched it every week.

[@MerensWorld]

Wonder if in the Rockford Files they ever showed Jim Rockford on the sidelines at an Oakland Raiders game.

[@southernlightning775]

Killer Channel man!!!!🤟😜

[@PopulistDavid05401]

I grew up on the show can you show me what I was going to go through as a as a teenager

[@markmurawski3545]

THE TEXAS WHEEELERS! THANK YOU

[@daveyhouston]

I never found don rickles funny but one line he said" dean martin whatta guy I was at his wedding when he married the nine year old! " lol now that was funny

[@gabespetit1006]

Mason Adams....The Smuckers dude.

[@carpe996]

among many other commercials

[@MerensWorld]

There is a Channel Currently showing Chips but we got Jipped out of this version of the theme. I think they started around season 3 or 4.

[@MerensWorld]

Plus Frank Poncherello and John Baker they make out to be like Action Jackson, or Gi Joe but without using their Guns. Because they show Karate, they are skydiving, Flying planes, on every type of recreational vehicle for fun in the woods, the dirt, etc in the episodes.

[@upperleftcoastchelseafan7718]

Wonder why The Bob Crane Show didn't last? Oh, never mind!

[@bovnycccoperalover3579]

Wow, such good shows unlike now.

[@johnlennon4179]

Didn't like chips liked the theme liked Rockefeller and loved Angie Dickinson in police story all the rest of the shows hit its mark most of my childhood and teen years lots of memories of a simpler time some if these shows didn't last at all very short lived Nightstalkers was my favorite

[@daveyhouston]

Poor Robert urich

[@kathiec1333]

Remember his last series? Can't recall the name but I think it was about a post-Civil War soldier who was buried alive... it was hard for me to watch because he was already ill while it aired.

[@AllRequired]

Lou Grant wasn't such a bad transition. It was nice to see him humanized.

[@barbaramurch6883]

Two of the best instrumental themes are definitely Dallas and S.W.A.T!

[@herbpetrillo163]

Kolchak the best of the bunch by far

[@ajaxmakinlay3129]

james at 15 was the shit

[@nethall3949]

Kim Fields in Baby I'm Back........ I didn't know she was on tv until The Facts of Life of course I was born in 73 so I only know about half of these shows

[@floydlooney6837]

did you know Kim Basinger had a cop show in 1977? lasted 6 episodes, it was called "Dog & Cat". I didn't know either.

[@DavidTSmith-jn5bs]

Kim Fields was doing TV commercials at that time. I remember a Mrs. Butterworth commercial that she did while this show "flashed" on the screen.

[@kathiec1333]

@@floydlooney6837 I remember that show. Was Paul Sorvino her partner?

[@floydlooney6837]

@@kathiec1333 i don't remember

[@jonimichalski9193]

Memories and reruns

[@pretorious700]

James is now retired and living in Boca Raton.

[@timothychamberlin6985]

Angie......

[@andrefriskco660]

A good peace of history I love

[@floydlooney6837]

hang on, Gary Busey and Mark Hamill had a TV show together? whut...

[@keithidota]

I noticed some of your fantasy lineups included quite a few downright flops (in this set, Bob Crane, Texas Wheelers, Medical Story and more). Perhaps you should make a video set dedicated to TV series flops that should have done better.

[@RwDt09]

Well, I did do one like that - 17 TV Series Cancelled too Soon - 2000-2006. But a show that may've tanked in the ratings doesn't necessarily mean it was a bad show, although it seems that judging by my fantasy lineups I'm somewhat partial to ratings failures as about half of my picks seem to have only lasted a single season or even only a handful of episodes (i.e. Richard Pryor).

[@harlandted]

Um... Dynasty? Fantasy Island? Nanny and the Professor The Ghost and Mrs. M. The Brady B. The Partridge F. McMillan and Wife. Love American Style Archie Bunker The Bob Newhart Show The Mary Tyler More Show The Carol Burnet Show... The Love Boat Fantasy Island.... I loved the Barney Miller clip but what about Welcome Back Kotter I know I know, this was your fantasy. Thanks for posting.

[@kathiec1333]

harlandted. Remember MacMillan and Wife was part of the NBC Sunday Mystery series? McCloud was another in that rotation.

[@kyokogodai-ir6hy]

I love your videos, but in this instance, thank goodness for UHF. There are only 7 shows that I would/did watch.

[@daveyhouston]

To me david jensen always seemed three sheets to the wind

[@daveyhouston]

Dallas first successful nighttime soap ! Loved jr hated bobby and jock he abused jr spoiled bobby every Friday at nine followed by falcon crest !

[@thebes118]

No Sanford and Son?

[@fieldingm1969]

Quark!