70's TV shows

[Seattle Zack]

About the only time I ever wished I lived anywhere remotely close to Tennessee:

BRISTOL, Tenn. - Fans of "The Dukes of Hazzard" came from as far away as Australia to meet cast members, buy T-shirts and listen to country music at a festival marking the 25th anniversary of the television show's first season.

Hundreds of people showed up Saturday for the first day of the two-day DukesFest 2004. The show, which critics loved to hate, aired from 1979 to 1985 on CBS, ranking No. 1 for its time slot each season.

Catherine Bach, now 50 but still with long brown hair, wore a low-cut pink sun dress — not the trademark short-shorts made so famous by her Daisy Duke character that such sexy attire is often referred to simply as "Daisy Dukes."

DukeFest

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It was a really stupid show, bit it was must-see-TV when we were growing up. Along with the A-Team, SWAT, Charlie's Angels .... and that ABC mystery rotation, Columbo and McMillan & Wife and Quincy.......

 

[Clare Quilty]

My father was a moon-shiner from west Kentucky and my mother was born in Tennessee and still and still I'm hard pressed to think of a television show that aired during my chilhood that i hated more than Dukes of Hazard. There wasn't one sympathetic character on the whole show.

 

[doormouse]

The Brady bunch... the brady bunch.. that's the way they became the brady bunch.

Damn, i can't remember the Partridge family song.... bit too early for me LOL

 

[doormouse]

Here's the story; of a man named Brady,
Who was living with three boys of his own.
and then one day yah de dah de dah dah

that's how they became the brady bunch....

Anyone know the words?

 

[matriarch]

Here's the story; of a man named Brady,
Who was living with three boys of his own.
and then one day yah de dah de dah dah

that's how they became the brady bunch....

Anyone know the words?

There ya go doormouse.......have fun.

http://www.bradyhour.com/contents.html

 

[doormouse]

damp panties and disappointed..... thanks anyway mat.

It didn't work

Don't matter... I have the cd player blaring LOL

*hugs*

 

[matriarch]

damp panties and disappointed..... thanks anyway mat.

It didn't work

Don't matter... I have the cd player blaring LOL

*hugs*

ok. try this: http://www.bradyhour.com/
I was just in there, this is the home page. Maybe the link didn't like going straight to the contents.

If the link don't work, just type it into the url box. (I HATE it when technology defies me!!)

*hugs back*

 

[oggbashan]

Do they still do re-runs of 'I love Lucy' as they used to do in the 1970s?

Or Sergeant Bilko?

Og

 

[doormouse]

OMG!!! Thanks mat!!!

wooohooo now I feel like a queen nerd LOL

Yay it worked copying and pasting.

I'm listening to a song by a lit reg... how do I put it on here for all to hear?

He needs to be discovered!!!!

 

[rgraham666]

I'm trying to remember anything I watched during the '70s.

Oh yeah.

UFO, much better in my opinion than Space 1999.

And The Night Stalker. Which was one hell of a lot of fun.

 

[doormouse]

I'm trying to remember anything I watched during the '70s.

Oh yeah.

UFO, much better in my opinion than Space 1999.

And The Night Stalker. Which was one hell of a lot of fun.

Was that the show with the talking car???

Shit, I was in nappies. LOL

 

[Guest]

Og.. how about Gomer Pile

70's shows i watched because the TV was my baby sitter:

Gilligan's Island (loved it in black and white)
The Courtship of Eddie's Father
I Dream of Jeanie
Aquaman (with patrick duffy)
Six Million Dollar Man
erm and Woman.. Lindsey Wagner
Green Acres
That Girl
Whats Happenin
Brady Bunch
Partridge Family
Sanford and Son
Welcome Back Kotter(sp?)

i know theres more im just not remembering so early in the morning.. (night after a bit too much imbibing)

 

[Guest]

Was that the show with the talking car???

Shit, I was in nappies. LOL

Knightrider

cars name was ... hell.. erm.. cant remember but i think the guys name was Kit

 

[CharleyH]

RG,

LOL, the Night Stalker used to give me nightmares, of course, I continued to watch it. At the time my usual fare was Charlie's Angels, Happy Days, Laverne and Shirley and Superfriends. often being subjected to All in the Family, M.a.s.h, Kojak etc. which in those days wasn't Charlie's Angels, Happy Days or Laverne and Shirley.

Og, I know they run I Love Lucy, but I used to love watching the in colour spin off, was it the Lucy Show?

Edit: Oh, and everything Vella said except Knightrider. David Hasselhoff, pfftt.

 

[rgraham666]

At first I thought doormouse was talking about My Mother, The Car but that was in the sixties.

Thankfully, vella reminded me of Knight Rider. The car was named KITT.

I always thought that was a cool idea. I could get utterly shitfaced any time I wanted and always have a designated driver. And I wouldn't have to save any of my drinking money for a cab.

 

[Guest]

RG,

LOL, the Night Stalker used to give me nightmares, of course, I continued to watch it. At the time my usual fare was Charlie's Angels, Happy Days, Laverne and Shirley and Superfriends. often being subjected to All in the Family, M.a.s.h, Kojak etc. which in those days wasn't Charlie's Angels, Happy Days or Laverne and Shirley.

Og, I know they run I Love Lucy, but I used to love watching the in colour spin off, was it the Lucy Show?

Edit: Oh, and everything Vella said except Knightrider. David Hasselhoff, pfftt.

how the hell could i forget to add those shows??!!
i must be more hung over than i thought
MASH was my ultimate show.. loved Alan Alda.
wow.. i really watched alot of TV
i think im a bit sad about that.. ganna have to reflect a moment

 

[Clare Quilty]

Damn, i can't remember the Partridge family song.... bit too early for me LOL

Hello world, it's the song that we're singing--come on get happy...

 

[Fag-Ash_Lil]

I miss the cigarette adverts on TV.

Marlboro County

Philip Morris

Camel

They are all taboo words today and I really preferred 'Senior Service' with the sailor's picture and 'Player's' - the tobacco that counts which gave rise to a shaggy-dog story that can only be told when the teller has a packet of Players in front of him.

Got any spare cigarettes?

Fag-Ash Lil

PS. There was the famous series of adverts for 'Strand' cigarettes that are still quoted as a disaster because the smoker was always shown as looking lonely and sad.

 

[matriarch]

Og.. how about Gomer Pile

70's shows i watched because the TV was my baby sitter:

Gilligan's Island (loved it in black and white)
The Courtship of Eddie's Father
I Dream of Jeanie
Aquaman (with patrick duffy)
Six Million Dollar Man
erm and Woman.. Lindsey Wagner
Green Acres
That Girl
Whats Happenin
Brady Bunch
Partridge Family
Sanford and Son
Welcome Back Kotter(sp?)

i know theres more im just not remembering so early in the morning.. (night after a bit too much imbibing)

Vella-mia.......go get some more coffee. It wasn't Aquaman, with Patrick Duffy...........he was 'dah-da-da....da-da-da-da-da-dahhhhhhhhh...... The man from Atlantis !!

Dire, absolutely dire. Watched it avidly.

Mat

 

[Clare Quilty]

Shows that warped my young mind:

1. The Brady Bunch*
2. Nanny and the Professor
3. The Courtship of Eddy's Father
4. The ABC After School Special*
5. Room 222
6. Masterpiece Theatre (R.I.P. Sir Alistair)
7. Monty Python's Flying Circus
8. SNL
9. SCTV (on CBC, not NBC)
10. Mr. Dress Up
11. Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
12. Soap
13. The Famous Five
14. Electro Woman and Dyna Girl
15. The Mary Tyler Moore Show
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[matriarch]

OMG!!! Thanks mat!!!

wooohooo now I feel like a queen nerd LOL

Yay it worked copying and pasting.

I'm listening to a song by a lit reg... how do I put it on here for all to hear?

He needs to be discovered!!!!

Glad to help sweets.

As for posting a song......you need to talk to one of the Comp geeks around here.....definitely not me. I'm sure Lucky, or Lou or Claire could help.

Mat

 

[Clare Quilty]

Do they still do re-runs of 'I love Lucy' as they used to do in the 1970s?

Or Sergeant Bilko?

Og

Sergeant Bilko is in all likelihood M.I.A.

I Love Lucy and The HoneyMooners will never cease to be shown somewhere--not to mention that just about every sit-com is blantantly derivative of these shows.

 

[Guest]

Vella-mia.......go get some more coffee. It wasn't Aquaman, with Patrick Duffy...........he was 'dah-da-da....da-da-da-da-da-dahhhhhhhhh...... The man from Atlantis !!

Dire, absolutely dire. Watched it avidly.

Mat

he was hot huh?.. loved that show

oh yeah and the odd couple!

and how about sat and sun... when the reg shows werent on and there were just movies...

erm.. i cant remember if it was a movie or a show but
The ghost and mrs. muir

beach blanket bingo
every and all elvis movies.. but blue hawaii i can remember well
rock hudson/doris day movies.. pillow talk
godzilla
doris day.. please dont eat the daisies
anything kathrine hepburn..bringing up baby
oh.. and i have vague memories of frank sinatra.. rat pack movies too
yep.. hot coaco and cinamon toast in the winter
iced tea and sweet pickles during the summer were the treats that went along with watching these movies.

wow, what a trip down memorie lane. we had to watch on this TV that was encased in a huge cabinet .. the screen couldnt be more than 20'' but the cabinet took up the entire wall.


one show that still makes my stomach turn is H.R. puffinstuff... plainly it was some sort of propaganda to turn youth into driveling mental cases.

 

[Vincent E]

I hate to be a wet blanket on this cavalcade of reminiscence, but we are getting our decades all mixed up. The Dukes of Hazzard may have primiered in 1979, but it was definitely an 80s show. The A-Team was the 80s as well. Gilligan's Island was most certainly the 1960s as was I dream of Jeanie, Bewitched, and Green Acres.

Many of these shows and more including I Love Lucy are on TV Land in the U.S. Others can be found on Nickelodeon.

Shows of the 1970s would include sitcoms Welcome Back Kotter, Good Times, Chico and the Man, and Sanford and Son; cop and detectives Kojak, The Rockford Files, Columbo, MacMillan and Wife, and Harry O.

Now, as for the Dukes of Hazzard - a highly underregarded television show in the snootier circles of society - it is my considered opinion that the Dukes was the greatest antiestablishmentarian television series of all time. It pitted the classic honest and noble working class underdog against the depravity and greed of the corrupt powerbrokers of society.

The weekly adventures of a family raised in the classic independent spirit of America that brought them into direct conflict with the all consuming government that abused its power until checked by an uprising of the people it is purported to serve.

Boss Hog was the archetype of the corrupt government using its power merely to sate its own desire at the expense of the people. Fat and overbloated, Boss Hog is the perfect picture for the all-consuming appetite of big government.

Sherrif Roscoe P. Coltrane was the lacky, the archetype of the dutiful and unthinking bureaucracy that marches to its orders unquestionably. Knowing on which side his bread was buttered, Coltrane took his orders and did the best he could, with his limited intelligence and ability, to carry out the wishes of his master lest he be left out of his meager share f the largess.

Uncle Jesse was the wise old sage who provided the moral and ethical example for the younger generation to follow, and who held their feet to the fire lest they be tempted by the seduction of greed. He is the heritage and tradition that most Americans aspire to even if we are not always able to adhere to.

Bo and Luke Duke - we will forever ignore the abomination of cousins Coy and Vance - are the common man, the conscience of a nation and the power of the working class to reclaim their government if only in hourly snippets from one week to the next. And while they face a different challenge each week without ever seeming to permanently resolve the abuses of power demonstrated in the seat of government, they remind us that the price of freedom is eternal vigilance.

Daisy Duke was a really hot chick in tight shorts.

Cooter represented the backbone of the nation; he is a quite patriot. While having to serve at the behest of the rich and powerful elite lest he not put food on the table, he is able to subvert the corrupt paradigm and provide assistance to those whom he knows fight for justice.

Just as Gilligan's Island confounded the critics who found it to be mindless, low brow humor while truly being the accurate representation of the stratification of society, The Dukes of Hazzard's value as a commentary on American in the 20th century was lost on critics who could not look beyond the confederate flag of the General Lee and the country music riffs that so irritate our cultural elitists.

On the other hand I could be wrong, and the show was merely a vehicle for Detroit to demolish all of the "last year's models" that were laying around unused.

Of course the irony - if that is indeed the right word, Perdita - is that the aforementioned DukesFest is being held in Tennessee while The Dukes was actually set in Georgia.

 

[oggbashan]

beach blanket bingo
every and all elvis movies.. but blue hawaii i can remember well
rock hudson/doris day movies.. pillow talk
godzilla
doris day.. please dont eat the daisies
anything kathrine hepburn..bringing up baby
oh.. and i have vague memories of frank sinatra.. rat pack movies too
yep.. hot coaco and cinamon toast in the winter
iced tea and sweet pickles during the summer were the treats that went along with watching these movies.

wow, what a trip down memorie lane. we had to watch on this TV that was encased in a huge cabinet .. the screen couldnt be more than 20'' but the cabinet took up the entire wall.


one show that still makes my stomach turn is H.R. puffinstuff... plainly it was some sort of propaganda to turn youth into driveling mental cases.

I liked the Beach movies but they were 1960s. I remember Annette Funicello sitting on the beach in a maternity dress while everyone acted that she was the hottest chick in town.

Doris Day - Pillow Talk - I saw while travelling. It was harmless nonsense which very few films are today. Most Elvis films were also nonsense. I never forgave him for filming Richard Powell's 'Pioneer Go Home'. The book is great. The film? Hum.

My first TV memories are 1950s particularly the Coronation. The whole family crowded around a nine-inch screen. It was so much better in the cinema newsreels but re-runs on decent TVs look good.

Og