Tag: 1970s television
Mayberry R.F.D.
How many of you kept watching Mayberry after Andy Griffith left? Mayberry R.F.D. continued the familiar small-town setting, but shifted…
CBS Sunday Nights 1978
This short CBS promo was advertising a surprisingly historic Sunday night on March 19, 1978. All in the Family said…
CBS Sports Spectacular
Do you remember when CBS Sports Spectacular could fill an afternoon with sports we rarely saw anywhere else? This short…
Emergency! Inspired a Generation of First Responders
How many of our viewers became EMTs, first responders or entered another medical field because of the television show Emergency!?…
ABC’s Wide World of Sports
For generations, Saturday afternoons meant watching Jim McKay “span the globe” on ABC’s Wide World of Sports. Beginning in 1961,…
Marcus Welby
Long before television doctors relied on dramatic emergencies and high-tech machines, Dr. Marcus Welby was the calm, caring family physician…
Tokin’ With Lawrence Welk
Only on The Lawrence Welk Show could “One Toke Over the Line” somehow become a “modern spiritual.” In 1971, Gail…
Here’s Lucy
Here’s Lucy kept Lucille Ball on Monday night TV with the same kind of physical comedy, celebrity guest stars, and…
Pfft! You Were Gone Celebrity Edition!
“Pfft! You Were Gone” was originally written and recorded by Buck Owens in 1954, but it is most famously remembered…
Love, American Style: The Show Where Familiar Faces Got Another Shot
Love, American Style was one of those shows that could only have come from that late ’60s and early ’70s…