For anybody who might be interested the 6 million dollar man it's based on a book by the novelist Martin Caden it's very different from the book which I can assure you was indeed gritty ugly and earthy the characters had to be changed so they can be acceptable for TV I don't think they had to do that sticking to the novel would have given it more realism I hope people will find the original novel and read it I promise you you will not be disappointed the name of the original novel was Cyborg
It really goes to show you how much we relied upon TV Guide back in the day. Most of these shows were canned within 1 season but I remember them all well because every fall TV Guide would put out a special FALL PREVIEW edition with detailed explanations of all the shows, not to mention the three major networks at that time (CBS, NBC & ABC) would advertise the hell out of their shows. Miss those days. If you notice a lot of those shows were very unique and innovative unlike all the remakes, sequels, prequels and the like we have today.
One of my favorite things to read as a kid was the Fall Preview of TV Guide! And I use to read through the tv guide and memorize shows and times . Miss those days!
Unbelievable with that jingle, huh? The second one is much better but I think it still isn't the final music. They improved it the next year. Really an iconic introduction that stays in memory. That original intro really did suprise me.
This series actually had three 90 minute pilot-like shows before it became an established weekly series. The original opening had Dusty Springfield singing the opening theme song and they were trying out a James Bond-like approach but they ditched that for the government agent approach the series was known for. Martin Caidin, who wrote CYBORG, the book the series is based on, actually wrote 4 Steve Austin books and the three pilots were based on those books as well.
Me and my best friend loved TSMDM...we were both 9 years old in 1973. We each watched it at night and then talked about the episode the next day. To this day, when we occasionally meet up for a few drinks, we still say to each other "Get your pitch to zero" as we get into our cars.
Prior to the weekly series, The Six Million Dollar Man had three made-for-television movies; two of which were produced by Glen Larson. The Larson-produced movies portrayed Steve Austin as a James Bond-type spy and it also introduced Richard Anderson as Oscar Goldman, the director of the OSI. The first theme of The Six Million Dollar Man in the video above is from the Larson-produced movies and is sung by Dusty Springfield.
Toma was the forerunner to Baretta. After the first season Tony Musante decided he didn't want to do the series anymore, so the producers cast Robert Blake to replace him, but then decided to rework it into a new (albeit very similar) series with a new name.
@@Leadeshipcoach Me too. It was a simpler (television) world then. There were a lot of underappreciated gems on the air. Of course the advent of cable tv changed the the landscape quantitatively and qualitatively.
The 6 Million Dollar Man started off as a series of movies on the ABC Suspense Theatre before graduating to its own series. The pilot movie was serious, while the remaining movies were more light-hearted "James Bond" like. The series went back to the more serious tone we know and love...
That was my show! I was 10 in 1973...it lasted about 5 seasons I think? Then" The Bionic Woman!" " Wonder Woman" with the beautiful Lynda Carter! and of course " Barney Miller".....I am 54 now and remember all the great TV shows!! These last 40 years flew by!!!
The Six Million Dollar man was my all-time favorite show and he was my ideal male role model. I still remember my joy when he and the Bionic Woman appeared together. And how wonderful to see Ken Howard again. I never knew he was in Adam's Rib. That must have been a fun show.
I hope Chase gets released on DVD some day. It was a Stephen J Cannell, R A Cinader and Jack Webb production. It's too bad the original cast was changed after a few episodes. One of the stars of Chase, Michael Richardson, was in the news before Father's Day 2018 when his friend went missing in Sequoya National Forrest. Luckily, his friend was found the day before Father's Day and reunited with his family. Good to see Michael is still around and doing well.
Thank God they went with Nelson Oliver's now iconic opening theme song. Oliver sadly passed away only 2 years after the show began at the young age of 41 or 42. That explains why he did not score "The Bionic Woman" when it came on a few years later. That was done by James Fielding.
I was born in August of 73. I can picture being on my mom's lap as these promos were going on. That my ears have already these before I even knew it is cool. At one time I was a baby and these shows were big !!!
Somewhat. In the series, she was Diana Smythe. She was a fashion designer and coordinator for a New York City department store. The show lasted four months. I guess "type casting"? She made guest appearances on TV shows and movies. She was a hostess for Masterpiece Mystery on PBS and in 1994, she was titled as a Dame.
Amazing to see someone using a car phone in 1973, I didn't think they became more common until a decade later. I wasn't born until 1978, so I always thought on-the-road communication prior to the 1980s was primarily limited to CB radio.
14:20 If I am not mistaken, "Toma" was the precursor to "Baretta." They decided that "Toma" was just TOO gritty for polite TV, so they toned it down a little, hired a "Little Rascal" and created one of the best series of all time. So, "Toma" wasn't a flop, exactly. It proved the formula for something great that came later.
Just for fun, I thought I would google the 2017 prices of the food items shown in the Lotsa Luck! open (starting around 7:00). Here are three of them, with the Lotsa Luck! (1973) prices and the current (2017) prices at ShopRite: Veal scallopini: $6.79 vs 13.99 (all per pound) Cooked shrimp: $4.30 vs 12.99 NY cut steak: $3.98 vs 9.19 These prices are roughly 2-3x what they were 44 years ago. However, the CPI Inflation Calculator says prices in general have jumped *5.5x* since then...meaning that today's prices in 1973 money would look like this: Veal: $2.53; Shrimp: $2.35; Steak: $1.66...or about half what they were then! Of course...that only works if *wages* had also increased 5.5x since 1973...which they haven't. Oh, well...lotsa luck!
She was a liberated, divorced fashion designer who lived in a NY apartment and had a bunch of wacky neighbors who hit on her and dropped in unannounced
ZZZ - the intro for the New Perry Mason. A guy sitting in his office surrounded by law books, reading some papers, then looking out of a window as generic music plays.
_The Snoop Sisters,_ as an _NBC Wednesday Mystery Movie_ entry, WAS ostensibly a FALL show, albeit naturally somewhat delayed in its premiere, awaiting its "turn" among the shows in rotation, but it ended up being delayed until it was finally scheduled to premiere in November, only to be pulled at the last minute (with a repeat of the season premiere of _Banacek_ being shown instead) to be "retooled", and FINALLY had its debut in December. I don't know what became of the episode yanked at the last minute, if it was revamped to become one of the episodes that eventually aired, or if the would-be premiere never surfaced _at all._ In any event, I loved the series that finally aired for its one short season!
In retrospect, it's not hard to understand why most of these shows didn't last. All these police and detective dramas were probably hard to tell apart.
That original intro for The Six Million Dollar Man looks like something you'd see on a sketch comedy parodying '70s TV tropes. When I was watching I seriously thought it had to be a gag.
NBC Follies?? Execs: "Hey! let's put money on a form of entertainment that was popular nearly 50 years ago!" Producers: "You better schedule the shows for 5 pm, because those who remember the Follies go to bed at 6pm now."
I turned 13 in the fall of '73 and remember more of the actors who played in these shows then the actual shows themselves. Well, it has been 48 years.😝 My favorites here are Kojak, The Six Million Dollar Man and Police Story.
Kojak, The Six Million Dollar Man, Police Story, Shaft. And I swear Simon Oakland was in just about every tv show and movie back in the 70s. Unfortunately I missed Diana Rigg and Kathleen Freeman aka Fräulein Burkhalter, shows. I’m doing better here than I was with the mid season 1979 shows.
Simon Oakland was also on Baa Baa Black Sheep 76'-78'. Now that was a cool show! Robert Conrad as marine major Greg 'Pappy' Boyington and his squad of misfits flying those f4u Corsairs in the Pacific campaign in WWII.
OMG I've never seen that Six Million Dollar Man opening! Oh God the lyrics! :D I also loved The Magician but never saw it until it was on SciFi before that channel went down the trash chute.
Usually I hate when syndication homogenizes openings so that later versions run with earlier episodes, but in cases like this I'll make an exception. That was an awful original opening.
They decided that Diana Rigg could be a classier, yet fetishistic MTM. "Who can turn the world on with her accent and leather catsuit including indiscreet cutouts at the hips"? Well, as far as I'm concerned, that would have crushed even MTM's smile to dust. But they didn't let Diana wear the catsuit. It would have been infinitely more interesting to turn MTM into Mrs. Peel than Mrs. Peel into MTM. They were both great, God love them.
The TV show "Adam's Rib" starred Ken Howard and Blythe Danner. The episode featured in the clip seen here was written by Peter Stone and directed by Peter H Hunt. All four were involved in the movie version of Stone's Broadway musical, 1776.
I caught that too! It's always been 1 of favorite movies bc I saw i1776 on Broadway with my father as a 10 year old in 1970 but not with the original cast
I remember watching The Girl with Something Extra and The Magician, but The Six Million Dollar Man was my show. It actually did not premiere until January 1974 (mid-season). The initial ABC TV movies aired in 1973 before it actually became a weekly series.
My dad had a friend who was an enterainment reporter and did an interrivew with James cocoa for this show for his newspaper. After like 10 minutes James Coco started yelling at the guy and calling him rude and inappropriate and stormed out. The guy was one of the quietest, most professional people I've ever known. He was completely baffled.
Too bad Lotsa Luck on NBC didn't had a chance since it was put up against the antediluvian CBS Western, Gunsmoke & another cookie-cutter cop show on ABC, The Rookies.
1973 was the season of some truly HORRENDOUS shows,only thing that came out of it was The Six Million Dollar Man,That’s My Mama,Kojak,and Roll Out and the ONLY reason I say Roll Out because it produced Good Times as its Replacement midway doing that season.
I am always surprised at the shows I remember and the ones I never heard of. I remember Diana and even Cleveland Amory's review of it in TV guide. I never heard of NBC Folies or Needles & Pins. I loved The Girl WIth Something Extra & thought it deserved a second season, but only gave passing notice to Bob & Carrol (etc). Beverly Sanders (Lota Luck) was one of those comedic actresses they really tried to have succeeded. She was in a host of short-lived shows but I knew as Lucy in "You're a Good Man Charlie Brown."
And it's obvious that the different intros for some shows was because the first reflected the pilot episode and the second, the regular series. For example, Alan Oppenheimer was replaced in "The Six Million Dollar Man" by Martin E. Brooks, while Gary Crosby replaced three actors in "Police Story."
As an 8 year old at the the time, I never missed the Six Million Dollar Man, but I didn’t remember that first intro. I also I think I had to go too bed before The Magician aired, and had too wait until summer vacation too stay up late enough too watch it.
CarolJ2013 I liked Bill Bixby, ever since My Favorite Martian. I never got to watch The Courtship of Eddie's Father, because my older sister didn't like it. Fortunately, she liked the Magician.
18:30 Lemme get this straight, the first scene from the first episode of the TV remake of Shaft made the daring aesthetic choice of NOT actually featuring its title character, let alone depicting any crime which would allow a dramatic entrance for him. Instead we're treated to bland courtroom footage of boring old men who are doing boring things - which is literally the opposite of the intro from the first film.
The young Blythe danner was the spitting image of her daughter Gwyneth Paltrow I had a huge crush on Blythe as a kid . RIP Ken Howard. I remember the Adam's rib sitcom . I thought it was charming and funny. I also remember kojak of course and Toma and many of the other series in this collection .btw There were a lot of talented people associated with some of the shows that bombed e.g. Dame Diana Rigg in a sitcom!? OMG!
Roll-Out, what kind of cheap MASH knock-off show with all the black actors was that? I'm guessing it was based on the Red Ball Express in WWII? Who knows, probably because MASH was such a hit they thought they could copy the formula, obviously didn't work.
I would love to see a comprehensive list of what actors/actresses have appeared as a regular in the most TV series. Robert Urich has got to be near the top. Ed Begley, Jr. right there with him. I did a quick search and all I could find were lists of people's guesses. :(
While this isn't on your 1973-1974 TV season list, Saturday Morning Television was a unique area of Primetime TV, and on September 8, 1973, most of the cartoon shows that season were mostly based on popular TV shows, starting with NBC's "STAR TREK", which returned as a Filmation- produced cartoon series, five years after the original NBC series concluded its Primetime run in 1969, which featured most of the original cast (minus Walter Koenig) voicing their original characters, and the Filmation series even won an Emmy Award for best children's program in 1975, throughout its 22 episode run. "THE ADDAMS FAMILY" returned as NBC cartoon series from Hanna-Barbera Productions, which, was also from CBS's "THE NEW SCOOBY-DOO MOVIES" in Fall 1972, which brought back most of the original cast of the 1964-66 ABC series, but the 1973 NBC series was, if anything, routine.NBC's also debuted "EMERGENCY +4", based on NBC Universal's popular "EMERGENCY" series that Jack Webb produced, while the animated counterpart was produced by Fred Calvert, and featured the voices Kevin Tighe and Randolph Mantooth. ABC also ran the second season opener of "THE ABC SATURDAY SUPERSTAR MOVIE", "Lost In Space", a Hanna-Barbera produced film, based on Irwin Allen's 1965-68 CBS series, with the voice of Jonathan Harris, reprising his "Dr. Smith" role. The animation was produced in Australia, and wasn't much to appreciate, other than the fact that the character designs were made by Alex Toth. ABC also debuted "SUPER FRIENDS", which would begin a 13-year-run on the Network, but even more, was that The DC Characters, also stars of previous animated cartoon series, mostly for CBS in the 1960s by Filmation Associates and NPP-TV (DC Comics), were thought to have been excluded from Saturday Morning TV, after numerous complaints by parents who objected to the cartoon and superhero violence in 1968, and all canceled by 1969. but in 1972, on CBS's "THE NEW SCOOBY-DOO MOVIES", Batman & Robin returned as guest stars on two episodes, while ABC's "THE BRADY KIDS", a Filmation- produced cartoon series, and the first official spinoff from ABC's "THE BRADY BUNCH", had also used "Superman" (which Filmation originally produced for CBS from 1966 to 1968), along with the official animated debut of "Wonder Woman", in one of the 22 animated episodes, and the ABC executives had brainstormed the perfect idea-make all of them, "Super Friends" since it came from "Cindy's Super Friend" episode of "THE BRADY KIDS" in 1972. The DC superheroes came back to Saturday Mornings since 1969, and the conditions were pretty simple-no violence! ABC hired Dr. Haim Ginnott as a consultant to "SUPER FRIENDS", and the rest was history! ABC also aired "MISSION: MAGIC", a Filmation cartoon series, that featured the animated likeness of Rick Springfield, and "LASSIE'S RESCUE RANGERS", another Filmation cartoon series, based on The Jack Wrather TV series, and the animated "SUPERSTAR MOVIE", "Lassie And The Spirit Of Thunder Mountain" which was aired on November 11, 1972.. ABC also aired "GOOBER AND THE GHOST CHASERS" from Hanna-Barbera Productions, which was a total ripoff of "SCOOBY-DOO", but also featured the animated likenesses (and voices) of characters from ABC's "THE PARTRIDGE FAMILY" (1970-1974), which also led to an odd spinoff called "PARTRIDGE FAMILY-2200 A.D." for CBS's "Socko Saturday" schedule in Fall 1974. CBS in Fall 1973 also debuted "JEANNIE", another Hanna-Barbera cartoon series, loosely based on "I DREAM OF JEANNIE" (1965-70)-but this cartoon series also featured Mark Hamill's voice, just five years before "STAR WARS" took to thee box office in May 1977. In addition to Mark Hamill, Bob Hastings also voiced in "JEANNIE", some decades before both he and Hamill voiced for FOX's "BATMAN THE ANIMATED SERIES" in Fall 1992. Another CBS cartoon series was "MY FAVORITE MARTIANS", a Filmation Production in association with Jack Chertok Television, based on "MY FAVORITE MARTIAN" (1963-66), with "LOST IN SPACE" star, Jonathan Harris, voicing the "Martian" character that originally was created by Ray Walston in 1963, and Lane Scheimer, son of Filmation founder, Lou Scheimer as the voice of "Andy", along with Jane Webb and Howard Morris (both of these people also voiced in Filmation's popular "ARCHIES" cartoon series) -but as long-winded as my observations are, Fall 1973 was a special year for Saturday Morning entertainment, especially since the cartoon fares were based on popular TV series, which would continue on throughout most Saturday Morning shows of the later 70s and 80s!
I am now 54 and remember The Six Million $ Man! That was my show as a 10 year old in 1973!! Great times, classic memories!!
Nicky Depaola mine too! Back to a simpler time.
I am jumping over the fence with my bionic legs, cue sound effects... ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch.... 😂
Really bummed that they cut the into off right at the song.
For anybody who might be interested the 6 million dollar man it's based on a book by the novelist Martin Caden it's very different from the book which I can assure you was indeed gritty ugly and earthy the characters had to be changed so they can be acceptable for TV I don't think they had to do that sticking to the novel would have given it more realism I hope people will find the original novel and read it I promise you you will not be disappointed the name of the original novel was Cyborg
I was going to say your math is wonky but then I noticed your comment was six years ago and your math is perfect. 54 to 60. That was quick.
Bill Bixby could do anything. He should have had 20 more years performing at least. RIP
It really goes to show you how much we relied upon TV Guide back in the day. Most of these shows were canned within 1 season but I remember them all well because every fall TV Guide would put out a special FALL PREVIEW edition with detailed explanations of all the shows, not to mention the three major networks at that time (CBS, NBC & ABC) would advertise the hell out of their shows. Miss those days. If you notice a lot of those shows were very unique and innovative unlike all the remakes, sequels, prequels and the like we have today.
One of my favorite things to read as a kid was the Fall Preview of TV Guide! And I use to read through the tv guide and memorize shows and times . Miss those days!
As a 70s kid, Bill bixby sparked my love for corvettes!
The Six Million Dollar Man had the most impressive intro, music included, for us kids back in the day. I can't believe the other one.
Unbelievable with that jingle, huh? The second one is much better but I think it still isn't the final music. They improved it the next year. Really an iconic introduction that stays in memory. That original intro really did suprise me.
They seemed to going much more the James Bond route for the original titles.
Klipkultur yep, the first one was cheeeeeeezy!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
This series actually had three 90 minute pilot-like shows before it became an established weekly series. The original opening had Dusty Springfield singing the opening theme song and they were trying out a James Bond-like approach but they ditched that for the government agent approach the series was known for. Martin Caidin, who wrote CYBORG, the book the series is based on, actually wrote 4 Steve Austin books and the three pilots were based on those books as well.
Yup
Today $6 million won’t get you a third string quarterback
That's too funny Charles, but true :-)
If they rebooted that show today, they would have to call it the $6 Billion dollar man.
Today that might just cover the craft services budget. Bagels are expensive in L.A.!!
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@@waynejohanson1083 .. I heard they are making a movie ( with Mark Wahlberg) and will actually call it something like that!
Me and my best friend loved TSMDM...we were both 9 years old in 1973. We each watched it at night and then talked about the episode the next day. To this day, when we occasionally meet up for a few drinks, we still say to each other "Get your pitch to zero" as we get into our cars.
what is TSMDM
@@jacobedecruz5350 The one and only The Six Million Dollar Man, of course.
@@jacobedecruz5350 the six million dollar man
RIP DIANA RIGG Beautiful Talented person ps good shows to bad they didn't make it
How can anyone not fall in love with that Sally Field smile.
She always great. Especially Gidget - 1965 & The Flying Nun - 1967
She insulted my town
She insulted my authority
Happens every time one of those...
Gidget, town bicycle of the surfer dudes, grew up to be Megan Carter (
Absence of Malice), town bicycle of the Miami government news beat.
WoW! Never seen that version of the $6M Man! Thank goodness they changed it! That was AWFUL!
Steve should never have come forward with the side stick...
That original one was just painful!
Better yet, do you know who the singer was? DUSTY SPRINGFIELD!
Prior to the weekly series, The Six Million Dollar Man had three made-for-television movies; two of which were produced by Glen Larson. The Larson-produced movies portrayed Steve Austin as a James Bond-type spy and it also introduced Richard Anderson as Oscar Goldman, the director of the OSI. The first theme of The Six Million Dollar Man in the video above is from the Larson-produced movies and is sung by Dusty Springfield.
Which makes me forgive the "awful" original theme.
This little walk down memory lane was super fun. Thanks
Toma was the forerunner to Baretta. After the first season Tony Musante decided he didn't want to do the series anymore, so the producers cast Robert Blake to replace him, but then decided to rework it into a new (albeit very similar) series with a new name.
That's interesting. I was just thinking that he looked a lot like Robert Blake.
"You know what this character needs?"
"Tell me."
"A parrot."
So much star power in the service of so many awful shows.
I still have original shows of six million recorded on audio cassette tapes from when they aired. I recorded every show of the first 3 seasons.
DIANA w/ DIANA RIGG how cool!! I love her....
I have never ever seem that opening for the six million dollar man.....WOW thanks for posting
Thank God they went with the second intro for 6 million dollar man I don't think I would have watched it as a kid if they had that first intro.
I also remember The magician with bill Bixby it was fantastic
loved that show!
@@Leadeshipcoach
Me too. It was a simpler (television) world then. There were a lot of underappreciated gems on the air.
Of course the advent of cable tv changed the the landscape quantitatively and qualitatively.
I think Chase is the reason Starsky and Hutch had that Gran Torino, if you think about it.
Never knew Diana Rigg had her own US show.
Johnny Rio I remember her as Emma Peele on the Avengers.
@@frankdenardo8684 And she was Lady Holiday in *The Great Muppet Caper*
She did, but the uncultured audience preferred Festus than the former Mrs. Peel.
@@luisreyes1963 the uncultered louts get what they deserve
It only lasted 1 season.
FANTASTIC Nostalgic Memories!!!
Amazing ERA!
GREAT YEAR!!!
Much Thanks!!
The TOMA theme sounds cool. Definitely a hidden gem among all of the short lived TV series.
Steve Austin is The Hero. And those 70s tv themes are pure class
I loved The Magician and his Corvette. He became incredible hulk shortly afterwards
The 6 Million Dollar Man started off as a series of movies on the ABC Suspense Theatre before graduating to its own series. The pilot movie was serious, while the remaining movies were more light-hearted "James Bond" like. The series went back to the more serious tone we know and love...
That was my show! I was 10 in 1973...it lasted about 5 seasons I think? Then" The Bionic Woman!" " Wonder Woman" with the beautiful Lynda Carter! and of course " Barney Miller".....I am 54 now and remember all the great TV shows!! These last 40 years flew by!!!
Yes, I watched the pilot movie not long ago and was surprised how slow it was. Turned into a great adventure show eventually.
The Six Million Dollar man was my all-time favorite show and he was my ideal male role model. I still remember my joy when he and the Bionic Woman appeared together. And how wonderful to see Ken Howard again. I never knew he was in Adam's Rib. That must have been a fun show.
I actually teared up when I saw the (real) intro thinking about how pumped I was to watch that every week. Had all the toys too.
The magician theme rocked !
Diana Rigg was still so awesome!
bill bixby definitely had some hits and misses in his lifetime. r.i.p. bill :(
I still love him best in No1, The Incredible Hulk - 1977 & No.2 My Favorite Martian - 1962. Then No.3 Eddies Father - 1970
I hope Chase gets released on DVD some day. It was a Stephen J Cannell, R A Cinader and Jack Webb production. It's too bad the original cast was changed after a few episodes. One of the stars of Chase, Michael Richardson, was in the news before Father's Day 2018 when his friend went missing in Sequoya National Forrest. Luckily, his friend was found the day before Father's Day and reunited with his family. Good to see Michael is still around and doing well.
That first Six Million Dollar Man opening was painful.
epb0205 yes!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Thank God they went with Nelson Oliver's now iconic opening theme song. Oliver sadly passed away only 2 years after the show began at the young age of 41 or 42. That explains why he did not score "The Bionic Woman" when it came on a few years later. That was done by James Fielding.
I was born in August of 73. I can picture being on my mom's lap as these promos were going on. That my ears have already these before I even knew it is cool. At one time I was a baby and these shows were big !!!
Could "Diana" have been more of a carbon copy of The Mary Tyler Moore Show?
I think that's why the intro changed. I instantly thought of MTM when I saw the intro.
Somewhat. In the series, she was Diana Smythe. She was a fashion designer and coordinator for a New York City department store. The show lasted four months. I guess "type casting"?
She made guest appearances on TV shows and movies. She was a hostess for Masterpiece Mystery on PBS and in 1994, she was titled as a Dame.
I also thought … Isn’t this Mary Tyler Moore’s show?
"Hi, I'm actor Troy McClure. You might remember me from TV shows such as Needles and Pins, Diana and Lotsa Luck".
-Simpsons
I remember a couple of these, but at 10 years old I was outside most of the time so....
Amazing to see someone using a car phone in 1973, I didn't think they became more common until a decade later. I wasn't born until 1978, so I always thought on-the-road communication prior to the 1980s was primarily limited to CB radio.
Bogart used a car phone in 1954's "Sabrina" -- I think such phones existed even then, but only for the very, very wealthy.
Don Adams as Maxwell s m art had a phone in his shoe
14:20 If I am not mistaken, "Toma" was the precursor to "Baretta."
They decided that "Toma" was just TOO gritty for polite TV, so they toned it down a little, hired a "Little Rascal" and created one of the best series of all time.
So, "Toma" wasn't a flop, exactly. It proved the formula for something great that came later.
I'm waiting for the. Barretta movie to come out. It'll probably be another James Franco and company production
Just for fun, I thought I would google the 2017 prices of the food items shown in the Lotsa Luck! open (starting around 7:00). Here are three of them, with the Lotsa Luck! (1973) prices and the current (2017) prices at ShopRite:
Veal scallopini: $6.79 vs 13.99 (all per pound)
Cooked shrimp: $4.30 vs 12.99
NY cut steak: $3.98 vs 9.19
These prices are roughly 2-3x what they were 44 years ago. However, the CPI Inflation Calculator says prices in general have jumped *5.5x* since then...meaning that today's prices in 1973 money would look like this:
Veal: $2.53; Shrimp: $2.35; Steak: $1.66...or about half what they were then!
Of course...that only works if *wages* had also increased 5.5x since 1973...which they haven't. Oh, well...lotsa luck!
Lotsa Luck has been put in Rotation on Antenna TV
Try that again in 2022 😂
@@MadTracker No thanks! ;)
Damn it! I would have watched the hell out of a Diana Riggs show!
JamieB Brnsde what was it about?
Who cares?
@@dflf Just another throwaway "liberated woman" Sitcom. 😒
She was a liberated, divorced fashion designer who lived in a NY apartment and had a bunch of wacky neighbors who hit on her and dropped in unannounced
Bill Bixby’s The Magician… loved that show!!!
I was 7 in 73 wow brung back memories
ZZZ - the intro for the New Perry Mason. A guy sitting in his office surrounded by law books, reading some papers, then looking out of a window as generic music plays.
What killed shaft was the fact that the urban edge was gone. It's television not movies
pretty cool music in all of these
The takeaway from many of these: we have to come up with better suspension in our cars!
WOW! I don't remember tha first 6 million dollar man promo at all! The second is CLASSIC.
Bill Bixby also starred in several TV shows.
How is it possible that I was a college freshman and don't remember a show starring Diana Rigg, especially since I loved the Avengers?
Thank you. I have been trying to remember the show featured a helicopter, CHASE.
In 1973 I was watching Star Trek, F Troop Get Smart and I dream of Jeannie.
_The Snoop Sisters,_ as an _NBC Wednesday Mystery Movie_ entry, WAS ostensibly a FALL show, albeit naturally somewhat delayed in its premiere, awaiting its "turn" among the shows in rotation, but it ended up being delayed until it was finally scheduled to premiere in November, only to be pulled at the last minute (with a repeat of the season premiere of _Banacek_ being shown instead) to be "retooled", and FINALLY had its debut in December. I don't know what became of the episode yanked at the last minute, if it was revamped to become one of the episodes that eventually aired, or if the would-be premiere never surfaced _at all._ In any event, I loved the series that finally aired for its one short season!
TSMDM - that second theme, really brought back memories for me. Also Kojak and The Magician.
Looking forward to the 6 Billion Dollar Man.
Today it would be more like a trillion. Billions are thrown around like monopoly money.
In retrospect, it's not hard to understand why most of these shows didn't last. All these police and detective dramas were probably hard to tell apart.
That last movie: Fonda, Nimoy and Hagman. Wow!
Ricardo Montalban and Lorne Greene in the same show? I’m going to look that one up!
That original intro for The Six Million Dollar Man looks like something you'd see on a sketch comedy parodying '70s TV tropes. When I was watching I seriously thought it had to be a gag.
NBC Follies?? Execs: "Hey! let's put money on a form of entertainment that was popular nearly 50 years ago!" Producers: "You better schedule the shows for 5 pm, because those who remember the Follies go to bed at 6pm now."
14 year already grown kis today have no idea how we were raised. We had to survive day after day.god bless
I turned 13 in the fall of '73 and remember more of the actors who played in these shows then the actual shows themselves. Well, it has been 48 years.😝 My favorites here are Kojak, The Six Million Dollar Man and Police Story.
Kojak, The Six Million Dollar Man, Police Story, Shaft. And I swear Simon Oakland was in just about every tv show and movie back in the 70s.
Unfortunately I missed Diana Rigg and Kathleen Freeman aka Fräulein Burkhalter, shows.
I’m doing better here than I was with the mid season 1979 shows.
Simon Oakland was also on Baa Baa Black Sheep 76'-78'. Now that was a cool show! Robert Conrad as marine major Greg 'Pappy' Boyington and his squad of misfits flying those f4u Corsairs in the Pacific campaign in WWII.
OMG I've never seen that Six Million Dollar Man opening! Oh God the lyrics! :D I also loved The Magician but never saw it until it was on SciFi before that channel went down the trash chute.
yes i saw the original season and the theme song was enough to sink the show. thank god they dumped the theme song shortly after
FlavioGirl I don’t remember it either but I know I saw the pilot and first season. The second intro is so much better.
@@christystewart4567 couldn't agree more, that theme song is just appalling
Usually I hate when syndication homogenizes openings so that later versions run with earlier episodes, but in cases like this I'll make an exception. That was an awful original opening.
They decided that Diana Rigg could be a classier, yet fetishistic MTM. "Who can turn the world on with her accent and leather catsuit including indiscreet cutouts at the hips"? Well, as far as I'm concerned, that would have crushed even MTM's smile to dust. But they didn't let Diana wear the catsuit.
It would have been infinitely more interesting to turn MTM into Mrs. Peel than Mrs. Peel into MTM. They were both great, God love them.
Ah! the women’s Lib era! Hence so many shows of single women out making it
Its also the divorce era
Less then than now.
The TV show "Adam's Rib" starred Ken Howard and Blythe Danner. The episode featured in the clip seen here was written by Peter Stone and directed by Peter H Hunt. All four were involved in the movie version of Stone's Broadway musical, 1776.
I caught that too!
It's always been 1 of favorite movies bc I saw i1776 on Broadway with my father as a 10 year old in 1970 but not with the original cast
I remember watching The Girl with Something Extra and The Magician, but The Six Million Dollar Man was my show. It actually did not premiere until January 1974 (mid-season). The initial ABC TV movies aired in 1973 before it actually became a weekly series.
The Six Million Dollar Man intro was the greatest ever
Dom De Luise's TV sitcom was another that did not remain on TV.
Memories of My childhood
Joni Michalski yeeeees!
yep!
5:55 I have to admit, though - Calucci's Dept. is a masterpiece.
Oh, yeah. CBS' comedy about an unemployment office & it's red tape.
No wonder it got killed by BOTH The Brady Bunch on ABC & NBC's Sanford And Son.
My dad had a friend who was an enterainment reporter and did an interrivew with James cocoa for this show for his newspaper. After like 10 minutes James Coco started yelling at the guy and calling him rude and inappropriate and stormed out. The guy was one of the quietest, most professional people I've ever known. He was completely baffled.
I am having some major flashbacks! I think I just found my favorite new UA-cam channel.
Lotsa Luck was a U.S. version of the U.K.'s On The Buses.
Too bad Lotsa Luck on NBC didn't had a chance since it was put up against the antediluvian CBS Western, Gunsmoke & another cookie-cutter cop show on ABC, The Rookies.
The intro for 6 million dollar man was always one of the coolest tv intros.
1973 was the season of some truly HORRENDOUS shows,only thing that came out of it was The Six Million Dollar Man,That’s My Mama,Kojak,and Roll Out and the ONLY reason I say Roll Out because it produced Good Times as its Replacement midway doing that season.
21 shows failed out of 24? I would fire everyone!
Only if made by the same people and studios.
Or "Cat" Anderson on Trumpet..... Crazy notes
"Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice"-its opening title strongly resembles the "Norm Prescott-Lou Scheimer" graphic in the credits of Filmation's programs.
The musical-variety show had pretty much run its course by then.
I am always surprised at the shows I remember and the ones I never heard of. I remember Diana and even Cleveland Amory's review of it in TV guide. I never heard of NBC Folies or Needles & Pins. I loved The Girl WIth Something Extra & thought it deserved a second season, but only gave passing notice to Bob & Carrol (etc).
Beverly Sanders (Lota Luck) was one of those comedic actresses they really tried to have succeeded. She was in a host of short-lived shows but I knew as Lucy in "You're a Good Man Charlie Brown."
How cool was it having Dusty Springfield singing the song for the 6 Million Dollar man! loving it!!
And it's obvious that the different intros for some shows was because the first reflected the pilot episode and the second, the regular series. For example, Alan Oppenheimer was replaced in "The Six Million Dollar Man" by Martin E. Brooks, while Gary Crosby replaced three actors in "Police Story."
Lol the six million dollar man would be the 6000 billion dollar man in today's money.
not if he was done by someone in his garage or a private firm
If it was a Pentagon project yes, 6,000 Billion is about right, done in the private sector, 6 million is about right
$34,291,983.61 according to the Inflation calculator
bionic woman my favorite show ever
Today a show called The Girl With Something Extra would have a whole different meaning.
I loved Toma.
Too bad the network didn't. And Tony Musante wound upon the ash pile of forgotten performers.
As an 8 year old at the the time, I never missed the Six Million Dollar Man, but I didn’t remember that first intro. I also I think I had to go too bed before The Magician aired, and had too wait until summer vacation too stay up late enough too watch it.
The Girl With Something Extra sounds like something I've watched alone. lol
Diana Rigg...
Wow.
LOVED, LOVED LOVED The Magician! I was 15 - Bill Bixby was HOT!
CarolJ2013 I liked Bill Bixby, ever since My Favorite Martian. I never got to watch The Courtship of Eddie's Father, because my older sister didn't like it. Fortunately, she liked the Magician.
Just don't make him angry, you wouldn't like him when he's angry.
lincbond442 turns into a big green hulk?
Why is Kojak a TV legend but Toma a footnote, the world may never know
I just subscribed..... I love this kinda diversion from life. (Lost my brother - age 64 - in January to the CHINA flu.
I saw an intro on another channel for doc Elliot
18:30 Lemme get this straight, the first scene from the first episode of the TV remake of Shaft made the daring aesthetic choice of NOT actually featuring its title character, let alone depicting any crime which would allow a dramatic entrance for him. Instead we're treated to bland courtroom footage of boring old men who are doing boring things - which is literally the opposite of the intro from the first film.
A Norman Fell Series!
The young Blythe danner was the spitting image of her daughter Gwyneth Paltrow I had a huge crush on Blythe as a kid . RIP Ken Howard. I remember the Adam's rib sitcom . I thought it was charming and funny. I also remember kojak of course and Toma and many of the other series in this collection .btw There were a lot of talented people associated with some of the shows that bombed e.g. Dame Diana Rigg in a sitcom!? OMG!
Roll-Out, what kind of cheap MASH knock-off show with all the black actors was that? I'm guessing it was based on the Red Ball Express in WWII? Who knows, probably because MASH was such a hit they thought they could copy the formula, obviously didn't work.
I would love to see a comprehensive list of what actors/actresses have appeared as a regular in the most TV series. Robert Urich has got to be near the top. Ed Begley, Jr. right there with him. I did a quick search and all I could find were lists of people's guesses. :(
Robert Conrad would be my guess.
Bernie Koppel
They sure shoved Diana Muldaur down our throats.
When you see who Gwyneth Paltrow takes after when Blythe Danner comes on screen.
While this isn't on your 1973-1974 TV season list, Saturday Morning Television was a unique area of Primetime TV, and on September 8, 1973, most of the cartoon shows that season were mostly based on popular TV shows, starting with NBC's "STAR TREK", which returned as a Filmation- produced cartoon series, five years after the original NBC series concluded its Primetime run in 1969, which featured most of the original cast (minus Walter Koenig) voicing their original characters, and the Filmation series even won an Emmy Award for best children's program in 1975, throughout its 22 episode run. "THE ADDAMS FAMILY" returned as NBC cartoon series from Hanna-Barbera Productions, which, was also from CBS's "THE NEW SCOOBY-DOO MOVIES" in Fall 1972, which brought back most of the original cast of the 1964-66 ABC series, but the 1973 NBC series was, if anything, routine.NBC's also debuted "EMERGENCY +4", based on NBC Universal's popular "EMERGENCY" series that Jack Webb produced, while the animated counterpart was produced by Fred Calvert, and featured the voices Kevin Tighe and Randolph Mantooth. ABC also ran the second season opener of "THE ABC SATURDAY SUPERSTAR MOVIE", "Lost In Space", a Hanna-Barbera produced film, based on Irwin Allen's 1965-68 CBS series, with the voice of Jonathan Harris, reprising his "Dr. Smith" role. The animation was produced in Australia, and wasn't much to appreciate, other than the fact that the character designs were made by Alex Toth. ABC also debuted "SUPER FRIENDS", which would begin a 13-year-run on the Network, but even more, was that The DC Characters, also stars of previous animated cartoon series, mostly for CBS in the 1960s by Filmation Associates and NPP-TV (DC Comics), were thought to have been excluded from Saturday Morning TV, after numerous complaints by parents who objected to the cartoon and superhero violence in 1968, and all canceled by 1969. but in 1972, on CBS's "THE NEW SCOOBY-DOO MOVIES", Batman & Robin returned as guest stars on two episodes, while ABC's "THE BRADY KIDS", a Filmation- produced cartoon series, and the first official spinoff from ABC's "THE BRADY BUNCH", had also used "Superman" (which Filmation originally produced for CBS from 1966 to 1968), along with the official animated debut of "Wonder Woman", in one of the 22 animated episodes, and the ABC executives had brainstormed the perfect idea-make all of them, "Super Friends" since it came from "Cindy's Super Friend" episode of "THE BRADY KIDS" in 1972. The DC superheroes came back to Saturday Mornings since 1969, and the conditions were pretty simple-no violence! ABC hired Dr. Haim Ginnott as a consultant to "SUPER FRIENDS", and the rest was history! ABC also aired "MISSION: MAGIC", a Filmation cartoon series, that featured the animated likeness of Rick Springfield, and "LASSIE'S RESCUE RANGERS", another Filmation cartoon series, based on The Jack Wrather TV series, and the animated "SUPERSTAR MOVIE", "Lassie And The Spirit Of Thunder Mountain" which was aired on November 11, 1972.. ABC also aired "GOOBER AND THE GHOST CHASERS" from Hanna-Barbera Productions, which was a total ripoff of "SCOOBY-DOO", but also featured the animated likenesses (and voices) of characters from ABC's "THE PARTRIDGE FAMILY" (1970-1974), which also led to an odd spinoff called "PARTRIDGE FAMILY-2200 A.D." for CBS's "Socko Saturday" schedule in Fall 1974. CBS in Fall 1973 also debuted "JEANNIE", another Hanna-Barbera cartoon series, loosely based on "I DREAM OF JEANNIE" (1965-70)-but this cartoon series also featured Mark Hamill's voice, just five years before "STAR WARS" took to thee box office in May 1977. In addition to Mark Hamill, Bob Hastings also voiced in "JEANNIE", some decades before both he and Hamill voiced for FOX's "BATMAN THE ANIMATED SERIES" in Fall 1992. Another CBS cartoon series was "MY FAVORITE MARTIANS", a Filmation Production in association with Jack Chertok Television, based on "MY FAVORITE MARTIAN" (1963-66), with "LOST IN SPACE" star, Jonathan Harris, voicing the "Martian" character that originally was created by Ray Walston in 1963, and Lane Scheimer, son of Filmation founder, Lou Scheimer as the voice of "Andy", along with Jane Webb and Howard Morris (both of these people also voiced in Filmation's popular "ARCHIES" cartoon series) -but as long-winded as my observations are, Fall 1973 was a special year for Saturday Morning entertainment, especially since the cartoon fares were based on popular TV series, which would continue on throughout most Saturday Morning shows of the later 70s and 80s!