CBS News - 1975: A Television Album - WNAC Channel 7 (Complete Broadcast, 12/28/1975)

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  • Here's an hour-long special, 1975: A Television Album, hosted by CBS News correspondent Charles Collingwood and, in this form, aired in Boston via then-affiliate WNAC Channel 7 (now WHDH).
    All program and sponsor billboard voiceovers by Bill Gilliand.
    A little bonus will follow after this program.
    Includes:
    Recording comes in just after Charles starts preview of coming show, followed by opening titles and sponsor billboard for Bufferin
    Segment 1, with a look at Gerald Ford's first full year as President as reported by Bob Schieffer; the state of the economy as reported by George Herman; the state of New York City as reported by Robert Schackne; and how "Jaws" lifted the movie industry
    Commercials for:
    Bufferin (comparisons vs. Bayer and Anacin)
    Windex glass cleaner
    Glade solid air freshener
    The Bankers Life - "How to Select the Right Life Insurance Company"
    Segment 2, looking into the fall of South Vietnam and Cambodia; the strife in Portugal and Angola; U.S.-Soviet "détente" relations (and the Apollo-Soyuz linkup); the death of Spain's Generalissimo Francisco Franco, as reported by Bob Simon; the Mideast situation, as reported by John Sheahan; the Lebanese conflict, as reported by Bill McLaughlin; terror attacks around the world; and turmoil at the United Nations
    Commercials for:
    Ritz Crackers (with Andy Griffith)
    Whirlpool dishwashers
    Union Carbide (on solar energy)
    Segment 3, with a look into the coming elections with Morton Dean on the Democrat race and Connie Chung on the Republican side; revelations about the CIA and FBI, reported by Daniel Schorr; events involving International Women's Year; the rising salaries of sports athletes; the retirement of Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas and his replacement with John Paul Stevens; a look at the most notable deaths of 1975; the decline in the social fabric, leading to a look at preparations for America's Bicentennial, which closes the program
    Commercials for:
    Vicks NyQuil
    Geritol - "Make Every Day Count"
    Zenith Chromacolor II
    Bufferin (repeat)
    Repeat of opening credit sequence and sponsor billboard, followed by end credits:
    Producers - Kenneth Witty, Hal Haley
    Directed by Ken Sable
    Narrative Written by Charles Collingwood
    Film Editors - Ken Baldwin, Natalie Bider, Robert Reingold, Mitchell Rudick, Philip Weinstein, Bob Wright
    Unit Manager - Judith Kahn
    Research - Angela LeJuge, Ellen Levine
    Production Supervisor - John P. Lyons
    Associate Directors - Joe Gorsuch, Toni Siegel
    Production Coordinator - Jennifer Sable
    Assistant to the Producer - Charles Rozzi
    Technical Director - John Pumo
    Audio - Arnold Rosenzweig
    Lighting Director - Ralph Holmes
    Set Decorator - John Pickette
    Stage Manager - James E. Wall
    Scenic Design - Neil DeLuca
    Videotape Editors - Ted Demers, David Diaz, Mike Dietz, Bob Foster, Walter Freedman, Jeff Laing, George Joanitis, Vic Milana, Fred Pinciaro, Bob Simon, Daniel Stevens
    Graphics - Ned Steinberg, Tony Cacioppo, Lowell Chereskin, Joe Lagana
    Animation Cameraman - Jerry Merola
    Executive Producer - Leslie Midgley
    1975 - A Television Album
    A Production of CBS News
    (C) MCMLXXV CBS Inc.
    All Rights Reserved
    Promo for Cotton Bowl Festival Parade, Tournament of Roses Parade and Cotton Bowl Game (Georgia vs. Arkansas) for New Year's Day (voiceover by Roger Forster)
    'Catch the Brightest Stars' to 'Eye-D' animated bumper (voiceover by Bill Gilliand)
    Commercials for:
    Realty World - "A World of Difference"
    Suffolk Downs race track
    'Happy Kwanza' Station ID slide (voiceover by Leif Jensen)
    Bonus:
    First nearly three minutes of Wild, Wild World of Animals, as such:
    Opening titles, followed by preview of episode "Deadly American Snakes" (narrated by William Conrad)
    PSA's for:
    New England Anti-Vivisection Society
    United Negro College Fund (featuring on-camera appearance by NBC staff announcer Fred Facey as college instructor as well as Lawrence Hilton Jacobs, best known for playing Freddie "Boom Boom" Washington in Welcome Back Kotter) (voiceover by Adolph Caesar) (recording ends before "...terrible thing to waste")
    This aired on local Boston TV on Sunday, December 28th 1975.
    This footage was donated to The Museum of Classic Chicago Television as part of The Steve Albert Collection.
    About The Museum of Classic Chicago Television:
    The MCCTv (FuzzyMemoriesTV) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit whose primary mission is the preservation and display of off-air, early home videotape recordings (70s to early 80s, mostly) recorded off of TV (in Chicago or other cities now too); things which would likely be lost if not sought out and preserved digitally. If you have any old 1970s videotapes recorded off of TV please email: tapes@fuzzy.tv We preserve the entire broadcasts in our archives-the complete programs with breaks (or however much is present on the tape), for historical preservation. For information on how to help in our mission, to donate or lend tapes to be converted to digital, please e-mail tapes@fuzzy.tv Thank you for your help!

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  • @Eric-sn4qz
    @Eric-sn4qz Рік тому +133

    I was 9 in 1975. Great years as a kid. The 70’s rocked.

    • @ApartmentKing66
      @ApartmentKing66 Рік тому +5

      I, too, turned 9 in October of that year. And my middle name is Eric.

    • @luisbohorquez7096
      @luisbohorquez7096 Рік тому +2

      Same 😊😁😊🤙 Very true..Got to see Jaws 🦈🦈🦈 at movies 🎥🎥🎥 😁😊🤙

    • @EdsterIII
      @EdsterIII Рік тому +10

      I was born in 1967, October 1967 to be exact. Those days were truly magical compared to now. We didn't need smartphones, tablets, Wi-Fi, laptop computers, or Xbox. We had our IMAGINATIONS! We actually played outside, created our fun. Built forts, grabbed our fishing 🎣 gear and headed out to the local parks. Or even rode our bikes there, since we could go outside without fear of dying. Such a better time.

    • @EdsterIII
      @EdsterIII Рік тому +3

      ​@@luisbohorquez7096My Mom took me to see 🦈Jaws🦈 at Southridge Mall when it came out and it was EPIC!

    • @Eric-sn4qz
      @Eric-sn4qz Рік тому +5

      @@EdsterIII
      Hey now. October 1966. What a great month for a birthday. Cool weather. Halloween 🎃
      The 70’s was a great time to grow up as a kid. Movies. Toys. Food. Etc.

  • @debbiewilkins1623
    @debbiewilkins1623 Рік тому +47

    I was 9 years old when this first aired on tv. How I wish I was back in that time again so I could be with my parents and grandparents again!!!

    • @artmoss6889
      @artmoss6889 Рік тому +1

      Me too! All the people I loved were alive, healthy, and doing well, and I was just a dumb little kid without a care in the world.

    • @idaslapter5987
      @idaslapter5987 Рік тому

      me too

    • @thejdgoodwin
      @thejdgoodwin Рік тому

      That's so sad :(

    • @3373-g8z
      @3373-g8z Рік тому

      People of ALL ages were so much happier! The 1970s was PARADISE

  • @seabrook1976
    @seabrook1976 Рік тому +100

    "May you be doomed to live in interesting times." is an awesome curse.

  • @gregman1715
    @gregman1715 Рік тому +177

    If I Could I Would Go Back To The 1970s I Would Just Too Be With All My Family Again Who Have Sadly Passed On

    • @abraxasjinx5207
      @abraxasjinx5207 Рік тому +6

      I Hope You Have Found New People Who Care About You And Whom You Care About As Well. It's A Great Big World, Full Of Amazing People.

    • @gregman1715
      @gregman1715 Рік тому +4

      @@abraxasjinx5207 I Do Thanks 😁👍✌️

    • @jennifernichols9468
      @jennifernichols9468 Рік тому +2

      Amen

    • @debbiewilkins1623
      @debbiewilkins1623 Рік тому +2

      Same here!!!

    • @johnhennessey6147
      @johnhennessey6147 Рік тому +6

      Even with all the shit that happened in the seventies I'd rather go back there the world is getting worse and worse

  • @KT72273
    @KT72273 Рік тому +49

    This aired on WBBM Channel 2 in Chicago at 4:00pm that Sunday 12/28, right after the Cowboys-Vikings Hail Mary Game!

    • @SA-bq1us
      @SA-bq1us Рік тому +5

      I just went and watched the hail Mary clip...viking rubes are still in cope mode

    • @KT72273
      @KT72273 Рік тому +2

      @@SA-bq1us As a diehard Bears fan, I concur!

    • @jrodlange8099
      @jrodlange8099 Рік тому +1

      For sure, us Viking fans are still recovering from good ol' Drew Pearson. Personally, the 98 NFC Championship is the worst. Uuuugh

    • @toyman81
      @toyman81 Рік тому

      What a Game

    • @michaelmccormack494
      @michaelmccormack494 Рік тому +1

      The Armand Terzian game...

  • @cafeinst
    @cafeinst Рік тому +33

    I was six years old when this aired. Why does the world back then look so much more wholesome than today?

    • @21stcenturysucks39
      @21stcenturysucks39 Рік тому +7

      Because of that Orange Ape!

    • @brianarbenz1329
      @brianarbenz1329 Рік тому

      But Nixon got off with a pardon. The Orange Ape has been indicted and is probably going to be found guilty. That's a great improvement over what happened in the '70s.

    • @ricoz2016
      @ricoz2016 Рік тому +1

      It was lol

    • @trixiedelight1350
      @trixiedelight1350 Рік тому +5

      I guess it depends on how you define wholesome. This was an era when porn such as Deep Throat played in movie theatres.

    • @brianarbenz1329
      @brianarbenz1329 Рік тому +5

      @@trixiedelight1350 Precisely. The past looks better because of what we have forgotten, as much as what we remember.

  • @siobob1
    @siobob1 Рік тому +7

    Amazed at how much of 1975 that I remembered, including world events and leaders, at age 15. But I was a news hound from an early age. Ended up going into broadcast journalism for nearly two decades. Had a great appreciation of Collingwood, Cronkite, and the entire CBS News team.

  • @pbennett13
    @pbennett13 Рік тому +27

    1975 aside - which was a pretty depressing year, this was a joy to watch!! They should have made these every year! I will look for more!

    • @EdsterIII
      @EdsterIII Рік тому +5

      No offense but 2000-2023 has been a garbage couple of decades +. I'd take 1975 over this time in a snap!

    • @ShadowAngel-lt8nw
      @ShadowAngel-lt8nw Рік тому +2

      @@EdsterIII And what wasn't garbage about 1975? Vietnam ended in the worst possible way, there were countless wars and conflicts (Bangladesh, Portugal, Angola, Argentina).The US was and is the biggest war mongering threat, but thanks to the Soviets, the second biggest threat, there was also the constant danger of World War 3 and Nuclear Annihilation. All countries under Soviet rule suffered tremendously. And where i live, Germany, was basically at war with the extremely left-wing Red Army Faction kidnapping and murdering people and waging terror everywhere (and it would get worse with the so called "German Autumn" in 1977). Oil Crisis. IRA Attacks in the UK.
      Massive recession worldwide, including a big crisis in the UK. And then those poor people had to suffer Margaret Thatcher, quickly becoming one of the most hated people in the country.
      Unemployment rate in the US was nearly 10%.
      Litereally the one good story was the death of Franco and Spain finally escaping the Dictatorship to become a Democracy again.
      Nah, politically it was a terrible time.

    • @PHL1213
      @PHL1213 Рік тому

      @@EdsterIII I agree

  • @brianarbenz1329
    @brianarbenz1329 Рік тому +43

    The thing that was really different, and better, about that time is that a TV network is devoting prime time to really looking at the news, not "true crime" junk about somebody who absconded with their company's money and ran off with the office manager, or whatever. News, not candy. That was before network news operations became run by GE, Westinghouse and Disney.

    • @ricoz2016
      @ricoz2016 Рік тому +6

      VERY true. The rise of "infotainment" and the billions of dollars the networks generated in their news divisions led to where we are now.
      The film 'Network' was prescient wasn't it?

    • @brianarbenz1329
      @brianarbenz1329 Рік тому

      @@ricoz2016 A person like Trump would have been reported on as a repeatedly bankrupt, accused sex abuser when the news, not infotainment took precedent. But in the '80s and '90s, the networks, NBC in particular, treated him like an economic asset, not a public figure requiring scrutiny.

    • @jchow5966
      @jchow5966 Рік тому

      It was a crazy time too. I remember it well. I would rather go back to that time as the age i am now. People were smarter and better thrn.

    • @tias.6675
      @tias.6675 4 місяці тому +1

      I do not watch modern day news at all, but these old clips are more pleasant because they aren't depressing and violent.

  • @dakinayantv3245
    @dakinayantv3245 Рік тому +26

    Before reporters became entertainers.

  • @g.b.174
    @g.b.174 Рік тому +32

    Starting at 46:30 the prediction that sports and their stars have "reached their limit" in costs/salary is hilarious!

  • @eydie57
    @eydie57 Рік тому +87

    I remember 1975. It was a hard time. But our current situation is worse.

    • @jC-kc4si
      @jC-kc4si Рік тому +7

      Early 80s we had 18 % interest rates, could you imagine getting a bank CD today for 18 percent,,? Wouldn't have to gamble your money in stock market.

    • @RedGarnett-n2p
      @RedGarnett-n2p Рік тому

      Only because of some orange turd who never should have been near the White House

    • @SarcasticTruth77
      @SarcasticTruth77 Рік тому +2

      True, but borrowing money for a house or a small business would not be great. Still, my parents did those things.

    • @BrokeDownBob
      @BrokeDownBob Рік тому +4

      I don't think so. I was still recovering from combat in Vietnam. It was a difficult time for me.

    • @alangray9117
      @alangray9117 Рік тому +7

      It was worse in the 70s and early 80s. We had double digit inflation, huge interest rates. We like to think it was better but economically speaking it was horrible. We were kids then and didn't have to deal with it.

  • @chrishobbs6878
    @chrishobbs6878 Рік тому +49

    Very interesting glimpse into 1975. I can see some things are still the same.

  • @Randy.E.R
    @Randy.E.R Рік тому +18

    I was in the fifth grade as 1975 rolled into 1976. I don't remember much about the news but remember my Mom sitting on the couch in tears as she watched the flag draped coffins coming home from Vietnam.
    I can also remember how bad inflation was because my Dad didn't make much money. We did without a lot but so did a lot of people in our small blue collar town. My mother wanted to take a part time job but my Dad wouldn't hear of it. If you think about it, it didn't take much money to raise kids then. We didn't have a lot of gadgets. We had thousands of acres of open desert to have fun, and that's exactly what we did.
    After watching this, I wouldn't say the world is a better or worse place. Just different people with different problems.

  • @rebeccakleitz3177
    @rebeccakleitz3177 Рік тому +13

    I turned 10 in October of 1975.
    I remember this show like it was yesterday!

    • @twistoffate4791
      @twistoffate4791 Рік тому +2

      I saw your comment, the same precise details applying to myself, and had to look twice to make sure I wasn't the one who wrote it.

    • @brianarbenz1329
      @brianarbenz1329 Рік тому +1

      Maybe you two are long lost twins!

  • @erinmeggik391
    @erinmeggik391 Рік тому +24

    Was a teen in the 70s and too remember CBS 📺 doing a Bicentennial special as well

    • @brianarbenz1329
      @brianarbenz1329 Рік тому +1

      There were bicentennial specials on each network every five minutes.

    • @erinmeggik391
      @erinmeggik391 Рік тому

      @@brianarbenz1329 Today's programming is goat 🐐 tripe 😆

  • @deedeelovesiceasmrandmore2037
    @deedeelovesiceasmrandmore2037 Рік тому +10

    The year, I was born, wow seeing the past. Is crazy and great.

  • @aprylrittenhouse4562
    @aprylrittenhouse4562 Рік тому +146

    It just goes to prove our world was just as nutty when I was 12 as when I'm 60.

    • @pibly7784
      @pibly7784 Рік тому +1

      True !

    • @oliverv291
      @oliverv291 Рік тому +3

      I was 10

    • @mrsebring181
      @mrsebring181 Рік тому +14

      I would contend it's worse. I was 9. What politicians got away with here was diddly pooh next to what happens now.

    • @scottdelong1
      @scottdelong1 Рік тому

      It's worse now. It's striking how much more articulate and reasonable Republicans were back then. Now they lie and natter on about conspiracy theories.

    • @SalvationinCHRISTalone888
      @SalvationinCHRISTalone888 Рік тому +3

      Now, THAT is THE TRUTH🤙🤙🤙🤙🤙🤙

  • @seanwinkel8890
    @seanwinkel8890 Рік тому +4

    Absolutely fascinating. Thank you so much for sharing this. Love the ads!!

  • @craigbusick9676
    @craigbusick9676 Рік тому +14

    Love this. I hope to find more. I was 13 in 1975 and actually enjoyed watching the news back then. I remember as an even younger kid and watching the Watergate hearings.I loved the political party conventions too. This is great.

    • @Scalihoo
      @Scalihoo Рік тому +4

      Same..I was born in 62 & remember these things & more

    • @janellemiller1195
      @janellemiller1195 Рік тому +2

      I was 3. I was born in November 72.

    • @LaurainCT
      @LaurainCT Рік тому +3

      Same! I was 12 and very aware of global activities! Remember this all

    • @trixiedelight1350
      @trixiedelight1350 Рік тому +2

      I was 7 in 74 when the Watergate hearings played every weekday afternoon, and I was a P. O'd whippersnapper as the afterschool rerun of the Flintstones and Gilligan's Island would not be broadcast in order to bring you this CBS, ABC, NBC News Special Report.

    • @craigbusick9676
      @craigbusick9676 Рік тому +1

      @@trixiedelight1350 🤣👍

  • @boeingpilot7002
    @boeingpilot7002 Рік тому +1

    I turned 20 in 1975. Years in So Cal were the best of my life.

  • @selimlayouni8923
    @selimlayouni8923 Рік тому +6

    Thanks for this gem!

  • @MichaelMattison
    @MichaelMattison Рік тому +22

    The more things change ,the more things stay the same

  • @dansmith6748
    @dansmith6748 Рік тому +16

    I was 14, in grade 9 and not watching the NEWS at all, unlike today. I follow certain NEWS stories, I'm 61 and still in grade 9

  • @Star_Gazing_Coffee_Lover
    @Star_Gazing_Coffee_Lover Рік тому +99

    Give me 1975 over today

    • @joshuabowmans9850
      @joshuabowmans9850 Рік тому +4

      I was seven years old that year. I love that year.

    • @johncaldwell881
      @johncaldwell881 Рік тому +4

      @@joshuabowmans9850 I was 5 that year

    • @hayleynadel6808
      @hayleynadel6808 Рік тому +4

      @@joshuabowmans9850 I was 8. What awesome fuzzy memories

    • @alangray9117
      @alangray9117 Рік тому +11

      I was nine but we had double digit inflation and all. Economics were actually worse than now. We didn't know because we were kids.

    • @peterjohnson1734
      @peterjohnson1734 Рік тому +5

      @@alangray9117 The economics of 1975 while they seemed a bit gloomy at the time were much easier to fix than the economy of today.

  • @Bigeazy87
    @Bigeazy87 Рік тому +19

    My 6th birthday was in 1975. Even though I was so young I remember the news about the fall of Saigon

    • @kim71749
      @kim71749 Рік тому +2

      So was mine!

    • @pika23
      @pika23 Рік тому +2

      An ex bf of mine, his family was on the Last helicopter. And people his mom said were like hanging off as it took off and stuff

    • @Bigeazy87
      @Bigeazy87 Рік тому +2

      @pika23 I also went with school with kids who went through that. So mind boggling.

    • @crocodile1313
      @crocodile1313 Рік тому +1

      @@kim71749 Glad I'm not the only one here approaching age 54, lol.

    • @kim71749
      @kim71749 Рік тому +1

      @@crocodile1313 not approaching, am 54!

  • @trevorbattle1861
    @trevorbattle1861 Рік тому +10

    I remember when JAWS came out. My parents couldn’t find a sitter so they took me to the drive-in with them at age 6. They thought I would fall asleep 😴 in the back of the station wagon ….. NOPE! Saw the ENTIRE movie and refused to go back into the ocean until age 9!

    • @mariec4275
      @mariec4275 Рік тому

      My dad took me to see Jaws that year! I was 10😊

  • @DT__1
    @DT__1 8 місяців тому +3

    I can’t believe what I just watched that was the best news I’ve ever seen ! True facts zero Bologny. Today for news like this all reporters would be chased like Assange

    • @marty639
      @marty639 8 місяців тому

      Na beth. Gnar bye eth? Ham harbeth. Nar va es. Narvaez

    • @marty639
      @marty639 8 місяців тому

      Incherma barbafa fabula

    • @marty639
      @marty639 8 місяців тому

      Chombino den waki taki. Barbafa fabila incherma. Chasma chombules

  • @rebeccaherschman1635
    @rebeccaherschman1635 Рік тому +7

    Why can’t we have news like this where we don’t hear the opinions of the owners of whomever owns the station we happen to be watching

  • @PJBovio
    @PJBovio Рік тому +5

    This knocks me for a loop!! I'm originally from Boston. I can remember when WNAC Channel 7 was an ABC affiliate and WHDH Channel 5 was a CBS affiliate. That changed in 1972 when Channel 5 became WCVB - ABC and Channel 7 became a CBS affiliate. I remember how confusing and upsetting that was!! But I got over it. I moved from MA to MN several years ago, and I found out recently that WBZ-TV Channel 4 that had ALWAYS been an NBC affiliate is now CBS!! That is MINDBLOWING❗❗❗❗Doesn't make sense at all.

  • @jamesedgar3442
    @jamesedgar3442 Рік тому +6

    "Athletes may look back on 1975 as the year the big money ran out." LOL!!!!!!

  • @patgalvez4563
    @patgalvez4563 Рік тому +13

    Interesting to see Rumsfeld and Bush Sr. appointed to the White House at the same time.

  • @wickedmirage
    @wickedmirage Рік тому

    This was fantastic! Thank you for uploading.

  • @Nicksonian
    @Nicksonian Рік тому +2

    Interesting commercial from Union Carbide touting development of a fusion reactor. Here we are, almost fifty years later and fusion is still a pipe dream.

  • @KOMET2006
    @KOMET2006 Рік тому +7

    This was during the era of the Big Three Networks, who ruled the TV airways. At the time this program was shown on TV in Chicago, I was a 6th grader on Christmas break from school.

  • @Ziffel22
    @Ziffel22 Рік тому +5

    I remember that the car companies said that they weren't going to lower the prices of new cars and they didn't lower the prices. The car companies offered rebates so that they could say that they kept their word. It also started a trend of rebates for nearly every appliance in the stores.

  • @scottjones3102
    @scottjones3102 Рік тому +5

    I remember the commercials, times were much simpler.

  • @danityvanityinsanity
    @danityvanityinsanity Рік тому +11

    Wow! I can’t wait till Union Carbide comes out with their fusion energy technology!😏

    • @luisreyes1963
      @luisreyes1963 Рік тому +2

      Pity they had that poison gas leak in Bhopal, India in 1983. ☠️

    • @JDAbelRN
      @JDAbelRN Рік тому

      Fusion and nuclear energy will prove to be the most environmental friendly forms of energy as opposed to wind mills and solar panels and EVs that consume massive amounts of cobalt, copper, lithium, phosphate mined by exploited third world children. Not to speak of unable to recycle solar panels and wind farms. This will turn out to be the most wasteful attempt of solving a non existent problem, global warming. Insanity and Left s new religion.

  • @mosesgutierrez7602
    @mosesgutierrez7602 Рік тому +3

    I graduated from high school in 1975 Huntington park high school

  • @theloyalorderofclassictv5435
    @theloyalorderofclassictv5435 Рік тому +7

    Suffolk Downs race track - which is on the border of East Boston an the costal town of Revere was closed several years ago, and has totally been knocked down to be a new multi-use development - the parking lot is now a shopping center.

  • @libertyann439
    @libertyann439 Рік тому +4

    I graduated high school that year. I wasn't a big follower of the news then. It's nice to see history when I can appreciate it.

  • @lindaeasley5606
    @lindaeasley5606 Рік тому +14

    I wish I could relive 1975

  • @kevindouglas1143
    @kevindouglas1143 Рік тому +8

    I was 12,in 1975.Let's travel back to those days!!!!

  • @DoubleMonoLR
    @DoubleMonoLR Рік тому +1

    @13:33 - that has to be Doris Roberts, aka Marie Barone in "Everybody loves Raymond", Mildred Krebs in "Remington Steele", etc. Seems her appearance and voice never changed too much!

  • @steveerhart8777
    @steveerhart8777 Рік тому +5

    I was 17 in 1975, a sophomore in high school.
    One thing really stood out from this program. Urban Gardening. It was talked about only briefly. But, a?recent Netflix show illustrates this as a possible solution to feeding people, & doing so in an efficient manner.

    • @thorstrebla980
      @thorstrebla980 Рік тому

      That was going to be everyone's job in urban slums during Obama's presidency. It didn't really go anywhere. Maybe it could have, but it seems nobody remembers that less than ten years later.

  • @toyman81
    @toyman81 Рік тому +3

    I was 13 then and could not wait for Christmas Day.

  • @wmbrown6
    @wmbrown6 Рік тому +6

    About that "Wild, Wild World of Animals": It was also a staple of Channel 7 in New York - WABC Channel 7, that is, on one of the weekdays as carved out by the 1971 Prime Time Access Rule. (The syndicated nature program WCBS Channel 2 aired was "The World of Survival" - narrated by John Forsythe, voiceover by Hank Simms.)
    I presume that in Boston (and probably New York?), this aired at 5 P.M. EST?

    • @darrylh1971
      @darrylh1971 Рік тому +2

      There was also at the same time: "Animal World" with Bill Burrad, "Last of the Wild" with Lorne Greene, and "Friends of Man" with Glenn Ford.

    • @wmbrown6
      @wmbrown6 Рік тому +3

      @@darrylh1971 - I'm not sure, but didn't WNBC run "Animal World"? They sure did run "Wild Kingdom," even after it left the NBC network - and "Last of the Wild" was on WCBS as well.

  • @orbison
    @orbison Рік тому +14

    15:45 I know about this story for a weird reason. This was the same year that M*A*S*H had shocked audiences by killing off Henry Blake (McLean Stevenson), which was a big deal for a series at that time. Larry Gelbert said that they received hundreds of letters in anger. Gelbert and the other writers responded to all of them, and in those letters, they mentioned this tragedy to offer perspective, gently telling the angry viewers, in essence, "We hope you can feel as much sadness for those children as you do for Henry Blake."

    • @JDAbelRN
      @JDAbelRN Рік тому

      Big phonies, gelbart and the whole CBS "Tiffany network" were so greedy, wouldn't pay Stevenson the salary he deserved. He was the most valuable actor and funniest on the program. MASH went downhill after he was "killed off".

  • @josieswanson7764
    @josieswanson7764 Рік тому +11

    I turned 13 in August. I saw Saigon fall on April 30.watched JAWS, and Saturday Nigt Live. Shocked that NYC could go bankrupt. Ended the year transferring to a Catholic School, discovering Aerosmith, Heavy Metal, and Disco, and seeing King Kong at the movies. I learned the words Terrorism and Detente more clearly. Nasa had its last show, until the Space Shuttle would arrive.

    • @alaricabercrombie2692
      @alaricabercrombie2692 Рік тому +1

      I saw Jaws at a California drive-in movie in the summer of 1975. I had a great time, there. Also, that summer, I went to Disneyland. It was a wonderful experience. The summer of '75 definitely rocked for me. I was 7 years old. 🎈

    • @HoustonRebel
      @HoustonRebel Рік тому +2

      ​@@alaricabercrombie2692 I was 7 y.o. in '75 too. We must have seen Jaws a dozen times that summer. And the debut of SNL. The best days of SNL.

    • @alaricabercrombie2692
      @alaricabercrombie2692 Рік тому +2

      @@HoustonRebel That is cool 😎. I miss the 70s prior to 1978. Those were really special, and exciting times for me, as a child 🤗. In my opinion (& from my experiences), '78 & '79 were very mediocre times, personally & culturally. It seemed like the 70s lost its thrill during those last two years.

    • @HoustonRebel
      @HoustonRebel Рік тому +3

      @@alaricabercrombie2692 It was toward the end of 1980 for me both personally and entertainment-wise. I was just starting 7th grade. Entertainment in general seemed to not be as great as the 70s. I've been told that I'm an "Old Soul" here recently because I always enjoy 70s and 60s entertainment more than I enjoyed my own teen years (the 80s) and even entetainment today. But that was probably just a nice way for them to say I'm old fashioned. Lol. Most people refer to their teen years as their era but my era was the 70s/60s.

    • @alaricabercrombie2692
      @alaricabercrombie2692 Рік тому +2

      @@HoustonRebel Omg, me too 😃! I have always treasured the 60s & the 70s more so than my teen years from the 80s. Personally, I felt like my childhood ended during the end of the 70s. I don't look back on the 80s with the same fondness as I do with the 70s. I can definitely relate to what you are saying. 😁👏👏👏

  • @martinleavitt6094
    @martinleavitt6094 Рік тому +2

    I turned 13 that June,my beloved Red Sox kept me riveted through that summer!!⚾️

  • @anthonyvaldez6892
    @anthonyvaldez6892 Рік тому +35

    The world was just as controversial then as it is now but the big distinction between 1975 and 2023 was a sense of morality and community.

    • @ricoz2016
      @ricoz2016 Рік тому +5

      The former was eroded by removing God from schools and govt, the latter by the shrinking of the manufacturing base making whole towns and cities dry up, forcing people to move. It became hard to put roots down.

    • @neilgibbons2532
      @neilgibbons2532 Рік тому +3

      Good luck with 2024

    • @jasonlee8497
      @jasonlee8497 Рік тому +1

      It was eroded plenty by 1975 as well.

    • @brianarbenz1329
      @brianarbenz1329 Рік тому

      God was removed from the schools and government in 1789 by the constitution. That was one of the founding principles of the nation - no state religion.

    • @CynthiaWord-iq7in
      @CynthiaWord-iq7in Рік тому

      Yep, nit one Republican wanted to jeep a strongman abusing departments, bribery/pay-offs, and nit one if any party would even think of going against our Constitution fir a more powerful leader, it outlawing the principals if Democracy, and the 3 press networks were towering beacons of honesty.
      Cronkite led the mother church of the 4th estate and among him were equals. Handed to Rather. Brokaw, and Jennings. We were protected by this fierce pack 8f watchdogs, nobody sold out...this all worked for 70 years.

  • @chrisclark5239
    @chrisclark5239 Рік тому +11

    Every year and decade had it's problems and history definitely repeats itself...that being said, it was still a better time to grow up and be alive.

    • @jamesmack3314
      @jamesmack3314 Рік тому

      Without a doubt

    • @jamesmack3314
      @jamesmack3314 Рік тому +2

      Technology has really ruined things if you think about it

    • @steelionx9255
      @steelionx9255 Рік тому +2

      I'm giving your comments thumbs down if you dare think that technology is a bad thing! You dare want to live in the dark ages?

    • @Rob774
      @Rob774 Рік тому

      ​@@jamesmack3314Uses tech to makes his point about putting down tech. You live a better and longer life because of tech.

    • @jamesmack3314
      @jamesmack3314 Рік тому

      @@steelionx9255 it’s definitely brought a lot of convenience, but it’s also brought a lot of pain and problems ..we did fine without it for many many years

  • @elizabethbrauer1118
    @elizabethbrauer1118 Рік тому +18

    I was still in HS and wouldn't leave home until 1977. My parents were divorced. My father paid only $250 per month in child support for FOUR children. When I moved out, I probably made no more than $3-4/hour. Rent was like $200 per month. Do you miss the 70s? Yes!

    • @ricoz2016
      @ricoz2016 Рік тому +2

      And a Big Mac was 89 cents!

    • @brianarbenz1329
      @brianarbenz1329 Рік тому

      My father paid nothing for 15 years for his two children’s child support. Enforcement was weak then.

    • @TeddScheckler
      @TeddScheckler Рік тому

      @@ricoz2016that’s the same price in 2023, adjusting for inflation.

    • @tias.6675
      @tias.6675 4 місяці тому

      Inflation adjustment is BS. It's another tactic B!!g G0v used to keep people in the dark about their greed.

  • @johnsheehan6250
    @johnsheehan6250 Рік тому +8

    Before TV journalism went to hell. Before network news divisions had to be profitable.

    • @smilinmoo
      @smilinmoo Рік тому

      Yes indeed, and what a loss it was for the American people.

  • @bubblehead78
    @bubblehead78 Рік тому +4

    Superb production.

  • @modestofriosjr3139
    @modestofriosjr3139 Рік тому +2

    I agree life was much better I miss my parents and two sisters that have passed

  • @Hellodarknessmyolefriend
    @Hellodarknessmyolefriend Рік тому +5

    Doris Roberts doing glade commercial 😂

  • @AngieYates-xm9uz
    @AngieYates-xm9uz 6 місяців тому +1

    Let us never forget

  • @bmorebob6624
    @bmorebob6624 Рік тому +2

    That’s the way the news ought to be delivered

  • @Thomas-yr9ln
    @Thomas-yr9ln Рік тому +5

    I can't wait till 1975.

    • @pibly7784
      @pibly7784 Рік тому

      ??

    • @Lppolymath90
      @Lppolymath90 Рік тому +2

      Sorry... You missed it on this rock. Maybe it's 1975 on some planet out there in the infinite expanse of the universe.

  • @gregthegroove
    @gregthegroove Рік тому +4

    April 1975 I was born. Some things remain the same huh?

  • @timothyswauger3984
    @timothyswauger3984 Рік тому +5

    I was 4 years old in 1975 so I have fuzzy memories of my parents watching the news.

  • @karenmixer8782
    @karenmixer8782 Рік тому +84

    What? No screaming and yelling? No histrionics? No truncated language? Speaking in complete sentences? Not in today's world.

    • @istankimjong-unbutcantstan3398
      @istankimjong-unbutcantstan3398 Рік тому +3

      It never too late to start again. Bring back the "Give a hoot. Don't pollute" advisories.

    • @scottyblog
      @scottyblog Рік тому

      Noooo, especially the truncated language. People today are one step away from walking dead zombies.

    • @steelionx9255
      @steelionx9255 Рік тому +3

      There's no screaming and yelling and today's news so thumbs down, Karen!

    • @EdsterIII
      @EdsterIII Рік тому +5

      And no one screaming insensitivity!??! Or gender injustice, or letting kids get sex change operations. OMG a much better world.

    • @justinhorn2864
      @justinhorn2864 Рік тому

      No crying about who the biggest victim wow

  • @HeathNormand
    @HeathNormand Рік тому +13

    I turned 1 year old the night this aired. I'm glad I have no clue how bad things were.

    • @saltydog4759
      @saltydog4759 Рік тому +2

      BAD??!!! Compared to today it was glorious.

    • @brianarbenz1329
      @brianarbenz1329 Рік тому +2

      I was 17 and a senior in high school. Things were bad then, and good. Things are bad now, and good. We have to step back from the instinct to label a time as all one way or the other. The more time we spend contrasting today with 1975, the more we appreciate where we are now, warts and all.

    • @ApartmentKing66
      @ApartmentKing66 Рік тому

      @@brianarbenz1329 Like hell...things may have been "bad" then, but nobody in the school system was trying to get kids to question their gender and make them wonder if they're "really" boys or girls. Or the push to eliminate the word "woman" from the societal lexicon. No one heard of a "birthing person" in 1975. Appreciate where we are now? Whatever you're high on, I don't want any.

    • @NelsonVlog66
      @NelsonVlog66 Рік тому

      There was no social media back then and we weren't slammed with 24/7 news back then. It was easier to keep most of the bad stuff quiet with limited news out outlets. That's why it seems worse now. Just because it wasn't being reported on the nightly news or in newspapers doesn't mean things weren't happening.

    • @brianarbenz1329
      @brianarbenz1329 Рік тому

      @HeathNormand, You should have seen the network special about your first birthday. It was great! 😉

  • @bobbysands6923
    @bobbysands6923 Рік тому +35

    Imagine the modern audience sitting through such detail for an entire hour. Not just what was going on in the US, but all over the world. No, I can't either.

    • @steelionx9255
      @steelionx9255 Рік тому +4

      I sure as hell can. There are year reviews like this one every year.

    • @ShadowAngel-lt8nw
      @ShadowAngel-lt8nw Рік тому +2

      Those "Year in Review" shows still exist, still get viewers and sometimes are even longer than just 1 measly hour, but i get it "Everything back in the day was awesome, everything now sucks" is the motto of a lot of idiots.

    • @jonleibow3604
      @jonleibow3604 Рік тому +3

      Bear in mind:
      - Your options were this, or whatever was airing on ABC or NBC.
      - Recaps were much more interesting before you could just look up video any time of whatever happened over the past year.

  • @ThunderZandor
    @ThunderZandor Рік тому +2

    Love the intro montage at :36 seconds. That was very typical during the mid 60s into the 70s, wether is was sports, documentaries, film, even student films of such that was done by George Lucas in the mid 60s.

  • @michaelj.r457
    @michaelj.r457 Рік тому +17

    2:47 And Chevy Chase's career is born!

    • @RedGarnett-n2p
      @RedGarnett-n2p Рік тому +3

      Yeah he used to fall all the time way more than President Biden

    • @josephdykes1820
      @josephdykes1820 Рік тому +1

      Now we have a guy falling up stairs too. Of course Brandon is also shaking hands with ghosts and having a lot harder time talking than Ford ever had.

    • @RedGarnett-n2p
      @RedGarnett-n2p Рік тому

      @@josephdykes1820 better president than Trump and ten thousand times the man

    • @RedGarnett-n2p
      @RedGarnett-n2p Рік тому +1

      @@josephdykes1820 magat tears 😭😭

    • @JDAbelRN
      @JDAbelRN Рік тому

      ​@@RedGarnett-n2pnot even remotely true. The obviously lost uncle Joe constantly stumbled, falls, cannot speak a coherent extemperous paragraph and is a total embarrassing felon of the World.

  • @romelovesdan
    @romelovesdan Рік тому +7

    @52:32 - Still prevalent today- lack of basic 'balance of a checkbook' basic math and reading comprehension.

    • @samanthab1923
      @samanthab1923 Рік тому

      My son is in his 20’s & asked me to show him. 😮

  • @robertafierro5592
    @robertafierro5592 Рік тому +4

    Awesome stuff!!

  • @thejdgoodwin
    @thejdgoodwin Рік тому +3

    These days Nixon seems like a Boy Scout.

  • @michaellong3836
    @michaellong3836 6 місяців тому +2

    Surprised there was no mention of the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa.

  • @tense99
    @tense99 Рік тому +1

    I was 5. My dad was blue collar and managed to not get laid off barely. From 75 to 79 i never could figure out if we were middle class or poor.

  • @tperk
    @tperk Рік тому +7

    48:15 Well, that sports analysis from 50 years ago didn't age well...at all.

  • @ChorizoCentauri
    @ChorizoCentauri Рік тому +2

    I was 6 when I watched Ali v Frazier fight at our home with Lorenzo, my paternal grandfather, who's memory I still honor and raise a glass to him in admiration.

  • @pattih7
    @pattih7 Рік тому +3

    Even fuzzier, in 2023! Oh, it’s my fuzzy eyesight! During these years , my age was 24. Quite a while ago, yes; still, interesting to see. 🙏❤️✌️

  • @donavonmacallister3101
    @donavonmacallister3101 8 місяців тому +1

    Elton john dodger stadium! And queen live in the Hammersmith . Christmas eve at sylvan court in Sylacauga lol!!! Great times😊

  • @DarthWaffle.
    @DarthWaffle. Рік тому +1

    In 1975, dad was a garbage man, mom was a mom. On my dads salary we had a small 3 bedroom house, 2 cars and above ground pool.

    • @yankeedoodle1963
      @yankeedoodle1963 Рік тому +1

      It was a union job too, right? And MAGA Trumpscabs nowadays condemn union as socialist. Simply magnificent.

  • @Marc001
    @Marc001 Рік тому

    It seems most appropriate that an analgesics maker would sponsor this broadcast.

  • @tonyhurd5697
    @tonyhurd5697 Рік тому +1

    These were the days , when the news wasn’t as political as now days . You got the truth from the beginning to the end . Also , I realize this was 1975 almost 50 years ago . 1970’s was a decade that could never be repeated ever . Times when life was good for a lot of people .
    ✌️N❤️2ALL

  • @IDiggSocialMedia
    @IDiggSocialMedia Рік тому

    That last part of this video, with that wildlife show, I have seen since the 1970's. I forgot all about it!

  • @charlesritt5088
    @charlesritt5088 Рік тому +1

    A advertisement for union carbide ?

  • @kc0lif
    @kc0lif Рік тому +3

    peter hanson from general hospital tv ad.

  • @JChow-e1c
    @JChow-e1c 11 годин тому +1

    I renenber it well.

  • @jonglewongle3438
    @jonglewongle3438 Рік тому +2

    Near the end, The Wild World Of Animals. I'd forgotten that for decades. We got that in Australia. I probably watched that slouching around in the lounge room in '75 and '76 and reruns into the 1980s. That and the rest of the fare ? Am I getting myopic about it and ' where's a time machine when you need it " ? No. It is not all that crash hot brilliant.

  • @roringusanda2837
    @roringusanda2837 Рік тому +10

    OMG that Glade Solid Air Freshener! The shape, the holes! I remember them😂and that Windex ad is just beautiful 😍 actually beautiful, something about it looks so...idk what, but it has the spirit of looking to new things, the future. Plus it's just plain pretty.

    • @paradoxstudios6639
      @paradoxstudios6639 Рік тому +3

      Yeah I remember those to, like Leggs pantyhose egg containers.

    • @roringusanda2837
      @roringusanda2837 Рік тому +3

      @@paradoxstudios6639 I remember the L'eggs Eggs in their big display case, as a kid, I loved getting those discarded eggs! That was a really cool marketing idea. Now I don't think they even have pantyhose or stockings anymore...I never see anyone wearing them or talking about them. Even tights or leotards aren't really around like they used to be...

    • @pika23
      @pika23 Рік тому +1

      There are some old ass restaurant bathrooms with these in them and they are old and brown lol. I remember seeing one about 18 years ago and that was 2005 30 years after they came out

    • @Royale_with_Cheeze
      @Royale_with_Cheeze Рік тому +3

      Doris Roberts in that Glade commercial.

    • @ricoz2016
      @ricoz2016 Рік тому +1

      It was funny when the odor thing would dry up to the size of a pea!

  • @mcgannahanskyjellyfetti6854
    @mcgannahanskyjellyfetti6854 Рік тому +6

    The year I was born...😎👍

  • @jamesmack3314
    @jamesmack3314 Рік тому +1

    Well, it was a great time to be a teenager. I can tell you that I was 14. I remember going to Columbia to visit an exchange student and friend. It really open my eyes and after that everything was just peachy….well,almost but alot of fun for sure

  • @JohndavidMiller-dc4zm
    @JohndavidMiller-dc4zm Рік тому +3

    "Haven't you forgotten 1 flew over the cuckoo's nest that was on the big-screen that-year".

  • @cedricliggins7528
    @cedricliggins7528 Рік тому

    The ads bring back memories.

  • @justdoingitjim7095
    @justdoingitjim7095 Рік тому +1

    I was just getting out of the Marine Corps in 1976. I went back to work in construction and noticed a lot more illegal migrants working in construction than there were when I had left 4 years earlier. I started my own construction business and little did I know that I would be directly competing against them for the next 45 years! Greedy builders and a government more interested in appeasing Latinos for votes, made sure that the illegals would take over the construction industry! I should've stayed in the military. I was very good at what I did and liked my job. I could've retired with a military pension at age 38 and still have time to start a business. But, I had a wife at that time that hated me being in the military and she said, "It's me or the Corps!" We got divorced 3 years later anyway, so I obviously made the wrong choice!

  • @NelsonVlog66
    @NelsonVlog66 Рік тому +3

    I thought the 1970's was such a magical innocent decade. Oh wait, that was just pop culture. Everything else going on was chaotic. Nothing really changes. Things are still chaotic today. It's just reported 24/7 today.

  • @tiffanycurtis4794
    @tiffanycurtis4794 Рік тому +5

    I was 4 in 1975 ❤️

  • @joejoewest
    @joejoewest Рік тому +11

    1975: The Year I Was Born.

  • @luisreyes1963
    @luisreyes1963 Рік тому +6

    And to think Henry Kissinger is still alive at 100.

    • @davidpage3893
      @davidpage3893 Рік тому

      Yeah, and he wants the population cut down to 500 million by 2030. Henry…if you read this lead by example, stand in line to be culled first. You will get a lot of respect and encouragement to do so.

    • @IDiggSocialMedia
      @IDiggSocialMedia Рік тому +1

      And most everyone else, except Connie Chung, is dead now!

  • @chrisstephens5310
    @chrisstephens5310 Рік тому +1

    looking back that was the good old days I'm sorry

  • @JP-wx6uh
    @JP-wx6uh Рік тому +3

    The year I was born.

  • @danholm4952
    @danholm4952 Рік тому +4

    I was 14, man

  • @johnshields6852
    @johnshields6852 9 місяців тому +1

    I was 15 back then and Ford was teased endlessly about the " clumsy " President, but it was light hearted, he came into office in an impeachment of Nixon, so Ford held us together in trying times. God bless America.🇺🇸

  • @Yobbie72
    @Yobbie72 Рік тому +3

    Joe Biden was in Washington DC in 1975 as a Senator...he's been around FOREVER.

  • @2nostromo
    @2nostromo Рік тому

    I lolled when the Union Carbide ad came on. Been a long long time gone