11:18 To this day, hearing the M*A*S*H theme start makes me instantly sleepy. 40 years later, it still tells me, "Your parents are now about to send you to bed." And they did. Bye Mom and Dad, I miss you.
My mom and I totally LOVED the NBC Sunday Mystery Movie. My favorite was McMillan and Wife because of Susan St. James (wolf whistle). *sigh* the good old days. Miss ya' Mom.
Dave Smith Do you have anything "interesting" to mention in your multiple comments regrarding the quality or content of these classic shows themselves possibly... rather than only about the actresses who played in them (not to mention you don't say anything about their talent either)????👎👎
No it was Susan St James I miss Those old Shows I think Hall Mark try s to capture the Them of those Simple To the point Mystery Show Movies I wish the Three Big Network Would Bring back The originals With Different Cast but Same Simple Pleasant Un complicated Story Lines Rather Than the Soap Opera s Big Screen Production S They Make Today I know That ABC Tried in The80s and iThink,90s And CBS Had A Good Line up For Mysterious Like Walker Texas Ranger and Dinagois Murder. .. They Still Do With Criminal Minds and NCIS But Even over the Last Few years They Have Screwed Them up They Need to Get Back to The Simple Basic of Telvison Even For The Smart Audience In My Opinion Are Getting Board With Complicated Plot lines
The early seasons of Happy Days were good. It was a funny show about teens and their problems. It's one of those shows that went on way too long--the show we got the phrase "jumped the shark" from.
I REMEMBER ALL of THEM BOB NEWHART AND THE 6 MILLION DOLLAR MAN CANNON AND BARNABY JONES AND MARY TYLER MOORE AND KUNG FU. I REMEMBER THE SONNY AND CHER COMEDY HOUR IT WAS PRETTY GOOD I JUST LIKED SOME OF THE EPISODES OF HAPPY DAYS I DIDN'T CARE THAT MUCH ABOUT IT
Back when families actually gathered around the tv to watch something together! You’d wait all week for your favorite show. Then-3 channels....now 100+streaming and I can’t find a thing that interests me!!! Somethings really were better then!
Had no idea there was another opening for Six Million Dollar Man. The only one I remember was the one that started "Steve Austin, astronaut, a man barely alive. Gentlemen we can rebuild him...
All these years later, my favorite show is still M.A.S.H. I used to look forward to watching it with my parents, before bed. God, I miss those times, and especially my parents, but I don't miss being a deathly sick asthmatic. Loved The Waltons, Hawaii 5-0, The Six Million Dollar Man, All in the Family, and Sanford and Son, too. Thank God for DVD sets. Things were much simpler then, and people were not so outwardly hateful to one another. People really need to love each other more. Life is short, people. Don't waste it.
OMG. Saturday night line up from my childhood. Used to watch with my grandmother: Sonny and Cher 8-9pm (was moved to Wednesday’s) Mary Tyler Moore 9-930pm Bob Newhart Show 9:30-10pm Carol Burnett 10-11pm ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
These 70s shows, the credit sequence was always outside in a park, riding the subway, walking around. Then if you watched the show itself it gradually dawned on you -- we are never leaving this room!
If you love that one, have you caught That Girl? MTM totally took from that. They’re both good shows. That Girl has been just recently started be rerun on some of the “oldies” channels that are so popular now. And for good reason.
So many of these classic shows are still regularly being shown in the UK and my guess is they'll still be around when all the crappy reality shows have been consigned to oblivion!
Robertjshearer Where I live they have lots of those old shows on, Leave it to Beaver, Patty Duke, Beverly Hillbillies, My 3 Sons, Brady Bunch, Partridge Family, Addams Family, Hazel, Dick Van Dyke, Carol Burnett, Bob Newheart, 70s were crazy most of us 8th grades were drinking Beer, those 70s concerts berely had Security, the girls were nuts for those Long Hair Rock Stars
Sorry, but there has never been a simpler time. Any century that had an economic depression between two world wars, riots, masses of people fighting for equality and justice, political assassinations, Vietnam, Watergate, a horrible drug problem, inflation, job layoffs, and innumerable other problems is not a simpler time.
I don't remember that woman singing the theme song for The Six Million Dollar Man. I remember hearing Richard Anderson saying "We can build him better, stronger, faster" etc.
The opening in this video was from the fall of '73 when the show aired in the form of 3 or 4 movies-of-the-week that aired around once a month. They switched to the opening that you mentioned (that we all remember) when the show became a regular series in January 74.
This brings back some great memories...I was 11 at that time, and my parents and/or I watched most of these (obviously, they and I didn't always have the same taste in TV). Anyone notice, though, not only the heavy prevalence of CBS, but also several Norman Lear shows? Agree with the man or not, he did know how to produce ratings winners
A lot of the shows my mother watched like Kojak, Cannon, Hawaii Five-O, MacMillan and Wife, Gunsmoke. I was more into sitcoms. I watched Sanford and Son on Friday nights. My friend and I joked about how we didn't have dates instead we watched Sanford and Son on Friday nights. I have good memories of me and my mother watching The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour together in the fall of 1971, I was 15 in the 9th grade. If I could go back to that time I would be so happy. My mother was alive and so was my younger sister.
"Sanford and Son" was based on "Steptoe and Son", a British sitcom that started Irish-born character actor Wilfrid Brambell, who's best known for his costarring role in the Beatles film "A Hard Day's Night".
Love seeing shows that we watched as a family when I was a kid. The chemistry Sonny & Cher had with each other was great. Just a small detail. The opening you used for their show was from March 1972. In the 1973-74 season, their stage was much larger. With most of these top 16 being CBS, you can see what a powerhouse Fred Silverman made it! On an interview that you can see on YT, Mr. Silverman said that The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour was his favorite show on the entire network.
Happy Days added to Disney and my childhood prime time tv viewing was off to a good start. Didnt understand my parents infatuation with Bob Newhart or Mary Tyler Moore but i do now.
What a difference just 6 years makes in the life of a teenage boy. I watched ALL of these show and NONE of those in your 1979 video. I guess sports, girls, homework and gearing up for graduation took precedence over television, when things got a little more serious, than when I was 12 years old in '73. ;-) '79 is fine!
I loved Columbo. I still do. I watch the orinal series reruns whenever I can catch them on cable. Wish there were more. Very few of the later shows (from the late '80s through the '90s) can match the original episodes.
I absolutely loved the Sunday Mystery Movies. I think Henry Mancini wrote the opening score. I remember Richard Boone (Hec Ramsey) as Paladin in Have Gun Will Travel. I loved Peter Falk's whole unassuming easy going but sharp as a tack ways. Dennis Weaver I also remember as Chester on Gunsmoke and later in Stephen Spielberg's Duel. He was in a few ABC Movies of the Week. Mac and Sally had great chemistry on tv. Such a great ensemble of rotating shows in one series and each with its own groove.
@@jeansenn2831 Me Too! I couldn't wait to watch them! The cop/P.I/court dramas have always been my favorite shows. A Cool million is one many don't remember, then there was Banacek, Quincy M.D,
The golden age of tv. Wasn't much else to do for entertainment back then. There was no internet, cell phones, xbox nor specialty channels. I remember Sunday nights in particular, Walt Disney show, then Carol Burnett, followed by Gunsmoke. An old lady next door came to visit my Mom every Sunday night for 50 years straight. From way before I was born until about 10 years ago.. They would sit for hours watch tv, chat, and knit or sew to make clothing or crafts.
I grew up in the 1960s and 1970s. We had plenty of things to do besides watch TV! We weren't obsessed about being in contact with our friends for 16 hours day, getting constant news feeds, or taking pictures of ourselves, our per ferret, or our lunch and posting them on Instagram. Get a clue!
What's amazing is that *All in the Family, M*A*S*H, Mary Tyler Moore & Bob Newhart* was all *Saturday Night* shows on CBS, back to back to back to back. Evening ended with *The Carol Burnett Show* (variety). The strongest night of the week. *How times changed.*
I never did warm up to MASH, but since it was part of the Saturday night "package", I watched it. Saturday night with the CBS line up was the place to be.
I remember watching so many of these shows. The Six Million Dollar Man's original theme when it was still being produced as made for TV movies before it began as a weekly series. This is when TV was still good you could watch programming for hours. Unlike so much of today's programming where I barely watch much TV at all.
It was used for the first two 90-minute episodes only, which aired on Saturday, rotating as a monthly series with the regularly-slotted ABC Suspense Movie, before becoming a weekly hour-long weekly series in January 1974 on Fridays with the more familiar theme.
Unfortunately, we now realize those "warm secure feelings" were delusions. I wouldn't go back to those times for anything. As harsh as the past 20 years have been, I'll take reality any day over false comfort because reality is truth.
All I could think of during that Sonny and Cher opening was that great bit from The Simpsons where Kent Brockman interviews a guy who woke up from a coma he fell into in the early 1970s. "Whatever happened to that Sonny and Cher? I used to hate that stupid show." "Well, she won an Oscar and he's a congressman." "Good god!" (flatlines). :D
I watched & loved most of those shows! Thank God they changed that awful Six Million Dollar Man opening: when I finally saw a repeat of the TV movie that launched the series, it was radically different from the set-up of the series, so that's probably why. I also saw the original theatrical movie M*A*S*H on cable after watching & loving the series, because I was curious about the original. To be honest, the opening music of the TV show's never been the same since I heard the lyrics & sober melody of the original (sung mid-movie when a character was feeling suicidal, & Hawkeye & his buddy gave him a placebo sleeping pill (?) instead of poison: "Coz suicide is painless, it brings on many changes, and you can take or leave it when it comes...") The Waltons was one of those wonderful, feel-good family dramas we don't see much of, any more: one with high enough ratings that it stayed on for years, like Little House on the Prairie: with storylines that acknowledged history, & let the kids grow up! During The Waltons' run, the Great Depression gave way to World War Two, the kids went to college, went to war, got married, had kids of their own! When Will Greer, "Grampa" passed away, they wrote that into the show; as the elderly actress who played "Grandma" grew more inform, they wrote that in, & finally created a believable exit for an actress who was no longer able to perform. And even after the weekly series had ended, the producers gave us a series of TV movies that followed the next generation, & gave the actors who'd played the parents a graceful exit. I was in college by the time The Waltons existed only as these TV specials. The only one that really sticks in my memory was a Christmas movie where one of the young grandkids had wandered off into the woods & gotten lost; & the family mobilized to find him. In the woods, we heard him talking to someone. After he's located & brought home, he tells his initially skeptical elders about the nice man who'd kept him company. At some point, he sees a picture of Grampa Walton. "That's him!" the child insists, leading us & his family to realize that the patriarch, Grampa Walton, hasn't strayed far from Walton's Mountain! Interesting note: like Little House on the Prairie, The Waltons was semi biographical, inspired by the lives of real people. The story arc of John-boy Walton, the oldest son, reflected that of the creator of the show; which is why John-boy was a creative writer who went off to New York.
Technically, the divorce ended the Sonny and Cher comedy Hour. But 2 years later they came back for the Sonny and Cher show. Basically they finalized the divorce and tried having a working relationship. But it wasn't the same. In between, Sonny launched a solo show that lasted 6 episodes. Cher also did a solo show that was more successful, but not as successful as the duo had been, hence why they reunited.
I was born in 1973. And I’m 47 years of age. And I hate with a passion today’s tv shows there’s no plot or concept to them and I hate reality shows. I only love classic tv shows from the 50-1980’s. That had meaning and a story behind it. And I love watching classic variety shows. And I only listen to 70’s music.
@Bonnie Milroy I was born in 1977 and will turn 43 this month. You’re right that TV has dropped to a lot of garbage reality shows. And I admit to liking Family Guy and the Simpsons, and Game of Thrones. Overall, I enjoy watching clips like these. It’s fun 😀
If happy days had kept the look and feel of its first season it would have become an american treasure and one of all time best shows .....instead of the wildly popular fonzie show...
God these shows are classics and bring back childhood memories. CBS was dominating at this time. That original six million dollar man theme is awful. I loved the theme of the NBC mystery movie.
Wpah! Wait! hold the phone...did that intro to Six Million Dollar Man actually air as the intro, or was it just a promotional spot? It was my favorite show, I had the action figures, but I don't remember that ever.
@John BarberWrong Again, Sanford and Son was enormously popular during most of its run, and was one of the top 10 highest-rated series on American television from its first season (1972) through the 1975-76 season.
I don't know what was up with that six million dollar man beginning?! I've never seen that beginning, and I remember watching it as original airings! Was that the beginning just from the pilot or something?
The series had two pilots. A TV-movie one that aired in the spring of 1973, then the second one that kicked off the series originally as a monthly 90-minute show alternating with ABC Suspense Movie on Saturday night in the fall. The original concept of the monthly version had Austin play more of a James Bond type character. The intro is from the pilot of the monthly movie version of the series, of which there were only two episodes before it graduated to weekly status at mid-season, in January 1974, and an early version of the more familiar opening was used. I tend to use rare intro finds when I come across them, just to break up the monotony of the same old familiar ones that we would tend to see everywhere else. Besides, the intro version I used reflects the more Bondian slant of the monthly version of the series, at least somewhat visually if not by that godawful cheesy song.
I never noticed this before, but the woman who sits down opposite Bob Newhart on the train (5:01) could very well be the same woman who glares at Mary Tyler Moore when she throws her hat in the air (7:19).
voice over gunsmoke nice. rock had a big closet in '74 and stayed in it. mtm hat throw that was agnes peaboby watching. mash the nurses running had a story behind it from producers.
Today, health insurance companies in the US define a six million dollar man as one to whom a hospital has provided a couple of aspirins and a small glass of tepid water.
I think it can be traced back to 1972 and an episode of Love, American Style. In reality it was the original pilot for Happy Days, but the show wasn't picked up so it was used for the anthology series instead. George Lucas saw the episode and that lead him to cast Ron Howard for American Graffiti. The success of that film led ABC to reconsider the pilot and thus, Happy Days became a series.
Today US health insurance companies identify a six million dollar man as someone who was given an aspirin, a drink of water, and a fruit cup from the hospital cafeteria. And this is after insurance paid its part.
Best song and opening. Hawaii 5-0. Hands down winner. Jazz bands love to play that.
I was a drummer in HS jazz band. I worked and worked to get the opening drum segment right. lol
Better than the Sanford & Son theme? Hmmm…
11:18
To this day, hearing the M*A*S*H theme start makes me instantly sleepy. 40 years later, it still tells me, "Your parents are now about to send you to bed." And they did.
Bye Mom and Dad, I miss you.
Sweet
The best intro of this lot
That’s a very nice memory, Heather. Music can do that.
I miss my mom and dad too.
I fall asleep to mash at say 10pm. Instantly wake up to the theme from Taxi at 1am lol
Bob Newhart is like an older and wiser Charlie Brown.
My mom and I totally LOVED the NBC Sunday Mystery Movie. My favorite was McMillan and Wife because of Susan St. James (wolf whistle). *sigh* the good old days. Miss ya' Mom.
Dave Smith Do you have anything "interesting" to mention in your multiple comments regrarding the quality or content of these classic shows themselves possibly... rather than only about the actresses who played in them (not to mention you don't say anything about their talent either)????👎👎
Miss My Family and the Mystery Movies
, I just recently lost a bar bet on that I said it was Jill st. John
No it was Susan St James I miss Those old Shows I think Hall Mark try s to capture the Them of those Simple To the point Mystery Show Movies I wish the Three Big Network Would Bring back The originals With Different Cast but Same Simple Pleasant Un complicated Story Lines Rather Than the Soap Opera s Big Screen Production S They Make Today I know That ABC Tried in The80s and iThink,90s And CBS Had A Good Line up For Mysterious Like Walker Texas Ranger and Dinagois Murder. .. They Still Do With Criminal Minds and NCIS But Even over the Last Few years They Have Screwed Them up They Need to Get Back to The Simple Basic of Telvison Even For The Smart Audience In My Opinion Are Getting Board With Complicated Plot lines
@@Muzikgirl67 He can think whatever he likes. What makes you think you can dictate to others? You daft cow.
I am laying in my bed listening to this and suddenly I am 7 again
The early seasons of Happy Days were good. It was a funny show about teens and their problems. It's one of those shows that went on way too long--the show we got the phrase "jumped the shark" from.
Loved the first season has well
It went beyond jumping the shark with Mork from Ork.
@@hydrolitosometimes in the 70s, the Alien addition was a last ditch effort thing. Flintstones did it too! Kazoo
Oh how America changed.... from admiring The Fonz to calling men creeps and pedos for preferring fertile women.
I remember watching wild kingdom and after that wonderful world of Disney would come on every sunday.
Same here!! There wasn't a whole lot on TV for kids after dinner.
That's right, Mutual of Omahas Wild Kingdom! Can't think of his name but can picture the old guy with white mustache.
I REMEMBER ALL of THEM BOB NEWHART AND THE 6 MILLION DOLLAR MAN CANNON AND BARNABY JONES AND MARY TYLER MOORE AND KUNG FU. I REMEMBER THE SONNY AND CHER COMEDY HOUR IT WAS PRETTY GOOD I JUST LIKED SOME OF THE EPISODES OF HAPPY DAYS I DIDN'T CARE THAT MUCH ABOUT IT
Disneys theme always made me sad because I knew the week end was coming to an end.
@@boristheamerican2938 😆 yep! Same here
Most all of these shows if not all can be seen regularly on either Antenna TV, MeTV, Decades and Get TV. I watch these shows all of the time.
And those shows are still better than what they have to offer today.
Back when families actually gathered around the tv to watch something together! You’d wait all week for your favorite show. Then-3 channels....now 100+streaming and I can’t find a thing that interests me!!! Somethings really were better then!
We only had two channels ABC and CBS.
I remember no matter how many times we turned the antenna we couldn't pick up NBC.
ABC, NBC, CBS and PBS.
That was it. Now all they are, are propaganda outlets.
Right off the bat thank you for getting the Rock Around the Clock opening so much better than the Happy Day song
That was my favorite theme from that show, too! Didn't like the changed one at all!
I think the popularity of ‘Happy Days’ made getting song rights too expensive so they had to get a new theme.
@@m.woodsrobinson9244 happy days song might be a good episode rock around the clock it definitely will be
Had no idea there was another opening for Six Million Dollar Man. The only one I remember was the one that started "Steve Austin, astronaut, a man barely alive. Gentlemen we can rebuild him...
I don't know why, but the theme for The Mary Tyler Moore Show is probably my favorite TV theme of all time. Thank you for the memories!
A number of tv themes have great music, but only a few tv themes have great music and lyrics.
All these years later, my favorite show is still M.A.S.H. I used to look forward to watching it with my parents, before bed. God, I miss those times, and especially my parents, but I don't miss being a deathly sick asthmatic. Loved The Waltons, Hawaii 5-0, The Six Million Dollar Man, All in the Family, and Sanford and Son, too. Thank God for DVD sets. Things were much simpler then, and people were not so outwardly hateful to one another. People really need to love each other more. Life is short, people. Don't waste it.
OMG. Saturday night line up from my childhood. Used to watch with my grandmother:
Sonny and Cher 8-9pm (was moved to Wednesday’s)
Mary Tyler Moore 9-930pm
Bob Newhart Show 9:30-10pm
Carol Burnett 10-11pm
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
What a great year in Television. I was 8. Also, The Brady Bunch (final season) and The Partridge Family were on Fridays on ABC. The best!
These 70s shows, the credit sequence was always outside in a park, riding the subway, walking around. Then if you watched the show itself it gradually dawned on you -- we are never leaving this room!
I still love Mary Tyler Moore!!!!!
r.i.p. mary tyler moore :(
If you love that one, have you caught That Girl? MTM totally took from that. They’re both good shows. That Girl has been just recently started be rerun on some of the “oldies” channels that are so popular now. And for good reason.
The quality of these intros is great! (As well as the memories!) I often liked the intros even better than the shows!
So many of these classic shows are still regularly being shown in the UK and my guess is they'll still be around when all the crappy reality shows have been consigned to oblivion!
Oh man. I wish I could back in time. All these shows were so good and with only three channels life was so much simpler. And no cable bill. All free.
Robertjshearer Where I live they have lots of those old shows on, Leave it to Beaver, Patty Duke, Beverly Hillbillies, My 3 Sons, Brady Bunch, Partridge Family, Addams Family, Hazel, Dick Van Dyke, Carol Burnett, Bob Newheart, 70s were crazy most of us 8th grades were drinking Beer, those 70s concerts berely had Security, the girls were nuts for those Long Hair Rock Stars
Sorry, but there has never been a simpler time. Any century that had an economic depression between two world wars, riots, masses of people fighting for equality and justice, political assassinations, Vietnam, Watergate, a horrible drug problem, inflation, job layoffs, and innumerable other problems is not a simpler time.
Exactly! It seems simpler because we were kids/young adults.
I don't remember that woman singing the theme song for The Six Million Dollar Man. I remember hearing Richard Anderson saying "We can build him better, stronger, faster" etc.
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The opening in this video was from the fall of '73 when the show aired in the form of 3 or 4 movies-of-the-week that aired around once a month. They switched to the opening that you mentioned (that we all remember) when the show became a regular series in January 74.
This brings back some great memories...I was 11 at that time, and my parents and/or I watched most of these (obviously, they and I didn't always have the same taste in TV). Anyone notice, though, not only the heavy prevalence of CBS, but also several Norman Lear shows? Agree with the man or not, he did know how to produce ratings winners
A lot of the shows my mother watched like Kojak, Cannon, Hawaii Five-O, MacMillan and Wife, Gunsmoke. I was more into sitcoms. I watched Sanford and Son on Friday nights. My friend and I joked about how we didn't have dates instead we watched Sanford and Son on Friday nights. I have good memories of me and my mother watching The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour together in the fall of 1971, I was 15 in the 9th grade. If I could go back to that time I would be so happy. My mother was alive and so was my younger sister.
Sonny and Cher weren't very good singers, but let's face it, they were rock and rollers!
"Sanford and Son" was based on "Steptoe and Son", a British sitcom that started Irish-born character actor Wilfrid Brambell, who's best known for his costarring role in the Beatles film "A Hard Day's Night".
When Ron Howard had hair.
Love seeing shows that we watched as a family when I was a kid. The chemistry Sonny & Cher had with each other was great. Just a small detail. The opening you used for their show was from March 1972. In the 1973-74 season, their stage was much larger. With most of these top 16 being CBS, you can see what a powerhouse Fred Silverman made it! On an interview that you can see on YT, Mr. Silverman said that The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour was his favorite show on the entire network.
I remember when they would bring out their little baby (Chastity?) at the close of the show. She was soooooo cute, and then it grew up.
Happy Days added to Disney and my childhood prime time tv viewing was off to a good start. Didnt understand my parents infatuation with Bob Newhart or Mary Tyler Moore but i do now.
Wow all the shows I grew up with.
What a difference just 6 years makes in the life of a teenage boy. I watched ALL of these show and NONE of those in your 1979 video. I guess sports, girls, homework and gearing up for graduation took precedence over television, when things got a little more serious, than when I was 12 years old in '73. ;-) '79 is fine!
A wonderful collection of clips...and of talent represented in them. (And what do we get now? Honey Boo Boo. TV's sure come a long way, yeah, right.)
Bob Newhart, MTM, The Waltons, Hawaii 5-0, Maude, M*A*S*H, and Sanford & Son - Priceless themes … I’m 12 again.
OMG I use to LOVE the Sunday Mystery Movies, Columbo, McLoud, McMillian and Wife
Those are the three I remember.
I loved Columbo. I still do. I watch the orinal series reruns whenever I can catch them on cable. Wish there were more. Very few of the later shows (from the late '80s through the '90s) can match the original episodes.
Loved NBC Sunday Mystery Movie!!!
I absolutely loved the Sunday Mystery Movies. I think Henry Mancini wrote the opening score. I remember Richard Boone (Hec Ramsey) as Paladin in Have Gun Will Travel. I loved Peter Falk's whole unassuming easy going but sharp as a tack ways. Dennis Weaver I also remember as Chester on Gunsmoke and later in Stephen Spielberg's Duel. He was in a few ABC Movies of the Week. Mac and Sally had great chemistry on tv. Such a great ensemble of rotating shows in one series and each with its own groove.
@@jeansenn2831 Me Too! I couldn't wait to watch them! The cop/P.I/court dramas have always been my favorite shows. A Cool million is one many don't remember, then there was Banacek, Quincy M.D,
The golden age of tv. Wasn't much else to do for entertainment back then. There was no internet, cell phones, xbox nor specialty channels. I remember Sunday nights in particular, Walt Disney show, then Carol Burnett, followed by Gunsmoke. An old lady next door came to visit my Mom every Sunday night for 50 years straight. From way before I was born until about 10 years ago.. They would sit for hours watch tv, chat, and knit or sew to make clothing or crafts.
I grew up in the 1960s and 1970s. We had plenty of things to do besides watch TV! We weren't obsessed about being in contact with our friends for 16 hours day, getting constant news feeds, or taking pictures of ourselves, our per ferret, or our lunch and posting them on Instagram. Get a clue!
According to the Nielsen Ratings for 1974, the resurgent and soon-to -be - canceled Mannix, was number 7 in its 73-74 and final season.
What's amazing is that *All in the Family, M*A*S*H, Mary Tyler Moore & Bob Newhart* was all *Saturday Night* shows on CBS, back to back to back to back. Evening ended with *The Carol Burnett Show* (variety). The strongest night of the week.
*How times changed.*
I heard some place that's considered the best night of Television ever to be scheduled.
I never did warm up to MASH, but since it was part of the Saturday night "package", I watched it. Saturday night with the CBS line up was the place to be.
I remember watching so many of these shows. The Six Million Dollar Man's original theme when it was still being produced as made for TV movies before it began as a weekly series. This is when TV was still good you could watch programming for hours. Unlike so much of today's programming where I barely watch much TV at all.
Suzanne Pleshette...now there's a woman I'd love to have greet me at the door every time I came home!
RIP Suzanne Pleshette!
Name of the theme was "Home to Emily"
Me too, and I'm a straight woman !
Can't decide which is better from the Bob Newhart show: the bass line or the drums. So good.
As a kid, when McMillian and Wife came on, that was my cue to go to bed. All these years later and I STILL don't know what the show was about.
@John Barber So that's why it considered a comedy...
I don’t remember THAT opening for The Six Million Dollar Man.
It was used for the first two 90-minute episodes only, which aired on Saturday, rotating as a monthly series with the regularly-slotted ABC Suspense Movie, before becoming a weekly hour-long weekly series in January 1974 on Fridays with the more familiar theme.
Sonny and Cher definitely deserve Consideration for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame LEGENDS CANDIDATE FOR 2024.
Most of these people are gone😢
But we still have the Reruns to enjoy them at their best!!
LOL Hawaii Five-O best TV theme song EVER!
Wendy Novel It was good back then but the best tv intro was the Drew Carey show with 5 O’clock World.
@@calvada1 LMAO, Drew who?
There should be a law that states that as soon as the theme for "Sanford and Son" starts playing everybody start dancing!
R.I.P. To all of the actors & actresses of all the shows that are on this video.
Notice that many of these were CBS.
CBS ruled in the 70’s.
That NBC Sunday Mystery Movie intro used to creep me out as a kid. The theme itself and the flashlight in the dark.
MASH, MTM and Bob Newhart were the original must see tv on Friday nights?
Hearing those theme songs just brings back warm secure feelings.
rob black: Saturday nights
Unfortunately, we now realize those "warm secure feelings" were delusions. I wouldn't go back to those times for anything. As harsh as the past 20 years have been, I'll take reality any day over false comfort because reality is truth.
Funny how just a short stay in the hospital can be a 6 million dollars.
All I could think of during that Sonny and Cher opening was that great bit from The Simpsons where Kent Brockman interviews a guy who woke up from a coma he fell into in the early 1970s. "Whatever happened to that Sonny and Cher? I used to hate that stupid show." "Well, she won an Oscar and he's a congressman." "Good god!" (flatlines). :D
Nostalgia! This is an excellent video!☝️👍
I watched & loved most of those shows! Thank God they changed that awful Six Million Dollar Man opening: when I finally saw a repeat of the TV movie that launched the series, it was radically different from the set-up of the series, so that's probably why. I also saw the original theatrical movie M*A*S*H on cable after watching & loving the series, because I was curious about the original. To be honest, the opening music of the TV show's never been the same since I heard the lyrics & sober melody of the original (sung mid-movie when a character was feeling suicidal, & Hawkeye & his buddy gave him a placebo sleeping pill (?) instead of poison: "Coz suicide is painless, it brings on many changes, and you can take or leave it when it comes...")
The Waltons was one of those wonderful, feel-good family dramas we don't see much of, any more: one with high enough ratings that it stayed on for years, like Little House on the Prairie: with storylines that acknowledged history, & let the kids grow up! During The Waltons' run, the Great Depression gave way to World War Two, the kids went to college, went to war, got married, had kids of their own! When Will Greer, "Grampa" passed away, they wrote that into the show; as the elderly actress who played "Grandma" grew more inform, they wrote that in, & finally created a believable exit for an actress who was no longer able to perform. And even after the weekly series had ended, the producers gave us a series of TV movies that followed the next generation, & gave the actors who'd played the parents a graceful exit. I was in college by the time The Waltons existed only as these TV specials. The only one that really sticks in my memory was a Christmas movie where one of the young grandkids had wandered off into the woods & gotten lost; & the family mobilized to find him. In the woods, we heard him talking to someone. After he's located & brought home, he tells his initially skeptical elders about the nice man who'd kept him company. At some point, he sees a picture of Grampa Walton. "That's him!" the child insists, leading us & his family to realize that the patriarch, Grampa Walton, hasn't strayed far from Walton's Mountain!
Interesting note: like Little House on the Prairie, The Waltons was semi biographical, inspired by the lives of real people. The story arc of John-boy Walton, the oldest son, reflected that of the creator of the show; which is why John-boy was a creative writer who went off to New York.
As a kid I watched them all!!
Five-o and Sanford and Son was one my favorite!
sonny and cher continued to work together on their show even though they were divorced
Technically, the divorce ended the Sonny and Cher comedy Hour. But 2 years later they came back for the Sonny and Cher show. Basically they finalized the divorce and tried having a working relationship. But it wasn't the same. In between, Sonny launched a solo show that lasted 6 episodes. Cher also did a solo show that was more successful, but not as successful as the duo had been, hence why they reunited.
All great shows which, up here in Canada, all played on CBC or CTV, except Gunsmoke and Hawaii 5-0, which were playing in French only.
Steve mcgarrett and French must have been freaking awesome
They also had Columbo. I saw an episode in French when my family was traveling through Quebec in 1976.
I've never seen the musical opening for the Six million dollar man!! That was so cool. Thnx.
Nothing tops the theme to Cannon
I was born in 1973. And I’m 47 years of age. And I hate with a passion today’s tv shows there’s no plot or concept to them and I hate reality shows. I only love classic tv shows from the 50-1980’s. That had meaning and a story behind it. And I love watching classic variety shows. And I only listen to 70’s music.
@Bonnie Milroy I was born in 1977 and will turn 43 this month. You’re right that TV has dropped to a lot of garbage reality shows. And I admit to liking Family Guy and the Simpsons, and Game of Thrones. Overall, I enjoy watching clips like these. It’s fun 😀
Hawaii5 O,
Greatest tv theme ever. EVER.
They didn't call CBS "The Tiffany Network " for nothing. I think they dominated the top 10!
I love the Bob Newhart theme music. Suzanne Pleshet oh la la!!!
was a good season for tv, mash, waltons newhart and others and ron howard what a career he has had
If happy days had kept the look and feel of its first season it would have become an american treasure and one of all time best shows .....instead of the wildly popular fonzie show...
God these shows are classics and bring back childhood memories. CBS was dominating at this time. That original six million dollar man theme is awful. I loved the theme of the NBC mystery movie.
Cannon kicked ass! Kojak kicked ass, too! McGarrett whooped some ass, too!
I remember the anti RoseMary’s ad that the Saturday line up did….MTM, Newhart, Mash, All in the Family and Carol Burnett.
These shows were about 5 life times ago! But they were great! Still are, too.
Boy the way Glenn Miller played🎵🎵🎵
Wpah! Wait! hold the phone...did that intro to Six Million Dollar Man actually air as the intro, or was it just a promotional spot? It was my favorite show, I had the action figures, but I don't remember that ever.
Thanks so much for your work. Loved it.
Sandford and Son the funniest comedy in the history of TV. Watch it Sucker!
@John BarberWrong Again, Sanford and Son was enormously popular during most of its run, and was one of the top 10 highest-rated series on American television from its first season (1972) through the 1975-76 season.
I don't know what was up with that six million dollar man beginning?! I've never seen that beginning, and I remember watching it as original airings! Was that the beginning just from the pilot or something?
The series had two pilots. A TV-movie one that aired in the spring of 1973, then the second one that kicked off the series originally as a monthly 90-minute show alternating with ABC Suspense Movie on Saturday night in the fall. The original concept of the monthly version had Austin play more of a James Bond type character. The intro is from the pilot of the monthly movie version of the series, of which there were only two episodes before it graduated to weekly status at mid-season, in January 1974, and an early version of the more familiar opening was used. I tend to use rare intro finds when I come across them, just to break up the monotony of the same old familiar ones that we would tend to see everywhere else. Besides, the intro version I used reflects the more Bondian slant of the monthly version of the series, at least somewhat visually if not by that godawful cheesy song.
RwDt09 LOL, thanks for that info, and for the cheesy intro version, I'd never seen it! Love your channel!
I never saw that either, and I didn't like it.
Most of these bring back wonderful memories! I mercifully missed the cringeworthy original Six Million Dollar Man intro back in the day, though! 😱 😁
What do you mean you missed it?
@@nickhill8612 I mean, I never saw it, or at least don't remember it. I only know the more famous and far cooler one. 😊
I never noticed this before, but the woman who sits down opposite Bob Newhart on the train (5:01) could very well be the same woman who glares at Mary Tyler Moore when she throws her hat in the air (7:19).
Never heard that six million dollar man theme song before, it doesn't seem to fit with the show!
DomenicDee I don’t remember that theme song either. It looked like a Saturday Night Live skit. Lol.
Ya that's from the pilot or something. It never went to air with that.
There were 3 SMDM TV movies in 1973 before the series began in 1974. I’m guessing that may have been the movie opening?
agreed, that must have been the pilot episode, this is what i remember- ua-cam.com/video/0CPJ-AbCsT8/v-deo.html
voice over gunsmoke nice. rock had a big closet in '74 and stayed in it. mtm hat throw that was agnes peaboby watching. mash the nurses running had a story behind it from producers.
Love These TV Themes!
I was 8 in 73". I'm 57 now. I feel so old!😥
13:55- "From TELEVISION CITY, in Hollywood......."
Boy the way Glenn Miller played....
Today, health insurance companies in the US define a six million dollar man as one to whom a hospital has provided a couple of aspirins and a small glass of tepid water.
And that's just the initial payment
Bob Newhart in The Bob Newhart Show---- WELL DUH!!!!
And there’s Maude, and then there’s Maude
Do you think Walter was the male Edith?
TV will never see stuff like this. THIS is the golden age, no reality.
It truly was a golden age of tv, music, sports, politics.cinema and it was a great time to grow up in America. I'm glad I was there for it all.
This season, Gunsmoke started a dramatic fall out of the top 10, and it will lead to its 1975 cancellation.
It was on for 20 years it was time lol
The Bob Newhart Show...classic!
It seems to me that CBS dominated tv back then.
They were "the #1 network" for 20 consecutive seasons (1955-1975).
As a kid ABC had the Brady Bunch that made ABC my favorite network
We locally would watch the NBC affiliate for local news primarily because of Johnny Carson. The Today show in the mornings.
@@michaelcunis8329
I remember no matter how many times we turned the antenna we couldn't pick up NBC.
I missed some great shows.
I like these alternate openings to some of these shows. Brings back a lot of memories.
NYC Needs Kojak and McCloud asap!
Great fun to see these old intros. That said, nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
Can't believe happy days premiere was 1973!!
I think it can be traced back to 1972 and an episode of Love, American Style. In reality it was the original pilot for Happy Days, but the show wasn't picked up so it was used for the anthology series instead. George Lucas saw the episode and that lead him to cast Ron Howard for American Graffiti. The success of that film led ABC to reconsider the pilot and thus, Happy Days became a series.
The Maude Theme Song has always rocked!!!!
Same with the theme from Sanford and Son (which was by Quincy Jones)
The Maude theme was sung by Donny hathaway, who had a couple of duets with roberta flack.
I'm glad they didn't go with that theme for the Six Million Dollar Man! It sounded like the Jeffersons.
Great Shows!
I should of said Rock Hudson in McMillan's wife has no idea
You Homophobic IDIOT
2:38 OMG this is the 1st time I've heard that whistling tune in 47 yrs!!! "Who loves ya, baby!!"
Yes love them all legends
I know right.
Cher never wore a bra. Awesome.
Dave Smith And noone ever complained about it either, especially the guys!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣👀
She didn't have to...Cher had no tits to start with.
@@robinjohnson8149 Cher was flat as a board.
This is so heartbreaking. I was ten years old.
Used to love all of them. If I had to pick one, probably Newhart
Gee, I don't know about all those other folks, but I was still watching "Ironside".
Today US health insurance companies identify a six million dollar man as someone who was given an aspirin, a drink of water, and a fruit cup from the hospital cafeteria. And this is after insurance paid its part.