Did TV suck in 1977? TV Guide Fall Preview
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Lots of amazing shows debuted in 1977.
Operation Petticoat
We've Got Each Other
Love Boat
On Our Own
Rosetti and Ryan
Soap
Betty White Show
Young Dan'l Boone
Rafferty
The San Pedro Beach Bums
Lou Grant
Mulligan's Stew
The Fitzpatricks
The Richard Pryor Show
Search & Rescue
Big Hawaii
The Oregon Trail
The Man from Atlantis
Carter Country
Chips
Redd Foxx
Logan's Run
Sanford Arms
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The fact that I remember most of those shows featured in this Fall Preview, including the short-lived ones and ones you flipped past, tells me I watched way too much TV as a kid.
I was thinking the same thing.
The fact that you remember most of these shows, including the short-lived ones and the ones he flipped past, tells me you could cash in on having watched way too much TV as a kid by doing UA-cam videos about them. Although finding footage for the more obscure ones might be a tad difficult.
Funny how they used to say that then but now they have more TV than any one person can reasonably watch and still do anything else. Even if you didn’t do anything else, you still couldn’t watch everything that is on today. The sheer explosion of the amount of shows on now is what is unprecedented.
I miss reading various catalogues and tv guides. The smell of paper is quite nostalgic
Thats an idea... Chato can read us old Eaton's catalogues, or for American viewers, old Sear's catalogues... or maybe the tiny catalogue at the back of comic books
"Soap" sounds amazing but it never aired on Spain, unlike "The love Boat" that was quite popular here. But, of course, if we have to take one and only one show from the 70s it would be COLUMBO. It was brilliant during its entire 20-something year run. You should do an entire video about it!
Soap was something else. Check it out if you can.
soap is really politically incorrect nowadays. It's amazing to watch. Jokes they would NEVER tell now
Susan Harris was trying to be a female version of Norman Lear, but her shows hold up better and she is a much better gay ally based on the content of her shows. As an out Gay teen in the late 1990s I watched *Soap* four times through the Columbia House VHS tapes, the show was that good. The DVDs are missing footage that was there and look bad because of how horrible MPEG-2 compression makes analog videotape sources look.
chato, I have to say that I just love your snark and sarcasm that you bring to all your topics.
thank you for actually remembering to entertain rather than lecture.
Thanks. I try to make it all in service of the joke.
A "The Prisoner" fan... that explains your sign-off salute.
I didn't realize Soap lasted four seasons. After the alien baby cliffhanger, I had serious problems even finding it on broadcast.
I guess a few stations weren't carrying it, during it's run.
However, thanks to Soap, we got Benson.
Robert Guillaume was a great actor (and he could also sing). My generation probably remembers him as Rafiki in *The Lion King.*
Went from a great series (at least early on), Soap, to the banal awfulness of Benson.
@pauldavidartistclub6723 I rather enjoyed Benson.
It was an entirely different show.
I was 8 years old in 1977. I remember The Love Boat, Chips, Lou Grant, and Soap. Some iconic shows came out in 1977. If you are running low on tv guides and want to continue this series (which I hope you do), ebay and used book stores are great places to find more. I just bought 20 Mad and Cracked magazines from the 70's off ebay.
I have been contemplating that. I'm missing 1980.
I liked The Love Boat. The show promised something for everyone, and was an open smile on a friendly shore.
Well, then come aboard. We’re expecting you.
@@CallMeChato DUDE you can NOT skip 1980, the year of Magnum PI, To Close For comfort, Blossom Buddies, That's Incredible AND Solid Gold!
That I would like to hear what you have to say about simply because the Screen Actors Guild strike almost stopped that season from happening.
The fact that "The Prisoner" is one of your favorite shows tells me I'm in the right place here. The weirdest thing is that I don't remember "Rafferty", but I do remember "The San Pedro Beach Bums" like it was yesterday. It's funny that I think -any- of these shows would be hits today compared to what's on t.v. now.
I am in the same boat, I have no memory of Rafferty at all, sounds like it might have been a decent show
I was also a big fan of "The Prisoner". I would have watched "Rafferty" if I had known about it. I really appreciated his work with the people behind "Columbo". Patrick MacGoohan starred in two of them, directed two them, and starred and directed two of them. He must have loved the format.
They canceled shows with higher ratings than whatever is in their timeslot now. And I don’t think it’s just the greater number of choices that is causing the network television audience shares to dwindle even further than they already have. The population is bigger now than it was then, so you would think that theory there would be more people watching their shows. But they’re not. They’re watching channels like this.
Only 10-years-old in 1977, I wouldn't bothered with Rafferty. Years later, I became a fan of Patrick McGoohan after watching "The Prisoner" on PBS, which led to buying "Secret Agent" on VHS, along with any movie he appeared in. Only recently, I obtained episodes of "Rafferty" (having only read about the series), and though they're not the best quality, I enjoy them. Wish more than 13 episodes were filmed, although since McGoohan himself, I heard, totally hated the series, perhaps it's just as well. Be Seeing You!
I don't remember network television in the late 70s being legally obligated to include Dixie Carter in a show every season, but it seems that way.
It was the law.
TV Guide Army here. Your retro pop culture quest has summoned us. 🤘 Oh. Wait. Wrong video. Never mind. 👌
I was getting mail with Master in front of my name in those days. Fun to hear star names in various shows that almost made it. Thanks for making this video! I remember the hubbub surrounding SOAP. "Confused? You wont' be after this episode of SOAP!"
You had me at "Be seeing you" lol. No one gives a shout out to the Prisoner anymore, which is ironic because its message is more important now than it ever was. "I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered! My life is my own." Brilliant!
Patrick McGoohan was also King Edward I in BRAVEHEART.
And airing right after the Love Boat was... Fantasy Island. Watched both every week growing up. Brings back memories.
Couldn't help but notice "Logan's Run", I love all the old sci fi from back then.
You're so funny, I love this TV guide segment! I'm so glad you stuck with it
Me too!!
Lou Grant is one of my all time favourite shows. It shaped my idea of what a reporter should be. I loved the depiction of an old time, hard bitten newsman who kept a bottle of Scotch in his desk.
Hi Chato. I did enjoy "The Love Boat" growing up. When I got married back in 1993, we honeymooned on the original Pacific Princess(The Love Boat). It was magical.
Bob Einstein tells stories about his time working on The Redd Foxx Show on Gilbert Gottfried’s podcast. Do not listen to it while driving, you’ll crash your car. Absolutely hilarious.
Soap was great! We loved that show here in the UK. It was huge. Chips was massive too. As a kid I had the toys and book annuals.
I never had TV growing up (my parents weren't against it, we just lived in Alaska and it was expensive) so I've heard of Love Boat and other shows but that's about it. This is a really great way to learn about TV history! Wonderful
Growing up, I had a friend who didn't play "Cops and Robbers" or "Cowboys and Indians"...he recast such as "Sandmen and Runners" because of one of the shows glossed over here, Logan's Run.
I was a newlywed. A lot of sorrow, my dad was very sick, but lots of happiness, too. Lived in 30 ft trailer with my handsome man, cats, and lots of cockroaches. The heating system was questionable to downright dangerous. The computer age was just beginning. Poor? Our TV was a very small 10 0r 12 inch black and white. What I remember is SNL (cone heads, landshark, ) and Monty Python's flying circus (Ministry of funny walks, confuse a cat, I'm a lumberjack and I'm OK) ! I don't think I was watching a lot of TV. I remember Soap but I thought it was a movie?
Ha! I nailed it! I knew your little send off at the end of the your videos was a reference to The Prisoner. My all time favorite TV show. You obviously have excellent taste, lol. A TV show that has so much relevance to today's culture. Well, McGoohan understood the behavior of humans in acting in groups didn't he? Be seeing you...
The Prisoner was one of the greatest shows and PM was a great actor. I loved his Columbo episodes.
This brings back memories of being up late and watching syndicated tv channels with episodes from Love Boat, Love American Style, and then Star Trek until the TV Snow fell at 2:30 a.m.
If I recall correctly, LOU GRANT was the first series to be described as a "dramedy" as, at the time, there was no word to describe a show that was half drama/half comedy. It ultimately set the tone for other MTM "dramedies" as HILL STREET BLUES, ST. ELSEWHERE, etc.
I recall seeing "dramedy" applied to Room 222, set in a high school where none of student stars ever graduated. The explanation of the term highlighted the difficulty this posed for programming executives trying to schedule/promote it.
The funny thing about "Lou Grant" was that it was sort of pitched as a sitcom (to the public) but then became a drama (or always was one.) I remember watching the first couple of episodes and then leaving.
Lou Grant was such a great comic character that I could never quite accept him as a serious one...
The year The Incredible Hulk series started. The pilot aired on November 4, 1977. Originally broadcast by CBS over five seasons from 1978 to 1982.
Thank you for the kind words for Soap. I, too, thought it was brilliant. And, it had Victor Killian in a continuing role.
I'm watching it at 1/4 speed when you flip through it to read everything you are skipping and the adds lol. Love this series!
A show that tackled taboo subjects such as ones sexuality, gender and orientation and all in the name of comedy? Wow even back then TV didnt shy away from skirting the line on controversial topics for the sake of pushing the boundaries in entertainment. Its almost as if life EXISTED before 2016, unlike what a lot of these studios would have you believe.
The difference is back then it was a source of comedy, nowadays it's a source of drama.
77 was a great year for TV. A few of those made their way across the pound to the UK like Soap, Love Boat, Logan's Run, Mary Tyler Moore Show, CHIPS. MAN From Atlantis. Always thought American shows where better and more exciting than the shows we made in the UK
Ah yes, good old 1977... My memories are a bit hazy, but I have the distinct feeling it was both better and worse than now. It's hard to remember a past life. I started this one in 1992. Still, good to reminisce.
Love Boat was silly great. Princess ships now have their ship horns playing the Love Boat theme. This show, mostly singlehandedly, raised the concept of the cruise vacation from a fairly niche product back in the mid 70's to the multi-billion dollar industry it is today. The Pacific Princess that appeared on the show was first launched in 1971 (scrapped 2013), with a capacity of some 600 passengers, and was one of the bigger ships in its day. Today's ships literally carry 10 times that many. In fact, a 600 passenger ship is considered a "small ship" today and you only see those in the luxury segment.
I love this series, so happy you continue it!! As a non- American, this feels like a travel back in time, or a cable museum with Cato as the tour guide! I didn't grew up with any of these, but we used to have cable and I saw Taxi reruns for the first time, its amazing and hilarious!! Keep up the time travel trips, Mr. Cato!
I'm so glad!
I was 13 in 1977 and remember devouring this book with the eagerness of innocence
Also, I adored "Soap". Those were the days
I can remember liking Man from Atlantis when I was kid as it was so nerdtastic as I tried to copy his Atlantean dolphin kick when I went swimming but couldn't figure out how to web my fingers. I did have a big crush on costar Belinda Montgomery who is from Winnipeg. Curiously in 2016 Patrick Duffy wrote a novel about his character called (you guessed it) The Man from Atlantis with the character's and his underwater species' backstory.
I am 46, I am so grateful for content that doesn't make me feel old :P Enjoyed the show :)
This had some great shows that I remember fondly. Loguns Run, ChiPs, Man from Atlantis, for a young boy these were amazing and riveting shows:) One thing I am taking away from these TV Guide reviews is that the Woke Brigade of today really do not know their tv history. I mean a lot of these shows, if launched today, would be classed as woke, but back then they were just green lit and took their chances and nothing was said.
It has been observed that the woke crowd seems to think history began five or so years ago. Diversity has been around for a long time, but it used to also come with creativity and talent.
All those were hugely popular here in the UK. People were quite sad that the first and last shows didn’t last longer.
@@heli88 Truer words were never said :)
@@kamandi1362 I know I was :) Many times shows made in America do well in Europe, have big followings, but get canned because their numbers in the States aren't great. Such a shame.
I was a big fan of the Logan’s run series as a kid too.
10:02 Paul you had Logan's Run right there! There! To the right!! Your right! My right!
It was at least worth a mention as a tour de force of California's post apocalyptic landscape, er, backlot ranches, just like Ark II!
Watching these TV guide episodes with you; is like a having nostalgia sandwich!!
Aww, my brother and I loved Man From Atlantis...something about those webbed hands was so darn cool.
I remember _'Carter Country'_ with the Mayor's signature line: "Handle it Roy! Handle it, handle it."
Soap was so popular when I was overseas in the military, AFN announced they were preempting Soap for the Notre Dame game. They got so many complaints that they played SOAP and the game played after.
Excited!! As an 1980 baby I am looking forward to my decade of prime time network television
I will take you on a dream journey.
@@CallMeChato I can't wait! I've got nostalgia for TV Guides now
We need more shows like Operation Petticoat.
Fred Silverman, ABC's programming whiz at the time, scheduled it. He thought the series had potential, and intended to give it time to find an audience- and tinkered with changes in the cast and format. But when he left to become NBC's president in 1978, ABC decided they didn't want it on the air anymore, and cancelled it after four episodes into season two {the remaining six were never telecast}.
Completely forgot about Soap! Thanks Chato, I'd say you've got a winner of a (nothing?) channel. Really happy to watch where you take it. Love it.
Nice to see the list of shows that were on the fall lineup in the year I was born. Not much to write about. The Love Boat and CHIPS are the only hits that came from this list. The rest are mostly forgotten.
one thing you caught on 1977 tv was a Star Wars character cameo here and there. Soupy Sales, Donny and Marie , Richard Pryor, and other shows were great showcases for the characters
Man I watched a lot of TV as a 7 year old in 1977…. I remember most of these.
Graduated high school in 1977 and was too busy being a troublesome 18-year-old to watch much television. Still had "Star Wars" fever in the fall of 77.
My aunt had all those Redd Fox records by Laff Records. Leroy and Skillet, LaWanda Page, etc. It was stand up and sketch comedy and it was RAW! Deliciously dirty and hilarious. Not ready for prime time.
Love Boat is literally "character actor: the series, guest starring movie character actor", also the saturday timeslot paired with Fantasy Island was pure win-win for turning your brain off. Soap was simply put Lightning in a Bottle (the MASH writers prolly helped). Also 20 affiliates refusing to run the show at all because gay and sex probably did quite a bit of signal boosting.
Pryor's show was clearly never going to fit Lorne's Great Late Night Takeover, but there was nowhere else for his brand of humor to go (HBO would let him say bad words, they very likely would not let him say bad words about network executives in almost real time, being they were just a tiny New York start up with hopes and dreams)
IIRC, Love Boat was Fantasy Island with no fantasy / sci-fi elements.
Curious if Love Boat was cheaper to produce since they did not have to change the sets every episode
@@dragonbricks7086 Love Boat had rather a large chunk of "kooky spooky stuff", especially as audiences became accustomed to the two shows being paired together.
There was a larger emphasis on romance and interpersonal shenanigans but they had their robots and ghosts and aliens, too.
@@TwoSevenX Maybe I need to rewatch a few Love Boat episodes an adult. Back then, I thought the show was just a bunch of romance and interpersonal stuffs on a big ship, those were boring for a young me. At least in Fantasy Island, they had ghosts or lost mystical island with all of the romance stuffs. :D
I used to leaf through TV Guide for stuff like this .It was eagerly awaited!
Soap was essential viewing for my parents and grandparents. All I remember is the music and strange look of the TV when it came on (in the (UK).
Used to get many (but not all) of these shows here in the UK. Fondly remembered part of my childhood. 7 year old me Riding around a damp East Riding of Yorkshire on my Raleigh Chopper fantasising about being in the California Highway patrol :)
Quite a lot of these series I missed as I was living between Colombia and Spain until 91.
Lots of nostalgia for me. I was 15 in 1977. I actually liked Man From Atlantis and Chips.
I was born in 1976. My favorite shows are Gunsmoke, Bonanza, Big Valley, Kolchack, Rockford Files, Quincy, Emergency, and Star Trek. There is a life-size bronze statue of James Arness as Marshall Dillon in Dodge City, Kansas. I went through there last Fall and had my picture taken next to it. He was like 7 feet tall in heels and hat.
When my parents would go out on Friday night, we watched Love Boat followed by Fantasy Island with the babysitter.
I was born that year. I caught some of the rerun of the Love Boat and as a kid had something of a crush on the captain’s daughter. However, my favourite show must be…the COOF Report.
Skipped right over Logan’s Run. I was all about this at the time. My mother thought it was trash but my father said “he likes the Star Wars”
I watched and really liked Soap during the lockdown. It's funny how it was considered controversial during it's run. It's all pretty normal by today's media standards. The Love Boat is something I semi-regularly watch on Pluto TV. It's funny to think that it's a Spelling Production. It's pretty tame compared to Melrose Place. Although, even Melrose Place is nothing by 2020 standards. I haven't seen the Betty White Show, but I have seen a few episodes of Life With Elizabeth on Hulu. I also remember seeing her more than once on the Love Boat. Richard Mulligan from Soap/Empty Nest was also a guest on the Love Boat.
Now I know why I like your videos, our favorite TV show is the Prisoner. “Be seeing you”, should have seen that long ago...
5:07
Loved that show, but no wonder it was shown in Englaand around 11:30pm.
incidentally, Mego were offered a licence to make toys for some movie called Star Wars.
They turned it down, "...because we already have rights to Man From Atlantis."
:-0
so... I have a new TV Guide Fall Preview addiction. Binging now.
Noticed the very short lived "logans run" on one of the pages. Didn't know that came out in 1977... It certainly doesn't rate a mention, that's for sure.
Now I have an interesting story about CHIPS:
Many years later, I lived in Indonesia, where I was watching TV one night with my wife's family. And "CHiMPS" came on. This show was basically two chimpanzees dressed up as the CHIPS officers (uniforms an exact match) and "riding" little LAPD motorcycles. Crashing their bikes into different obstacles and getting into wild hijinks. Basically slapstick. I sat there with my jaw on the floor as the Indonesians in the room roared with laughter. Talk about culture shock. I have never been able to find a link to this show (one off?) but mother-of-God was it a surreal experience. I know it wasn't just a single skit, but perhaps not an entire season? It went on for at least 20-30 minutes and had the intro and outro of a real network series..but finding info on it has eluded me ever since.
I like that.
Ahhh it's the good sauce early in the morning, thank you very much for this show.
My inner eight-year-old pines for the days of reading about the upcoming cartoon and other Saturday morning fare in the Fall Preview issues of TV Guide. That was about the only thing that made the end of Summer bearable. ='[.]'=
I love researching old TV shows. It’s one of the reasons I’m really enjoying this series. Thank you. Also some of these lines and descriptions are just downright hilarious and ludicrous
I love these. I haven't had a grandfather in a long time; hearing you talk about the past as a person that lived it is very comforting. Thank you.
No love for "The Man from Atlantis"? I remember enjoying that show as a kid (But then I also loved Battle Star Galactica (I re-watched some episodes recently, and had to apologise to my parents for making them sit though that shit). Logans' run was also very good and mostly held up when I re-watched some of it :)
My favourite show, well that confirms my suspicions about the sign off.
Wow, your family must have had MONEY! We had to use the newspaper, including the Sunday paper wannabe TV guide, in our house! Also, I question your TV executive prowess if you did like or get one of the most successful TV shows in history (i.e. The Love Boat). The first 3-5 seasons were perfectly fine...mostly. A interesting combo of guest actors (tons of actors have a Love Boat in their history), exotic locals, skimpy outfits, romance, expensive cruises....and modestly amusing situational comedy. BTW, you really are skipping through to the comedies, because I spied a Logan's Run (and you didn't comment). Enjoy the content anyway!
I had no idea that one of my top ten movies was a TV show 10 years after it was made. Operation Petticoat. And this video is currently making look up box sets for Soap.
Thanks for the break from Hollywood destroying everything i loved.
I once saw an interview with Gavin MacLeod where he said his agent told him not to take *Love Boat* but he took it anyway.
I was a high schooler in 1977 and watched many of these shows. We had one TV set (black and White) so I was stuck with what my parents wanted to watch. The love boat was the only one I recall very clearly because it brought all the washed up stars from the big and little screens for one last hurrah. TV generally sucked, still does...
For what is worth. I have seen all your videos up to 9-30-2022. I am a baby-boomer here in the United States. Not only do I enjoy your videos. They scare me. It's pretty easy to look in the mirror and say the world is not the problem, it must be me thats failing to change with the times. In reality I could not get that lucky. Your point of view pushes back on a whole lot of BS that's out there. The more you express about you life as a network executive the better. In my view during the 60's and 70's they manipulated a whole lot of cancelled programs that we, the viewing public thought that is what want and needed. Modern day you suggested (I think) that we Star Trek fans of the baby boomers generation. Are just burned out on the gig. You were right. No matter what they put out. Wow much to my own personal upset that is something that will shorten my life not enhance it. Keep going! The thing about phone calls and e-mails coming from different source unless real. Massively entertaining. But maybe not so good. We as the audience would cut off one of our arms to see a real exchange such as that. But pretend not so much.
I was 6 in 1977. A great year for TV shows and Star Wars! I only seen two episodes of the Richard Pryor show. One took place in a courtroom (Robin Williams was in the cast) and the first one I saw was the Star Wars bar. Which still cracks me up to this day! I had no idea it only lasted four episodes. Thanks Paul for another trip down memory lane. 🤗
Sandra Bernhard was in it too. The show would have been perfect for Saturday at 10:00, leading in to SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE. But NBC put BIG HAWAII in that slot instead. (I loved the theme music for that short-lived show--I'd watch the opening credits and skip the rest.)
This was quite the year for me. I turned 18, joined the USAF, and set out to conquer life! I did OK.
4:10 ... it's nice that in '77 they cast a double amputee in a prime time show. ;)
It's crazy there was a time in Hollywood when the average actor was less attractive than the average person.
Mr. Chato, I just read on Wikipedia that you were once a member of the comedy troop "The Frantics."
Is this the same frantics group that did the "Boot to the Head" comedy sketches back on the Doctor Demento show back in the day? Along with George Carlin's icebox skit, you guys had me rolling on the floor laughing in pain, if this is the same group!
Yep.
@@CallMeChato
Thanks for responding, and thanks for the laughs!
I was born in autumn 1977 ... on another continent tho..
I've only ever heard of "Soap" - but I dropped that 😁😋
Hey, as a 7 year old at the time, Man From Atlantis was epic!
I vaguely remember some of these -- but in 1977, I went to the theater to see Star Wars 33 times that summer. Ah, the Love Boat -- always watched that for some reason; I hate cruise ships because my father had a heart attack and died on one )a family trip) because there was no doctor aboard.
I did recognize a young Stuart Pankin from "Not Necessarily the News" in that "Beach Bums" photo.
I love the original "The Prisoner" too...Be seeing you
Saw you on Midnight's Edge recently. I had been watching your channel for a few weeks oblivious to your identity. I remember watching Four on the Floor back in the day. I saw the Frantics live in 2009 and own a few CDs you all kindly autographed. I LOVED Prisoners of Gravity and still have my VHS tapes of it off TVO. Did not know you were on the team there. You look similar enough to young Paul from 40 years ago and your mannerisms are still there so I am surprised I did not recognise you. Guess I am used to you with the wonderful Rick Green and others in the ensemble. Keep up the great work.
It was a great fun run. Thanks.
I'm 35 and Brazilian, but somehow find this very entertaining.
I remember a bunch of these even Logan’s Run you passed by 🙂🖖
"The Prisoner"! Classic! Be seeing you. :)
1977, a great year. I was born.
Thanks Chato, as a Cult TV aficionado I really appreciate these segments. Some of the shows that you showcase made it here to Australia, some did not! Some I wish to collect on DVD.
Cool! I was born in ‘82, but I watched a lot of TV. I was in the wake of these shows…
Oh, and Comedy Central did a big to-do reairing of Soap around ‘96, so I did see that then.
I remember 'Operation Petticoat' but Lordy, I love that description you gave it.
'Love Boat' was not perfect but it is seminal.
'Soap' was all over the place wasn't it?
'I think back about 'Carter Country' quite a bit, it had some funny scenes I still hear Mayor Burnside - Burnside By A Landslide : "Handlit Roy - Handlit, Handlit!" and "But Roy, I Can't Hit Ma Own Mother!"
I remember too much of this.
As a kid never really got into Soap. But I did watch the dumb show Man From Atlantis (even have an issue of the comic book!), CHiPs, Love Boat, and caught some of Logan's Run. Can't remember any of it though. Thanks for the nostalgia trip!
How is it you're not doing voice work for animation or games? Always so happily surprised by your TV guide episodes especially!
Saw this and liked. Looking forward to the 80's. BTW, I loved the "Man from Atlantis". However, I was eight.
I remember how much criticisms hated the Love Boat. They say it also sunk the Carol Burnett Show, but I think those variety shows were on their way out anyways.
I was three years old in 1977. Can remember LOVE BOAT quite well, paired with FANTASY ISLAND, though that was from at least a couple of years later. Same for CHiPs.
So it's confirmed, the "be seeing you" is indeed a Prisoner reference.
I am not a number.
@@CallMeChato but you surely are a free man.