Did TV suck in 1975? TV Guide Fall Preview 1975. (Hint. Yes.)
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A commenter pointed out that One Day at a Time and Wonder Woman came in as Winter replacements, two significant shows. I'll mention them next time but I will have to get into the habit of checking the schedule for January to see what popped up.
It might be interesting to see what replaces what in general. It's one thing to say a new show appeared in a given year, but it might be more interesting to see what it replaced. Also, knowing what it is up against is very interesting as well. (I've already forgotten the name of the one show, because it was up against the Six Million Dollar Man, appointment television for 9-year-old me.)
How many marriages did that Norman Lear degenerate show destroy?
And guess what replaced "When Things Were Rotten"? The Bionic Woman.
Wonder Woman with Lynda Carter and, shudder, the invisible plane.
That would be a good idea to list the replacement shows. I knew there were some new shows I watched in 75 but the fall Preview list for the year was putrid. Only watched Welcome Back Kotter and only until Travolta was there. Remember the country bumpkin who replaced him. What really makes these videos are the actual TV Guides which are in pretty good shape for almost being.50 years old. Love your analysis and wit.
One of the things I've learned from watching this series is that Hollywood has always been rehashing the same ideas, dealing in nostalgia, pitching the same ideas over and over again, pushing progressive ideas to little success. The popular stuff have been new and creative ideas, but the people who make the decisions can't seem to reliable pick those ideas out of the crowd, they really just luck out.
Yep.
There were times they were semi-consistent.
I can recall from about the mid-1980s to the early 1990s NBC had a very successful Thursday line-up of sitcoms. They started with Cosby Show, then Family Ties, and after-family hours (9PM EST), Cheers and Night Court. Although they didn't have TV ratings/on-air adult guides (TV-7, TV-M, TV-13, TV-17, etc) per se back then, it was agreed that the raunchier shows would air after 9PM. That didn't help CST, though! Chicago still aired the shows AT THE SAME TIME so kids in other time zones could be seeing Cheers and Night Court at 8PM CST!
[Good intentions and ratings warnings mean nothing if parents don't impose standards on their kids. That was true then as it is more so now with even more adult junk that makes Night Court look tame by today's standards!
[BTW, of all the shows I've mentioned, I think Night Court holds up the best 30 years later. It's still funnier to me than most shows that ran before or after it. It's a shame now that over half the classic Night Court cast has died (as well as the show's creator, Reinhold Weege) but it's been over 30 years since the last episode of the original run aired. I have no hopes that the Night Court sequel/revival will make it. It doesn't have the classic cast other than John Larroquette attached, and most importantly, it can NEVER duplicate the chemistry the original show had because it's a different era and the original writers and creator of Night Court are gone from the industry.]
I will agree with our Dear Channel Host that most TV shows HAVE SUCKED from the beginning of TV but some eras have had better writing and better casting in greater abundance than other periods of broadcasting. It's seems to be much easier to find decent things from the 1960s and 1980s although I will say that personally I think the 1970s sucked for TV! More was bad from that decade aside from funky fashion disasters like bell bottoms and mullet hair! Still a fairly good decade for movies, arguably the last "adult decade" before summer blockbusters took completely over. Jaws, Godfather 1 & 2, the original Star Wars, Close Encounters, Dirty Harry, and a lot of other gems including Mark Hamill's magnum opus, Corvette Summer! 😆
There really was more of a throw it at the wall and see what will stick methodology to television programming back in the day. It's easier now because everything on television is either reality TV or some overproduced cinematic moment that ends up fizzling because nobody understands how to Pace a story.
@@CallMeChato I’ve just become aware of something called “scrapbooking”, practiced by the various Disney studios and others, where multiple versions of scenes are shot, then shown to test audiences with the best reaction. The episodes/shows don’t run according to a script, just a variety of possible narratives. does this ring any bells with your experience?
Speaking of Starsky and Hutch, in 1983 David Soul starred in a short lived TV series prequal to Casablanca. Yep, rehashing the same ideas and dealing in nostalgia
Remember when networks dropped shows based on viewer numbers rather than political idiology?
Do you think Batwoman would last for 3 seasons in 1975?
Wouldn't have lasted 3 shows.
It was a buyers market then Now it’s a sellers market There are now many outlets on air streaming internet and cable desperate for product, any product. In 1975 boatwoman would have been bounced after the pilot Now it’s gobbled up because it’s not just politicaly correct but because it’s something to fill space
@@CallMeChato I remember a '70s live action Spiderman movie in which the hero casted cargo nets which were suppose to be the spider webs. The only reason The Hulk worked was because they had a guy that was basically The Hulk in terms of shape. The only reason superhero movies work now and failed then was because of CGI.
@@orlock20 the reason why the Hulk succeeded was
1. Bill Bixby
2. Empethetic characters
3. Storylines making you care for Banner and his plight
4. The thing that pisses me off with present-day hulk. He had jeapordy, you never knew when he would change.
Now Hulk has control over his powers? What's the point of that? You've totally neutered the Hulk. WTF
@@voodoochile333 The Hulk in the '70s was The Fugitive featuring the Hulk. If the Hulk part didn't work, the Hulk part would have been dropped before the show was made.
This 20 minute video took me at least 40 minutes to watch, as I had to keep on hitting pause in order to fully enjoy the nostalgia of all the advertisements from 1975. It's surprising just how modern 1975 TV Guide looks, isn't it?
I thought I was the only one who loved seeing the ads.
why wouldnt it look "modern"?
I love these TV guide reviews. Too bad they need to eventually end.
"Ellery Queen" starring Jim Hutton and David Wayne is still my all-time favorite TV show.
Honorable mention to a first-run syndicated series "Space 1999".
"Ellery Queen" was a great show with the unique premise of the viewing having to solve the murder along with Ellery and not knowing who it was until Ellery revealed it. It was a shame it didn't last longer. I only got to see it on DVD as I way too young to stay up and watch TV shows like this in 1975.
Eddie Albert was the coxswain of a landing craft during the invasion of Tarawa in World War 2. He was decorated for bravery after he rescued dozens of wounded Marines under enemy fire. Helluva guy.
And he married the lumpen-shticker.
It didn't suck _too_ much. They signed on Tim Conway as a regular on Carol Burnette, Pat Morita joined "Happy Days" and Harry Morgan joined M*A*S*H as a regular.
Those are wins in my book
... The new shows sucked, but the changes were worth it. =)
I still get the theme song from "When Things Were Rotten" popping into my head from time to time. Thankfully, I don't remember the words. Dumb theme.
If anyone reading this has never seen "The Carol Burnette Show" do yourself a favor and find it. Hilarious :D
@@toweypat I received a suggestion, out of the blue, of a '78 episode with Steve Martin & Carol as Frankie & Annette, with Betty White as the Leather Momma trying to steal him away.
I guess Steve had a thing for older women.
As far "Happy Days" goes, it would also be the season where Henry Winkler was upgraded to second billing. Though some purists hate that fact, the show jumped to the top of the ratings as a result of the change
Mike Farrell also joined the MASH cast.
Becuase Fred Silverman capitalized on "The Fonz". He even wanted to spin him off into his own series (especially when Fred wanted to pair him with Roz Kelly's "Pinky Tuscadero" in a "FONZIE LOVES PINKY" series in the 1976-'77 season), but Henry Winkler and Garry Marshall refused, because they wanted "Fonzie" to stay on "HAPPY DAYS" [and they didn't want to work with Roz again, despite Silverman's eagerness to capitalize on *her* popularity {"She's a female Fonzie!", he raved}].
Why do I crave a cigarette after watching all the 70s TV Guide episodes. I love how you can see a recurring theme in a lot of these seasons, like this season seemed to have shows about reformed con artists and gamblers. Also noble old families.
The Gran Torino in Starsky & Hutch being an automatic is one of the most disappointing things I've ever heard. I'm shook!
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Hey, Chato. I was 11 in 1975 and I was loving the six million dollar man and mourning the loss of Darren McGavin's Night Stalker.
Yep
Chloris leachman's best work.... Running down the center of the road on a rainy night in the dark Barefoot with almost nothing on as the opening sequence to kiss me deadly with Ralph Meeker.1955. Only smokes, 1975, I was working in the bush in northern BC. Thank God we couldn't get any TV reception.
Not only do I remember all of those shows, but, frighteningly, I remember that TV Guide. 😆
I'm always surprised to see how short the run of some of my favorite shows were. Ellory Queen should have gotten several seasons. Total side note, but I thought it was great that Leverage gave Tim Hutton the chance to pay tribute to his dad's work by writing an episode which put him in costume as Ellory Queen.
I was 8. I had my own television in my room. The TV GUIDE was the Holy Bible in our house. For a few years we had two of each issue delivered. I may have never slept as a child. This brings back memories.
Aw, I couldn't wait for that Fall Preview Issue every year! Must have driven my folks mad, especially since the Sears Christmas Catalog wasn't far behind!
LOVED the fall preview& still have most of the fall previews.
The Welcome Back Kotter opening theme is a reoccurring earworm every time that show is mentioned. Genius work on that song. Oh and the sweathogs. Vinny Barberino. I remember a few shows from my childhood, but all the years blended together for me.
The show's original title was just KOTTER, but John Sebastian's theme song was such a good fit that they lengthened it.
Signed Epstein's mother.
Loved Welcome Back Kotter growing up.
Baba, Baba, Babarino.
Signed Horseshack's Mother.
Welcome Back, Kotter. As a kid I thought it was pretty cool, even if each episode was kinda repetitive. One of the best TV themes of the era though.
I hardly remember a damn thing of Kotter even though I saw some of the episodes in first run AND the reruns that were on for years into the 1980s after the show ended its original NBC run.
It did have a great theme, and I still own a CD collection of TV themes that has the Kotter theme in it.
I got a kick out of watching the "Quentin Tarantino's Welcome Back, Kotter" sketch on SNL in the mid-1990s, around the time John Travolta had a major career revival because of Pulp Fiction. That was a funny sketch! They nailed everything correctly and cast everybody appropriately (with Travolta reprising Vinnie Barbino on the SNL episode he hosted). It was a WEIRD pastiche of Tarantino tropes blended with the classic 1970s series. They even had Lenny and Squiggy appear but they were the same network back then so what the hell? It was one of the few SNL sketches that worked back then.
I was too young to watch WBK in its first run, but saw most it in reruns while i was still a kid. I loved the theme song and still have a copy that plays occasionally in iTunes. Even as a kid, I knew the acting was bad (the teacher was the worst), but still found it funny. As an adult, I have tried not to intentionally rewatch shows like this so as to not tarnish my fond memories of them.
@@AvengerII not to nitpick but Welcome Back, Kotter was at least on ABC originally..maybe it was picked up by NBC later?
@@erichaynes7502 No, I think the entire run of Welcome Back, Kotter was all ABC.
The last season or two was WEIRD because Dave Kaplan, the star of the show, basically went on strike and the actress who played his wife basically became the fulcrum of the series.
I think you're getting confused because they spoofed Welcome Back, Kotter much later on SNL, an NBC series.
The spoof was on-target and great!
In Boston the first season was moved to a UHF station (Channel 56 IIRC) since it was somehow going to inflame racial tensions. Never understood that logic.
The only memory I have of "The Monteafuscos" was Johnny Carson's line saying NBC cancelled this show so fast that Mamma Montefusco didn't have time to finish the spaghetti.
Ellery Queen was one of my favorite shows. I was really disappointed when it was cancelled.
YES! I love that I am in sync with your uploads. Your vids are genuinely something I look forward to watching. You have the right mix of nostalgia, logic, and humor (notice the Oxford comma) I enjoy. PLUS, you do it without being condescending. You are a great host. Love ya Chatmeister!
Nice comma.
Of these, the only one's that I remember are: The Invisible Man, Welcome Back Kotter, When Things Were Rotten, Starsky and Hutch, and Ellery Queen. I liked When Things Were Rotten, but then again, I was seven years old and probably had bad taste.
Great video! 1975 was the year I turned 2. I have very faint memories of that year and had no idea what was going on. What I did take away from the seventies (I turned six in '79) was that it was a decade with a sixties hangover. I knew a lot of stuff had happened just before I was born, like the Vietnam war, in which my father served two tours, and my mom hitchhiked from Chicago to Hollywood. My memories of the late seventies mostly involved a constant aural assault from terrible music, and the visual assault of polyester and bell bottoms, sometimes combined. The shows I enjoyed most were The Six Million Dollar Man, Battlestar Galactica, Buck Rodgers, The Dukes of Hazzard, Chips, and The Love Boat. My family knew Gavin McLeod aka Captain Stubing. Great man, RIP. I also remember the made for TV movie Gargoyles which scared the hell out of me. I also got really into the band Kiss and wore a Peter Criss costume for Halloween 1978. I also remember long times at the gas station and hearing adults argue about Carter. I was no political scientist, but I knew he would lose to Reagan in 1980. Otherwise, I had very little context about what was going on. As for the TV Guide, it was a staple of our home. We would all scour it for things we wanted to watch.
I was born in 1974 and missed 78-89 TV shows. But I love the TV Guide. Loved Starsky and Hutch.
I liked the show Doc in 1975. When CBS revamp & moved the show for season 2. It stunk to high heaven.
I love the world events portion at the beginning. I was six and basically raised on Happy Days and Fat Albert, but even I knew "Sandford and Sons" was a better show than "Welcome Back Kotter."
Yes, objectively, "Welcome Back Kotter" was painfully bad... but I wasn't even in elementary school when the show's first season aired and I found Horshack fascinating. My parents did NOT appreciate me mimicking his laugh. 😆
I don't actually REMEMBER any of the TV I watched in '75. I remember quite a bit of specific details from '78 and on (I vividly remember watching the "Star Wars Holiday Special" and ADORED the premier of "Battlestar Galactica," meticulously recording the audio with Dad's tape recorder), but most shows before that tend to be vague and lack context.
I actually saw the Battlestar Galactica pilot when it was released in the theaters in Canada. They added a lot material into the tv version that it didn't really need. Spoiler below (yes for a 47 year old film;).
Among other things the tv version completely spoiled the surprise of most of the pilots not having really attended the party and being ready to protect the refugee fleet. I guess they didn't trust the tv audience to be smart enough to figure it out from the foreshadowing and the exchange between Adama and Tige when it was revealed.
Stu Phillips's opening theme is ingrained into my DNA.
I remember my dad sent me a cassette recorder for Christmas. A year later, I used it to record most of the Bob Hope Christmas special, that had Mark Hamill, Perry Como and others. They did a Star Wars parody and played two kids trapped in a toy store overnight. 😉
I was only a kid, but I never liked it, even when I was older and saw it in reruns. Every actor was annoying.
I recorded the dialog of ever Star Treks on a reel to reel tape recorder!
It's worth noting that "When Things Were Rotten" was cannnibalized to create "Robin Hood: Men in Tights" years later.
The movie basically gave Dave Chappelle his big break.
Never stop the TV Guide reviews!
It's so interesting to see that "the good old days" weren't all that either. Well, not all the time.
This look back is much appreciated. Not only as a more objective history lesson.
We have this rose-colored view of mass entertainment that's distorted by what WE prefer as individuals and still treasure.
The stuff I like is generally from the 1960s and 1980s; there are movies I like from the 1930s and 1940s.
I think most of TV's been a wasteland since the beginning. Generally, the best stuff is what has survived in reruns. Besides being popular and being rerun all the time, I Love Lucy and The Honeymooners had a quality that set them above their peers. Most of the 1950s sitcoms didn't last, including the more successful rivals to ILL and Honeymooners.
I would say most of the TV shows I appreciated as a kid (Gilligan's Island, Lost in Space) I don't like so much right now. Anything I can find some new level of writing in that I missed or THOUGHT was always good (Star Trek, The Munsters), I generally still like. (Yep, I'm firmly a Munsters TV fan. The Addams Family has been more successful in revivals but I like The Munsters 1960s series better than the original Addams Family. I just like the classic Universal horror icons better!) And I've discovered other things like Boris Karloff's Thriller that had something I missed. Sometimes it takes getting older to discover the good stuff you dismissed or just didn't pay attention to at the time they aired or in reruns.
I might not like the 1970s so much now aside from feature films (the last true decade of mainstream films aimed at adults that weren't all rated X/NC-17) but there was a neat little show called "Kolchak the Night Stalker" which I saw MUCH later in life (in Sci Fi Channel reruns) which inspired some later shows like "The X-Files." I DID like the original "In Search of" docu-drama/paranormal series hosted by Leonard Nimoy.
Nope. This TV Guide and video don’t BEGIN to cover some of the good to great shows launched in 1975 or carrying over from previous years.
@@DoctorShocktor Doctor,
Instead of lecturing us, why don't YOU show us in YOUR video?
I was born in the early 90s. I know captain Kirk, Tim Conway, and I've heard of Starsky and Hutch before... apparently there is a more modern movie by the same title so maybe that's why. Still, for some reason I watched this and found it hilarious. Maybe there is hope for my generation yet.
These are even better than watching the bizarre compilations of opening sequences for these shows on UA-cam.
I was 5 years old at this point. I remember all the history references you gave. But for some reason the stand out memory for me was the show Phylis. I vividly remember the theme song. Mary Tyler Moore really had some crazy spin-offs.
The only two I remember making it to the UK Is The Invisible Man and Starsky and Hutch. Admittedly I was only 7 in 1975 but I read the TV guide every week (Radio Times) cover to cover. It obviously wasn't the greatest of years.
They tended to test drive their creations on home turf before letting them lose on the UK market. So basically, if folks think it's a stinker that's made it to the UK, it,'s nothing compared with stinkers they have to put up with in the US.
Fall 1975 was the first TV season in 20 years that did not have Gunsmoke as the series had been canceled. Very sad.
The act of Congress that got it saved bough it another eight seasons.
Hard to believe it was only one season, I remember Ellery Queen so well. Frequently when Tim Hutton would look at the camera and announce "You have all the clues. Who did it?" my response was "Already? you're kidding." Maybe the show was too smart for its own good, but that's what I loved about it. I don't know if his liver cancer played a role in the show's quick exit.
I am absolutely loving these fall previews. Being a 70s kid myself, I remember a lot of these things. Good Times, a lot easier
I was very young then, but all of us who have been watching TV for a while realize the re-hashedness of TV, we were just happy with less in those days. Thanks for mentioning East Timor!! Howard Cosell, TVs were too expensive, or someone in the family would have thrown a brick. Thanks so much for the tour, we were allowed to watch Happy Days, Laverne and Shirley, a lot you have here I do not remember. Looking forward to 1976. And I thought they only try to ride popular shows until the horse dies, today (Obi Uncle Owen, coming very soon).
Praise the Lord for 'Starsky & Hutch'.
These lookbacks are unfailingly awesome.
I love these episodes and I love watching them. I watch and think back on what I was doing the year under discussion. I was starting my second year of college, so I was not watching any television for the next 3 years. I did not even own a TV set. It was great to see that I did not miss anything that year.
This is why I subscribed, I'm incredibly excited for the 90's eps.... That's my childhood
They are coming. They take a long time to do.
This was about the time in my childhood when I began to watch shows other than Sesame Street, Mister Rogers and The Electric Company. The Six Million Dollar Man was my favorite followed by Emergency.
I always liked "Welcome back Kotter" 😁 and my wife loved Starsky and Hutch
It amazes me that you kept all of those old TV guides. Not only that, they are also in great condition.
I do remember When Things Were Rotten, and my parents enjoyed it. Welcome Back Kotter was our weekly(Thursday Night)? My mom wanted Ellery Queen to work. The magazine was scattered all over their bedroom.
The horses were warning Cloris Leachman not to take the Phyllis spin-off.
They were all screaming "NAY!!!!"
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Turns out you don't have to be a dad to tell jokes like one. Worry not, I'm thoroughly ashamed of myself. 😊
Cloris Leachman STILL did some of her best work in the 1970s.
Watch her in Young Frankenstein and High Anxiety. She's hilarious and well-directed in those films. Her instincts were also dead-on on what her characters should do to sell scenes.
She's criminally underrated as a comedic actress; she was a perfect foil and contract player for Mel Brooks films back then. She also wasn't afraid to look goofy and "dress down" to fit the part.
The best comedic actresses I think are the ones that aren't afraid to look foolish to suit the part or get hit in the face with pies... The actresses who are too concerned with looking pretty are not as good. That was true in the 1930s and I think still holds up today.
There's a reason people liked Lucille Ball for decades...
[That said, I think people also have to be aware of which lanes they play best in and be aware they have to choose their mainline projects well to maintain their appeal with the public. Cary Grant was aware of that and that's why he lasted as long as he did.]
@@AvengerII Cloris was hilarious in Malcolm in the Middle as Ida, Lois' mom.
@@jn0135 I think once women past a certain age, a lot of actresses just don't care and "let lit all hang out."
There were a lot of middle-aged actresses who were terrific comedians. Not so many in their 20s and 30s.
Could be confidence issues, could be concerns that they have to look their best all the time!
This is very cool, thanks for this. I was born in '75 (yes I'm old-ish). Also, in this age of woke hyperfeminism, all men are invisible.
When you said Frau Blucher I needed to hear the horses whinnying 🙂
1975 - I was 12yo. I have been given a TV for my room the previous Christmas. That season of TV started my love of reading and listening to the radio.
I love seeing all these old magazines - like stepping back in time to my childhood
I remember The Invisible Man... It had a lot of guns on strings. If I saw the strings on a 26" Low Resolution 1970's TV, I'm guessing we won't be getting a Blu-ray release. 😀
“When things were Rotten” should be the title for this year.This was the year of Kolchack,Wonder Women and Monty Python for me.All the “Mature” shows and “comedies” solidified a sense that TV really sucked a lot of the time.Nice job as always.Ill be disappointed when your done withthe1970s.
Not even close. You list some good shows front the year, now go look at an actual list of what was on and launched this year, not just this one tv guide edition. Dick Cavett, Smothers Brothers, Baretta, Fawlty Towers, on and on, even you list some good shows.
Love seeing this series continue! Always great to see what TV shows were coming out year to year. And while 75 was a dud of a year for shows its still great to see what types of shows were popular during those times. Lets you know what people were into and found entertaining during that time. Please keep these coming, even if they aren't as popular as your other videos. They put a lot of how people thought and valued in their entertainment into perspective, especially given what's going on with our entertainment these days.... >.>
Thanks for the nostalgia, please keep these episodes going, love a walk through my past and the days of cable TV!
Rocky Horror debuted at the Roxy on Sunset and eventually moved to a bigger venue in Westwood, due to its crazy success. A schoolmate of mine was the musical director and master guitarist for the original West Hollywood run. Tony Berg went on to do film soundtrack music.
I actually liked "Welcome Back, Kotter" but a) I saw it way after 1975 (I am technically younger than the show lol) and b) I was young and didn't know any better :D
I admit it... I don't look forward to the TV guide vids, but I always enjoy them when I do watch them. Thank you Dr. Chato!
I loved that your "English" accent for the Mel Brooks Robin Hood show was a mix of Scottish, Irish, and Quebecquois.
About time! More 80s guides, please. 👍
Yes I want more 80s, but he needs the guides so it depends on if he has them.
I have most of the 80s. There is one in the playlist. Check it out. More to come.
I was born in 1974. That said, it feels like Hollywood in 1975 was fishing for what would resonate with audiences and cancelling what didnr draw eyeballs.. When I compare that to what is being offered today, it feels like Hollywood is demanding that the audience appreciate whatever they produce, no matter the quality. When did this transition happen? Or has it been a slow transition as old generations pass and new ones take over? TV shows have definitely gotten more sophisticated over time, but now pretentiousness and poor writing seem to be overtaking quality.
The true believers being in positions of authority was when things really began to change. Even 10 or 15 years ago, if something lost a ton of money, studios would cancel any and all future investment in the I.P. (with perhaps a couple of exceptions). They've done that to some extent in this era, like cancelling anything with the female Ghostbuster universe, but they haven't dropped the concept of what turned people off to begin with. They're too committed to their "cause."
@@jkincaid582 It's a hiring pipeline problem.
I do remember Barbary Coast, and was confused why it disappeared so fast. Granted, I was a middle-school Trek fan with Shatner envy. I saw The Shat at a convention in the 90s where someone asked about Barbary Coast, and he told the amusing story of how things went from "Wheeee!" to "Who?" with the studio over the course of the season.
I recall not watching Barbary Coast because it was a western. Now I'd watch it just for McClure and Shatner.
I recall it on BBC Monday nights. Only had a single release, no repeats that I know of, but I enjoyed it. Hey, I was 9. Gimme a break.
"I hope this one is a keeper.........shit!"
Thank you for reminding me why I love coming back to this channel every time my notification says there is a new one.
I just checked and TV from Britain certainly didn’t suck in 1975. New shows that year included Fawlty Towers, Get Some In!, The Good Life, Poldark, Space: 1999, The Sweeney and Wodehouse Playhouse. All favourites of mine.
Really striking how many shows focus on old people, and the shows that contain younger people are focused on the old people trying to deal with the young people they can’t understand
You can see why Saturday Night Live seemed so truly revolutionary. Too bad the avant-garde became garde
I remember thoroughly enjoying Ellery Queen, especially it’s theme music. Meanwhile, although my sister and I both watched it together, she to this day claims to have no memory whatsoever of The Invisible Man. She also says the same thing about Space:Above and Beyond.
Yikes what a season of stinkers, that must be close to a record number of forgotten shows in a year. Love these movie guide reviews.
That TV guide and this video don’t cover 1/10 of what was on the air or launched. Hard to judge when most of the info is missing.
I recently saw the pilot episode for Starsky and Hutch and was amazed how fast the show had come together. The characters were completely developed and didn’t seem to change much during the run. It did seem like they were trying to lean a bit into the gritty cop movies of the early 70s, like Serpico or The French Connection, but were obviously sanitized by the limitations of network tv at the time. A bit of trivia I discovered is the show’s pilot (and ultimately the intro to the series) contained a scene where David Soul jumps from either a wall or fire escape (I forget which) and lands on his butt on the roof of a car and slides off to chase a criminal. That stunt permanently damaged his back and continuing issues over the years eventually put him in a wheelchair. Obviously, it’s not always a great idea to do your own stunts.
Thanks for that bit of trivia. I loved that show. When I finally could drive, I always imagined my car was the Red Tomato. You or anyone else know where to get more Starsky & Hutch info on UA-cam?
@@etong4595 the original pilot is on UA-cam. But I couldn’t find any other full length episodes.
@@tanon823 Thanks for letting me know.
As a youngster I enjoyed the heck out of _'The Invisible Man'_ and it certainly advanced the blue screen technology.
That said, for me his best role will forever be as Illya Kuryakin.
Also, I did utter the obligatory horse whinny when you mentioned Frau Blucher.
I'm from Quito, Ecuador and since I born in 1979, the only show from 1975 I had watched is Starsky & Hutch, I remember it was incredibly popular down here. Just a year ago I watched all of it in TCM, what a great show was that one!
I was 4 years old, so I don't remember any of these, except Welcome Back, Kotter (which I never liked), but I'd watch anything with Sheldon Leonard!
Harsh on Doc, with Barnard Hughes, but this was a bumper year for classic television! I do remember Howard Cosell's variety show.
I would have sworn that “welcome back kotter” lasted longer than 4 seasons.
Telly Savalas in a Gillettte comercial , match in heaven 😀 " scratch this Pussycat and you have got trouble " LOL
I didn’t have a TV in 1975. Our TV blew a tube and we couldn’t afford a new one. My dad was just starting teaching back then, and starting teachers made very little back in those days. I remember my dad liking welcome back Cotter when he could watch it.
I was a ten year old kid when Kotter debuted. My guess is that, that is about the right age to find it funny... which I did at that age.
THANK YOU! I love these blasts from the past! Always fun to hear your Year in Recap to help provide the surroundings for the viewies!
It sounds like 1975 sucked so bad it was cancelled half way through 1975.
It surprises me that 1976 happened at all!
one thing that i always think when seeing this is how many of those series are lost media now
How many of these sitcoms that only got a couple of episodes aired are now lost forever
Love the retrospective about the year itself. This is amazing content!
I loved Welcome Back Kotter and Starsky and Hutch. A lot of kids at school had t-shirts of those characters.
Hey Chato...."Up your nose with a rubber hose!"
I found your channel through Mirror's Edge, and I love this series, very informative (and thanks for the Night Stalker rec from a previous episode).
I love your TV guide previews. Watching these made me think of the Battle of the Network Stars events. I loved those when I was a kid.
I don't have memories of 5 minutes ago, never mind when I was 3 years old! HUH?! WHAT?! Where am I?! WOW! This is some GOOD shit!
Big daddy chato delivers again! I love watching these!!
Enjoyed this. I was 10 that year and don't remember a lot of this. It's funny how many bona-fide movie stars were trying to get into tv at that point.
I woke up on this, the 47th anniversary of my birth, to find this video outlining the amazing television that was airing as I entered the world. Kudos on your timing, at least for this birthday boy (or birthday middle aged man, however you want to spin this pilot pitch).
I remember watching Welcome Back Kotter and Starsky and Hutch, loving both shows at the time. However, those are memories I am happy to leave in the 70s. Somehow, I don't think I would enjoy them as much now.
Please keep the fun videos going. I love your takes on modern Hollywood and your TV guide videos, hoping you branch out to more fun ideas, perhaps directing what made a specific sitcom so good? Or era of TV?
I whinnied when you said "Frau Blucher".
P.S. The main difference I see between 70's TV and today, is that in the 70's they canceled bad programing.
I love how every ten pages is a cigarette ad. 🚬⚰️
These short lived shows have totally left my brain till you do this ……. thanks? 🤷🏻♂️
I do have fond memories of Welcome Back Kotter ...haha
That's all though, memories. I tried a rewatch not too long ago, and didn't make it through the pilot.
I enjoyed this video immensely, I hope you keep these going.
I remember watching all these shows and I have the theme for when things were rotten on loop now
Feel old for a second. I was six in 75 (birthday in June). My bedtime was 8pm. I remember some of these shows as I went to bed. I did own a Welcome Back Kotter lunch pail with thermos.
Thanks for filling in this missing time slot for me. I was new at a 'southerly sticks' military duty station, and it took me a while to get a tv and put an antenna up high enough. Might have to hunt up and watch about 1.2 episodes of that Barberry Coast show.
William Shatner was on TV that year? I didn't know that. I was rather busy that year working in cafeteria as a cashier, helping care for my family and meeting my future sweetie! I now look back on that year with sighs and bitter sweet smile of an old, old woman.
All I can say is that the turnover rates for Network Executives must have been pretty high in '76.