I liked the Jeffersons , but the earlier episodes in the 70s, but by 1983, it was getting a little dated, and George and Florence had really mellowed out by this point. Not nearly as much fun to watch. I always liked the older episodes of the Jeffersons with Mother Jefferson, who had sadly passed away by this point. lol....I think the Jeffersons were on for 10 years, from 1975 to 1985.
@@laustcawz2089was just thinking the same thing. Don't get me wrong, I did watch it, but it was just so mediocre. "I'm Larry, this is my brother Darryl, and this is my other brother Darryl" and that finale were the only truly good things worthy of that music.
I hated that the whole show was a dream, it was a twist, but they brought you to a world, time, and gave you characters to enjoy then at the end they take all of that away and make the whole adventure fake
@@michaelf1900 Well, it was a good way to end the series, but you are right. It probably did get some people pissed off, especially fans of Larry and his two brothers.
Newhart made me want to go to college in New England!! I loved the pace, humor and feel of that show so much as a teenager (living in Queens, NYC) that when it was time to select colleges, I only focused on New Hampshire, Vermont and Maine!! I went to Bates College in Lewiston, Maine, and yes, I loved Maine!
Watching these show intros from various years gives me such flashes of old memories. "This is the year my dad died, this is the year I got married..." Funny, raised on TV, these old shows are entangled in old memories.
Just saw the Tim Conway show on here. It had me thinking of a news story a few days ago saying Tim can no longer make his own decisions regarding his health. I'm sorry to hear this. It really sucks getting old.
I was waiting for Bob Newhart to say "meow" at the end of the intro...but then I remembered that was when they showed the MTM logo...which may have come at the end?
Theme told you the back story, indicated mood of the show, definitely top three most memorable of its era. Everyone still knows most of the lyrics without any prompt.
Some of these shows I couldn't watch on a school night because bedtime was at 9:00. Maybe in the summer but, during the fall, winter, and spring it was get your but in bed before you get this belt.
Knotts Landing & Falcon Crest were deffinelty on CBS that spring. Its funny to see the replacements for Bo & Luke Duke, they were only one that one season..
1:25 Goodnight Beantown 2:22 Newhart 3:06 The Jeffersons 4:13 Alice 5:06 Trapper John, M.D. 6:26 Archie Bunker's Place 7:10 Small & Frye 7:54 Foot in the Door 8:02 M*A*S*H 8:50 One Day at a Time 9:39 Cagney & Lacey 10:59 Ace Crawford... Private Eye 11:54 Gun Shy 12:48 "I was a Mail Order Bride" TV Movie 13:24 Zorro and Son 14:14 Square Pegs 15:39 "Svengali" TV Movie 16:15 Magnum P.I. 17:13 Simon & Simon 18:15 Tucker's Witch 19:16 The Dukes of Hazzard 20:16 Dallas 21:30 Mississippi 22:33 Wizards and Warriors 24:04 "Trackdown: Finding the Goodbar Killer" TV Movie
Started to hit play and then realized I definitely needed to look for the comment someone surely would have put here giving the timestamps. Thank you for being that person!
I'm surely not the only one in these comments who can't watch 17:15 without seeing that comedy special that show the effort to work on a shot-for-shot remake of that iconic intro.
Valerie Bertinelli's TV movies for the network were ALWAYS POPULAR with viewers. In fact, they tried to convince Hallmark Cards to cast her in the lead role in their "HALLMARK HALL OF FAME" production of "Love Is Never Silent" in 1985. Hallmark insisted Mare Winningham was a better choice for the role. CBS insisted, "Valerie is our most popular TV movie attraction!". Hallmark insisted, "it's OUR program, and OUR choice! If you don't like it, we'll take our business elsewhere!". They did......to NBC, who aired "Love Is Never Silent" in December 1985 to critical acclaim-- and Mare won an Emmy for her performance. Because of CBS' stubbornness, the "HALLMARK HALL OF FAME" did not return to their network until 1991.
They could afford to be stubborn- and they had better ideas about what projects to sponsor. For example, CBS tried to tout them on a 1982 exploitation movie, "The Royal Romance of Charles and Diana", insisting it'd be a great "HALL OF FAME" presentation. Hallmark thought otherwise, and passed on it. CBS eventually scheduled "Royal Romance" on one of their movie nights......and it didn't do that well in the ratings.
@@fromthesidelinesand the decision not to make a movie about about how romantic Charles and Diana were just keeps looking like and better and better decision in light of what we all know now.
"Cagney & Lacey" was like a serious version of "Lavern & Shirley". Instead of work at a beer company/department store, they were Police Officers. Also, Al Waxman was "The King of Kingsington".
That is the first time I've ever heard anybody try to compare the incredibly shallow show Laverne & Shirley to anything as nuanced as Cagney & Lacey. With any luck, it'll be the last time as well. *And yes, I was a fan of _both_ shows.
I was in junior high that year, my friends and I all loved the show Square Pegs... my little brother’s favorite show was Dukes of Hazzard, and my mom’s was Dallas...that Jodie Foster movie would probably be considered very inappropriate today
My parents, who were divorced, did love Dallas. I didn't like Square Pegs myself, even being in jhs at the time myself. And RIP to Anne Beatts, its creator.
There were a lot of tv series I liked during this time; Wizards & Warriors was kinda fun. I liked how the scene would go to a still piece of artwork before each break, much like The Wild Wild West.
I think I must not ever have seen the intro or the show back in the day, because up till now I'm fairly certain I thought it had to do with that video game Wizards of Wor. (or whatever weird way it was spelled)
I never liked the show Alice much after Flo left. They spun her off into her own TV show that failed after a year. I never did understand why they never brought her back, because Alice was on for five years after Flo left. Kiss my Grits....She used to also like to say, When donkeys fly.....lol......
My folks used to live across the road from the Southfork Ranch, you could clearly see the place from their back yard. It's smaller than it looks but it was an impressive ranch. That place would absolutely STACK with traffic, license plates from all over the country.
Even now it can be quite the draw. A few years ago I was part of a group that hosted lawyers and other folks from the justice system in countries all over the world, and when it came time to have the social gathering that wraps up the entire experience, it was held at Southfork. Still remember the guy from South Korea showing off his ability to dance to the song Despacito. 🕺🏻
Had Wizards & Warriors been made in the 90's for syndication, it might have lasted longer. As for Mississippi, try to find anyone who remembers that show. 📺
Schneider and Wopat returned to The Dukes of Hazzard, Season 5 Episode 19. Boy was I happy to see Bo and Luke back! CBS was contemplating cancelling the show in late '82/early '83.
I hate to be that spoiler guy but...Newhart no question is the best ending to a show of all time. Ask anyone old enough to know!!!! I couldn't believe it!!!!
WOW, that is a trip down memory lane. I was 8 years old in 1983. I have seen a lot of these shows in reruns recently. But some, I haven't thought about in years. lol...I had forgotten about the year on Dukes of Hazzard when they had the fake Duke boys, Vance and Coy, but I remembered the Dukes of Hazzard fondly, but only with Luke and Bo. lol...Younger people would probably say that these shows are cheesy, but compared to what is on the Big Three Networks today, these shows look a helluva allot more interesting and thought out, than the reality show crap that is on today.
He wasn't like the movie version either. The reason they said it was based off of the movie character, was because the producers of the tv show tried to sue them for royalties.
I don't know where you keep finding half of these, but bravo, sir--or ma'am as the case may be--you do a fine job of it. I only wish you could find more and faster; I actually remember some of these!
If I had all the intros ever made within easy grasp, I'd be churning these things out a few times per week. But it still surprises me how many I've been able to dig up off the net so far, mostly through UA-cam itself.
Do you ever hit the Goodwill/Salvation Army/Samaritan Second hand stores to buy old VHS both commercial and home recorded to find the oddities that aren't digitized and on youtube yet? A lot of risk for what can't be unseen in people's private recordings of tv and home movies but there rarest accidental recording while channel surfing may reward with the ultimate in lost footage. Much like current trend of how people buy camera's for the film to develop, to see what was shot some years ago. there doesn't seem to be movement yet to salvage old vhs and beta tapes. Great job @RwDt09 for the numerous collections of TV shows and commercials .
Despite a few clinkers ("Zorro and Son," "The Mississippi," "Small and Frye," "Gun Shy," and "Ace Crawford, Private Eye" among them) CBS was kicking major ass back then! Sadly, this would be the final seasons for both "Archie Bunker's Place" and especially "M*A*S*H" (its series finale, "Goodbye, Farewell, and Amen," attracted more than 125 million viewers!).
I think you're right, TheJer1963! "Goodbye, Farewell, and Amen" remains the highest rated series finale for any television program--sitcom or drama--to this very day!
Our high school did a production of _M*A*S*H_ (the stage adaptation of the movie) that same spring. We had, astonishing as it is to recall, exactly *_zero adult supervision_* and thus after rehearsing the first three months 2 hours a day, 4 days a week, we spent the final month rehearsing "6 to ?" hours ... and believe me, that "?" more than once was midnight. ON A SCHOOL NIGHT. On the bright side, you only had to show up for rehearsals of scenes your character was in. Unfortunately for me, I had the largest female role in the show, Bridget McCarthy, and as a result in those four months of rehearsals, there were precisely two days I didn't have to show up. All the same, we were so proud of ourselves and so excited at our connection to this historic event. I was still friends with some of the people I was in that show with, and one of them is currently a Hollywood actor along with being one of the first successful UA-camrs.
@@markcup5436 Yep...I just brought season 2 of Alice on Amazon hoping to get the theme song from season 1 and it was slightly changed ugh...I want my money back lol ...
Bobby Brady Robert Paige didn’t state that Hallmark weren’t making movies, he stated that this was before the Hallmark *Channel*. Read the comment again.
Opportunity missed on Trapper John not having a Hawkeye appearance. I do believe he mentioned him in an episode. ( Yes I know it was a different actor ) also in 1983, some of these shows that were popular were leftovers from the 70's and were on its last legs aka Jump the Shark moments.
It's kind of a long shot, but do you have promos of any NON-prime time CBS shows from that same spring? (I'm looking for any segments of the interview show NIGHTWATCH, especially from that spring.)
Charles Siebert, as Dr. Stanley Riverside Jr. The Frank Burns, of "Trapper John M.D." Unlike Frank, he mellowed out, after falling in love and marrying his Dentist. They later had a son, Stanley Riverside III.
MASH sucked too after Trapper John left - the show deliberately faded out the humorous content in favor of political garbage. Glad it finally ended in 1983 for something else to take the time slot.
3 Movies of the Week? and I know Magnum and Simon & Simon did a Cross over (or they both did Cross overs with Murder she wrote) But I always assumed that Magnum spent the Bulk of it's run as the 10/9c 'Anchor' show to close out the night
"Magnum, P.I." aired on Thursdays at 8 pm during its second to sixth seasons and was a heavy hitter on CBS' network lineup until "The Cosby Show" decimated it, thus forcing CBS to move "Magnum, P.I." to Wednesdays at 9 pm beginning in season seven.
I enthusiastically concur! The additions of Bo and Luke's "carbon copy" cousins Coy and Vance (portrayed, respectively, by Byron Cherry and the late Christopher Mayer) during "Dukes'" fifth season in the autumn of '82 was--and still is--one of television's greatest f**k-ups; even "Dukes" creator and executive producer Gy Waldron has expressed dismay at the additions of both Coy and Vance...luckily, Wopat and Schneider worked out their differences with Warner Bros. and were speeding through Hazzard County once again in the General Lee near the end of the season (Wopat and Schneider missed 17 episodes because of the dispute).
Did CBS actually show episodes with those actors as the Duke boys? I was part of a randon group of people chosen off the streets of NYC to watch and comment on a new show. Saw Tom Wopat and John Schneider with that same cast.
Byron "Coy" Cherry and the late Christopher "Vance" Mayer did indeed replace John "Bo" Schneider and Tom "Luke" Wopat at the start of "The Dukes Of Hazzard's" fifth season in the autumn of 1982, due to both Schneider and Wopat having disputes with Warner Bros. Television over the terms of their contracts (as well as demanding royalties for the hundreds of licensed products and merchandise flowing the market at that time); in all, Cherry and Mayer appeared in seventeen episodes before the dispute was settled and Wopat and Schneider subsequently returned to Hazzard County the following spring, thus relieving Cherry and Mayer of their duties as well as giving them their pink slips.
I watched one episode of Small & Frye. It ended with Frye in a bowl of soup. Even then, I knew it was bad. I didn't realize it was Darrin McGavin though.
Human behaviour is fascinating, no matter the decade we seem to be drawn to the same type of shows. The cop shows, hospital shows, and lawyer shows. Always.🙄
13:25- "ZORRO AND SON" was another six episode misfire from Disney. Guy Williams, the original "Zorro" for the studio, was asked to reprise his role. He politely declined.......and he was right in his decision. What can you say about a series where John Moschitta Jr,. the fastest talker in the world (featured in Federal Express commercials at the time), was cast in a few episodes as "Corporal Cassette"?
I remember, at least in Canada, that "Wonderful World of Disney" would pair it with a short-lived sitcom about Herbie the Love Bug. Got the feeling even then that it was a cancelled show they were trying to get a bit of extended life out of.
Ironically, when Disney revived the original Zorro for its own Disney Channel in 1990-1993, they hired Henry Darrow (Old Zorro in Zorro in Son) to play Zorro's father for the last two seasons. I think Guy Williams had died by the time they started the new Zorro. Efrem Zimbalist Jr. was the father for the first season, replaced by Darrow for the last two.
As a Gen-Xer, this shows brings back fond memories of my teens. Thank you 😊
I graduated high school in 1983... "Square Pegs" knocked our socks off... we loved it
I love the television shows during this time. I had a lot of favorites. Thank you for sharing the memories of the past.❤️
1983 had some really great shows. Oh how I miss the 80s, life was so much fun.
I liked the Jeffersons , but the earlier episodes in the 70s, but by 1983, it was getting a little dated, and George and Florence had really mellowed out by this point. Not nearly as much fun to watch. I always liked the older episodes of the Jeffersons with Mother Jefferson, who had sadly passed away by this point. lol....I think the Jeffersons were on for 10 years, from 1975 to 1985.
Mancini’s “Newhart” theme is such a gorgeous piece of music
Such a great theme
deserved a much better show.
@@laustcawz2089 Nooooo, man
Not as well as his " baby elephant walk" that is classical opera at it's finest .
@@laustcawz2089was just thinking the same thing. Don't get me wrong, I did watch it, but it was just so mediocre. "I'm Larry, this is my brother Darryl, and this is my other brother Darryl" and that finale were the only truly good things worthy of that music.
I still watch Newhart on Antenna TV on digital..love that channel
I hated that the whole show was a dream, it was a twist, but they brought you to a world, time, and gave you characters to enjoy then at the end they take all of that away and make the whole adventure fake
@@michaelf1900 Well, it was a good way to end the series, but you are right. It probably did get some people pissed off, especially fans of Larry and his two brothers.
Valeria Bertinelli. My first TV crush.
Newhart made me want to go to college in New England!! I loved the pace, humor and feel of that show so much as a teenager (living in Queens, NYC) that when it was time to select colleges, I only focused on New Hampshire, Vermont and Maine!! I went to Bates College in Lewiston, Maine, and yes, I loved Maine!
New England winters is why we moved to Sun Diego. Brrr.
@@stevend.bennett427 Sans seasons Diego.
I hope that works out for you as good as it did for them .
Bob Newhart was in an episode of combat i think it was in the 1960's .
Great story
I always loved the intro to the movies. They stopped showing all those films due to cable.
This takes me back to my childhood where my folks would watch these shows and I would watch it with them. Good times!
Trapper John M.D. omg the memories as an 80s kid 😢
I had SUCH a crush on Gonzo and I was only 14. XD
I miss the 80s and 90s
the 80s before the fox network yes
I absolutely love your videos! They are so fun to watch. Such great memories.
Watching these show intros from various years gives me such flashes of old memories. "This is the year my dad died, this is the year I got married..." Funny, raised on TV, these old shows are entangled in old memories.
Flo: Mel!
Mel: What!?
Flo: Kiss my grits!!
😅😅😎
@Hidden Manna STOW IT BLONDIE!
Just saw the Tim Conway show on here. It had me thinking of a news story a few days ago saying Tim can no longer make his own decisions regarding his health. I'm sorry to hear this. It really sucks getting old.
We named our guinea pig "Crapper John." Lol
I was waiting for Bob Newhart to say "meow" at the end of the intro...but then I remembered that was when they showed the MTM logo...which may have come at the end?
Yes, at the end.
I’m amazed I got any homework done during this time.
Homework?
@@simpleman5688 That thing your folks kept hollering about
The flasher in the Cagney and Lacey opening probably had nothing to show. And RIP to John Karlen.
I love the Theme from The Jeffersons!
The theme song alone earned this show 3 extra seasons.
Theme told you the back story, indicated mood of the show, definitely top three most memorable of its era. Everyone still knows most of the lyrics without any prompt.
Some of these shows I couldn't watch on a school night because bedtime was at 9:00. Maybe in the summer but, during the fall, winter, and spring it was get your but in bed before you get this belt.
of course in those days you could get a "deluxe apartment in the sky" for about $230/month
19:23 "Hey! What!?! That's not Bo and Luke!" I remember seeing that for the first time as a 13 year old and hating it.
Ugh me too!! It makes me feel better that those two guys didn't do anything memorable after that!
I love Cagney and Lacey's "Meah" attitude toward the flasher!
"You call THAT a lining!?"😄😄😄
I remember that introduction now to the Movies that would air on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Saturday.
Newhart was great especially the final episode, didn't see that coming!
Watched all the episodes of Dallas that year via VCR. Was a Sophomore in Texas. Friday night lights, baby!
Who shot jr
Knotts Landing & Falcon Crest were deffinelty on CBS that spring.
Its funny to see the replacements for Bo & Luke Duke, they were only one that one season..
some good shows back then, Newhart, alice, jeffersons mash, 83 was good for tv
Totally rocked out to the One Day at a Time theme!!
Press 8:50. It will play This is it . This is life the one you get so go on and have a ball .
Wow I was 5 years old and still remember that intro music but not what happened in the shows.
I was born in 1983 great year
I graduated in 1983 great year indeed.
1:25 Goodnight Beantown
2:22 Newhart
3:06 The Jeffersons
4:13 Alice
5:06 Trapper John, M.D.
6:26 Archie Bunker's Place
7:10 Small & Frye
7:54 Foot in the Door
8:02 M*A*S*H
8:50 One Day at a Time
9:39 Cagney & Lacey
10:59 Ace Crawford... Private Eye
11:54 Gun Shy
12:48 "I was a Mail Order Bride" TV Movie
13:24 Zorro and Son
14:14 Square Pegs
15:39 "Svengali" TV Movie
16:15 Magnum P.I.
17:13 Simon & Simon
18:15 Tucker's Witch
19:16 The Dukes of Hazzard
20:16 Dallas
21:30 Mississippi
22:33 Wizards and Warriors
24:04 "Trackdown: Finding the Goodbar Killer" TV Movie
Started to hit play and then realized I definitely needed to look for the comment someone surely would have put here giving the timestamps. Thank you for being that person!
never see that coming
I'm surely not the only one in these comments who can't watch 17:15 without seeing that comedy special that show the effort to work on a shot-for-shot remake of that iconic intro.
Valerie Bertinelli's TV movies for the network were ALWAYS POPULAR with viewers. In fact, they tried to convince Hallmark Cards to cast her in the lead role in their "HALLMARK HALL OF FAME" production of "Love Is Never Silent" in 1985. Hallmark insisted Mare Winningham was a better choice for the role. CBS insisted, "Valerie is our most popular TV movie attraction!". Hallmark insisted, "it's OUR program, and OUR choice! If you don't like it, we'll take our business elsewhere!". They did......to NBC, who aired "Love Is Never Silent" in December 1985 to critical acclaim-- and Mare won an Emmy for her performance. Because of CBS' stubbornness, the "HALLMARK HALL OF FAME" did not return to their network until 1991.
I remember the Mail order bride movie. It was really big when it aired. I had such a crush on Valerie back then.
You can make your own cards yourself and make them pop up when you open them . And save money to buy lots of presents instead .
They could afford to be stubborn- and they had better ideas about what projects to sponsor. For example, CBS tried to tout them on a 1982 exploitation movie, "The Royal Romance of Charles and Diana", insisting it'd be a great "HALL OF FAME" presentation. Hallmark thought otherwise, and passed on it. CBS eventually scheduled "Royal Romance" on one of their movie nights......and it didn't do that well in the ratings.
@@fromthesidelinesand the decision not to make a movie about about how romantic Charles and Diana were just keeps looking like and better and better decision in light of what we all know now.
"Cagney & Lacey" was like a serious version of "Lavern & Shirley". Instead of work at a beer company/department store, they were Police Officers. Also, Al Waxman was "The King of Kingsington".
Laverne and Shirley were also on joni loves chachi and the fonze.
That is the first time I've ever heard anybody try to compare the incredibly shallow show Laverne & Shirley to anything as nuanced as Cagney & Lacey. With any luck, it'll be the last time as well.
*And yes, I was a fan of _both_ shows.
I was in junior high that year, my friends and I all loved the show Square Pegs... my little brother’s favorite show was Dukes of Hazzard, and my mom’s was Dallas...that Jodie Foster movie would probably be considered very inappropriate today
My parents, who were divorced, did love Dallas. I didn't like Square Pegs myself, even being in jhs at the time myself. And RIP to Anne Beatts, its creator.
There were a lot of tv series I liked during this time; Wizards & Warriors was kinda fun. I liked how the scene would go to a still piece of artwork before each break, much like The Wild Wild West.
I think I must not ever have seen the intro or the show back in the day, because up till now I'm fairly certain I thought it had to do with that video game Wizards of Wor. (or whatever weird way it was spelled)
I very fondly watching m.a.s.h as a child. Alice was a favorite as well.
Catherine Hicks' character on "Tucker's Witch" could have easily been a relation to Samantha on "Bewitched"!
I don't remember that show.
The Magnum P.I. theme became a Top 20 hit.
Goodnight Beantown... looked like CBS was trying to do a show based on a real life boston news couple (at the time), Natalie Jacobson and Chet Curtis.
1:25 Bill Bixby was gone from us 29 years this past Monday. Hard to believe. An amazing person! Excellent post.
I love the classics 🎉🎥
I really miss those "Night at the movies" nights.
Haha...Especially badly edited dialogue. Yeah, you slug in a ditch. Edited dialogue 😀😀😀
Yeah, that was like an event with the way you have the introduction there. It's like going to a screening.
The thing was that they were mostly showing the network produced movies instead of films from theaters that were on during the 1970's.
"Well kiss my grits" Alice was funny.
I never liked the show Alice much after Flo left. They spun her off into her own TV show that failed after a year. I never did understand why they never brought her back, because Alice was on for five years after Flo left. Kiss my Grits....She used to also like to say, When donkeys fly.....lol......
My folks used to live across the road from the Southfork Ranch, you could clearly see the place from their back yard. It's smaller than it looks but it was an impressive ranch. That place would absolutely STACK with traffic, license plates from all over the country.
Even now it can be quite the draw. A few years ago I was part of a group that hosted lawyers and other folks from the justice system in countries all over the world, and when it came time to have the social gathering that wraps up the entire experience, it was held at Southfork. Still remember the guy from South Korea showing off his ability to dance to the song Despacito. 🕺🏻
Always thought the Trapper John and Cagney & Lacey themes were great. Love that sax intro & outro on the latter.
Yup, both themes started playing and I instantly remembered them… after not hearing them for 35 years.
Newhart b4 they brought in Julia Duffy, then the show really cranked up. Still watch Alice on antenae tv, great cast, great show
I remember a lot of TV movies based on Romance Novels by Danielle Steele & Judith Krantz! Especially I'll take Manhattan starring Valerie Bertinelli!
Had Wizards & Warriors been made in the 90's for syndication, it might have lasted longer. As for Mississippi, try to find anyone who remembers that show. 📺
That's no Bo and Luke! Show wasn't same without originals. This and A team I would rush home to watch! Good ole days!
They came back the next season
@@nicktaylor2657no they came back in the same season only towards the end. Probably about 5 episodes only.
Schneider and Wopat returned to The Dukes of Hazzard, Season 5 Episode 19. Boy was I happy to see Bo and Luke back! CBS was contemplating cancelling the show in late '82/early '83.
I need a time machine,the best days are behind us.
Square Pegs is one of those shows that felt like only I remembered . No one ever remembered it when I brought up years later .
I hate to be that spoiler guy but...Newhart no question is the best ending to a show of all time. Ask anyone old enough to know!!!! I couldn't believe it!!!!
Agreed!!!
WOW, that is a trip down memory lane. I was 8 years old in 1983. I have seen a lot of these shows in reruns recently. But some, I haven't thought about in years. lol...I had forgotten about the year on Dukes of Hazzard when they had the fake Duke boys, Vance and Coy, but I remembered the Dukes of Hazzard fondly, but only with Luke and Bo. lol...Younger people would probably say that these shows are cheesy, but compared to what is on the Big Three Networks today, these shows look a helluva allot more interesting and thought out, than the reality show crap that is on today.
Thank you again Rw for the memorize....im still a fan : )
Trapper John MD was a great show, but the character was absolutely nothing like Trapper John from MASH.
It was based on the movie character, not the TV show.
He wasn't like the movie version either. The reason they said it was based off of the movie character, was because the producers of the tv show tried to sue them for royalties.
As Trapp got older, he mellowed out.
I forgot what a cutie Gregory Harrison was!
The villain from Karate Kid was on Cagney and Lacey. Ha ha!!!!!!
Back when 📺 was 📺
No
I always LOVED the theme to Square Pegs.
I don't know where you keep finding half of these, but bravo, sir--or ma'am as the case may be--you do a fine job of it. I only wish you could find more and faster; I actually remember some of these!
If I had all the intros ever made within easy grasp, I'd be churning these things out a few times per week. But it still surprises me how many I've been able to dig up off the net so far, mostly through UA-cam itself.
Do you ever hit the Goodwill/Salvation Army/Samaritan Second hand stores to buy old VHS both commercial and home recorded to find the oddities that aren't digitized and on youtube yet? A lot of risk for what can't be unseen in people's private recordings of tv and home movies but there rarest accidental recording while channel surfing may reward with the ultimate in lost footage. Much like current trend of how people buy camera's for the film to develop, to see what was shot some years ago. there doesn't seem to be movement yet to salvage old vhs and beta tapes.
Great job @RwDt09 for the numerous collections of TV shows and commercials .
Despite a few clinkers ("Zorro and Son," "The Mississippi," "Small and Frye," "Gun Shy," and "Ace Crawford, Private Eye" among them) CBS was kicking major ass back then! Sadly, this would be the final seasons for both "Archie Bunker's Place" and especially "M*A*S*H" (its series finale, "Goodbye, Farewell, and Amen," attracted more than 125 million viewers!).
That M*A*S*H finale was huge, I think it is still a record for a non sporting event.
I think you're right, TheJer1963! "Goodbye, Farewell, and Amen" remains the highest rated series finale for any television program--sitcom or drama--to this very day!
I still wach MASH whenever it is on.
Our high school did a production of _M*A*S*H_ (the stage adaptation of the movie) that same spring. We had, astonishing as it is to recall, exactly *_zero adult supervision_* and thus after rehearsing the first three months 2 hours a day, 4 days a week, we spent the final month rehearsing "6 to ?" hours ... and believe me, that "?" more than once was midnight. ON A SCHOOL NIGHT. On the bright side, you only had to show up for rehearsals of scenes your character was in. Unfortunately for me, I had the largest female role in the show, Bridget McCarthy, and as a result in those four months of rehearsals, there were precisely two days I didn't have to show up. All the same, we were so proud of ourselves and so excited at our connection to this historic event. I was still friends with some of the people I was in that show with, and one of them is currently a Hollywood actor along with being one of the first successful UA-camrs.
Interesting story! Thanks for commenting, @@tejaswoman!
Mississippi looked like the prequel to Matlock🤣
When I was younger I always thought MASH was from the 70s. Like 1973ish lol. I never new I was 3 when it came out
It debuted in the fall of '72. It was in its final season in the spring of 1983.
"Gun Shy", a spin off of Disney's remake, of "The Apple Dumpling Gang". Ed Begley Jr. and Arte Johnson played Amos and Theodore, in the pilot.
"Alice" sucked after Flo left.
Flo and Mel carried the show.
Remember Flo got her own show?
I’d still choose the bad seasons of Alice over what’s on network tv now (streaming services have some great content though).
I swear I was just about to write the same thing!!!! Also, the first theme song was the best!
@@markcup5436 Yep...I just brought season 2 of Alice on Amazon hoping to get the theme song from season 1 and it was slightly changed ugh...I want my money back lol ...
I swear I saw every episode of Simon & Simon. And Square Pegs
Always thought *Magnum* had a great theme even though I never was a fan of the show. Same with *Dallas* .
Ah, Network TV movies. Before direct-to-video and The Hallmark Channel were things.
Bobby Brady Robert Paige didn’t state that Hallmark weren’t making movies, he stated that this was before the Hallmark *Channel*.
Read the comment again.
Robert Paige was an actor who played the hero in on of my favorite horror movies, 1943's "Son of Dracula", starring Lon Chaney Jr. as Count Alucard!
@Bobby Brady Hi Bobby....how's Cindy?
@@mikejohnson515
Haha
good ol days
The yr i was born!
Opportunity missed on Trapper John not having a Hawkeye appearance. I do believe he mentioned him in an episode. ( Yes I know it was a different actor ) also in 1983, some of these shows that were popular were leftovers from the 70's and were on its last legs aka Jump the Shark moments.
I think I would like to rewatch Dallas from the begining ....
That's a good idea.
I tried doing Dynasty, but it’s pretty rough early on.
It’s weird that some of the shows look like they’re from the early 70’s
Some were actually 70's sitcoms.
MASH
The Jeffersons
Alice
Archie Bunker's Place
It's kind of a long shot, but do you have promos of any NON-prime time CBS shows from that same spring? (I'm looking for any segments of the interview show NIGHTWATCH, especially from that spring.)
Opening of Jeffersons is from the fall of 1983 on.
The music was awesome 👏
Charles Siebert, as Dr. Stanley Riverside Jr. The Frank Burns, of "Trapper John M.D." Unlike Frank, he mellowed out, after falling in love and marrying his Dentist. They later had a son, Stanley Riverside III.
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Alice was my favorite!! Why didn't they ever make a DVD box set??
@Mz Lissa They are out on DVD! complete series check amazon
Trapper John was pretty good as I remember it , but Lou Grant was the better of the two comedy characters as drama shows ...
When came on growing up as a kid M,A,S,H it was time to go to sleep hands down
MASH sucked too after Trapper John left - the show deliberately faded out the humorous content in favor of political garbage. Glad it finally ended in 1983 for something else to take the time slot.
As a kid I thought it was.."we're moving on up to the side," for some reason.
So John Walton left the mountain and became an attorney in mississippi?
12:25 is pure gold
3 Movies of the Week?
and I know Magnum and Simon & Simon did a Cross over (or they both did Cross overs with Murder she wrote)
But I always assumed that Magnum spent the Bulk of it's run as the 10/9c 'Anchor' show to close out the night
"Magnum, P.I." aired on Thursdays at 8 pm during its second to sixth seasons and was a heavy hitter on CBS' network lineup until "The Cosby Show" decimated it, thus forcing CBS to move "Magnum, P.I." to Wednesdays at 9 pm beginning in season seven.
CATHERINE BACH.
Yepyepyepyepyepyep
Worth fighting for. 😇🔥
Ahhh...Bach!(lol).
-Daisy. What up?!
No Bo and Luke for the Dukes of Hazzard? I got to have my pic taken with Larry Hagman. I was to young and wasnt star struck.
Mary Frann ❤️
Christopher Norris-female name?
14:16 will always remain to this day my favorite one Season, one hit wonder show
I do remember Square Pegs!
Yeah, and it sucked.
Dukes of Hazzard really went downhill after they took out John Schneider and Tom Wopat.
No one remembers them. Poor guys.
Wopat and Schneider walked off the show in a contract dispute with Warner Bros. Television and returned during the latter part of the '82-83 season.
Indeed!
Those bootleg dukes, Coy and Vance.....
I enthusiastically concur! The additions of Bo and Luke's "carbon copy" cousins Coy and Vance (portrayed, respectively, by Byron Cherry and the late Christopher Mayer) during "Dukes'" fifth season in the autumn of '82 was--and still is--one of television's greatest f**k-ups; even "Dukes" creator and executive producer Gy Waldron has expressed dismay at the additions of both Coy and Vance...luckily, Wopat and Schneider worked out their differences with Warner Bros. and were speeding through Hazzard County once again in the General Lee near the end of the season (Wopat and Schneider missed 17 episodes because of the dispute).
Did CBS actually show episodes with those actors as the Duke boys? I was part of a randon group of people chosen off the streets of NYC to watch and comment on a new show. Saw Tom Wopat and John Schneider with that same cast.
Byron "Coy" Cherry and the late Christopher "Vance" Mayer did indeed replace John "Bo" Schneider and Tom "Luke" Wopat at the start of "The Dukes Of Hazzard's" fifth season in the autumn of 1982, due to both Schneider and Wopat having disputes with Warner Bros. Television over the terms of their contracts (as well as demanding royalties for the hundreds of licensed products and merchandise flowing the market at that time); in all, Cherry and Mayer appeared in seventeen episodes before the dispute was settled and Wopat and Schneider subsequently returned to Hazzard County the following spring, thus relieving Cherry and Mayer of their duties as well as giving them their pink slips.
I watched one episode of Small & Frye. It ended with Frye in a bowl of soup. Even then, I knew it was bad. I didn't realize it was Darrin McGavin though.
Another of CBS' "six episode wonders" that spring- and one of the last they ordered from Walt Disney Productions.
Jofer Jeff mcgavin original kolchack & Murphy Browns dad good actor
Loved me some Night Stalker back then.
What made them think ARCHIE BUNKER’S PLACE, which was already a dead show walking by that point, would be a good lead-in for this?
And later that year came A Christmas Story!
Human behaviour is fascinating, no matter the decade we seem to be drawn to the same type of shows. The cop shows, hospital shows, and lawyer shows. Always.🙄
13:25- "ZORRO AND SON" was another six episode misfire from Disney. Guy Williams, the original "Zorro" for the studio, was asked to reprise his role. He politely declined.......and he was right in his decision. What can you say about a series where John Moschitta Jr,. the fastest talker in the world (featured in Federal Express commercials at the time), was cast in a few episodes as "Corporal Cassette"?
I remember, at least in Canada, that "Wonderful World of Disney" would pair it with a short-lived sitcom about Herbie the Love Bug. Got the feeling even then that it was a cancelled show they were trying to get a bit of extended life out of.
Five episodes were produced for CBS in 1982.
Ironically, when Disney revived the original Zorro for its own Disney Channel in 1990-1993, they hired Henry Darrow (Old Zorro in Zorro in Son) to play Zorro's father for the last two seasons. I think Guy Williams had died by the time they started the new Zorro. Efrem Zimbalist Jr. was the father for the first season, replaced by Darrow for the last two.
When I watch these kinds of videos now I usually look for your comments. Much appreciated!
Peter Harris I thought that version was on The Family Channel.