@@nickhill8612 The last clip is from a one-season show called "Lucas Tanner", starring David Hartman, shortly before he would become the first host of a new show called "Good Morning America" (yes, that GMA), where he stayed for over a decade.
How interesting was that? What a collection of important TV series. And Jose Feliciano singing "Chico and the Man" was fantastic. Oh for a time machine to take me back to October '74....
I watched LHP and the Waltons sometimes (if my parents were watching it on our one TV in the living room), and growing up I had plenty of "good times" in the 70s, but I wouldn't associate the good times with watching shows like those.
I like how they show the citizens of the barrio all the way through the theme song !! That is unique !! We never actually see Chico , Ed , or Brown's Garage !!
@@jptaylor he sang the theme song to Chico and the man. He also did a flamenco version of Light My Fire originally done by Jim Morrison and The Doors. He also sang the Christmas song Feliz Navidad.
The good thing about seeing this compilation is that it really takes you back, The bad thing is that you know TV will never be this good again, Not today.
Harry O was a great, great television series in its two years on the air. David Janssen could do wonders with a doleful and resigned body pose and Anthony Zerbe rightfully won an Emmy for his sarcastic, yet soulful Lt. Trench who was Orwell's champion/antagonist, depending on the latter's mood.
Harry O was originally filmed in San Diego. David Janssen even came to my hometown of Poway to film an episode. But the show moved to L.A. after the first season.
I could watch the opening to Police Woman for two hours, and it would still be more entertaining than most of the junk on TV nowadays. Love that theme song!
I remember most of these. But the one I'll never forget is The Night Stalker! Darren McGavin killed it in that role. I also quite liked Planet of the Apes, and Paper Moon. Good times.
Thank you so much for doing these! Such a lost piece of Americana. TV shows back then had such great theme songs. So much heart. Chico and The Man by Jose Feliciano, forget about it!
@davidharrison7014 Money. They don't have to hire somebody to make a theme song. They also can sell the time taken up by the theme song to advertisers.
I was fourteen then, first year of high school. It was a wonderful time to be coming of age. I have the best memories of my dad laughing at Chico and the Man, when every night T.V. was fun to watch.
This video makes me appreciate just how difficult it is to create a hit television show, because no matter how things "work" on a television sound stage, how much television network executives believe in their programming, the ultimate gauge of success comes from the television viewing public. And no one just never knows what they'll like/dislike with 100% accuracy.
1974 was a good year for TV.. Rhoda, Night Stalker, Friends and Lovers, Little House.., Petrocelli, Rockford Files (Greatest theme ever), Harry O, Police Woman, Paper Moon... that's my entire teenage years summed up.
The version of the Rockford Files theme that played here sounds a little different than I remember it, but anyway I didn't think it was anything special as a theme song. There are plenty of good ones out there.
I love watching your videos with my mom & dad. We watch alot of these shows on Cozi,MeTv, & Antenna Tv. I'm 12 & my mom & dad have me loving the classics like u show on your videos. Thanks for the cool channel.
What I remember about that season is that there were 2 Female Cops on TV, One Black , One White,(Did I leave out the fact that they were both smoking hot??) One was on NBC, The other on ABC.
Thanks so much for compiling this. I'm struck by the diversity of these series--not just ethnically, but also in terms of concept, genre, location, time period. So many of these shows I would love to watch now. Network TV seems to lost a lot of this willingness to take risks.
The Night Stalker was the one of the best shows ever made...it can never be redone because it occurred atthe right moment in time. Toobad it didn't last a few more seasons
Kolchak was an excellent character. He faced crazy, supernatural perils just to pursue the stories--- lots of crazy stuff happening in Chicago, and he'd track it down in his beat up Mustang. I mean, he essentially worked for the wire service and his stories ended up in a tabloid-- he wasn't getting rich or famous or loads of women. He wasn't even looked at as a hero -- most people thought he was nuts or a liar. He was just tenacious and pretty tough because it was his job. Great tone, great show.
That was because of Disputes about the scripts that Darren Mggavin and His wife Assistant Actress Katie Brown Mggavin were having with ABC at the Time they were co producer s of the show with ABC and writers for the show that's why the original only lasted one season .ps wish it would have lasted longer to a few years ago ABC tried to Do a reboot with the lead character being Kolchak Nephew and having team of reporter s working with him. It didn't last very long Either this time because of poor Rating s guess you can't Top and Original
That's my mama I watched that show every week I was 10 years old when these Shows first aired on TV Takes me back to my childhood The same with Rhoda Valerie Harper died this year what a shame
1974 TV season was probably the first one that I was really excited to see as a kid, for The Night Stalker and Planet of the Apes shows. And my first heart broken for a season too as neither was given a second season.
Man....wow! The memories, seemed like a lifetime ago. Life for me was innocent I guess ignorance wss bliss. To quote the phrase if I knew then what I know now....of course being a child in the single digits during the 1970s Saturday morning cartoons, Schwinn muscle bikes, no computers or cell phones. Playing outside then watching TV, we thought we had hit the big time when we got a 19 inch color Quasar wow! Going out to eat was going to Burger Chef, McDonald's, Burger King, and it happen 1 to 2 times a month and I got to drink a Coke a cola and was a real treat! I played with toys and used my imagination no battery where the toy can play by itself today. What a great time and then becoming a teen in the 1980s. The radio and music was the soundtrack of my life always growing up and memories being made. Sadly time marches on and the only constant that there is changes every day.......
I loved a lot of these shows, but the one that brings back the most memories is Little House on the Prairie. I’ll always remember sitting in the den, where the color tv was, with my whole family, watching the pilot of that show. I was not quite eight and had been reading the books, so the tv show was very much anticipated!
Every last episode of Kolchak the night stalker is here on UA-cam for free,I just finished binge watching both seasons . Of every show here my favorites were #1 Little house on the prairie and my wife's was #2 Police Woman .
Planet of the Apes had me on the edge of my seat as a kid. I also remember watching Little House on the Prairie and wondering why lol. I was a rugged sports-playing kid but the show's opening always made me feel good and little Laura Ingalls was so darn cute that I had to watch (Michael Landon was pretty good too :).
Movin On and the movie Duel was the reason for me driving a big rig for the past 20 years and at 55 yrs old I still drive a semi day cab every day .. and still a million mile driver since 2011.. was 9 in 1974.But who cares.
Hey that's cool. I remember no matter how many times we went outside to turn the antenna we couldn't pick up NBC. No BJ and the Bear or anything like that. The only way I could watch NBC was to stay at my friends house.
I care. I knew truckers in the 70s. My husband tried it for a year a few years back and I went from Texas to the far upper east . I hated the trip after a bit. Would have been better going up the west coast. What bugged me was not being able to stop for the tourist stuff and all those corn and soy fields. But as a teen , I really loved the ride I got home. I was all about GO back then. I f I could have I would have stayed on a truck. I got older and less adventurous. I bet you have lots of stories to tell ! I'm older than you but I would enjoy hearing them.
Great new shows for 1974 but there is one GLARING new show that was missing from this collection - Happy Days (1974-1984). Although it was a spin-off from "Love American Style", it had it's own spin-offs like "Laverne and Shirley", "Mork and Mindy", and "Joanie Loves Chachi". Thought it might be worth a mention. :o)
@Konga 5000 One Day at a Time isn't considered a mid season premiere, it was just a very late premiere in Dec. of '75, if it started in Jan. '76 that would be more of a mid season
Great upload. The better shows are loaded toward the end. I was 12 in 1974 - prime TV watching age, and I got halfway through the video remembering very few of these shows. I was thinking, Wow, 1974 was a really bad year for new shows, and then -- Rockford FIles! One of the best detective shows ever! and such distinctive theme music! After that, the hits kept coming. Turns. out 1974 wasn't so bad after all
I never realized they tried to make a series of Paper Moon. I wish I could see the episodes even though it didn't last long. Loved the opening of Police Woman. I never see reruns of that series on cable.
Uh, sorry, but 90% of this is horrible crap too. I've been watching these videos starting with 1967 thru this one, and most of it is horrible crap. Take this year, for instance. Besides Rockford, LHOP, and Night Stalker, what have you got? Crap, unless you're into bad writing and acting. 'Rhoda' wasn't just not funny, it was unfunny. Gary Collins and Diana Muldaur in 'Born Free'? Please. Can you stand a bad actor like Angie Dickinson as the star of a show? If so, more power to you I guess. I admit 'Paper Moon' looks pleasant enough (I never watched it because it was very short-lived). The rest of this crap never made it past Christmas.
@@hespheiden1 I’d take practically every so-called “horrible crap” show of THIS era over the crap that’s thrown in our faces today. Pretty much all there is today is “reality TV” and politically correct garbage that tries to ram liberalism down everyone’s throats.
Thanks for uploading. This video is like a time machine back to my childhood. I'd forgotten about That's My Mama - anyone else think that could have been the inspiration for Barbershop?
I remember watching That's My Mama, when new. It didn't stay on TV long. I never heard of The New Land or Sonny Bono's show.I truly loved Movin On, and had a crush on Claude Akins. I remember The Manhunter, it took place in the 1930s. I was 14 during 1974. Great shows, simpler times.
Remember Ted Lange from The Love Boat played Junior on That's My Mama? He had that huge "natural", talked jive, and he always threw out his catch phrase --- "OO-OO-WEE!" I liked that show as a kid. Really liked The Manhunter, too. '74 was a good year for tv.
Holy cow, Jodie Foster at 17:25 (Paper Moon)... Gary Busey and Mark Hamill at 18:25 (The Texas Wheelers)... and the "Born Free" theme song (19:05) really rings a bell!
I was 13 and just loved kolchack, went out and bought a camera just like he had. I remember being very dissapointed that planet of the apes was cancelled and paper moon. Born free wow that song was a huge huge hit on the radio, the show not so good. back then you really looked forward to the new fall shows. And when they got cancelled you just didn't know it until you turned the tv on the next year at the same channel same time and it was just no there. I remember doing that with the star trek animated series, where is it? there must be some mistake, maybe on next week, not. It only was for one year F troop was another one, where is it? This is friday at 8pm NBC etc where is it?
Wow, blast from the past. Was 10 just starting the 5th grade and just starting to notice "girls". Angie Dickinson - woa! Start of season 2 for Happy Days. So long ago.
LHOTP is my favorite show of all time. Not all good episodes, but some of them are absolutely great. Such an amazing cast and great mix of humor and drama. LHOTP is my favorite show of all time. Not all good episodes, but some of them are absolutely great. Such a talented cast, and comforting mix of humor and drama.
Watching the intro about the first show, they give the background of the barbershop, and introduce the various characters that come to the barbershop, and make it clear that the Barbershop is the center of the show. The barber pole is prominent in the title credits. I would have expected the show to be called "Oscar's Barber Shop", but nope it's called "That's my Mama" who was introduced at the last minute and nothing was said about.
I was 16 in 1974. I saw most of these shows on our 19 inch state-of-the-art black and white TV. No sissy remote control in those days. If you wanted to change the channel you had to actually get up off your ass and walk across the room. Sometimes my dad would drink too much beer and he'd be too tired to change the channel. I'd walk into the living room and he'd be sitting there bleary-eyed watching "Cecil And Beanie" or "Josie And The Pussycats."
remember tin foil around a coat hanger used as an antenna? T.v. trays holding 'Swanson's t.v. dinners? The barcode screen that appeared when all programming ended early in the moning? Saturday morning t.v.? Happy, simple times man. I think I could live without a lot of the tech today. Does 600 channels of endless programming really make us happier?
Great comment. I could easily live without today's tech toys. I don't even own a smart phone. The 60s and 70s were good times. Watching Saturday morning cartoons with a big bowl of cereal while the parents slept . School was fun and you didn't have to worry about mass shootings. In those days you could turn on the radio and hear great music that was timeless and meaningful. Not like the forgettable crap you hear today. I truly feel sorry for kids that are growing up these days and I'm grateful that I was alive to experience those happy and innocent times.
ldchappell1 omg that was my dad.my mom worked nights and I always would wake up to him in front of the TV with that ending song with the flag,passed out.
I liked That's My Mama. too. As I recall it was up against Happy Days in the time slot. All the kids in my grammar school class would ask the next day, "Did you see Happy Days last night?" Only one other kid watched "Mama" and we would talk about it.
Clinton Flynn - _That’s My Mama_ was also on ABC so it wasn’t on against _Happy Days_ . Thought it starred Mabel King but that must’ve been _What’s Happening_ ...
@@HailAnts that's my mama,and happy days were both abc-tv shows,and what's happening debut spring 1976,it must have been ''good times''[spinoff from maude] on cbs-tv which was in it's second season.
Starting with the 1974 model year, Rockford would get a new model-year Pontiac Firebird each year throughout the series. The Firebirds used had an identical "copper mist" color with the Esprit's exterior and interior. Although the Firebirds were badged as Esprits, they were actually the higher performance "Formula" model without the twin scoop hood. Garner needed Rockford's car to look like the lower tiered "Esprit" model, a car Rockford could afford, but have the performance necessary for the chase sequences in the show. To achieve this, the show featured Pontiac Firebird Formulas re-badged and re-hooded to look like the "Esprit" model. The "Formula" model was developed to provide the performance of the top level "Trans Am" in a less ostentatious form. Formulas didn't have the Shaker hood scoop, side vents, graphics or lettering used on the Trans Am, but they had the same higher horsepower engines and drive trains, larger front and rear anti-roll bars, stiffer springs and shocks, and a twin scoop hood. (Sharp-eyed car connoisseurs can spot the twin exhausts and rear anti-roll bar on the cars used on the show, options that were not part of the "Esprit" package, as well as spot the different model year cars used in various chase scenes that differed from those in an actual episode, especially in later seasons). Although the series ran until early 1980, no Firebird was used past the 1978 model year as Garner reportedly was displeased with the restyled front end of the 1979 and later Firebird models and as such did not wish them featured on the show (although an answering machine message in one episode in the final season indicated his car was a 1979 Firebird).
"Get Christie Love" started as a great 2 hour movie, Theresa Graves had charisma and a star quality and beauty unfortunately the actual series didn't live up to it.
That intro was hard as hell to follow, in terms of what she was doing in the action shots, because there were 3-4 of them on the screen at any given time! Also the letters in the title were all mashed together.
As a Black woman who follows TV and pop culture, why am I only hearing of this show now. Wondering if it's because she never had kids that her legacy seems stunted. This needs to change. More should be said and done about her contribution to television history. /d
I I R C Theresa Graves became a Jehovah Wittness during this time, and wanted her show to be less violent. She left acting, became a bus driver and died in a fire
True that she became religious during the first season. She refused to do the show as it was being written. The show was actually popular enough to keep going after the second season but it was canceled because Theresa Graves didn’t want to do the show any longer and she impeded the production with her complaints. She lost her good looks and ended up poor living with her mother in South Central LA. A space heater caught fire and she died from smoke inhalation in a few years back.
@@gwhit2824US did some research and it turns John Denver sang the New Land theme song, that could have been some kind of draw or was he not that famous yet?
@@gwhit2824US Likely because they were too similar. Two shows from the same time period....one had to go. Michael's had better ratings and so succeeded.
One thing all these shows had in common. They ALL had great music
Yes, very well-ochestrated, n thematic music, from an honest musician's point of view.
The Wrecking crew. You can check out documentary on NF about them. Very well done.
Especially The Rockford Files which went onto the Top 40 in 1975.
I loved growing up in the 70s. TV was awesome.
Do you know the name of the show in the last clip?
It reminds me of Young Sheldon.
@@nickhill8612 The last clip is from a one-season show called "Lucas Tanner", starring David Hartman, shortly before he would become the first host of a new show called "Good Morning America" (yes, that GMA), where he stayed for over a decade.
True, much better than the garbage on tv today; I only watch old TV shows now.
How interesting was that? What a collection of important TV series. And Jose Feliciano singing "Chico and the Man" was fantastic. Oh for a time machine to take me back to October '74....
I had forgotten how great the theme song for Chico and the Man was, and how beautifully it was sung by Jose Feliciano.
I grew up watching Little House on the Prairie. I'll never forget those good times.
I watched LHP and the Waltons sometimes (if my parents were watching it on our one TV in the living room), and growing up I had plenty of "good times" in the 70s, but I wouldn't associate the good times with watching shows like those.
Still makes me sad about Freddie Prinze. So talented! RIP
Too much too soon would hurt anyone.
He and Tony Orlando were best friends.
Good stuff.
That intro to Chico and the Man by Jose' Feliciano is great. Takes me way back.
A lot of the same team that created Welcome Back Kotter.
scdevon Feliciano is/was indeed, fantastic singing that title song. Great vocal.
I like how they show the citizens of the barrio all the way through the theme song !! That is unique !! We never actually see Chico , Ed , or Brown's Garage !!
The song was the best part of the show
@@jptaylor he sang the theme song to Chico and the man. He also did a flamenco version of Light My Fire originally done by Jim Morrison and The Doors. He also sang the Christmas song Feliz Navidad.
If you were not there its hard to grasp how good television was in the 70's. The depth, variety and quality of the programs was simply amazing.😎
*The TV themes were gold back then.*
Yes indeed
Rhoda was one of the smartest comedies of the 70s. It faded in quality a bit during the last season, but an absolute classic.
I don't remember the show Rhoda, but I certainly remember the character (played by Valerie Harper) from the MTM show.
@@not-so-smartaleck8987 She succumbed to brain cancer August 30 of this year.
Season 3 was the Best !
I had a crush on Valerie Harper back then.
I remember Lenny.
The good thing about seeing this compilation is that it really takes you back, The bad thing is that you know TV will never be this good again, Not today.
Watching these old TV trailers you realize how time has passed on and so have many of the actors.
Yep, and at 59 im right behind them. LOL
@freedomring4813 lol I was 17 in 1974 now I'm 67😮
This was a good season!
Rockford Files, Petrocelli, Rhoda, Little House on the Prairie. These were all excellent shows.
The Manhunter was very underrated, too. I liked that show as a kid.
The Rockford Files he just seemed so cool from my home state where I grew up I think I watched the entire season
Harry O was a great, great television series in its two years on the air. David Janssen could do wonders with a doleful and resigned body pose and Anthony Zerbe rightfully won an Emmy for his sarcastic, yet soulful Lt. Trench who was Orwell's champion/antagonist, depending on the latter's mood.
Always remember how Harry-O would have some incredibly melancholy endings.
Harry O was originally filmed in San Diego. David Janssen even came to my hometown of Poway to film an episode. But the show moved to L.A. after the first season.
Totally agree Loved that show and it should have run FAR longer then it did
Rockford was the best, I used to stay home every Friday and watch Rockford and Quincy
Antonio S best P.I. in the business.
Yeah. The Rockford Files is brilliantly paced, even by today's standards.
Antonio S I still like the Rockford Files.
Everybody could relate to the Rockford files
Loved Rockford Files
I could watch the opening to Police Woman for two hours, and it would still be more entertaining than most of the junk on TV nowadays. Love that theme song!
I feel the same way about the "Chico & The Man" theme song
Agreed!! I just listened to it several times in a row myself!
Rockford Files is good also. Back when t.v. shows intros had more substance then whole shows do today.
The Decade channel ran Police Woman for a weekend . Yeah I remember my friends and I all agreeing she was hot for a older woman . LOL
Angie Dickinson!!!!
Loved the Night Stalker! Scared me as a kid.....
Eric Hannes. i liked the trevi collection episode with the mannequins
I like how the theme takes an ominous turn.
Yep. Really 2 theme songs in one. I always wondered what was sneaking up and startled him at the end. Vampire? Mummy?
So do I. I used to watch with my mom. One of the coolest ever. serious warm-fuzzies on the night stalker.
Its on YT . One of my all time favorites
Aw, Chico and the Man. I wish that whole series was available on DVD.
Used, but it's available on Amazon.
SA DEE That DVD only has 6 episodes. The full series has never been released for some reason.
What a line up of shows. 1974 was a great year. I miss those days.
My grandparents loved Rockford Files. I was too young, eleven, to appreciate it.
I remember most of these. But the one I'll never forget is The Night Stalker! Darren McGavin killed it in that role.
I also quite liked Planet of the Apes, and Paper Moon.
Good times.
Thank you so much for doing these! Such a lost piece of Americana. TV shows back then had such great theme songs. So much heart. Chico and The Man by Jose Feliciano, forget about it!
Which begs the question: Will someone PLEASE tell me WHY TV programs today no longer have theme songs???
@davidharrison7014 Money. They don't have to hire somebody to make a theme song. They also can sell the time taken up by the theme song to advertisers.
@@davidharrison7014Takes away valuable broadcast time for pharmaceutical ads.
This brings back wonderful memories. Thank you💕
"You're under arrest, SUGAR"
10:40
The Rockford Files. There was never a better theme. Ever,
Even the phone messages were hilarious!
G.P. D. It’s cool. A perfect example of how great 1970s television was.
He had a touch-tone phone! I didn't know those were around in '74.
You want to see the Sweeny
It was great. I remember when it got play time on top 40 radio stations when the show first came out (WLS in Chicago for one).
@@not-so-smartaleck8987 they came around 1969, 1970. Mike Post did the theme song to The Rockford Files.
Rockford Files -- great opening credit sequence and theme...
Credit for the theme goes to Mike Post.
For me it was Sanford & Son , Chico and the Man, Rockford Files and The Night Stalker on Friday nights👍👍
Those where great shows
Sanford and son made me cry for laugh. The "ghetto" humor was hilarious even here in Italy.
Kolchak
The 70's was a great decade for TV watching :)
I was fourteen then, first year of high school. It was a wonderful time to be coming of age. I have the best memories of my dad laughing at Chico and the Man, when every night T.V. was fun to watch.
Personal favourite out of all shown is "The Night Stalker".
Imo it (along with Rhoda) is the one that holds up the best..still entertaining in 2019!
I still watch Kolchak regularly! I've even started on a digital art fan fiction.
I was 1 year old when these shows debuted. I miss the decades of the 70s and 80s.
Amazing flashbacks with this....Wow. Thank you even though it took awhile to make it to my feed!
I remember David Hartman. He was the host of Good Morning America for some years.
I remember MARY Hartman, too!!!
70s were awesome
Sure they were. 😅
This video makes me appreciate just how difficult it is to create a hit television show, because no matter how things "work" on a television sound stage, how much television network executives believe in their programming, the ultimate gauge of success comes from the television viewing public.
And no one just never knows what they'll like/dislike with 100% accuracy.
1974 was a good year for TV.. Rhoda, Night Stalker, Friends and Lovers, Little House.., Petrocelli, Rockford Files (Greatest theme ever), Harry O, Police Woman, Paper Moon... that's my entire teenage years summed up.
The version of the Rockford Files theme that played here sounds a little different than I remember it, but anyway I didn't think it was anything special as a theme song. There are plenty of good ones out there.
I love watching your videos with my mom & dad. We watch alot of these shows on Cozi,MeTv, & Antenna Tv.
I'm 12 & my mom & dad have me loving the classics like u show on your videos. Thanks for the cool channel.
Boy I remember The Night Stalker. The show had a very cool opening.
I like that Darren McGavin narrated as if a real reporter . I thought it brought charm to an otherwise over the top series . One of my very favorites
Did you ever see the 2 made-for-TV Kolchak movies that came out before the series? Those still hold up and are better then the series.
I never heard of this show, but at least I caught Darren McGavin in the 80s movie "A Christmas Story"
Loved it.
@@blacquesjacques7239 his car was a 1966 Ford Mustang convertible in primrose yellow and also wore a seer sucker suit.
Awsome collection ! Thanks for the memories .
I recognized Chico and the Man before they even put up Jack Albertson’s name.
Same, here! Funny how a single frame can bring back memories.
So did I, though I would always change the channel when it came on, so I never saw more than a few seconds of it.
@@pjimmbojimmbo1990 Me too - there was just something about it that was kinda downbeat and depressing.
@@tulinfirenze1990
I always called it what MAD Magazine did, Chico and the Ham
What I remember about that season is that there were 2 Female Cops on TV, One Black , One White,(Did I leave out the fact that they were both smoking hot??) One was on NBC, The other on ABC.
Thanks so much for compiling this. I'm struck by the diversity of these series--not just ethnically, but also in terms of concept, genre, location, time period. So many of these shows I would love to watch now. Network TV seems to lost a lot of this willingness to take risks.
The Night Stalker was the one of the best shows ever made...it can never be redone because it occurred atthe right moment in time. Toobad it didn't last a few more seasons
Kolchak was an excellent character. He faced crazy, supernatural perils just to pursue the stories--- lots of crazy stuff happening in Chicago, and he'd track it down in his beat up Mustang. I mean, he essentially worked for the wire service and his stories ended up in a tabloid-- he wasn't getting rich or famous or loads of women. He wasn't even looked at as a hero -- most people thought he was nuts or a liar. He was just tenacious and pretty tough because it was his job. Great tone, great show.
My dad used to tell me how great that show was. Years later I watched it and he was absolutely correct
That was because of Disputes about the scripts that Darren Mggavin and His wife Assistant Actress Katie Brown Mggavin were having with ABC at the Time they were co producer s of the show with ABC and writers for the show that's why the original only lasted one season .ps wish it would have lasted longer to a few years ago ABC tried to Do a reboot with the lead character being Kolchak Nephew and having team of reporter s working with him. It didn't last very long Either this time because of poor Rating s guess you can't Top and Original
Couldn't agree more. I will be 61 this year and even I remember watching the Night Stalker. Wish it was still on. Love from Marysville, California
I watched the first episode of the reboot. Best thing was they added the original kolchak in a office scene with a kinda cut and paste edit.
Memories are so bitter sweet. Life is so strange.
That's my mama
I watched that show every week
I was 10 years old when these
Shows first aired on TV
Takes me back to my childhood
The same with Rhoda Valerie Harper died this year what a shame
I used to keep all the TV Guides from '69-'80. Wish I still had them.
Did you at least sell them on eBay or something?
1974 TV season was probably the first one that I was really excited to see as a kid, for The Night Stalker and Planet of the Apes shows. And my first heart broken for a season too as neither was given a second season.
CArchivist ... And even though they only lasted a season, they were so well liked that there still shown in reruns. Still not a bad legacy.
I assume that Planet of the Apes was originally a movie that was made into the TV show?
Man....wow! The memories, seemed like a lifetime ago. Life for me was innocent I guess ignorance wss bliss. To quote the phrase if I knew then what I know now....of course being a child in the single digits during the 1970s Saturday morning cartoons, Schwinn muscle bikes, no computers or cell phones. Playing outside then watching TV, we thought we had hit the big time when we got a 19 inch color Quasar wow! Going out to eat was going to Burger Chef, McDonald's, Burger King, and it happen 1 to 2 times a month and I got to drink a Coke a cola and was a real treat! I played with toys and used my imagination no battery where the toy can play by itself today. What a great time and then becoming a teen in the 1980s. The radio and music was the soundtrack of my life always growing up and memories being made. Sadly time marches on and the only constant that there is changes every day.......
chico and the man -great theme song.
I loved a lot of these shows, but the one that brings back the most memories is Little House on the Prairie. I’ll always remember sitting in the den, where the color tv was, with my whole family, watching the pilot of that show. I was not quite eight and had been reading the books, so the tv show was very much anticipated!
But my all time favorite show at 9 was The Night Stalker !
Same here.
Loved that show.
James Garner handsome, down to earth, intelligent. ❤
Good role model for kids ... good natured guy .. liked him since first seen as Maverick.
My mom adored James Garner.
I agree with the person who said that the night stalker was the best tv show it also had the scariest music ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
oh my God I could watch these videos all night
Born in 63 and only seen episodes of three of these, luckily I played outside a lot as a kid
My cousin worked his first TV show doing set decoration on RHODA...others, eventually CHiP's, then HUNTER.
Every last episode of Kolchak the night stalker is here on UA-cam for free,I just finished binge watching both seasons .
Of every show here my favorites were #1 Little house on the prairie and my wife's was #2 Police Woman .
Kolchak only lasted one season, unfortunately, before collapsing in a cascade of inevitable unbelievability...
I think it was just called The Night Stalker, I didn't see the name "Kolchak" during the opening theme.
To this day I pick up a ring and put it on my finger. 😳
That’s a great collection of shows. Rockford Files, Harry O, Paper Moon, Night Stalker, Police Woman…
Feeling old, I was born during this exact fall.t.v. season... almost 47 years ago.
Planet of the Apes had me on the edge of my seat as a kid. I also remember watching Little House on the Prairie and wondering why lol. I was a rugged sports-playing kid but the show's opening always made me feel good and little Laura Ingalls was so darn cute that I had to watch (Michael Landon was pretty good too :).
I was very surprised that planet of the apes went from a movie to a TV show. The show only lasted one season. From Ms. Harper Stacey.
Movin On and the movie Duel was the reason for me driving a big rig for the past 20 years and at 55 yrs old I still drive a semi day cab every day .. and still a million mile driver since 2011.. was 9 in 1974.But who cares.
Hey that's cool.
I remember no matter how many times we went outside to turn the antenna we couldn't pick up NBC. No BJ and the Bear or anything like that.
The only way I could watch NBC was to stay at my friends house.
I care. I knew truckers in the 70s. My husband tried it for a year a few years back and I went from Texas to the far upper east . I hated the trip after a bit. Would have been better going up the west coast. What bugged me was not being able to stop for the tourist stuff and all those corn and soy fields. But as a teen , I really loved the ride I got home. I was all about GO back then. I f I could have I would have stayed on a truck. I got older and less adventurous. I bet you have lots of stories to tell ! I'm older than you but I would enjoy hearing them.
Great new shows for 1974 but there is one GLARING new show that was missing from this collection - Happy Days (1974-1984). Although it was a spin-off from "Love American Style", it had it's own spin-offs like "Laverne and Shirley", "Mork and Mindy", and "Joanie Loves Chachi". Thought it might be worth a mention. :o)
Happy Days premiered as a mid-season replacement in January '74.
Happy Day's was a spinoff of the movie American Graffiti.
@@Camman010 And the original Fonz? Harrison Ford!!!!
@@edwinthomasr The Fonz character was played by Paul Le Mat as John Milner.
@Konga 5000 One Day at a Time isn't considered a mid season premiere, it was just a very late premiere in Dec. of '75, if it started in Jan. '76 that would be more of a mid season
Great upload. The better shows are loaded toward the end. I was 12 in 1974 - prime TV watching age, and I got halfway through the video remembering very few of these shows. I was thinking, Wow, 1974 was a really bad year for new shows, and then -- Rockford FIles! One of the best detective shows ever! and such distinctive theme music! After that, the hits kept coming. Turns. out 1974 wasn't so bad after all
That's My Mama was a wonderful show. I had the privilege to have watched every episode of the show on dvd from Netflix. The humor still works today.
I never realized they tried to make a series of Paper Moon. I wish I could see the episodes even though it didn't last long. Loved the opening of Police Woman. I never see reruns of that series on cable.
This is when TV was GOOD, Today TV is all a bunch of HORSESHIT!!!!
Uh, sorry, but 90% of this is horrible crap too. I've been watching these videos starting with 1967 thru this one, and most of it is horrible crap. Take this year, for instance. Besides Rockford, LHOP, and Night Stalker, what have you got? Crap, unless you're into bad writing and acting. 'Rhoda' wasn't just not funny, it was unfunny. Gary Collins and Diana Muldaur in 'Born Free'? Please. Can you stand a bad actor like Angie Dickinson as the star of a show? If so, more power to you I guess. I admit 'Paper Moon' looks pleasant enough (I never watched it because it was very short-lived). The rest of this crap never made it past Christmas.
@@hespheiden1 I’d take practically every so-called “horrible crap” show of THIS era over the crap that’s thrown in our faces today. Pretty much all there is today is “reality TV” and politically correct garbage that tries to ram liberalism down everyone’s throats.
Fascinating! There are some names up there of some people who became really famous later on! Thanks for this collection!
TV shows back then were so much more fun to see then what is on today.
Good vid. Makes for good memories. Appreciate the upload.
Very fun. Love the Minimoog on the Rockford Files theme.
Great to see the old previews of the old shows
Being 20 in 74' I didn't watch much TV. Didn't own a TV then, saw a few shows at friends. I only remember a few of these. Thanks for sharing!
Chico and the Man was a great show with a great theme.
Thanks for uploading. This video is like a time machine back to my childhood. I'd forgotten about That's My Mama - anyone else think that could have been the inspiration for Barbershop?
Could be. 🙄
I remember watching That's My Mama, when new. It didn't stay on TV long. I never heard of The New Land or Sonny Bono's show.I truly loved Movin On, and had a crush on Claude Akins. I remember The Manhunter, it took place in the 1930s. I was 14 during 1974. Great shows, simpler times.
Remember Ted Lange from The Love Boat played Junior on That's My Mama? He had that huge "natural", talked jive, and he always threw out his catch phrase --- "OO-OO-WEE!" I liked that show as a kid. Really liked The Manhunter, too. '74 was a good year for tv.
I kind of remember watching Little House in the 80's...great show
Kurt Russell in a show I’ve never heard of ever!
"Yumpin', Yiminny !"
That show, ,"The New Land", was beaten in the ratings by the hit "All In The Family".
Loved chico and the man
Holy cow, Jodie Foster at 17:25 (Paper Moon)... Gary Busey and Mark Hamill at 18:25 (The Texas Wheelers)... and the "Born Free" theme song (19:05) really rings a bell!
Of these shows I think only Little House, Rockford and Paper Moon made it to Sweden. I remember my 9 year old self really enjoying Paper Moon.
I was 13 and just loved kolchack, went out and bought a camera just like he had. I remember being very dissapointed that planet of the apes was cancelled and paper moon. Born free wow that song was a huge huge hit on the radio, the show not so good. back then you really looked forward to the new fall shows. And when they got cancelled you just didn't know it until you turned the tv on the next year at the same channel same time and it was just no there. I remember doing that with the star trek animated series, where is it? there must be some mistake, maybe on next week, not. It only was for one year F troop was another one, where is it? This is friday at 8pm NBC etc where is it?
Loved all them shows back then nothing like this crap that’s on TV nowadays never even watch it. Thanks for showing the great memories.
We don't even have a cable or satellite service. We cast youtube to our TV.
Little House on the Prairie Intro, always gives me a nice feeling..
5argeTech /\ my granddaughter used to hum along whenever I started the first couple of notes. She would hum it right to the end.
Wow, blast from the past. Was 10 just starting the 5th grade and just starting to notice "girls". Angie Dickinson - woa! Start of season 2 for Happy Days. So long ago.
LHOTP is my favorite show of all time. Not all good episodes, but some of them are absolutely great. Such an amazing cast and great mix of humor and drama. LHOTP is my favorite show of all time. Not all good episodes, but some of them are absolutely great. Such a talented cast, and comforting mix of humor and drama.
Night stalker was a great show
LOVED NIGHT STALKER!!
I’m glad they had the original opening for The Night Stalker.
Recently watched the entire Rockford Files series. It held up well through its entire run.
James Garner was always getting beat up by bad guys on every episode. From Ms. Harper Stacey.
Watching the intro about the first show, they give the background of the barbershop, and introduce the various characters that come to the barbershop, and make it clear that the Barbershop is the center of the show. The barber pole is prominent in the title credits. I would have expected the show to be called "Oscar's Barber Shop", but nope it's called "That's my Mama" who was introduced at the last minute and nothing was said about.
I was 16 in 1974. I saw most of these shows on our 19 inch state-of-the-art black and white TV. No sissy remote control in those days. If you wanted to change the channel you had to actually get up off your ass and walk across the room. Sometimes my dad would drink too much beer and he'd be too tired to change the channel. I'd walk into the living room and he'd be sitting there bleary-eyed watching "Cecil And Beanie" or "Josie And The Pussycats."
remember tin foil around a coat hanger used as an antenna? T.v. trays holding 'Swanson's t.v. dinners? The barcode screen that appeared when all programming ended early in the moning? Saturday morning t.v.? Happy, simple times man. I think I could live without a lot of the tech today. Does 600 channels of endless programming really make us happier?
Great comment. I could easily live without today's tech toys. I don't even own a smart phone. The 60s and 70s were good times. Watching Saturday morning cartoons with a big bowl of cereal while the parents slept . School was fun and you didn't have to worry about mass shootings. In those days you could turn on the radio and hear great music that was timeless and meaningful. Not like the forgettable crap you hear today. I truly feel sorry for kids that are growing up these days and I'm grateful that I was alive to experience those happy and innocent times.
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ldchappell1 omg that was my dad.my mom worked nights and I always would wake up to him in front of the TV with that ending song with the flag,passed out.
Pfft , we had a remote . It worked by giving me a nudge with your foot then saying change the channel
Little House was one of the greatest series in human history!
Meh...
One of the three successful series with Michael Landon.
Greatest family TV show of all-time
@@kenhernandez8128 a year after Bonanza left the air.
Bob Silver My niece loved Little House on the Prairie.
Beautiful moving on
Stone cold Rockford!
"That's My Mama" and "Night Stalker" were pretty good shows.
I liked That's My Mama. too. As I recall it was up against Happy Days in the time slot. All the kids in my grammar school class would ask the next day, "Did you see Happy Days last night?" Only one other kid watched "Mama" and we would talk about it.
Clinton Flynn - _That’s My Mama_ was also on ABC so it wasn’t on against _Happy Days_ . Thought it starred Mabel King but that must’ve been _What’s Happening_ ...
@@HailAnts that's my mama,and happy days were both abc-tv shows,and what's happening debut spring 1976,it must have been ''good times''[spinoff from maude] on cbs-tv which was in it's second season.
Starting with the 1974 model year, Rockford would get a new model-year Pontiac Firebird each year throughout the series. The Firebirds used had an identical "copper mist" color with the Esprit's exterior and interior. Although the Firebirds were badged as Esprits, they were actually the higher performance "Formula" model without the twin scoop hood. Garner needed Rockford's car to look like the lower tiered "Esprit" model, a car Rockford could afford, but have the performance necessary for the chase sequences in the show. To achieve this, the show featured Pontiac Firebird Formulas re-badged and re-hooded to look like the "Esprit" model. The "Formula" model was developed to provide the performance of the top level "Trans Am" in a less ostentatious form. Formulas didn't have the Shaker hood scoop, side vents, graphics or lettering used on the Trans Am, but they had the same higher horsepower engines and drive trains, larger front and rear anti-roll bars, stiffer springs and shocks, and a twin scoop hood. (Sharp-eyed car connoisseurs can spot the twin exhausts and rear anti-roll bar on the cars used on the show, options that were not part of the "Esprit" package, as well as spot the different model year cars used in various chase scenes that differed from those in an actual episode, especially in later seasons). Although the series ran until early 1980, no Firebird was used past the 1978 model year as Garner reportedly was displeased with the restyled front end of the 1979 and later Firebird models and as such did not wish them featured on the show (although an answering machine message in one episode in the final season indicated his car was a 1979 Firebird).
"Get Christie Love" started as a great 2 hour movie, Theresa Graves had charisma and a star quality and beauty
unfortunately the actual series didn't live up to it.
That intro was hard as hell to follow, in terms of what she was doing in the action shots, because there were 3-4 of them on the screen at any given time! Also the letters in the title were all mashed together.
As a Black woman who follows TV and pop culture, why am I only hearing of this show now. Wondering if it's because she never had kids that her legacy seems stunted. This needs to change. More should be said and done about her contribution to television history. /d
I I R C Theresa Graves became a Jehovah Wittness during this time, and wanted her show to be less violent. She left acting, became a bus driver and died in a fire
@@danielreed3370wow I didn't know that
True that she became religious during the first season. She refused to do the show as it was being written. The show was actually popular enough to keep going after the second season but it was canceled because Theresa Graves didn’t want to do the show any longer and she impeded the production with her complaints. She lost her good looks and ended up poor living with her mother in South Central LA. A space heater caught fire and she died from smoke inhalation in a few years back.
Weird how Little House lasted so long, but nobody's ever heard of New Land
@@gwhit2824US did some research and it turns John Denver sang the New Land theme song, that could have been some kind of draw or was he not that famous yet?
Yes I thought the same thing
@@gwhit2824US Likely because they were too similar. Two shows from the same time period....one had to go. Michael's had better ratings and so succeeded.
Was that Kurt Russell in that show?
@@mrled8555 yes