What's Your Favourite 70's Show (Non-Comedy)?

[Videoskooter]

We already did the comedy question, but what was the "normal" 70's-series you liked/like best

My Ten:

1.Columbo



2.Kojak



3.Thunderbirds





4.Six Million Dollar Man



5.Charlie's Angels



6.Starsky And Hutch



7.The Incredible Hulk



8.Star Trek



9.The Magician



10.Space 1999

[Disco Funk]

Room 222, Mod Squad, Starsky & Hutch, Quincy, Incredible Hulk - off the top of my head. There are probably others, but I don't remember them.

I never heard of that show The Magician. I guess Bill Bixby did that before the Hulk. It looks like he has one of those killer spheres from the Phantasm flicks. :)

Disco Funk

[visuals]

I never heard of that show The Magician

Me either. Guess we will learn about more than music here. It must have been before Bill did hulk. I thought I pretty much followed him since his stint on 'My Favorite Martian" but "Magician" somehow slipped by me...

Soul Train (of course)
American Bandstand
Hawaii Five-O
Kojack
Starsky & Hutch
Mod Squad
The Rookies
Dukes Of Hazzard
Kung Fu
Mission Impossible
Night Gallery
Gunsmoke
Bonanza
The White Shadow
Incredible Hulk
Wonder Woman
S.W.A.T

[qdearl]

Ther's a boatload of shows I watched in the 70's lol (that's what kids do...) Many of the great ones already mentioned, so here's a few more to add.....

Baretta
S.E.A.R.C.H
Chiller Theatre
Dr. Who
Emergency
Wild Wild West
Hawaii 5 0
Mannix
The Rockford Files
Barnaby Jones
The Bionic Woman

"The Gerry Anderson collection", lol
U.F.O
The Thunderbirds
Space 1999
Captain Scarlet

....well that's all I can think of right now.....:-D

...And yes, The Magician was before the "David" Banner days - and it was a great show - he was a magician running around solving crimes, using his wits and the occasional "magical illusion"

[Videoskooter]

And yes, The Magician was before the "David" Banner days - and it was a great show - he was a magician running around solving crimes, using his wits and the occasional "magical illusion"

That's right, funny a lot of people don't remember that one coz' it was very popular here.

Here's a link with more details: http://www.crazyabouttv.com/magician.html

I forgot about "Baretta"!!!!! Too bad I never saw "Captain Scarlet". I had the toys though!

[buckaroo]

The Magician was shown here in The Yuk during the '70s. I also recall a series called Executive Suite, a sort of Dallas before it was invented.

[buckaroo]

Oops. I forgot to mention
Police Woman
Have Girls will Travel
Spiderman (with Nicholas Hammond)
Vegas (with Robert Urich & Bart Braverman - what names!)

What exactly do you mean by normal Videoskooter?

[Videoskooter]

"Have girls will travel" ????? Unknown to me :o

Buckaroo, "normal" means everything that's not a sitcom or comedy :-D

[buckaroo]

Hey Videoskooter, "Have girls will travel" was called "The American Girls" when shown in the US. It starred David Spielberg. Ring any bells now?

[Angelina77]

Considering I was an infant when some of these shows came out, I'll do my best... I love 70's shows!! Heres my favs...

The Waltons
Little House On The Prairie
How The West Was Won
Bonanza
All In The Family
M*A*S*H
Kung Fu
Gunsmoke
Happy Days - is that considerd comedy?
The Bionic Woman
One Day At A Time
and I'm not sure if it was 70's or not but I loved The Rifleman and Have Gun Will Travel..oh my gooses, lol...Palidin Palidin where do you roam...I'm almost certain those were 60's but hey I'm a westerns kinda girl..and my all time favorite....drumroll please.........RAWHIDE!!! hEEEEEEYAWWWW ROLLIN ROLLIN ROLLIN...

[QUINNY]

98% American shows. :-o :-o :-o

Didn't any other country make TV programmes?

[buckaroo]

Okay then Quinny, let's keep the yanks at bay for a while. What about these?

'70s Sitcoms:
The Fuzz
Mind Your Language
Love Thy Neighbour
The Fosters
Fenn Street Gang
The Cuckoo Waltz

'70s Cop Shows:
The Professionals
The Sweeney
Target
The Special Branch

'70s Game Shows:
3 2 1
Sale of the Century
Gambit
The Generation Game
Mr & Mrs

[Salsoul1975]

I was born in 1975, but grew up watching all the great '70s showsin the '80s. Here are some of my favorites from that era.

McMillan and Wife
The Brady Bunch
What's Happening!
One Day At A Time
Charlie's Angels
Fernwood 2-Night/America 2-Night
Little House On The Prairie

[Energyguy]

1) Six million Dollar man
2) Planet of the Apes (tv show)
3) Starsky & Hutch
4) Kojak
5) Bionic Woman
6) Armchair thriller
7) Columbo
8) Battle of the planets (very early manga)
9) H R Pufnstuf
10) Doctor Who (Jon Prtwee & Tom Baker)

[DISCODISK]

Mr & Mrs

BUCKAROO i see you had a mis-spent youth then

[Disco Funk]

I should add the Planet of The Apes series (I can't wait to get that big box they just released for the collective Apes films and TV series).

And Doctor Who! I'm a total Who-head. I had the pleasure of meeting Peter Davison years ago in person, and was totally starstruck, even though I had met many other celebrities before him. Damn that guy was tall (6 feet?), but he was really cool. My favorite Doctors were Pertwee and T Baker as well. I prefer the early Baker stuff, with Sara Jane Smith.

Disco Funk

[Energyguy]

I should add the Planet of The Apes series (I can't wait to get that big box they just released for the collective Apes films and TV series).

And Doctor Who! I'm a total Who-head. I had the pleasure of meeting Peter Davison years ago in person, and was totally starstruck, even though I had met many other celebrities before him. Damn that guy was tall (6 feet?), but he was really cool. My favorite Doctors were Pertwee and T Baker as well. I prefer the early Baker stuff, with Sara Jane Smith.

Disco Funk

Me too.. that big box set looks sooo cool ! just bought the TV series music on CD - Great music by Lalo schifrin !
Sarah Jane Smith was my fave assistant in the Doctor Who series

[Videoskooter]

I should add the Planet of The Apes series (I can't wait to get that big box they just released for the collective Apes films and TV series).

DF, I just bought it! (here it's only the movies) BIG FUN ;) And I also got the 4 boxes of Starsky and Hutch, so it's the 70's revisited these days

Now, Dr. Who did make it to our screens (even the newest series is broadcasted) but I remember it wasn't that popular, my friends all preferred the American SF, like Star Trek and what was that series again with a submarine, called "Seaview"??????

[DISCODISK]

Now, Dr. Who did make it to our screens (even the newest series is broadcasted) but I remember it wasn't that popular,

:o :o
for anyone who hasnt seen the new dr who you have to check it out [sci -fi channel u.s]
this is the best thing on t.v in short money has at last been spent, so now we are actually seeing dr who as we should have been seeing it for the last 40 years its funny slightly camp and to me gets more like the avengers every week,it swept the boards at the awards,how can the americans compete with this:p
life on mars is great too and the americans are making their own version now that could be good [present day cop on a life support wakes up in manchester 1973,great stories, meets marc bolan in a night club and says hey marc carefull with your driving ,especially in minis ]

[visuals]

Battle of the planets (very early manga)

The clips below were from the later "manga" series correct? The Space Giants with Goldar & Rodak? I remember watching this a lot on TBS in the 70's/80's. Whatever happened?

[DiscoMan]

I never watched TeeVee during the '70s. I was working 9-10 hours a day and attending night college 2-3 nights a week. So... I didn't have much free time and when faced with making the choice of watching TeeVee or boozing, smoking weed, getting laid and Disco. I always chose boozing, smoking weed, getting laid and Disco... 8)

[buckaroo]

BUCKAROO i see you had a mis-spent youth then

:-P
Heh heh!! Guess so.

[Boodikka]

In no particular order:

1) Caribe - Stacy Keach cop show which Miami Vice ripped off a few years later.
2) The Great American Dream Machine - PBS anthology
3) Charlie's Angels - for the superior writing and the mise-en-scene :-o
4) The Who, What Or Where Game - a rather difficult NBC game show hosted by Art James that ran after Jeopardy in the NYC area.
5)Petrocelli
6) Kolchak The Night Stalker - Fred "Prink Rady and Jeff" Silverman didn't like horror shows, so he scheduled KTNS against Sanford and Son to kill it.
7)SWAT
8)Dallas
9)A Man Called Sloane - Ji-Tu Cumbaka's character was rather interesting, but never developed.
10) Barnaby Jones - for the "Barnaby Does The Hustle" episode alone....:-o

[Videoskooter]

I just watched Starsky and Hutch's first episode of the fourth season and it was all Disco! Most of the scenes were in a club, called "Fever" (probably in a studio) and the killer's apartment had a dancefloor and silver glitter-curtains :-)

Songs that I heard: "Macho Man", "Disco Inferno", "Love To Love You Baby" and others. Not bad at all :-)

[Boodikka]

I just watched Starsky and Hutch's first episode of the fourth season and it was all Disco! Most of the scenes were in a club, called "Fever" (probably in a studio) and the killer's apartment had a dancefloor and silver glitter-curtains :-)

Songs that I heard: "Macho Man", "Disco Inferno", "Love To Love You Baby" and others. Not bad at all :-)

Bit of trivia about that episode: the d.j. who jumps out from behind the booth and started dancing while everyone watched (yeah, like THAT happened all the time :razz: ) was Adolfo "Shabba Doo" Quinones, the ex-Locker and star of BREAKIN'.