What is the quintessential 70s TV show?

[Gothic Sponge]

A show that screams 70s.

My picks

Comedy: The Brady Bunch.

Drama: CHiPs.

[Deja Q]

1. My picks:

Sitcom: All in the Family
Game show: Match Game PM
Drama: Hawaii 5-O
Sci-fi: Buck Rogers (forgive me. There's little 70s sci-fi tv that's any good, but BR is campy fun.)

[salin]

20. of kitchy sci-fi... does anyone remember "Space 1999"

(wasn't that the name?) The couple from Mission Impossible go Galactic..

[buddhamama]

63. i loved Space1999

the Lady (don't remember her name) with the "cat eyes" who could change into animals and such was the coolest.

[NightTrain]

2. No doubt in my mind: "All in the Family."

Particularly the early seasons, when the show embroiled itself in such topical issues as Vietnam, Watergate, and Women's Lib.

[Left Is Write]

10. Absolutely agree.

[MissMillie]

54. Gets my vote too

I also think Mary Tyler Moore was good.

[JimmyJazz]

3. That's a tough one, especially in the comedy genre.

I pick:

Comedy: Three's Company

Drama: Family

Variety: Sonny & Cher

[undergroundrailroad]

4. Good Times, Sanford and Son, and The Jeffersons. (n/t)

[CornField]

17. Good Times & All in the Family.

[ChoralScholar]

47. Good Times did have one of the best theme songs

Good Times.
Any time you meet a payment.
Good Times.
Any time you need a friend.
Good Times.
Any time you're out from under.

Not getting hassled, not getting hustled.
Keepin' your head above water,
Making a wave when you can.

Temporary lay offs.
Good Times.
Easy credit rip offs.
Good Times.
Scratchin' and surviving.
Good Times.
Hangin in a chow line
Good Times.
Ain't we lucky we got 'em
Good Times.

[undergroundrailroad]

51. Always loved that song. Also The Jeffersons;

The Jeffersons Theme Song Lyrics
Movin' On Up

By: Jeff Barry and Ja'net Dubois

Well we're movin on up,
To the east side.
To a deluxe apartment in the sky.
Movin on up,
To the east side.
We finally got a piece of the pie.


Fish don't fry in the kitchen;
Beans don't burn on the grill.
Took a whole lotta tryin',
Just to get up that hill.
Now we're up in the big leagues,
Gettin' our turn at bat.
As long as we live, it's you and me baby,
There ain't nothin wrong with that.


Well we're movin on up,
To the east side.
To a deluxe apartment in the sky.
Movin on up,
To the east side.
We finally got a piece of the pie.

[flamingyouth]

5. I would pick Starsky & Hutch for drama

Or comedy. Whatever. ;)

[Gothic Sponge]

16. Hehe! Good point.

[JitterbugPerfume]

6. Was All In The Family in the 70s?

if so

That was IT

[SmileyBoy]

19. Yep. quintissential early-70's.

[SmileyBoy]

7. Love Boat.

[tridim]

8. Good Times

All In The Family
The Six Million Dollar Man
The Land Of The Lost
Roots

[BrainRants]

52. Land of the Lost?

I still have nightmares about Sleestacks!

[AngryAmish]

9. Cannon

[Left Is Write]

11. I'm not sure I can agree with The Brady Bunch.

I don't think ANYONE in real life in the 70s behaved or talked like them.

It's great kitsch, though.

[Gothic Sponge]

14. I agree, but the fashions were definitely 70s.

[Left Is Write]

15. I used to wear those cutesy short dresses

when I was Cindy's age.

And I do believe my father might have had a pair of white shoes...

[Gothic Sponge]

21. No orange kitchen?

Hehe! We had an olive green refrigerator.

[Left Is Write]

24. Thankfully, no.

My earliest kitchen memory is of cool turquoise colors, then later Mom changed it to yellow.

[proud2BlibKansan]

42. I still have an avocado green fridge

it's in my garage. My parents bought it new in about 1965. And it still runs. I think it's a GE.

[WMliberal]

12. mary tyler moore

or M*A*S*H

[ridgerunner]

13. Charlie's Angels

[salin]

18. 70s detectives ...

Shaft
Columbo
McMillan and Wife
Starsky and Hutch
Kojak
etc...

[flamingyouth]

34. Baretta!

I loved that show.

[azoth]

40. omg I was so bummed with all that William Blake crap. Baretta rocked.

[baldguy]

22. Happy Days

[tk2kewl]

23. Barney Miller

but my favorite is All in the Family

[gristy]

25. The whole saturday night lineup

8:00 All In The Family
9:00 Mary Tyler Moore
9:30 Bob Newhart

I'm missing one, I think. What was on at 8:30?

[Gothic Sponge]

27. The Carol Burnett Show?

[yardwork]

39. I think Carol Burnett was on at 10:00 pm

The show that filled that 8:30 slot changed, but two I remember are Paul Sand's Friends and Lovers and Bridget Loves Bernie.

[proud2BlibKansan]

41. The Jeffersons

or Maude?

[bettyellen]

44. where did the carol burnett show fit it there?

[Tabasco_Dave]

45. MASH n/t

[mac56]

55. "Bridget Loves Bernie"

nm

[ScreamingMeemie]

26. Three's Company....

:hi:

[nine23]

28. "That 70's Show"

All joking aside, "All in the Family" by a mile. Late 70's, "Three's Company" would be a contender, but I wouldn'd know. By the end of the decade, TV absolutely sucked and I was on to punk rock/reggae/new wave and university by then. TV therefore did not exist at the time.

[bobbobbins]

29. That 70s show

[realisticphish]

62. drool

i am in love with laura prepon; she is the perfect girl for me


:hippie: The Incorrigible Democrat

[The Sushi Bandit]

65. I met her at a shoot for That 70's Show

what a red-head!

[miss_kitty]

30. I didn't watch much TV in the 70s

M.A.S.H.? Comedy and Drama

Hill Street Blues? That was 70s, eh?

[Gothic Sponge]

33. Hill Street Blues was 1981-1987

:)

[miss_kitty]

38. thanks I guess that makes it a quintessential 80s show

I have little memory left. :)

[Flammable Materials]

31. "Wait Till Your Father Gets Home"

Gotta be the quint.

[x-g.o.p.er]

32. The Original "Saturday Night Live"

[SCRUBDASHRUB]

35. H.R. Puf 'N' Stuff (and all the other Sid and Marty Krofft Saturday

morning shows).

Electra Woman and Dyna Girl (Deidra Hall was Electra Woman)
Sigmond and the Sea Monsters

[salin]

36. The Hudson Brothers!

[proud2BlibKansan]

43. Schoolhouse Rock!!

[212demop]

37. All In The Family,Mary Tyler Moore,Barney Miller, Good Times

Oh I could go on all nick at night...

[mitchum]

46. "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman"

[njdemocrat106]

48. No one mentioned the Odd Couple yet?

"When you assume, you make an ASS out of U and ME!"

[BrainRants]

56. When you assume

you make an ass out of Uma Thurman.
(Credit to Al Franken for updating Felix's observation)

[Eugene]

49. Kojak and definitely CHiPs

along with a zillion other cop and detective shows.
Some awful memories of Supertrain also come to mind.

[azoth]

50. The Rockford Files.

The beginning of that show was my answering machine's recording for many years. :)

[mac56]

53. Comedy: The Mary Tyler Moore Show

Action: Charlie's Angels
Drama: Rich Man, Poor Man

And don't forget Roots!

[Debbi801]

57. Eight is Enough and Starsky and Hutch.

[Patsy Stone]

58. The ABC Afterschool Specials

Loved also: James at 15...

I have to go with the Brady Bunch for most visible, yet, I think All in the Family was more important.

And then there's Welcome Back Kotter.

[underpants]

59. Real People and That's Incredible

Easy

[arwalden]

60. Mary Tyler Moore

[barb162]

61. Mary Tyler Moore

[RUDUing2]

64. Welcome Back Kotter and drama: Emergency

[Redleg]

66. That 70s Show.

LOL