Your Top Three Seventies TV series or TV Movies, Then & Now

POSTED BY: chrisisall
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CHRISISALL

Saturday, February 19, 2011 11:34 PM (P)

Obviously, this thread isn't for kids under thirty...

Back in the day, for me, it was all about:

Battlestar Galactica
The Six Million Dollar Man
&
The Incredible Hulk

Today, my favourites are:

Battlestar Galactica
Planet Earth (TV movie w/John Saxon)
&
Planet Of The Apes

What were/are yours?

The laughing Chrisisall

SHEPHERD_RICK

Sunday, February 20, 2011 4:38 AM (P)

TV shows:
70s:
Space 1999
Land of the Lost
3-2-1 Contact
(in early 1980s, was Voyagers!)

Now:
My life has changed since those days, since becoming a Shepherd in 2004. Prior to that time:
Sports Night
NCIS
House

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Movies:
70s:
Bad News Bears
Rocky
Grease

Now (prior to becoming a Shepherd):
The Mosquito Coast
The Postman
By The Sword

Since becoming a Shepherd, I find it difficult to watch a lot of television, even interviews. I was able to watch the recent Browncoats Redemption video, and that's been it as far as Firefly-related content goes for some time. You'll note also my posts do not include the sexual innuendos and comments often made by others. It is because I gave my life to Jesus Christ that I actively refrain from such things. In addition, I haven't seen any modern movies since 2004, except as they relate to unavoidable family imposed viewings (such as watching something at my mother's), nor do I watch TV any more.

I have recently begun fencing lessons though, and have taken a digital copy of the Eric Roberts and F. Murray Abraham movie, called By The Sword, and edited out all of the bad parts (cursing, suggestive scenes, comments) so I can watch it for its fencing and overall storyline.

LWAVES

Sunday, February 20, 2011 11:55 AM (P)

Back then it would probably have been:

The Incredible Hulk
Battlestar Galactica
Space: 1999

but there are so many fondly remembered shows like Alias Smith And Jones, Six Million Dollar Man, Rockford Files and many others that it's hard to pick.

These days BSG holds up very well, The Incredible Hulk is okay but the episodes are very repetitive. The Six Million Dollar Man looks bad and I haven't seen to many other 70's shows to really comment on them. I tend to go more for 80's shows.

And now for a related thread hijack. I'm looking for the name of this TV movie/pilot that was from the 70's or very early 80's.
It featured a man who survived a lightning strike and could then power light bulbs by holding them or use a typewriter by pointing his fingers at it. Basically he could discharge electricity but he only had so much before needing to recharge. He was given a watch to show how much charge he had. During a fight at the end he lands in some metal pipes whilst 'electrified' and you think he's dead, before he obviously comes back and gets the bad guys.

Any ideas?

"The greatest invention ever is not the wheel. It's the second wheel." - Rich Hall

PENGUIN

Sunday, February 20, 2011 4:43 PM (P)

I watched very little TV in the 70's. There wasn't much time between sports and Theater in high school and Theater and girls in college!

King of the Mythical Land that is Iowa

CHRISISALL

Sunday, February 20, 2011 5:48 PM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by lwaves:
there are so many fondly remembered shows like Alias Smith And Jones, Six Million Dollar Man, Rockford Files and many others that it's hard to pick.

Remember Barbary Coast?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbary_Coast_%28TV_series%29

Quote:

It featured a man who survived a lightning strike and could then power light bulbs by holding them or use a typewriter by pointing his fingers at it. Basically he could discharge electricity but he only had so much before needing to recharge. He was given a watch to show how much charge he had. During a fight at the end he lands in some metal pipes whilst 'electrified' and you think he's dead, before he obviously comes back and gets the bad guys.

Any ideas?

Drawin' a blank here...

The laughing Chrisisall

OPPYH

Sunday, February 20, 2011 10:07 PM (P)

ALRIGHT!!
CAn't pick just three so I'll pick my favorite tv line ups:
-Planet of the Apes/Kolchack the Night Stalker

-Incredible Hulk/The Dukes of Hazard.

-Grizzly Adams/The Muppet Show

Not to say I didn't love Battlestar Galactica, Kung-Fu, Buck Rogers(didn't that start in 79'?), Three's Company, Happy Days, Laverne and Shirley, Six Million Dollar Man, The Love Boat, Fantasy Island, Space 1999(nearly as good as Trek) Starsky and Hutch, Charlie's Angels, M*A*S*H, and Star Trek reruns because I loved everyone of those shows and still do.

Currently:
____________________

-The Bionic Woman-Freaking love this show(season 2 comes out in May YES~!!!!).

-Planet of the Apes-Never gets old. Still crushed this didn't last longer.

-Six Million Dollar Man-Just cycling through the complete series(at a snails pace. I want to make it last). Just watched an episode the other night with William Shatner as a fellow Astronaut of Steve Austin. Great episode.
Although I like Bionic Woman a wee bit better, I'm digging this set. To have both being released on dvd is a dream come true.

Looking Forward to:
___________________________

-Logan's Run

-rest of Bionic Woman

Good thread Chrisisall.

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70's TV FOREVER

CHRISISALL

Sunday, February 20, 2011 10:27 PM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by OPPYH:

-Planet of the Apes-Never gets old. Still crushed this didn't last longer.

Yeah, Sonisall & I *just* plowed through it for the second time. Simply excellent.

Quote:

-Six Million Dollar Man-Just cycling through the complete series(at a snails pace. I want to make it last). Just watched an episode the other night with William Shatner as a fellow Astronaut of Steve Austin. Great episode.

My faves were the one with John Saxon & the Seven Million Dollar Man one ("It's WILD, Steve!").

The laughing Chrisisall

ECGORDON

Monday, February 21, 2011 12:35 AM (P)

Like Penguin, I didn't watch a lot of TV in the 70s. I was in the Army 71-72, then from 74-90 I worked at two different jobs with mostly evening hours. I was one of the first people I was aware of with a VCR around mid-78, so I was able to tape some shows for the last of the decade.

I don't know if I could narrow it down to three, certainly not put those three in any particular order, so I'll just list the shows I remember more than others, although I will put them in roughly chronological order.

Night Gallery
MASH
Bob Newhart
Kung Fu
The Rockford Files
Barney Miller
Soap
Taxi

I would have said Mission: Impossible, but the best years of that show were in the late 60s.

JONGSSTRAW

Monday, February 21, 2011 2:01 PM (P)

Favorite 1970's TV Movies :

1) The Love War
2) Night Slaves
3) The People

Favorite 1970's TV Shows :

1) Battlestar Galactica
2) Kung Fu
3) MASH

LWAVES

Monday, February 21, 2011 9:56 PM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by chrisisall:
Remember Barbary Coast?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbary_Coast_%28TV_series%29

The laughing Chrisisall

I know it by name only, I never actually watched it though.

I just recently got hold of Sapphire And Steel. It was one of the first supernatural themed shows I watched and it had a major influence on me. Looking forward to re-watching it. It was a great show back then with the emphasis on story. Hope they hold up although I'm sure the visuals will look very dated.

I was going to add MASH to my list as well but I didn't see it until reruns in the 80's so I figured it didn't count.

"The greatest invention ever is not the wheel. It's the second wheel." - Rich Hall

CHRISISALL

Monday, February 21, 2011 10:07 PM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by Jongsstraw:

1) The Love War

LOL, an old buddy of mine just sent me a DVD of that he got from Europe. Wow, great back in the day, but pure fromage today! It DID inspire my first Super 8 SF film, though...

The laughing Chrisisall

CHRISISALL

Monday, February 21, 2011 10:11 PM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by lwaves:

I know it by name only, I never actually watched it though.

It was Wild Wild West meets Mission Impossible sprinkled with Shat-'tude.
If it comes on DVD I'll KILL WHOEVER I HAVE TO TO GET IT!!!

Okay.
It was just fun is all.

The laughing Chrisisall

SGTLOBO

Tuesday, February 22, 2011 12:13 AM (P)

Tough call:

TV:
Kung Fu
Space 1999
Kolchak The Night Stalker

I don't remember any TV Movies that made an impression but on the big screen:
1. Star Wars
2. Patton
3. Alien

JONGSSTRAW

Tuesday, February 22, 2011 4:23 PM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by chrisisall:
Quote:
Originally posted by Jongsstraw:

1) The Love War
LOL, an old buddy of mine just sent me a DVD of that he got from Europe. Wow, great back in the day, but pure fromage today! It DID inspire my first Super 8 SF film, though...

The laughing Chrisisall

Probably would seem like cheese nowadays, but back then it was riveting. I've never seen it again in 40 years. One of your picks, Planet Earth, was the sequel to another great Roddenberry TV movie called Genesis II. Remember that one? Alex Cord played the first Dylan Hunt, a 20th century scientist who awakens from accidental hibernation hundreds of years later.

CHRISISALL

Tuesday, February 22, 2011 9:55 PM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by Jongsstraw:
One of your picks, Planet Earth, was the sequel to another great Roddenberry TV movie called Genesis II. Remember that one?

Two bellybuttons; how could one forget?

The laughing Chrisisall

BORIS

Tuesday, February 22, 2011 10:24 PM (P)

Happy Days
Battlestar Galactica
Barney Miller
Rockford Files
weird taste for a child 10 and under but they were the shows I would have tantrums about if I couldn't watch them.
now there's not much on that really grabs me but the most entertaining are:
Big Bang Theory
The Mentalist
Ashes to Ashes
I mainly watch reruns of TV faves like
Mork and Mindy
Diagnosis Murder
Magnum PI
Pride and Prejudice
Porridge
Roseanne
I have been watching Castle on the internet as Australia has only just started showing season 3 and I don't like to wait.

Rose S

STEGASAURUS

Wednesday, February 23, 2011 12:34 AM (P)

Then:
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
Battlestar Galactica
Mork & Mindy

Bear in mind that I also was fully into Ultraman and Johnny Sako & His Flying Robot reruns, but they are technically 60's shows.

Now:
SGU
V
Castle

-Steg

YT

Wednesday, March 2, 2011 8:47 PM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by chrisisall:
What were/are yours?

I watched TV in the '70s, had some favourite shows; thanks to Netflix, I watched 'em all again

They suck; TV has gotten so much better

I will mention three TV movies, 'though perhaps the biggest reason they haven't suffered by comparison to more modern work is that they aren't available for me to watch now:

Thief
Footsteps
Haunts of the Very Rich

Keep the Shiny Side Up

YT

JONGSSTRAW

Wednesday, March 2, 2011 9:32 PM (P)

3 other TV Movies from the 70's I remember.....

1) The People....good sci-fi themed drama that re-united William Shatner and Kim Darby

2) Tribes....hippie-esque Jan Michael Vincent conquers Marine basic training with inner Zen

3) Maybe I'll Come Home In The Spring...hippie runaway Sally Field in an early provacative role

STORYMARK

Wednesday, March 2, 2011 9:33 PM (P)

Being only 5 when the 70's ended, I'll go with Sesame Street.

Still not having any great affinity for TV of that era... uh, MASH? That was the 70's right?

"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."

RIONAEIRE

Thursday, March 3, 2011 12:40 AM (P)

I wasn't around in the 70s, but my favorite show from the era is MASH, though I think that crossed the barrier into the 80s.

"A completely coherant River means writers don't deliver" KatTaya

CHRISISALL

Thursday, March 3, 2011 1:50 AM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by YT:

Haunts of the Very Rich

Cool spookieness with Lloyd Bridges, if memory serves!

The laughing Chrisisall

TRAVELER

Thursday, March 3, 2011 4:20 AM (P)

All in the Family
Little House on the Prarie
Green Acres

Had to strain my brain to think back that far.

http://www.imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=28764731
Traveler

JEWELSTAITEFAN

Sunday, April 3, 2011 5:03 PM (P)

There was a lot of dreck in the 70's TV, much of it listed in this thread.
I know the Six Million Dollar Man Pilot was a TV movie, but most of the rest I just thought were cinema films from the past few years, so can't list much of them.

Tough to make it 3, but I'll go with
The Six Million Dollar Man
Charlie's Angels
Rockford Files

Others I considered:
Baa Baa Black Sheep.
Hawaii Five-O
Kung Fu
Hogan's Heroes
Starsky & Hutch
Men from Shiloh
Mission: Impossible
Emergency
SWAT
Harry-O
Switch
Eischied
Ellery Queen
Serpico
CHiPs
Project UFO
Vega$
Logan's Run
WKRP In Cincinnatti (why was Jan Smiithers taken away from us?)
Three's Company

Now, I like Baa Baa Black Sheep better than I did then (I served in the Corps Air Wing - including VMA-214 - between then and now), so it probably knocks Angels out of the top 3.

YT

Sunday, September 4, 2011 12:00 PM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by chrisisall:
Quote:
Originally posted by YT:

Haunts of the Very Rich

Cool spookieness with Lloyd Bridges, if memory serves!

Your memory serves you well. @the time, I thought of it as an acid trip

Keep the Shiny Side Up,

YT

GWEK

Sunday, September 4, 2011 1:13 PM (P)

I was born in 1970, so most of my favorites from then are from the end of the decade. As a lifelong Star Wars fan, of course Battlestar Galactica and Buck Rogers are near the top of my list. Although they're from the early 1980s, I also fondly remember the crop of Indiana Jones-inspired stuff (Tales of the Gold Monkey, The Quest, Frank Buck: Bring 'Em Back Alive!, and even Casablanca: The TV Series).

Another remnant of my childhood (that I don't think is on DVD yet) is The Great Space Coaster.

For comedies, I remember loving the "classic" Tuesday night line-up: Happy Days, Laverne and Shirley, and (when my parents would let me stay up to watch it) Three's Company and Too Close for Comfort.

During the first season or two, Saturday Night Live had some Jim Henson bits, so my parents would wake me up to watch SNL as a 4 or 5 year old! (They also took me to see JAWS and most of Burt Reynolds's sex farces in the theater, so sometimes I question how drunk they may have been...)

I also enjoyed WKRP IN CINCINNATI (only years later realizing that the whole idea, including the credits song, was stolen from a Harry Chapin song) and TAXI. Even at an early age, I had an affinity for "workplace comedy," it seems.

Unfortunately, with DVDs readily available for a lot of these, the years have not been kind. BSG and Buck Rogers still have some legs if you're willing to view them with your tongue firmly in your cheek, but I've tried Tales of the Gold Monkey twice and been stopped so cold that I'm afraid to watch the others. (The Quest was actually not terrible--I got a bootleg--but it's only 4 or 5 episodes, so it doesn't have too much time to get too bad).

Time has been far crueler to the comedies, since my sense of humor, as well as the national sense of humor, has changed to so much. I've caught a few episodes of Three's Company, and maybe they still inspire a chuckle, but the show seems so juvenile these days. WKRP and even the classic MASH are largely unfunny nowadays. Taxi stood up much better than many other shows of the day, but it's tinged with such an air of sadness that I never got the second disc from netflix.

I see at least one person mentioned Alias Smith and Jones. If anyone knows where I can find a decent bootleg of that, or the Casablanca TV series, let me know.

www.stillflying.net: "Here's how it might have been..."

DJD

Sunday, September 4, 2011 3:37 PM (P)

Favourite shows would have been -

Dr Who (Pertwee and Tom Baker)
The Rockford Files (so pleased to see it getting so many hits in this thread! Stands the test of time really well)
Blakes 7

The first two of these would still be in my top shows from the 70s. Generally I think tv has improved massively since those days- especially US tv. Rockford would make my all time top ten along with- firefly, BSG (new version), Deadwood, Rome, Poirot, Sherlock Holmes (Jeremy Brett), Band of Brothers, Robin of Sherwood and Buffy.

My dog is named Rockford :-)

CLJOHNSTON108

Sunday, September 4, 2011 9:08 PM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by lwaves:
And now for a related thread hijack. I'm looking for the name of this TV movie/pilot that was from the 70's or very early 80's.
It featured a man who survived a lightning strike and could then power light bulbs by holding them or use a typewriter by pointing his fingers at it. Basically he could discharge electricity but he only had so much before needing to recharge. He was given a watch to show how much charge he had. During a fight at the end he lands in some metal pipes whilst 'electrified' and you think he's dead, before he obviously comes back and gets the bad guys.

Any ideas?

Hey! I remember that one, because my Dad taped it for me: The Power Within starring Art Hindle!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081365/

As for the topic at hand...

Then
• The Six Million Dollar Man
• Emergency!
• Man From Atlantis

Now
• The Six Million Dollar Man (First season and a half only)
• Battlestar Galactica
• M*A*S*H

'Course there're so many Honorable Mentions!
http://epguides.com/menu/year.shtml#1970

LWAVES

Monday, September 5, 2011 5:14 PM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by cljohnston108:
Hey! I remember that one, because my Dad taped it for me: The Power Within starring Art Hindle!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081365/

Yeah that's it. Thankyou very kindly CLJ and well remembered. You've just made my day and probably my week. Now to see if I can find it 'by any means necessary'.

Browncoats Rule!!!

"The greatest invention ever is not the wheel. It's the second wheel." - Rich Hall

SHINYGOODGUY

Tuesday, September 6, 2011 12:16 AM (P)

We're simpatico here EC:

Mash
Soap
Kung Fu
BSG
Barney Miller (where our sheperd started)
Taxi
Columbo
Green Hornet/Batman (before it got campy)

Not in any particular order. I was into sports and girls, but still managed to see some shows.

SGG

Tawabawho?

SHINYGOODGUY

Tuesday, September 6, 2011 12:26 AM (P)

Oh, I forgot today:

Fringe (it comes close to the feeling I had when I first started watching Firefly).

Breaking Bad (AMC show; I'm hooked)

Big Bang Theory - will the nerdy guy get the girl. Neither is perfect and I love how the show handles it. Bernadette, rrrwwwwrrrr! Girls with glasses always gets to me, especially when they look like that.

Office, Modern Family, Community (tie)

SGG

Tawabawho?