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Post by Captain Spencer on Mar 3, 2017 3:56:49 GMT
The 70s sure had more than their fair share of obscure TV shows; shows that barely lasted one season or even two if they were lucky, but were then quickly forgotten.
Here's some of them that I remember:
The Feather and Father Gang
When Things Were Really Rotten
Ball Four
Quinn Martin's Tales Of The Unexpected
Chopper One
The Cowboys (spin-off from the John Wayne movie)
Dirty Sally
Holmes & Yo-Yo
The San Pedro Bums
Firehouse
Westside Medical
Any others?
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Post by movielover on Mar 3, 2017 4:27:55 GMT
Wow, I actually remember the Feather and Father Gang and Holmes & Yo-Yo from my childhood.
Others off the top of my head:
Love American Style (I loved this show as a kid)
The Night Stalker (this one too)
All's Fair (really obscure sitcom starring Richard Crenna and Bernadette Peters)
Big John, Little John (Saturday morning show for kids, but had a cool sci-fi twist to it)
Lucan (about a man who was raised by wolves as a boy)
Night Gallery (70s version of the Twilight Zone)
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Post by fangirl1975 on Mar 6, 2017 19:28:12 GMT
The Magician starring Bill Bixby.
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Post by Captain Spencer on Mar 9, 2017 1:56:26 GMT
Some others:
Lotsa Luck
Future Cop
Space 1999
The Blue Knight
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Post by taylorfirst1 on Mar 9, 2017 19:20:55 GMT
I remember about half of the shows that have been mentioned in this thread so far. I could think of a few more if I tried.
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Post by Bargle on Mar 12, 2017 13:49:32 GMT
Police Surgeon
Westwind
Love Thy Neighbor (Trivia note: Leads Ron Masak and Joyce Bulifant were originally cast as the parents on The Brady Bunch)
The Delphi Bureau
Longstreet
Arnie
Search
All these shows were ones I watched back then.
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Post by camimac on Mar 12, 2017 14:06:41 GMT
I was watching a Planet of the Apes marathon yesterday. Seeing James Franciscus in beneath the planet of the apes, made me remember him from the 1970's show: Longstreet, which also featured Bruce Lee.
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Post by taylorfirst1 on Mar 12, 2017 20:55:32 GMT
That reminds me. The Planet of the Apes (1974) is one of those obscure TV show from the 70's. It was only 1 season if I recall.
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Post by Captain Spencer on Mar 13, 2017 2:36:07 GMT
That reminds me. The Planet of the Apes (1974) is one of those obscure TV show from the 70's. It was only 1 season if I recall. There was also a Planet of the Apes Saturday morning cartoon show from the mid-70s that didn't last long either. |
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Post by jervistetch on Mar 13, 2017 3:29:04 GMT
"Temperatures Rising" with Cleavon Little and James Whitmore. It was a medical comedy.
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Post by wanton87 on Mar 13, 2017 5:03:31 GMT
The Shazam Isis hour (Not really obscure if you were a kid at the time).
The New Mickey Mouse club 1977. (The second one since the 1950's, and used much of the same sets. Short lived, and not as good as the original).
I thought that this one was 70's for sure, but it turns out it missed it by about a month, and that's Tenspeed and Brown shoe. A detective series starring a young Jeff Goldblum along side Ben Vereen. Only lasted 14 episodes.
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Post by poelzig on Mar 13, 2017 8:02:05 GMT
When Things Were Rotten Logan's Run Gemini Man David Cassidy Man Undercover The Invisible Man A Year at the Top
The Logan's Run TV show had the secret society of old people running things and for years I remembered that as being part of the movie for some reason.
The Gemini Man and The Invisible Man may have been released the same season but I'm not sure. They were both about invisible guys.
A Year at the Top starred future chimp pal and trucker Greg Evigan and future late night bandleader Paul Schafer as brothers who sold their souls to the devil for a year of fame. |
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Post by taylorfirst1 on Mar 13, 2017 16:17:29 GMT
That reminds me. The Planet of the Apes (1974) is one of those obscure TV show from the 70's. It was only 1 season if I recall. There was also a Planet of the Apes Saturday morning cartoon show from the mid-70s that didn't last long either. Yup I remember it well. In fact, I recently saw a couple episodes of the old cartoon on the El Rey Network of all places. If we want to get into obscure Saturday Morning kid's shows from the 70's this could get very lengthy. Remember The Monster Squad (no, not the movie, the kid's show from the 70's) or The Ghostbusters (again not the movie or the cartoon but the live action show from the 70's with Forrest Tucker, Larry Storch, and a gorilla) |
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Post by wanton87 on Mar 14, 2017 3:35:55 GMT
The Adventures of Black Beauty 1972. This one featured a young Judi Bowker (Andromeda in Clash of The Titans, Brother Sun, Sister Moon ). Unfortunately, Judi was gone by season 2, and so was the show following this season.
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Post by mikeyc on Mar 17, 2017 21:59:17 GMT
Salvage 1 from 1979 starring Andy Griffith. Ran 1 season.
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Post by taylorfirst1 on Mar 17, 2017 22:02:49 GMT
Salvage 1 from 1979 starring Andy Griffith. Ran 1 season. Yup, I remember that one. I watched every episode. |
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Post by jervistetch on Mar 17, 2017 23:25:18 GMT
I remember a show named "The Smith Family". It was a family show with Henry Fonda as the father who was a police detective. I can't really remember any episode plots but I remember Ronny Howard played the oldest kid. This was Ronny post-Opie, pre-Richie. The daughter was played by a really cute actress named Darleen Carr. Whatever happened to her? I guess I have to Google her.
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Post by wanton87 on Mar 18, 2017 4:47:24 GMT
I remember a show named "The Smith Family". Never saw it, but I'm familiar with the show. And Darleen Carr was indeed a serious cutie. I knew that I knew her from somewhere else besides this show but couldn't place it at first. Turns out I remember her from the 1971 Clint Eastwood feature, The Beguiled. Interestingly enough, she starred in an episode of the Walton's a few years later that was also titled “The Beguiled”. |
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Post by jervistetch on Mar 18, 2017 6:07:53 GMT
I remember a show named "The Smith Family". Never saw it, but I'm familiar with the show. And Darleen Carr was indeed a serious cutie. I knew that I knew her from somewhere else besides this show but couldn't place it at first. Turns out I remember her from the 1971 Clint Eastwood feature, The Beguiled. Interestingly enough, she starred in an episode of the Walton's a few years later that was also titled “The Beguiled”. AND. I just realized she is the sister of Charmian Carr, who played Liesl in THE SOUND OF MUSIC. Charmian sadly passed away just last year at a far too young age. |
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Post by wanton87 on Mar 18, 2017 12:05:04 GMT
AND. I just realized she is the sister of Charmian Carr, who played Liesl in THE SOUND OF MUSIC. Charmian sadly passed away just last year at a far too young age. Ahh, that explains why some of her photos came up jervistetch, when I looked up Darlene, but I didn't bother to make the connection. She was really a looker, just like her sister. We lost some serious actors all in the last year. The most recent off the top of my head being Bill Paxton, whom I've always liked going back to his Weird Science days. As well as Richard Hatch from the original Battlestar Galactica, which was a kids dream come true in the 70's, and spawned an obscure show that just missed 70's, “Galactica 1980”. |
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