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And they actually put more effort into it. What they could not cover under budget, they did with matte paintings. That meant they employed artists and employment is always a good thing. Now days they have CGI and that has killed the need for these matte painters.
Edit: I do not know about t.v. shows, but this was solely for the movies.
My favorites were:
Small Wonder
Street Hawk
Airwolf
The Six Million Dollar Man
Hunter
The Cosby Show
Quantum Leap
Full House
The Dukes of Hazzard
Remington Steele
Out of This World
Plus some of the ones already on this thread. I just realized I definitely watched way too much tv lol.
I used to watch tv every single day, today I just watch Game of Thrones and maybe the Korean tv drama my wife watch. I'm not even interested in The Walking Dead, nor Breaking Bad.
How about I Love Lucy, Gilligan and saturdya cartoons Bugs Bunny, Gigantor and others before the 70s, very important and and very popular.
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What I really loved about this show was how Quincy's boss and that police lieutenant were still trying to shut down his investigations even after years and years of him being right and them being wrong. Lt. Monaghan would have sent like 50 innocent people to Death Row without Quincy intervening, but every week he was still annoyed at him for "interfering".
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Don't want to play no more with you
Forgetting Family Affair and Gilligan, eh?
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What about medical dramas like Emergency!, Medical Center, Trapper John, M.D., and Marcus Welby? And who can forget "jiggle television's" Charlie's Angels? Or crime dramas like The Streets of San Francisco, Barnaby Jones, Starsky & Hutch, Kojack, Police Woman, Hawaii Five-O, and Police Story. Also The Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman; or CHiPs, Adam-12, Switch, and comedies like Happy Days, Laverne & Shirley, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, and The Bob Newhart Show. Don't forget that Saturday Night Live debuted in 1975.
The 1970s also saw the end of the variety show genre with The Carol Burnett Show and The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour, and The Flip Wilson Show. Westerns, popular in TV since the late 1940s, fell out of favor, leading to the end of long-running series Bonanza and Gunsmoke.
Perhaps one of the most significant events was technological - the introduction in the mid-1970s of home video recorders; Sony's Betamax in 1975, and JVC's VHS format in 1976. Boy, how that changed how we watched movies and TV.
And finally, lest we forget sports fans - the debut of Monday Night Football in 1970.
Wow, once you start thinking about all the shows that either started or finished in the 1970s you begin to understand just how much TV changed during that decade. 🤔😵
Good post !
Yes, it was a tumultuous and pivotal decade.
Wow, I thought I watched too much tv when​ I was a kid already ... But I never watched most of your list except some episodes of Starsky & Hutch, even fewer of Hawaii 5-0 but quite a lot of Six Milion Dollar Man and CHiPs.
I mostly rent Japanese space rangers and super sentai series on VHS in the late 80s. Video cassette players were quite a luxury back then.
Wow so many I forgot about like The Bionic Woman. I had an autograph picture from Lindsay Wagner, I cherished it lol. I still watch some old shows on Me TV like Emergency, MTM and Happy Days.
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