I worked on "Serpico" as a 20 yr old Lighting Tech. Except for establishing shots, all shot in Los Angeles. Based at Paramount Studios.

Wow, Sirota's Court was basically Night Court before Night Court. Interesting.

I was 17 in 1977,but I don’t remember any of these sit-coms at all… My mom loved the Capt and Tenelle show. She liked Tony Orlando,Carol Burnett, Cher etc. Actually all of the variety shows that were on,she liked.

I think what’s most fun about seeing these is the reminder that we only had three to four stations of ABC, CBS and NBC and the reasons I say four is PBS was around to. If you look up the ratings numbers for even the cancelled series compared to now there numbers were very healthy. I think that’s why so many of us remember these series because we only had so much to choose from.

In the 1970s I was lucky enough to find a job being an on call extra on The Streets of San Francisco & mostly only worked on the weekends. My rent was $100 a month, food was cheap & I loved the show because I liked Karl Malden and working as an extra paid my bills for the month. I did not have ANY credit cards when the show started. I should have stayed away from the evil credit cards. I worked on the show for years.

Judd Hirsch almost didn't do Taxi because of Delvecchio. After that show's failure, he swore off doing television shows. Luckily, his agent convinced him to change his mind.

The TV show Delvecchio had Charles Haid and Michael Conrad, who would appear in the series Hill Street Blues.

The Delveccio ad was hilarious! Just always have someone trip the suspect as they are fleeing

I had a Captain and Tenille record album. I played it all the time. I loved this song on it. Something about a Butterscoth Castle with a " Big old dog in the front yard; And an old Gray cat on the Back Porch" But my favorite songs were Muscrat Love, The Wedding Song and a song with " Lonely Nights I cry myself to sleep tell me what am I gonna do?"

Rich Man Poor Man Book II was fantastic. Absolutely riveting.

It's weird Michael Keaton wasn't listed in the credits for, 'Alls Fair.'

“Nashville 99“ was made while I was a senior in college in Nashville, and one of my friends got cast in the part in one of the episodes. Unfortunately, for him, his name was Richard Burton, and they claimed they could not get in touch with him to choose a different name in the credits, therefore they cut all of his lines and he was only seen as a glorified extra. On a different note, a few years ago I was in the cast of a production of “12 Angry Men” with John Schuck, Yoyo in “Holmes and Yoyo.” That may have been a pretty silly show, but he is actually a fine actor and was terrific in the production I was in.

Holy cow, seeing these shows brings back bad memories from the 70's. No wonder why I worked in the office until 22:00 hrs. Didn't have a social life, but neither did anyone who sat at home to watch these.

I remember wondering what blackmail info Nancy Walker had to keep getting series?

I was in the Army in Korea during this time so I don't remember any of these shows. Looks like I didn't miss much.

“Ball Four”….Good lord what fever nightmare am I looking at!

"Cos!" Why didn't it last? Well... Cos!

Anyone else notice the stark similarities between "Sirotas Court" and "Night Court"? Creepily similar. They even had a midg---....er, a "little person". 😂😂😂

“The CAPTAIN & TENNILLE !!!!”

I hate to say it, being female, but All That Glitters seems the most sexist and feminist thing, and I've seen and lived through a LOT of male authority being sexist and macho. It was last and certainly least of all shows shown. Otherwise, another stellar showing of series I missed out on because I wasn't even born yet. Well done!

Beverly Archer kept plugging along. Thank God "Mama's Family" and "Major Dad" came along, giving her the comedy successes she deserved.

I would say that a Brady Bunch variety show is the most '70s thing to have ever been '70ed.

This was a lot of fun to watch! Thanks for putting it together. The only show I watched as a kid out of all of these shows was The Captain & Tennille show. I don't remember any of the other shows.

I would love to have an old 70s Toy Toyota !!

Poor Gemini Man. If I wore that denim outfit I'd want to be invisible too.

Wow! That Robert Stack theme music was really something. Don't quite know what to make of it.

Nancy Walker sure was busy that year. Starring in two shows, Bounty commercials, and wasn't she also playing Ida Morgenstern on Rhoda during this time? Busy lady! I notice Pat Morita also has two shows here. Not sure if they overlapped with his time on Happy Days though.

I remember watching Holmes and Yoyo. It was so corny😂

I remember using Body-on-tap shampoo!!!!

1:10 If I hadn't actually seen this show as an 11-year-old in 1976, I would've thought "The Starland Vocal Band Show" was an SNL sketch poking fun at the 70s. (It would be like poking fun at the 90s with "The Lou Bega Hour"!)

Thanks for the memories! My favorite short-lived show of this time frame? The Press Your Luck predecessor, SECOND CHANCE. Certainly not perfect, but a technical marvel for 1977. Ran on ABC from March to July.

Thanks for these. I didn't know that Susan Dey was on Loves Me Loves Me Not. I used to watch the McLean Stevenson Show.

This is really well done and researched. It's amazing to think that we really only see the tip of the iceberg as far as TV shows go. A lot of time, work and talent goes into making these "flops'.

I watched Feather & Father because I loved Stephanie Powers & still do. Also Dellvechio & Art Carney as I read all the Rabbi books.

Sirota's Court, the show that kept Night Court from being a Barney Miller spinoff when ABC got cold feet.

Have to admit. That theme song to The McLean Stevenson Show is quite catchy😊.

Thanks Mom and Dad for making my bedtime 8pm on school nights! Saved me from alot of terrible shows and a few good ones!

I must have been a TV junkie when I was 13, I remember just about all of them!

I've seen a few of these videos of shows cancelled in one season. One thing hit me, so many actors that made it to be a lead in a network TV show, get cancelled and I don't recall ever seeing them ever again, in anything! What it must feel like to be so close to 'stardom" the rich and famous, and soon be asking "would you like fries with that order"

I just looked up “ Black Jack “ the Great Dane from Blansky’s Beauties on a lark and he has an IMDB page lol

Why does Three Girls Three stick in my head to this very day? It was our intro to Debbie Allen and Mimi Kennedy. Those were the days. We had three major networks and September was the beginning of the new TV show seasons. It’s all we had when cooped up during the cold weather.

Man, sooo many memories. Thanks for this!

Let's create an interesting new show with an interesting new concept and then put it up against the biggest established hits on television so that it has no chance of survival whatsoever.

TRIVIA: High School: me and this "friend" of mine had a HUGE argument one day after Rich Man Poor Man was on the air; My friend thought the villain was called FALCON EDDY ! I was all NO: it's Falconetti .

Major-league pitcher Jim Bouton wrote the book "Ball Four", and also starred in the sitcom. I can't think of too many writers who starred in their own works.

Some shows deserve to last one season or less. On the other hand, every season, some shows are critically acclaimed and/or receive strong word-of-mouth but still get canceled by a network for many other reasons, not only for low Nielsen ratings. You've done a great job with these videos. It's entertaining and informative.

Delvecchio’s theme song lasted longer than the show. 🤷🏾‍♂️. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Gemini Man was shown on television in The Netherlands in 1977. They aired it as a kind of sequel to the invisible man series with David McCallum. Spencer's Pilots and Holmes & YoYo were aired on television in Germany. Spencer's Pilots even got rerun a few years later.

Thanks for this, I'm loving these installments. I remember maybe one third of these shows...was still a "kid" at the time (about 13). My favorite of these was "Blansky's Beauties" and was sad to see it leave the airwaves back then.

Ordinarily, I might have a few tidbits about some of these shows. But this was a real dud of a year for TV, and to be honest I was in high school and wasn't watching much TV. A few real stinkers here too. (Holmes & Yoyo? Mr. T and Tina? Sheesh!)

There were lots of variety shows in the 70's. I loved to watch the Carol Burnett and Sonny and Cher shows. I also remember watching Flip Wilson, Glen Campbell and Donny & Marie. I don't remember The Captain and Tenille show.

That Kurt Russell ever had a failure in anything seems weird.

I absolutely adored Harold Gould!.I really loved him as Mr Morgenstern on Rhoda and also Ida and Brenda. And Valerie too Plus Joe.

Delvecchio may be considered a prequel of sorts for Hill Street Blues. The connection includes writer/producer Steven Bochco, along with actors Charles Haid, Michael Conrad and James B Sikking.

You had my attention when the thumbnail used for the Brady Bunch Variety Hour was a picture of the family on the cover of Dynamite magazine. Who remembers Dynamite magazine? Oh man, its one of my better memories of being in grade school. Dynamite was published once a month and could only be ordered through Scholastic which the teacher passed around once a month. The magazine wasn't very expensive and was packed with all kinds of groovy stories, games, posters, cards, and jokes. One issue showed how to make a pinhole camera out of cardboard and aluminum foil which actually worked! Being a kid in the early to mid 1970s was a lot of fun. With only one television in the home and only three channels you had to watch what the folks watched or find something else to do, like read. My wife is a 4th grade teacher, she has said that if Dynamite were published today, very few kids, if any, would order it. Kids today don't do much reading of printed material unless they have to. That's kind of sad

Thanks for bringing back my junior year of high school memories…😊! It seems allot of the new medical dramas needed to be put on life support that year. I remember “Gemini Man” and “The Fantastic Journey “ fondly but remember them both having to do the “Network Juggle “ so never knew which time slot they landed. I remember some because my parents or sister would watch them. Good to see future stars in their 1st roles…some that they would rather forget…😊! Have a great day!

That Hunter series looked interesting. I would like to have seen that one!😳

I don't remember 3 Girls 3, but back during its time, it was a television show I most certainly would have watched had it survived. And probably not for its story lines. Back in '76-'77, I was a typical teenage boy, growing up in suburban Chicago, complete with the classic Farrah Fawcett and Cheryl Ladd posters adorning my bedroom's wall. At 16, I was mesmerized with the beauty, style, and maturity of "older" women that were "out of my league". It's said that we always want what we cannot have, and the trio of Allen, Foley, and Kennedy would have been exactly the type of girls of my dreams during that most awkward time of my life. 3 Girls 3 would have been a "must-watch" television show for me back then.

I think Charlie's Angels should have been nicknamed "The Grim Reaper" for all the shows it bumped off during the 1976-77 season!

Great job on your presentation !

Am i seeing this but did the Nancy walker show have the same house as archie bunker?

I was 13 during this TV season. I can remember my mother watching "Delvecchio," which I'm sure I must have watched at least a couple of times. I very clearly remember "The Brady Bunch Hour." I had been watching the original show for years, so was eager to check out this new version. On the first airing, I was convinced that the variety show was the worst TV program ever aired. I spent most of my life not having seen anything this bad until pretty recently when I finally got around to watching "The Star Wars Holiday Special." I now stand corrected. Also, in the shampoo commercial, when she says "brewed with one-third real beer - but don't drink it!" - That sounds really familiar to me.

"The Nancy Walker Show" is pretty much "Granny Takes A Trip."

Thanks For Sharing!

I was 9 during the TV season and I remember our family watching "The Feather & Father Gang," "Van Dyke and Company," I had to do extra chores Saturday afternoon so I could watch "Holmes & Yoyo" Saturday night since my parents hated the show and we only had one television, so I had to earn the privilege to watch "Holmes & Yoyo." I guess we did not watch too Short-Lived television shows during the 1976-77 season. Once again, many thanks for the wonderful memories!

I was only six years old in 1976. I don't remember any of these shows, except for "Holmes & Yoyo".

The Brady Bunch and Starland Vocal Band receiving variety shows this season was proof that the format was starting to wane.

Great work!

Three Girls Three: I never understood that title. What the hell does that mean? It's like having a show called Thirty-Seven Guys Thirty-Seven.

Michael COnrad and Charles Haid were both on Delvecchio? Wow...then they both showed up on Hill Street Blues 5 years later.

Mr. T and Tina was so bad that our ABC affiliate in Buffalo refused to show it. I heard it was pretty much canceled as soon as it hit the air.

Thank you!😊

I did not get my say in what station the TV was tuned into in the 70s . I was the youngest by ten years ! So I like seeing what choices I didn’t get lol

A few of those I actually watched.

I just recently watched The Fantastic Journey on KZfaq and some of the commercials, but many of the shows I didn’t know about. Many of the actors I do recognize from other movies and shows.

I couldn't see Judd Hirsch as a dramatic actor, but he was of course a brilliant comedic actor. He had a mobile face that was made for comedy.

Chunky opening theme music for “Tales of the Unexpected” by David Shire at 19:16 - of “Taking of Pelham One Two Three” and “The Conversation” fame. “A Quinn Martin production”.

Supposedly,The Captain & Tennille weren't happy with the direction their variety show was headed & opted not to do another season.

At 34:00, we see a pilot that never aired for a show called Hunter. The whole premise of a man out of prison fighting for justice got dropped and instead James Franciscus's character of James Hunter became a bookstore owner and a retired spy who gets called back into the field. That was the show that actually aired.

As soon as I saw the Excedrin commercial, the next show would be my second favorite Variety show that year "3 Girls 3". My favorite was "The Jacksons" because of little Janet.

Judd Hirsch in an action show? Who were they kidding?

Thursdays wasn't much of a TV watching night in the 70's

28:49 I actually had that MAC: Mobil Action Command toy when I was a kid. Fun toy for the 1st week. Then, there wasn't anything you could do with it except the same thing every time. Fly the helicopter around, rescue other MAC characters. Eventually I destroyed it a year later with my toy bazooka gun.

The shows that were on the longest would find new life on the nostalgia channels that are on now (GetTv, MeTv, RewindTV, etc.). After nothing but reality shows and cooking shows, the public need to realize that once upon a time we could watch TV and not see backsides encased in jeans and painted on bathing suits.

Norman Lear said All's Fair was one of his favorites.

In the next one (77-78), I bet you talk about the San Pedro Beach Bums.

Bill Cosby failed as a variety-show host, but was a huge hit in a situation comedy. For some others (Redd Foxx. Mary Tyler Moore, others), it was the opposite--hit sitcom, flop variety series.

2 Nancy Walker shows . Gibbsville was a quality show that had quality writing and performances. Sirota's court looked an early inspiration for night court. Serpico never had a chance turning it into a conventional cop show.

Boy that Norman Lear could sure pick 'em

A show wouldn't have a chance going up against Police Woman and Mash!

Was Nancy Walker in the Bounty commercial just before the Nancy Walker Show title sequence?

I remember watching Delvecchio with my parents. Judd Hirsch and Charles Haid had a good rapport. And All’s Fair was pretty funny. I watched the Keane Brothers Show - every single minute. They were extremely talented and charming. Even though I’m no longer an 11 year old girl, I still believe that. ❤️

The Dick Van Dyke show gave us the first look at Andy Kaufman's Foreign Man character.

Wow, I was working and going to college. I must have really been off TV, I've only heard of a couple of these and seen even less.

I was overseas from early 1977 until the middle of 1978. Most of these shows I never heard of.

Remember about half of these --- and of those only watched a couple including an episode or two of Gemini Man, premier of Three Girls, Three (meh, but those actresses did okay for themselves --- the only one I remembered was Mimi Kennedy for whatever reason). I was a big fan of The Fantastic Journey -- and especially the young lady in the cast. She was absent from the final episodes and was sorely missed. The kid from Escape to Witch Mountain, though, annoyed me. My mom watched Serpico. I didn't realize it was such a short run!

19:05 - The late Carl Weathers looks like he stepped right off the set of Rocky as Apollo Creed in the suit to film this scene.

The only show from this list I watched was "Spencer's Pilots". Loved it. Of course I was only 9 and I loved airplanes. For me,they were the stars. Was crushed when it was canceled. Didn't know it came in dead last in the Nielsen ratings!

Other fantastic video. I loved Fantastic Journey it was crying shame it only lasted 10 episodes. I saw in 1977 on my school hoildays when l was 11 . I Also remember the Gemini man that was a big favourite in my household . I Just loved his watch . I love your videos 📺

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