One thing all these shows had in common. They ALL had great music

I loved growing up in the 70s. TV was awesome.

I had forgotten how great the theme song for Chico and the Man was, and how beautifully it was sung by Jose Feliciano.

How interesting was that? What a collection of important TV series. And Jose Feliciano singing "Chico and the Man" was fantastic. Oh for a time machine to take me back to October '74....

Still makes me sad about Freddie Prinze. So talented! RIP

I grew up watching Little House on the Prairie. I'll never forget those good times.

*The TV themes were gold back then.*

Good stuff. That intro to Chico and the Man by Jose' Feliciano is great. Takes me way back.

Rhoda was one of the smartest comedies of the 70s. It faded in quality a bit during the last season, but an absolute classic.

This was a good season! Rockford Files, Petrocelli, Rhoda, Little House on the Prairie. These were all excellent shows.

The good thing about seeing this compilation is that it really takes you back, The bad thing is that you know TV will never be this good again, Not today.

Rockford was the best, I used to stay home every Friday and watch Rockford and Quincy

Watching these old TV trailers you realize how time has passed on and so have many of the actors.

Harry O was a great, great television series in its two years on the air. David Janssen could do wonders with a doleful and resigned body pose and Anthony Zerbe rightfully won an Emmy for his sarcastic, yet soulful Lt. Trench who was Orwell's champion/antagonist, depending on the latter's mood.

I could watch the opening to Police Woman for two hours, and it would still be more entertaining than most of the junk on TV nowadays. Love that theme song!

The Rockford Files he just seemed so cool from my home state where I grew up I think I watched the entire season

If you were not there its hard to grasp how good television was in the 70's. The depth, variety and quality of the programs was simply amazing.😎

What a line up of shows. 1974 was a great year. I miss those days.

Aw, Chico and the Man. I wish that whole series was available on DVD.

My grandparents loved Rockford Files. I was too young, eleven, to appreciate it.

Loved the Night Stalker! Scared me as a kid.....

I remember most of these. But the one I'll never forget is The Night Stalker! Darren McGavin killed it in that role. I also quite liked Planet of the Apes, and Paper Moon. Good times.

For me it was Sanford & Son , Chico and the Man, Rockford Files and The Night Stalker on Friday nights👍👍

The 70's was a great decade for TV watching :)

Rockford Files -- great opening credit sequence and theme...

Thank you so much for doing these! Such a lost piece of Americana. TV shows back then had such great theme songs. So much heart. Chico and The Man by Jose Feliciano, forget about it!

This video makes me appreciate just how difficult it is to create a hit television show, because no matter how things "work" on a television sound stage, how much television network executives believe in their programming, the ultimate gauge of success comes from the television viewing public. And no one just never knows what they'll like/dislike with 100% accuracy.

The Night Stalker was the one of the best shows ever made...it can never be redone because it occurred atthe right moment in time. Toobad it didn't last a few more seasons

This brings back wonderful memories. Thank you💕

10:40 The Rockford Files. There was never a better theme. Ever, Even the phone messages were hilarious!

What I remember about that season is that there were 2 Female Cops on TV, One Black , One White,(Did I leave out the fact that they were both smoking hot??) One was on NBC, The other on ABC.

Movin On and the movie Duel was the reason for me driving a big rig for the past 20 years and at 55 yrs old I still drive a semi day cab every day .. and still a million mile driver since 2011.. was 9 in 1974.But who cares.

Boy I remember The Night Stalker. The show had a very cool opening.

70s were awesome

I recognized Chico and the Man before they even put up Jack Albertson’s name.

Thanks for uploading. This video is like a time machine back to my childhood. I'd forgotten about That's My Mama - anyone else think that could have been the inspiration for Barbershop?

I was fourteen then, first year of high school. It was a wonderful time to be coming of age. I have the best memories of my dad laughing at Chico and the Man, when every night T.V. was fun to watch.

I remember David Hartman. He was the host of Good Morning America for some years.

I still watch Kolchak regularly! I've even started on a digital art fan fiction.

1974 was a good year for TV.. Rhoda, Night Stalker, Friends and Lovers, Little House.., Petrocelli, Rockford Files (Greatest theme ever), Harry O, Police Woman, Paper Moon... that's my entire teenage years summed up.

Personal favourite out of all shown is "The Night Stalker". Imo it (along with Rhoda) is the one that holds up the best..still entertaining in 2019!

I used to keep all the TV Guides from '69-'80. Wish I still had them.

Memories are so bitter sweet. Life is so strange.

That's my mama I watched that show every week I was 10 years old when these Shows first aired on TV Takes me back to my childhood The same with Rhoda Valerie Harper died this year what a shame

"You're under arrest, SUGAR"

Man....wow! The memories, seemed like a lifetime ago. Life for me was innocent I guess ignorance wss bliss. To quote the phrase if I knew then what I know now....of course being a child in the single digits during the 1970s Saturday morning cartoons, Schwinn muscle bikes, no computers or cell phones. Playing outside then watching TV, we thought we had hit the big time when we got a 19 inch color Quasar wow! Going out to eat was going to Burger Chef, McDonald's, Burger King, and it happen 1 to 2 times a month and I got to drink a Coke a cola and was a real treat! I played with toys and used my imagination no battery where the toy can play by itself today. What a great time and then becoming a teen in the 1980s. The radio and music was the soundtrack of my life always growing up and memories being made. Sadly time marches on and the only constant that there is changes every day.......

I love watching your videos with my mom & dad. We watch alot of these shows on Cozi,MeTv, & Antenna Tv. I'm 12 & my mom & dad have me loving the classics like u show on your videos. Thanks for the cool channel.

But my all time favorite show at 9 was The Night Stalker !

1974 TV season was probably the first one that I was really excited to see as a kid, for The Night Stalker and Planet of the Apes shows. And my first heart broken for a season too as neither was given a second season.

Thanks so much for compiling this. I'm struck by the diversity of these series--not just ethnically, but also in terms of concept, genre, location, time period. So many of these shows I would love to watch now. Network TV seems to lost a lot of this willingness to take risks.

Amazing flashbacks with this....Wow. Thank you even though it took awhile to make it to my feed!

James Garner handsome, down to earth, intelligent. ❤

My cousin worked his first TV show doing set decoration on RHODA...others, eventually CHiP's, then HUNTER.

Planet of the Apes had me on the edge of my seat as a kid. I also remember watching Little House on the Prairie and wondering why lol. I was a rugged sports-playing kid but the show's opening always made me feel good and little Laura Ingalls was so darn cute that I had to watch (Michael Landon was pretty good too :).

TV shows back then were so much more fun to see then what is on today.

oh my God I could watch these videos all night

Great new shows for 1974 but there is one GLARING new show that was missing from this collection - Happy Days (1974-1984). Although it was a spin-off from "Love American Style", it had it's own spin-offs like "Laverne and Shirley", "Mork and Mindy", and "Joanie Loves Chachi". Thought it might be worth a mention. :o)

Feeling old, I was born during this exact fall.t.v. season... almost 47 years ago.

Every last episode of Kolchak the night stalker is here on KZfaq for free,I just finished binge watching both seasons . Of every show here my favorites were #1 Little house on the prairie and my wife's was #2 Police Woman .

chico and the man -great theme song.

Very fun. Love the Minimoog on the Rockford Files theme.

Awsome collection ! Thanks for the memories .

I was 16 in 1974. I saw most of these shows on our 19 inch state-of-the-art black and white TV. No sissy remote control in those days. If you wanted to change the channel you had to actually get up off your ass and walk across the room. Sometimes my dad would drink too much beer and he'd be too tired to change the channel. I'd walk into the living room and he'd be sitting there bleary-eyed watching "Cecil And Beanie" or "Josie And The Pussycats."

Little House on the Prairie Intro, always gives me a nice feeling..

LOVED NIGHT STALKER!!

That's My Mama was a wonderful show. I had the privilege to have watched every episode of the show on dvd from Netflix. The humor still works today.

Night stalker was a great show

Of these shows I think only Little House, Rockford and Paper Moon made it to Sweden. I remember my 9 year old self really enjoying Paper Moon.

I’m glad they had the original opening for The Night Stalker.

I was 1 year old when these shows debuted. I miss the decades of the 70s and 80s.

Chico and the Man was a great show with a great theme.

I loved a lot of these shows, but the one that brings back the most memories is Little House on the Prairie. I’ll always remember sitting in the den, where the color tv was, with my whole family, watching the pilot of that show. I was not quite eight and had been reading the books, so the tv show was very much anticipated!

Born in 63 and only seen episodes of three of these, luckily I played outside a lot as a kid

Starting with the 1974 model year, Rockford would get a new model-year Pontiac Firebird each year throughout the series. The Firebirds used had an identical "copper mist" color with the Esprit's exterior and interior. Although the Firebirds were badged as Esprits, they were actually the higher performance "Formula" model without the twin scoop hood. Garner needed Rockford's car to look like the lower tiered "Esprit" model, a car Rockford could afford, but have the performance necessary for the chase sequences in the show. To achieve this, the show featured Pontiac Firebird Formulas re-badged and re-hooded to look like the "Esprit" model. The "Formula" model was developed to provide the performance of the top level "Trans Am" in a less ostentatious form. Formulas didn't have the Shaker hood scoop, side vents, graphics or lettering used on the Trans Am, but they had the same higher horsepower engines and drive trains, larger front and rear anti-roll bars, stiffer springs and shocks, and a twin scoop hood. (Sharp-eyed car connoisseurs can spot the twin exhausts and rear anti-roll bar on the cars used on the show, options that were not part of the "Esprit" package, as well as spot the different model year cars used in various chase scenes that differed from those in an actual episode, especially in later seasons). Although the series ran until early 1980, no Firebird was used past the 1978 model year as Garner reportedly was displeased with the restyled front end of the 1979 and later Firebird models and as such did not wish them featured on the show (although an answering machine message in one episode in the final season indicated his car was a 1979 Firebird).

Kurt Russell in a show I’ve never heard of ever!

Loved all them shows back then nothing like this crap that’s on TV nowadays never even watch it. Thanks for showing the great memories.

I would rather watch 1974 tv than today's reality crap.

It was interesting that Police Woman only had one main female actor in the whole show,given the title. Loved The Night Stalker,Planet Of The Apes,Born Free,Sierra,Lucus Tanner.

I kind of remember watching Little House in the 80's...great show

"That's My Mama" and "Night Stalker" were pretty good shows.

That’s a great collection of shows. Rockford Files, Harry O, Paper Moon, Night Stalker, Police Woman…

Loved chico and the man

Great upload. The better shows are loaded toward the end. I was 12 in 1974 - prime TV watching age, and I got halfway through the video remembering very few of these shows. I was thinking, Wow, 1974 was a really bad year for new shows, and then -- Rockford FIles! One of the best detective shows ever! and such distinctive theme music! After that, the hits kept coming. Turns. out 1974 wasn't so bad after all

Stone cold Rockford!

I never realized they tried to make a series of Paper Moon. I wish I could see the episodes even though it didn't last long. Loved the opening of Police Woman. I never see reruns of that series on cable.

This is when TV was GOOD, Today TV is all a bunch of HORSESHIT!!!!

Watching the intro about the first show, they give the background of the barbershop, and introduce the various characters that come to the barbershop, and make it clear that the Barbershop is the center of the show. The barber pole is prominent in the title credits. I would have expected the show to be called "Oscar's Barber Shop", but nope it's called "That's my Mama" who was introduced at the last minute and nothing was said about.

Fascinating! There are some names up there of some people who became really famous later on! Thanks for this collection!

LHOTP is my favorite show of all time. Not all good episodes, but some of them are absolutely great. Such an amazing cast and great mix of humor and drama. LHOTP is my favorite show of all time. Not all good episodes, but some of them are absolutely great. Such a talented cast, and comforting mix of humor and drama.

"Get Christie Love" started as a great 2 hour movie, Theresa Graves had charisma and a star quality and beauty unfortunately the actual series didn't live up to it.

Weird how Little House lasted so long, but nobody's ever heard of New Land

Wow, blast from the past. Was 10 just starting the 5th grade and just starting to notice "girls". Angie Dickinson - woa! Start of season 2 for Happy Days. So long ago.

I remember watching That's My Mama, when new. It didn't stay on TV long. I never heard of The New Land or Sonny Bono's show.I truly loved Movin On, and had a crush on Claude Akins. I remember The Manhunter, it took place in the 1930s. I was 14 during 1974. Great shows, simpler times.

Being 20 in 74' I didn't watch much TV. Didn't own a TV then, saw a few shows at friends. I only remember a few of these. Thanks for sharing!

This is as bad (bad in a good way) as listening to music from the era of our youth. I cant seem to stop watching when I come here .Memory Lane

Little House was one of the greatest series in human history!

The year that the amazing Rhoda show was born.

1974 looked like a great year for new shows. Little House on the Prairie and Rhoda... just two of many good ones still remembered to this day.

I wanted to comment on all of them bit i had to stop on this one Freddie Prince. What a sad loss RIP suicide is no answer or solution to any problem

I absolutely LOVED Rockford Files and The Night Stalker