STAY TUNED - SATURDAY NIGHT TV EARLY SPRING 1978

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RwDt09

4 жыл бұрын

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@josearturogarza5114 4 жыл бұрын

Well it was *Chips,Love Boat, Fantasy Island* Saturday Nights at our house.

@sandrathomas4485 4 жыл бұрын

Same here : )

@luisreyes1963 4 жыл бұрын

Funny thing, 2 of those shows became movies. CHIPs back in 2017 & Fantasy Island this year, but as a horror movie.

@classictvfan305 2 жыл бұрын

I wish they would make fantasy Island and love boat available to purchase on digital. I own the complete series of chips but it would be nice to re-create those Saturday nights.

@shawnp6744 9 ай бұрын

11 years old in 1978. This was my life.

@thebestisyettocome4114 4 жыл бұрын

Enjoyable. Made a little money. Good people. Good memories. Co production. Chips, Facts of life, Different Strokes and Sanford and Son. NBC Burbank Benjamin Hahn, retired Beverly Hills CA Age 97

@shawnn1412 4 жыл бұрын

You did work that kept me entertained and out of trouble on many a night. Thank you, sir.

@robmclean4352 4 жыл бұрын

"Mel and Susan Together" is so obscure it doesn't even have a Wikipedia page (it lasted only four weeks). The similarity to "Donnie and Marie" is no accident; it was produced by the Osmonds.

@donaldpaluga 4 жыл бұрын

The show is mentioned on WIki's Mel Tillis entry

@thanto575 3 жыл бұрын

Seeing the opening of Kojack is like a warped fragment of a bygone era.

@Portugal2025 4 жыл бұрын

We had a ‘the plane’ drinking game. Pretty easy but we were young and lame and of course broke. Got to save that beer

@bloodrunsclear 4 жыл бұрын

Recently went back and watched the whole Kojak series. Great detective series! With this lineup I might watch TV more often than I do (almost never)

@jrodlange8099 Ай бұрын

I was 7 years old at this time. From about 78'-82', particularly while in school season, Saturday Nights were Love Boat & Fantasy Island. Growing up in the Twin Cities during winter watching these shows, I still remember thinking to myself, what the heck are we doing here in the tundra? The Boat and Fantasy Island is where I wanted to be!:)

@lk8181 4 жыл бұрын

It's amazing how many iconic shows were on Saturday in 1978. Was The Love Boat the greatest product placement ever on TV? An entire generation or two learned what Princess Cruise Lines was. I know as a kid the family schedule was Chips, Love Boat, and Fantasy Island. Although I know we watched The Jeffersons and Kojak at certain points too.

@baylinkdashyt 3 жыл бұрын

Gotta say it was. And getting one or two shoots a year on the actual boat must not have sucked any for the cast and guests, either... :-)

@RedForeman301 Жыл бұрын

You are right, that was the Saturday night lineup!!

@MidnightBanshi 4 жыл бұрын

I remember watching Kojak among other things, but don't remember that particular intro. That must have been very early on in the series. Just takes me back to happier times.

@andrewpragasam 4 жыл бұрын

That intro was from the final season of Kojak's original run.

@astarshiptoguidemeby3741 4 жыл бұрын

Ted Knight the German soldier from Combat 62-67. Along with Fugitive the 2 best human dramas of all time ever on American television.

@1sabbsfan 4 жыл бұрын

Both were fantastic shows

@gregggoss2210 4 жыл бұрын

Nice one. I was in my junior year of high school and most likely not home watching TV on Saturday nights. Out being young and stupid, and enjoying life. I do miss the Movies of the week though.

@jupitermarx 2 жыл бұрын

Great year for TV!!!

@demetriusdillard2863 4 жыл бұрын

Sadly, "Maude," "Kojak," "Another Day" (four episodes aired in April of '78), and "The Ted Knight Show" (six telecasts)--along with "The Bob Newhart Show" and "The Carol Burnett Show"--would be axed by CBS midway through the spring of '78. Thankfully, "The Jeffersons" remained a ratings mainstay for CBS until its abrupt cancellation in the summer of '85. I did find it peculiar that Adrienne Barbeau's name wasn't mentioned in the opening credits of "Maude" that particular season (you can spot an all-too-brief shot of her left breast at 8:47-8:48, however). Oh, well. ABC kicked major ass--and would continue to be ratings blockbusters, well into the next decade--on Saturdays with "The Love Boat" and "Fantasy Island" (both executive produced by Aaron Spelling). And "CHiPs" would eventually become one of NBC's most popular series (along with "Real People" and "Diff'rent Strokes") during a dark period of uncertainty for the "Peacock Network," mainly because of Fred Silverman's disastrous three-year tenure ('78 to '81) as NBC's president. Fortunately, the late Brandon Tartikoff reversed NBC's ratings woes a few years later. Another wonderful job, RwDt09...keep up the good work, bro!

@Anthony-qg3qo 2 жыл бұрын

saturday nights growing up in 70s was lawrence welk and hockey night in canada, sundays i remember walt disney movies or shows. Chips was a fav, emergency, 6 million dollar man, 70s tv was better than today imo, just thinking of all the classic shows from 70s.

@plauditecives 4 жыл бұрын

I love the theme song from "Maude."

@josearturogarza5114 4 жыл бұрын

Donny Hathaway sang theme.

@gregggoss2210 4 жыл бұрын

Family Guy did a parody of that song. Hilarious!

@luisreyes1963 4 жыл бұрын

Great song to piss off Donald Trump fans. 😆

@adambrickell6425 3 жыл бұрын

@@luisreyes1963 I'm a Trump fan and I love the song! Why do you run your mouth about something that you obviously don't know about!

@Laceykat66 4 жыл бұрын

They really worked to make Susan Anton popular. She just never had what it took. I forgot Operation Petticoat was that late in the decade. I would have said '73 or '74. I do not remember The Ted Knight Show at all and I watched a lot of tv back then. Must have been a Love Boat addict. Amazing how CBS which owned Saturday Night for most of the decade lost it so fast to ABC. Thanks for the memories.

@demetriusdillard2863 Жыл бұрын

CBS did dominate Saturday nights throughout much of the seventies, particularly during the 1973-74 fall season when "All In The Family," "M*A*S*H," "The Mary Tyler Moore Show," "The Bob Newhart Show," and "The Carol Burnett Show" all aired back-to-back from 8 to 11 pm. Undoubtedly one of the greatest primetime lineups in the history of American television, bar none.

@RobCamp-rmc_0 3 жыл бұрын

Holy smoke, Mel Tormé and Susan Sarandon? Together? Wowza!

@demetriusdillard2863 Жыл бұрын

Actually, the "Mel and Susan" in the opening intro at 0:18 are Mel Tillis and Susan Anton, not Mel Torme and Susan Sarandon. Nice try, but no cigar.

@ludhugs 4 жыл бұрын

From the openings, it appears that CHiPs was in its first season, and Maude and Kojak were in their last seasons. I know Fantasy Island was a mid-season replacement, so I’m thinking this was its first season as well...

@quad5186 4 жыл бұрын

ludhugs the star credits in the corner of the screen and the Jeep also. They centered the guests and had the Chrysler ( tie-in ,Ricardo?) wagons with the doors removed and canopy’s for roofs .

@bobm7250 2 жыл бұрын

"CHiP's" did better on Saturdays than on Thursdays! Season 2 was when the theme song went full disco!

@demetriusdillard2863 Жыл бұрын

"CHiPs" was equally successful on Sundays during the 1980-81 season, despite heavy competition from CBS' "Archie Bunker's Place" and "One Day At A Time."

@bobm7250 Жыл бұрын

@@demetriusdillard2863 Same thing during the 1981-82 season, when it was up against "Today's F.B.I.".

@demetriusdillard2863 Жыл бұрын

Aw, shucks! I had completely forgotten about "Today's F.B.I."! Thanks for commenting, @@bobm7250!

@bobm7250 Жыл бұрын

To the point, "CHiP's" stood for California Highway Patrol. The 'i' was part of the word "highway". Also, if you examined back between 1969 & 1972, "Hawaii Five-0" was @ 10PM every Wednesday until the fall of 1971, when it moved to 8:30PM on Tuesday on CBS.

@bobm7250 Жыл бұрын

The most violent episode of "Hawaii Five-0" aired on September 21, 1971, where McGarrett investigated a crime boss taking over a criminal underground, by killing the people who didn't belong by putting them into an incinerator, wiping away their identities!

@alanoldham1700 4 жыл бұрын

They really tried to push Susan Anton back in the day.

@reving19 4 жыл бұрын

Was it because Dudley Moore was her main squeeze?

@donaldpaluga 4 жыл бұрын

WHATAMODEL!-Mel Tillis

@dianabeurman364 Жыл бұрын

They did!

@sheilaholmes996 11 ай бұрын

Never liked her, thought her talent was somewhat limited.

@williamsheets9539 Жыл бұрын

"This is the NBC television network...Is there anyone there? Anyone?"

@archer1949 4 жыл бұрын

Apparently, Saturday was a Prime Time prestige slot. I wonder when it became the Network graveyard?

@RwDt09 4 жыл бұрын

ABC and NBC pretty well threw in the towel on original Saturday night programming with the start of the fall 2000-01 season, handing the night over to mostly movies, series repeats, specials and sports programming (ABC's Saturday Night Football began airing in the fall of 2006). CBS kept steady with original programming, mostly drama series, till the summer of 2004, when odds and ends were then slipped in followed by turning the night over to mostly 2 hours of crime drama repeats, under the label of Crimetime Saturday, and 48 Hours, which pretty much still exists to this day. FOX would continue with its Cops and America's Most Wanted, eventually replacing each at different seasons with mostly repeats until the network began to gradually add more sports programming into the night starting in the fall of 2013.

@demetriusdillard2863 Жыл бұрын

If memory serves, the 1997-98 fall season was one of the final years (if not the very last) to have a full lineup on Saturday night. With the exceptions of CBS' "Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman" and "Walker: Texas Ranger" as well as Fox's "Cops" and "America's Most Wanted," all of the debuting programs scheduled on Saturdays during that aforementioned season--ABC's "C-16" and "Total Security," and NBC's "Sleepwalkers"--all fizzled out as quickly as they had premiered.

@gogoyubari366 3 ай бұрын

Georgia Engel and Lauren Tewes were so pretty!

@moviesgalore9947 Жыл бұрын

That torpedo going up the beach exploding the truck is from McHale's Navy it was used in a few movies and TV shows.

@donaldpaluga 4 жыл бұрын

Saw they made a movie reboot of Fantasy Island As a horror flick. #KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!

@luisreyes1963 4 жыл бұрын

Well if Hollywood can re-do shows like Charlie's Angels, Starsky & Hutch or even CHIPs into bad comedies, anything's possible. For all intents and purposes, Elizabeth Warren's presidential campaign is a reboot of Maude! 😆

@chrislang9442 4 жыл бұрын

I am your Yeoman Purser.

@ma55aracin9 4 жыл бұрын

Great work as always, bro. As for that particular *Chip's* intro music track......i do suspect that it was used for the series' first few episodes if not its whole 1st season. #PleaseConfirm EDIT: Did those Honda cop bikes actually sported DOHC V-Twin engines back then? Then again #PleaseConfirm

@adambrickell6425 3 жыл бұрын

Susan Anton was gorgeous 😍

@CrossJeniel 4 жыл бұрын

Nice

@lp-xl9ld 4 жыл бұрын

This must have been the night that I did my weekend homework (I was in high school) because I don't remember watching *any* of these! Guess Friday and Sunday were better that year...unless there was a really good movie on NBC

@RwDt09 4 жыл бұрын

Well, I guess you can check out Friday - kzfaq.info/get/bejne/iNypg9hqq9magZs.html Haven't done Sunday for that spring, maybe I should do that next and just complete weekend.

@adambrickell6425 3 жыл бұрын

I was in grade school

@catsareawesomemckinnon3393 2 жыл бұрын

I don't remember Chips coming on on a Saturday night. I remember it on Sundays. Same with the Jeffersons. I guess that was in later year's.

@shaggyaxe 4 жыл бұрын

7:09 Sounds like Paul Williams did the theme song? If not, it sure sounds like him.

@demetriusdillard2863 4 жыл бұрын

I believe that is Paul Williams singing the theme for "Another Day," shaggyaxe.

@shaggyaxe 4 жыл бұрын

Ugh, NBC now blocked the video.

@demetriusdillard2863 4 жыл бұрын

Ouch. Thanks for the warning, @@shaggyaxe .

@shaggyaxe 4 жыл бұрын

Interesting how the comment threads live on, behind the scenes. Even though comments are now disabled on the video.

@ThatJohnKillion1970 3 жыл бұрын

Ted Knight: "You'll get nothing and like it!"

@adambrickell6425 3 жыл бұрын

I can't remember what was on at 8 pm on Saturday

@wiedep Жыл бұрын

Talk about an lifeless ID, @10:05 Howard Reig goes thru the motions.

@TheLastchild101 4 жыл бұрын

Wasn't The Carol Burnett Show on Saturday nights on CBS?

@luisreyes1963 4 жыл бұрын

It was from 1973-77 on CBS.

@demetriusdillard2863 Жыл бұрын

Sadly, Carol would throw in the proverbial towel that spring. And if my memory serves me correctly, CBS moved Carol's long-running comedy/variety show from Saturdays to Sundays in December of '77 (shortly after Harvey Korman's departure), due to declining ratings.