Ditto. I would go and buy it a 7-11 the Tuesday it was to come out I remember TV guide we hit the stores on Tuesday every week without fail. The network's and local TV stations used to spend big bucks on ads in those magazines at the time and those season premiere issues were huge and that was before cable TV.
@11:00 Wow! William Daniels' voice is so unique, you can pick him out of any crowd. He's so young and handsome in that clip and as always, a very fine actor.
I was 15 in 1975. Out of all that, I'm only aware of Starsky and Hutch, Ellery Queen, Switch, Welcome Back Kotter and Phyllis. The rest of those shows must have come from a parallel earth. Then again, at 15 I was always outside with my friends causing trouble, so maybe I just didn't spend too much time in front of the TV set.
I watched them filming Starsky & Hutch in a hotel on Hollywood Blvd, just west of Western Ave. THE car was there. Almost got run over by Paul Michael Glaser in his black BMW (or Mercedes) during a break. Met Lynne Marta who was in the episode.
Fun! They used to film on my block of McCadden Pl near Highland and Sunset. They would block it off for hours and it would be hard to get to my apartment.
Loved Starsky and Hutch. Met my BFF over a love of that show. Both David Soul and David Michael Glazer remained friends. Sadly, I recently saw a photo of them. David Soul has lived and worked in the UK for decades and DMG was visiting him as Soul is quite ill. The photo was of DMG pushing Soul in his wheelchair down a street. You remember them as young but forget time catches up with all of us.
I was 12 and on a total Robin Hood kick. I watched all the old movies, read the stories, and loved the PBS series. This spoof made me take a step back and have a good laugh at it, which I really enjoyed. Too bad it got cancelled so soon!
In 1975 I was a junior in high school and spent most of my time drinking beer and smoking pot with my buddies.I didn't watch too much TV,but I remember Starsky and Hutch.WTF was up with that show Holvak? A preacher who lays in bed with his preteen son?Somebody was ahead of their time,lol.
I've always thought it was interesting that When Things Were Rotten was completely different than Mel Brook's movie Men in Tights. I remember at the time thinking that MIT would be an update of the TV show and it's really completely different.
Sort of...and yet not. It's hard to say "Parody of Robin Hood" and have similarities. The WEIRDEST thing is that when asked where he got the idea for "RH: MIT", Mel said he just got the idea one day....he NEVER EVEN mentioned his OWN show, WTWR!!
Funny, I didn't see "Big Eddie" in this montage...it debuted on CBS in August and lasted until November (it was scheduled opposite NBC's "Sanford and Son" on Fridays, hence its sudden cancellation). In any case, this was a wonderful montage! Thanks, RwDt09!
Big Eddie was added at the end, as a photo insert from TV Guide's Fall Preview, along with a few other shows for which no TV intros or promos have been found to date.
Thank you for commenting, RwDt09. I spotted the TV Guide fall preview excerpt for "Big Eddie" at 28:54. I tell ya...my eyesight just ain't what it used to be.
At the 10:57 mark during the NBC promo for the short-lived medical drama "Doctors' Hospital" you see George Peppard with William Daniels. By the 1982-83 TV season for NBC, Peppard would return to fame as John "Hannibal" Smith on "The A-Team" and Daniels would star on "St. Elsewhere" as Dr. Mark Craig and also voicing K.I.T.T. on "Knight Rider".
@@tolfan4438 And Irwin Allen kept going to the disaster movie trope until When Time Ran Out bombed. At least Paul Newman put his salary for that movie to good use......
Ellery Queen (4:29) was I've if the best series...period. It was created for TV by Levinson and Link, who also gave the world Columbo. The writing and plots really pull you in. Unfortunately it didn't do terrific, ratings-wise (thank goodness I've got them all), and it fit pulled relatively early.
I loved the Ellery Queen series. I thought it was so cool when he would talk to the audience towards the end of the show about clues during the episode and asked if you figured out who did it.
I recall watching Saturday Night Live with Howard Cossel at 5:00pm Arizona time. A trip down memory lane to a simpler time. No computers, cell phones, or social media. Children played outside. I miss the 70’s
I forgot about most of these shows except for the more well known ones like Welcome Back Kotter and Starsky and Hutch. There some really great shows in the 70s, but a lot of others that seemed like "lets throw it against the wall and see if it sticks".
In looking at these shows, something kinda sad came up in my mind. I feel that shows back in the 70s where much more diverse than shows now. I am sure that stereotypes were running rampant, but I like to see different kinds of people doing everyday kinds of things.
Today in tv and movies they generally see what sells and just put out 30 clones with different people in them. That has always been the case but now it's the standard in the industries of film, tv, and music.
I thought Vincent Van Patten was one of the Van Pattens that fell off the face of the Earth, but it turns out he was in Rock 'n' Roll High School and had a recurring role on Baywatch.
I loved Welcome Back Kotter, Switch, Starsky and Hutch. I remember Medical Story but as a kid I didn't watch it. I remember Swiss Family Robinson and Phyllis too but didnt watch.
Since this video was posted, one more of the new shows of Fall '75 has popped up here on CZcams: episode #5 of "The Montefuscos" (called by critics "The Monte-fiascos"), posted by one of the show's child stars, Robby Paris (as he was then known).
Thanks for the alert. Now I've got a copy of its intro, as poor quality as the video is. I believe in my video above the show appears in just a promo form because there was no intro for it that I could find at the time.
I was watching TV in 1975 and yes... it was this bad. Even worse most of us had only 7 channels plus PBS, some had only 3, or even 2. We read a lot or, at least a lot more than most do now -
I don't think I'd ever seen Alex Rocco positioned as a Lead on anything before... he's almost been universally cast as 'the tough guy', a Gangster, or somebody's dad (who Is or Was thought to be a gangster/Tough guy)
That all came later in laugh for Rocco. The Famous Teddy Z, of course...and s surprising likeable, sensitive performance opposite Joan Rivers on The Love Boat. EVEN JOAN is likeable...
Missed it the First time I watched this video (heck, forgot I'd even watched it a month or so back) but a LOT of shows (75%? ) seemed to be named after the Lead Character(s)
out of all those 27 shows, 21 of them were cancelled after the first season and few episodes, Phyllis and Doc lasted two seasons, Switch lasted three season and Only Welcome Back Kotter and also "Starsky and Hutch" lasted four season. People seem to not give shows a chance.
Starsky and Hutch are supposed to be undercover, but nothing about their car was, big bright red, and a loud engine and one of a kind, so you knew it was them on your tail or sitting out side waiting to bust you!
The usual collection of cops, detectives, doctors, and once in a while something connected to the Old West. When Times Were Rotten and Phyllis seem to be the only rather original shows in this line-up.
The brain an amazing organ. Although I don't remember most of these clips, some of them felt so familiar that I felt like I saw them only last year, and I definitely haven't seen them since they came out 48 years ago. I mean, how much data is in this brain of mine? Gigabytes? Terabytes? Petabytes? Not only did I recognize many of the clips, but occasionally I knew what I was going to see one second before I saw it.
Wait a minute! Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell? In 1975? This is where SNL got its start? No wonder they created the Not Ready For Prime Time Players.
What does an 18 year old today, - think of life 50 years ago ? It can't be the same as when I was 18 years old; when I was 18 - 50 years ago was like ancient history.
I remember Jack Palance on The Tonight Show justifying/explaining his series' name, Bronk. Johnny Carson asked something along the lines of what is he(?), meaning the title character and Jack Palance says, "He's Bronk!?" I can't be the only person who remembers this.
Well, the 90s TV show Seinfeld devoted a whole episode to two guys (Jerry's friend George Costanza, and another guy who was a friend of Kramer) fighting over a parking space, in front of Jerry's building...that was "insanity" personified!
I never got what was happening in that scene. It looked like the bad guys chased the cops into the parking lot and then didn't resist when the cops arrested them.
Starsky and Hutch for me. The Huggy Bear character added a nice touch to the show
Starsky's sweater was badass
I couldn't wait for the fall preview TV Guide. Mostly to see what was going to be on Saturday morning.
Sometimes they'd have a primetime special going-over the new Saturday morning line-up.
@@scottdaniels8129 Like Friday night if I recall. I remember.
Ditto. I would go and buy it a 7-11 the Tuesday it was to come out I remember TV guide we hit the stores on Tuesday every week without fail. The network's and local TV stations used to spend big bucks on ads in those magazines at the time and those season premiere issues were huge and that was before cable TV.
Sid & Marty Krofft shows were the best ❤️
Me too!😊
RIP David McCallum (The Invisible Man, 8:27).
Welcome Back Kotter was one of my favorites as a kid!!!!!!!!☺
19:05 With one of the best TV show theme songs ever! By John Sebastian. ;)
Don’t watch it as an adult! It’s unbelievably awful..
Hi there.
@@HailAnts - they all ended up like that...laverne and shirley has to be the absolute worst...
The theme from "Phyllis" perfectly suited the character and was a great parody of Jerry Herman.
"It sure isn't you." BURN!
Starsky and Hutch was my favorite show as a kid
These are so much better than the 1979 compilation. Not a single disco theme song.
The 1970s rocked but thankfully for this video I realized how many Duds we had as well😢
Even the shows that got rejected are a million times better than the crap that's on tv..
I agree!
AgnosticProle absoloutly YES!
It is even worse now in 2019.
Exactly right!
Maybe we were just young
Some of the best TV theme songs were written throughout the 1970's.
@11:00 Wow! William Daniels' voice is so unique, you can pick him out of any crowd. He's so young and handsome in that clip and as always, a very fine actor.
Before the mustache.
I was 15 in 1975. Out of all that, I'm only aware of Starsky and Hutch, Ellery Queen, Switch, Welcome Back Kotter and Phyllis. The rest of those shows must have come from a parallel earth. Then again, at 15 I was always outside with my friends causing trouble, so maybe I just didn't spend too much time in front of the TV set.
Starsky and Hutch and Welcome Back Kotter were the only 2 I watched as a 7 year old.
Those were the only two real hits in the video. The hitting percentage for new shows was particularly low that year.
Switch was a semi-hit.
6:48 - Roscoe Lee Brown, a phenomenal actor. Loved him in "The Cowboys"
May God forgive me for the men that I’ve killed, and for those that I’m about to. He had the best line in the whole flick! Classic.
He is instantly recognizable but I always forget his name is “Roscoe”. Doesn’t come across like a Roscoe to me lol
@@brinsonharris9816 It's _still_ chilling to even think about it.
LOVED that movie!😊
I loved Welcome Back Kotter. I had a Sweathogs t-shirt. So cool 😎
I watched them filming Starsky & Hutch in a hotel on Hollywood Blvd, just west of Western Ave. THE car was there.
Almost got run over by Paul Michael Glaser in his black BMW (or Mercedes) during a break. Met Lynne Marta who was in the episode.
Fun! They used to film on my block of McCadden Pl near Highland and Sunset. They would block it off for hours and it would be hard to get to my apartment.
Totally loved your memory of that !!! Sooooo cool 👍
This post was fantastic....thanks so much for posting this....
75 was a good year. Even some of the shows that didn't make it were good
With or without the 'Bay City Rollers'?
@@tomryan914 wit of course
The season of my all-time favorite TV show -- "Ellery Queen" starring Jim Hutton and David Wayne.
One of the best TV shows ever
Loved the 70s cop shows and how much running one had to do to make a living
Loved Starsky and Hutch. Met my BFF over a love of that show. Both David Soul and David Michael Glazer remained friends. Sadly, I recently saw a photo of them. David Soul has lived and worked in the UK for decades and DMG was visiting him as Soul is quite ill. The photo was of DMG pushing Soul in his wheelchair down a street. You remember them as young but forget time catches up with all of us.
It's Paul MG.
I keep forgetting about When Things Where Rotten. It’s clearly a prototype for Men In Tights! At least he didn’t give up on the idea.
TBF Dick Gautier didn't have a perfect English accent
17:39 The theme song, and the images shown during it, made me think "Monty Python", LOL
And something about that theme song reminded me of the tune from the 1950's Doctor Doolittle (with Rex Harrison)!
I was 12 and on a total Robin Hood kick. I watched all the old movies, read the stories, and loved the PBS series. This spoof made me take a step back and have a good laugh at it, which I really enjoyed. Too bad it got cancelled so soon!
They robbed the rich, gave to the poor, except what they kept for expenses!
It's interesting the psychology of tv, how they use grittiness/cleanliness to depict different cop shows and cities.
In 1975 I was a junior in high school and spent most of my time drinking beer and smoking pot with my buddies.I didn't watch too much TV,but I remember Starsky and Hutch.WTF was up with that show Holvak? A preacher who lays in bed with his preteen son?Somebody was ahead of their time,lol.
And why is dad 65? Mom appears to be in her 30's.
I've always thought it was interesting that When Things Were Rotten was completely different than Mel Brook's movie Men in Tights. I remember at the time thinking that MIT would be an update of the TV show and it's really completely different.
Sort of...and yet not. It's hard to say "Parody of Robin Hood" and have similarities. The WEIRDEST thing is that when asked where he got the idea for "RH: MIT", Mel said he just got the idea one day....he NEVER EVEN mentioned his OWN show, WTWR!!
Funny, I didn't see "Big Eddie" in this montage...it debuted on CBS in August and lasted until November (it was scheduled opposite NBC's "Sanford and Son" on Fridays, hence its sudden cancellation). In any case, this was a wonderful montage! Thanks, RwDt09!
Big Eddie was added at the end, as a photo insert from TV Guide's Fall Preview, along with a few other shows for which no TV intros or promos have been found to date.
Thank you for commenting, RwDt09. I spotted the TV Guide fall preview excerpt for "Big Eddie" at 28:54. I tell ya...my eyesight just ain't what it used to be.
At the 10:57 mark during the NBC promo for the short-lived medical drama "Doctors' Hospital" you see George Peppard with William Daniels. By the 1982-83 TV season for NBC, Peppard would return to fame as John "Hannibal" Smith on "The A-Team" and Daniels would star on "St. Elsewhere" as Dr. Mark Craig and also voicing K.I.T.T. on "Knight Rider".
He was also Mr. Feeney in the 90s
Also, a very young John Larroquette 😊
Glenn Ford was a surly dude, several times married. Wife # 1 was famed Queen of Tap, Eleanor Powell.
Bit weird, Irwin Allen doing a production of SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON in '75, when you consider that he did it in space ten years earlier...
It seems he was running out of ideas by this time.
Yeah, but Swiss Family didn't have a Dr Smith character.
@@kali3665 yeah but it did have Helen Hunt
@@tolfan4438 True. :-)
@@tolfan4438 And Irwin Allen kept going to the disaster movie trope until When Time Ran Out bombed.
At least Paul Newman put his salary for that movie to good use......
Ellery Queen (4:29) was I've if the best series...period.
It was created for TV by Levinson and Link, who also gave the world Columbo.
The writing and plots really pull you in. Unfortunately it didn't do terrific, ratings-wise (thank goodness I've got them all), and it fit pulled relatively early.
They also did Murder; She Wrote and I believe one of their Ellery Queen unused scripts was used in that show.
Ellery Queen was a great series…very overlooked. Jim Hutton was a fantastic actor. We lost him much, much too early☹️
I loved the Ellery Queen series. I thought it was so cool when he would talk to the audience towards the end of the show about clues during the episode and asked if you figured out who did it.
Yup. I loved that show.
Love the theme music
I recall watching Saturday Night Live with Howard Cossel at 5:00pm Arizona time. A trip down memory lane to a simpler time. No computers, cell phones, or social media. Children played outside. I miss the 70’s
Me too bro 🤸
Larry Hagman with the Widows peak.!!!!😂 Roscoe Lee Brown, Hardest working black actor of the 70's.
Love Roscoe Lee Brown! Always such a regal demeanor 😎
Looks like Joe Forrester picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.
Comment of the Week.
Seemed like everyone was trying to run away from a time that was really wonderful
On the Rocks was based on a British program called Porridge, staring Richard Beckinsdale, father of Kate.
And Ronnie Barker
The 1975-76 season is the first on CBS without Gunsmoke.
Yep.
Was that the only show to survive the purge when they got rid of other country shows?
LOTS Of famous voices on the V/Os...Lloyd Bridges on "Holvak"...
I'm here for Hubby Bear from Starsky and Hutch!
I’m curious about Bronk. Had no idea that existed. Looks and feels like one of the NBC Mystery Movie shows.
I don't remember Lloyd Bridges announcing all these shows...of course I was 8 at the time.
I had NO idea these shows ever existed except for Starsky and Hutch.
Except for Welcome Back Kotter and ugh Phyllis a spin off of Mary Tyler Moore.
Memories 💜 love it ps RIP TONY CURTIS Aliase Bernard Schwartz and RIP LARRY HANGMAN Alias Major Anthony Nelson and JR EWING and OTHER S
HAGMAN
Huggy bear was so cool
I forgot about most of these shows except for the more well known ones like Welcome Back Kotter and Starsky and Hutch. There some really great shows in the 70s, but a lot of others that seemed like "lets throw it against the wall and see if it sticks".
It's still that way today and most shows rightfully fall straight to the ground, imo.
In looking at these shows, something kinda sad came up in my mind. I feel that shows back in the 70s where much more diverse than shows now. I am sure that stereotypes were running rampant, but I like to see different kinds of people doing everyday kinds of things.
Today in tv and movies they generally see what sells and just put out 30 clones with different people in them. That has always been the case but now it's the standard in the industries of film, tv, and music.
Never realized that William Shatner was a star in quite a few TV series.
I thought Vincent Van Patten was one of the Van Pattens that fell off the face of the Earth, but it turns out he was in Rock 'n' Roll High School and had a recurring role on Baywatch.
His uncle Timothy directed a lot of HBO stuff. Sopranos, Boardwalk Empire, & even GOT.
5:50 Sharon Gless (pre-Cagney & Lacey), in something called "Switch"(?)...also had Robert Wagner.
I was 4 when Starskey and Hutch came out but caught reruns later on.
+Shirley'sBoy4ever.Amen! There's nothing-I repeat-nothing that's good today.You are spot on!
I loved Welcome Back Kotter, Switch, Starsky and Hutch. I remember Medical Story but as a kid I didn't watch it. I remember Swiss Family Robinson and Phyllis too but didnt watch.
Had forgotten that Jack Palace had a TV series before Ripley's Believe It Or Not.
The only ones I remember were Starsky and Hutch, Swiss Family Robinson, and Welcome Back, Kotter,
It seems like an odd choice to see Starsky chasing down bad guys while wearing a cozy sweater.
From Friday and Gannon to Starsky and Hutch! Thank you lord!
I never saw The Invisible Man.
I saw what you did there
it was very underated
It was on like half a season and I don't know why. It was a decent show
Neither did we-Ray Charles and Stevie Wonder
Great show. Wish it had more of a chance.
Eddie Egan in Joe Forrester was the real Popeye Doyle from the French Connection
Dr. Craig on a medical show B4 the legendary St. Elsewhere!!!
William Daniels went on to the role of Mr. George Fenney on ABC's Boy Meets World and served as President of the Screen Actors Guild.
Anything that was produced by Quinn martin was a quality show.
Great theme music in the Matt Helm credits.
HAH! We have Hannibal Smith and K.I.T.T. and Loyd Bridges all in 1 place!
I grew up in the 70's and never heard of half of these shows. Some must be Canadian.
Since this video was posted, one more of the new shows of Fall '75 has popped up here on CZcams: episode #5 of "The Montefuscos" (called by critics "The Monte-fiascos"), posted by one of the show's child stars, Robby Paris (as he was then known).
Thanks for the alert. Now I've got a copy of its intro, as poor quality as the video is. I believe in my video above the show appears in just a promo form because there was no intro for it that I could find at the time.
Memories good and bad unfortunately RIP JACK Palance
I was watching TV in 1975 and yes... it was this bad. Even worse most of us had only 7 channels plus PBS, some had only 3, or even 2.
We read a lot or, at least a lot more than most do now -
Well done. Awesome!
Evidently there were 2 cities in the country at this particular period in time. New York and LA.
Oh yes! Starsky and Hutch!!
NCIS' Ducky as the Invisible Man .
I don't think I'd ever seen Alex Rocco positioned as a Lead on anything before... he's almost been universally cast as 'the tough guy', a Gangster, or somebody's dad (who Is or Was thought to be a gangster/Tough guy)
Check out "Detroit 5000" where Rocca is the lead and the hero. He did a good job.
That all came later in laugh for Rocco. The Famous Teddy Z, of course...and s surprising likeable, sensitive performance opposite Joan Rivers on The Love Boat. EVEN JOAN is likeable...
Missed it the First time I watched this video (heck, forgot I'd even watched it a month or so back) but a LOT of shows (75%? ) seemed to be named after the Lead Character(s)
The phyllis theme made me laugh out loud when I heard it! Lol
Oddly enough, the only one of these shows that I watched dubbed on French-Canadian TV was Swiss Family Robinsons
out of all those 27 shows, 21 of them were cancelled after the first season and few episodes, Phyllis and Doc lasted two seasons, Switch lasted three season and Only Welcome Back Kotter and also "Starsky and Hutch" lasted four season. People seem to not give shows a chance.
Starsky and Hutch are supposed to be undercover, but nothing about their car was, big bright red, and a loud engine and one of a kind, so you knew it was them on your tail or sitting out side waiting to bust you!
They commented about that on their own show.
Car form achieved perfection in the mid 70's
Maybe car "form" did, but car gas mileage didn't.
@@not-so-smartaleck8987 oh definitely not they burned a dinosaur a day
Especially the Mobile One station wagon.
8:27 funny how that sounds like the theme to Schindler's List
Jim Hutton's son was an Oscar winning actor.
And like many of those in Hollywood, he quickly faded away into obscurity.
I am here for all this cheese. This is the TV of my childhood.
Memories good and bad RIP Jack Palance
"Doc" was good when it began but they re-tooled it for the second season and ruined it.
I remember them doing the same to Buck Rogers in 79
was it my Imagination, or was that Lloyd Bridges doing VO on some of these promos?
He probably narrated a special on NBC's new programs where many of these clips came from.
@@ForemanFan The 1975 NBC fall preview special with Lloyd Bridges is posted on You Tube.
Craig Stevens was married to actress Alexis Smith.
I get it now. American TV has sucked for the last fifty years.
*Jewish
i always wondered what mandlebaum did before opening a crepes' restaurant...
It’s go time
The usual collection of cops, detectives, doctors, and once in a while something connected to the Old West. When Times Were Rotten and Phyllis seem to be the only rather original shows in this line-up.
My favorite two shows were Emergency and Adam 12 plus Chips
The brain an amazing organ. Although I don't remember most of these clips, some of them felt so familiar that I felt like I saw them only last year, and I definitely haven't seen them since they came out 48 years ago. I mean, how much data is in this brain of mine? Gigabytes? Terabytes? Petabytes? Not only did I recognize many of the clips, but occasionally I knew what I was going to see one second before I saw it.
Wow Helen Hunt 13:12 still had a huge high forehead even as a kid.
Wait a minute! Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell? In 1975? This is where SNL got its start? No wonder they created the Not Ready For Prime Time Players.
Fall 1975 for SNL starting, yes, but HC had his own show called Saturday Night, so it was entirely different.
Starsky and Hutch had a big following back in the mid 70's in the gay male community
Mobile One clearly inspired Anchorman. The actor even resembles Will Ferrell.
What does an 18 year old today, - think of life 50 years ago ?
It can't be the same as when I was 18 years old; when I was 18 - 50 years ago was like ancient history.
the first post-golden age prime time season. can this really be what followed the 1974 season?
To this day I haven't watched a single episode of Welcome Back Kotter ...nor do I regret it .
Why?🤔
I thought the show was great. If you don't want to give it a chance, that's your business.
@@jeffw1267 Fancy that ....me speaking my business
Starsky & Hutch was EVERYTHING to this 10 year old girl. I had a massive crush on Starsky (Paul Michael Glaser).
Is Lloyd Bridges doing some of the narration here?
I remember Jack Palance on The Tonight Show justifying/explaining his series' name, Bronk. Johnny Carson asked something along the lines of what is he(?), meaning the title character and Jack Palance says, "He's Bronk!?" I can't be the only person who remembers this.
I remember him saying, "Bronk is Bronk."
0:29
The most insane fight for a good parkingspace ever!
Well, the 90s TV show Seinfeld devoted a whole episode to two guys (Jerry's friend George Costanza, and another guy who was a friend of Kramer) fighting over a parking space, in front of Jerry's building...that was "insanity" personified!
I never got what was happening in that scene. It looked like the bad guys chased the cops into the parking lot and then didn't resist when the cops arrested them.