So. It’s getting late and I don’t want to screw around.
Continue reading ‘Disaster on the Coastliner’ (1979): Shatner leads fun, silly, TV disaster thrillerTag Archives: 1970s
‘Shazam!’: Positive & upbeat, Filmation’s 70s series is always worth revisiting
“Oh, Elders fleet and strong and wise, appear before my seeking eyes.”
Continue reading ‘Shazam!’: Positive & upbeat, Filmation’s 70s series is always worth revisitingSecret Stories of Hitler: ‘Swastika’ & TV documentaries highlight DVD collection
Mill Creek Entertainment has taken three Adolf Hitler-themed documentaries (one feature length, and two long-form TV outings), and put them together in a newly-monikered set, Secret Stories of Hitler.
Continue reading Secret Stories of Hitler: ‘Swastika’ & TV documentaries highlight DVD collection‘Dallas’ (Season 2): A cheatin’, double-crossin’, backstabbin’ legacy begins
It’s been over forty years since CBS’ Dallas, in its sophomore 1978-79 season, moved to Friday nights and started its run as the highest-rated TV series of the first half of the 1980s.
Continue reading ‘Dallas’ (Season 2): A cheatin’, double-crossin’, backstabbin’ legacy begins‘Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown’ (1975): Emotional & engaging, one of the best Peanuts specials
Not pulling any punches, 1975’s Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown successfully translates cartoonist Charles M. Schulz‘ conflicted feelings about love and romance within the standard Peanuts TV special framework. It took guts to put something out there that might make little kids sad—as well as giving the adults watching pause for thought.
Continue reading ‘Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown’ (1975): Emotional & engaging, one of the best Peanuts specials‘Medical Center’ (Season 1): Sexy, dreamy Chad Everett solves your medical & romantic issues
Dreamy Dr. Joe Gannon can crack my chest open anytime. In fact, he already did…when he first flashed those cold, cold baby blues at me….
Continue reading ‘Medical Center’ (Season 1): Sexy, dreamy Chad Everett solves your medical & romantic issues‘Captain & Tennille in New Orleans’ (1978): Skip the comedy, get to the music!
When Daryl Dragon, the keyboards half of the smash pop recording duo, Captain & Tennille, passed away on January 2, 2019, we decided to take a look back at one of the group’s popular ABC TV specials: Captain & Tennille in New Orleans, which originally aired April 3rd, 1978.
Continue reading ‘Captain & Tennille in New Orleans’ (1978): Skip the comedy, get to the music!‘A Flintstone Christmas’ (1977) & ‘A Flintstone Family Christmas’ (1993): One gift, one lump of coal
‘The Waltons’: Iconic show’s 1973 Thanksgiving story revisits old romance
It’s Thanksgiving on Walton’s Mountain, so pass the turkey gizzards and hold off on the back-sass, mister!
Continue reading ‘The Waltons’: Iconic show’s 1973 Thanksgiving story revisits old romance‘The Eyes of Charles Sand’ (1972): Fun viewing for dark October nights
Flashy but familiar, bait-and-switch ABC Movie of the Week entry.
Continue reading ‘The Eyes of Charles Sand’ (1972): Fun viewing for dark October nights‘Harry O’ (Season 1): World weary 70s detective is classically quirky…at first
They couldn’t just leave it alone.
Continue reading ‘Harry O’ (Season 1): World weary 70s detective is classically quirky…at first‘Charlie’s Angels’ (Season 1): 70s original is better than you remember
Can I eat crow? Yes. I can. Can I admit being wrong? Absolutely. And I was wrong–desperately wrong, Mr. Spelling.
Continue reading ‘Charlie’s Angels’ (Season 1): 70s original is better than you remember‘Smile Jenny, You’re Dead’ (1974): Second pilot film leads to ‘Harry O’ series
‘Sanford and Son’: When sitcoms were edgy & controversial
Yes. I’m going to write that word in this review.
Continue reading ‘Sanford and Son’: When sitcoms were edgy & controversial‘Daniel Boone’: ’60s & ’70s adventure series still perfect family fun
Daniel Boone—The Complete Series is perfect family entertainment for young and old…and that’s next-to-impossible to come by these long, hot summer days.
Continue reading ‘Daniel Boone’: ’60s & ’70s adventure series still perfect family fun‘Shut That Door! Larry Grayson at ITV’: ’70s British comic, master of the double entendre
‘The Jeffersons’: Norman Lear sitcom disrespected, but gets the love
The strangest thing: my younger kids think television coming over our old aerial—complete with commercials and limited choice of channels—is the coolest thing now (high tech burnout was inevitable). And one of their favorite digital channels is our local MeTV outlet, with its old timey sched of classic television fare (yes, they have taste, but of course, I’m shilling for a potential job offer, too…). So the upcoming “Summer of Me” programming change this Monday should be a lot of fun for them—and for you, too, particularly since The Jeffersons will be movin’ on up into the primo 6:30pm (Eastern) timeslot (now you don’t have to watch the fake news!).
Continue reading ‘The Jeffersons’: Norman Lear sitcom disrespected, but gets the love‘Nichols’: James Garner & Co. have fun in Rockford warm-up
“If you want to know the truth, you make it up.”
Continue reading ‘Nichols’: James Garner & Co. have fun in Rockford warm-up‘Mission: Magic!’: Rick Springfield’s trippy animated ’70s toon rocks on
Tripped-out Saturday morning cartoon groove.
Continue reading ‘Mission: Magic!’: Rick Springfield’s trippy animated ’70s toon rocks on‘Dallas’ (Season 1): 5 episodes & a BBQ – a taste of what’s to come
2018 marked the 40th anniversary of the premiere of Dallas, the CBS prime time soap opera that ran for 14 seasons, including the second-most watched series episode in U.S. broadcast history (the cliffhanger-solving Who Done It?, with at least 90 million viewers), and gave television its hands-down greatest villain: actor Larry Hagman’s J.R. Ewing, the evil, scheming, downright degenerate Texas oilman who captivated the imaginations of America’s last unified TV viewing audience.
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