If you’re like me (poor you), you keep your remote handy to check out the local digital stations that air old-timey television, channels like MeTV, Cozi, and Antenna (don’t even mention Retro TV to me—they ditched my city right when the Althea and Nick Bellini fights were getting good on The Doctors). Twenty years ago, if you had told me I’d actively seek out television showing edited classics interspersed with commercials, I’d have said you were crazy.
Continue reading ‘M*A*S*H’: A remarkable artistic achievement – thanks to its early yearsTag Archives: 1970s
Mice, cavemen, & Garfield: 3 forgotten animated Thanksgiving specials
With the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays approaching, you know what I’m thankful for?
Continue reading Mice, cavemen, & Garfield: 3 forgotten animated Thanksgiving specials‘The Paul Lynde Halloween Special’ (1976): KISS, Carol Brady join Lynde for one wacky show
A deliciously camp, waking nightmare.
Continue reading ‘The Paul Lynde Halloween Special’ (1976): KISS, Carol Brady join Lynde for one wacky show‘Donny & Marie’: A taste of the ’70s, some of the duo’s best episodes
They’re perfect, dammit, and you know it.
Continue reading ‘Donny & Marie’: A taste of the ’70s, some of the duo’s best episodes‘Disaster on the Coastliner’ (1979): Shatner leads fun, silly, TV disaster thriller
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 thriller‘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