70's B-TV

[wesw]

you don t seem very gay now.......

[wesw]

oh, and thank you for inspiring me to learn how to post videos. the above was just for you.....

[BoSoxGal]

What it says is that there is nothing "lesser known" about any of those shows - in their time they all had high ratings and/or critical acclaim. You would have had to go through the 70s comatose not to have recognized them.

This!

12/12 - I was raised on all of those shows and none were 'lesser-known' - we didn't have enough TV back in those days to have ANY lesser-known shows! We all watched the same classics.

That quiz was fun because it brought back lots of happy memories!

[Econoline]

Sheesh. I've never watched a lot of television (though I did watch more in the 70s than I watch now, which is none) but I still got 11/12. So far as I can remember, I only watched one of the shows depicted regularly (Rhoda, the Mary Tyler Moore Show spin-off) but I recognized most of them immediately just from the picture.

[Sue U]

Geez, I watched almost no TV at all from 1975 to 1981 or so and I still got 12/12.

[Lord Jim]

The whole list is ridiculous for anyone who lived through that period, but for a number of these, (but not all) there is a sort of a pattern here...

It's "shows where the starring actor may have been better known for another show"...

Rhoda, (Valerie Harper) and Lou Grant (Ed Asner)...

Better known for The Mary Tyler Moore Show...

Quincy, Jack Klugman... (better known as Oscar Madison on The Odd Couple...)

The original Battlestar Galactica...Lorne Greene...("better known" as Ben Cartwright on Bonanza...)

Barnaby Jones, Buddy Ebsen, ("better known" of course, as Jed Clampett in The Beverly Hillbillies)

One might even argue that would explain The Rockford Files...

Though I seriously doubt that the person who designed this "quiz'"... is familiar with Maverick ...except maybe the movie...and in any event Garner is much better known at this point for Rockford than for Maverick...(Rockford has been in re-runs non-stop for nearly 40 years; you can find Maverick re-runs, but you have to hunt for them...)

And of course this theory doesn't explain the inclusion of Alice, Emergency, Chico and The Man, The Captain and Tennile, and One Day at A Time...

Let alone Family Affair...

Which though it ran till 1971...it ran from 1966-1971...(no I did not remember that, I had to look it up... )

would by any rational yardstick be called a "sixties" show...

Bewitched, I Dream Of Jeannie, Petticoat Junction and My Three Sons all ran into the early 70s...(and The Beverly Hillbillies for that matter...)

Would that make them "seventies" shows?

[Big RR]

Jim--I think it's more like most of those shows are popular as reruns, even to this day; most can be seen on the "Classic TV" channels or some of the broadcast independents (except for maybe the Captain and Tennille, but then they were a pretty popular 70s pop group whose music is still heard on oldies stations, and the Captain goes back to being apart of the Beach Boys).

But going back to your premise:

Linda Lavin of Alice was a pretty well known Broadway actress (as I recall she may also have done some movies);

Freddie Prinze (Chico and the Man) was an up and coming comedian who turned his act into a show (kind of like an early Seinfeld).

I don't know much about Emergency, but One Day at a Time did star Mackenzie Phillips (who was known as the precocious daughter of john Phillips at the time and is everyone's favorite victim now) and Bonnie Franklin who didn't star in anything but was a semi-regular on Gidget (along with Barbara HErshey as I recall) as Sally Fields' friends.



I do agree with you re Family Affair--I didn't even think it ran into the 70s.

[Lord Jim]

Linda Lavin of Alice was a pretty well known Broadway actress

What I remember her originally from was Barney Miller, where she played a recurring role in a few episodes as a brassy, ambitious detective...

[Big RR]

that's something I don't recall, but I didn't see a lot of Barney Miller so it's not a surprise.