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I managed 12 out of 12. Not sure what that says about me

Can You Name 12 Lesser Known 70s TV Shows?

Calling all 70s TV Show lovers! Prove your real fandom by passing this quiz of lesser known 70s TV shows! Go for it!

http://www.quizfreak.com/can-you-name-1 ... ndex1.html

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.

Oh well - I got one wrong and eleven right and I didn't move to the USA until the end of 1977. I don't recall watching any of those shows but surely they were floating around in the ether - shown in ads for "tonight's great lineup" and so on.

I don't think very many made it across the Atlantic to UK-land but maybe they did

Scooter wrote: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.

Exactly. Some of them - Battlestar Galactica, Quincy M.E., and One Day at a Time were some of my all-time favorites, and I'm sure I watched some of the others.

I completely agree with Scooter...

All of those shows were hits that ran for multiple seasons...

A good guess would be that whoever put this quiz together is too young to have actually lived through the period, and has absolutely no idea what they are talking about...

Guinevere wrote:

Scooter wrote: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.

Exactly.

They did seem easily recalled to me (I could name most of the series just on the picture and did not need the multiple choice). But numerous FB friends of the right age for this missed more than a few. I'd say you needed to watch enough TV, combined with not losing the memory of things that are truly unimportant (as in why can I remember this irrelevant stuff and not things that are more important?). Not a trivial question . . .

Lord Jim wrote: A good guess would be that whoever put this quiz together is too young to have actually lived through the period, and has absolutely no idea what they are talking about...

Bingo. And most likely like most every other "quiz" we take!

Many people commenting on the page said the same thing - must have been some millennial who thought he/she was on to something that no one else was.

I even clearly remember all of the alternate choices in that quiz except for Angie (which I didn't recognize even after looking it up) and Carter Country (which I did).

If they had put in questions about Apple's Way or Man from Atlantis or, as someone suggested, Blansky's Beauties - series that didn't last long but were far from obscure because they did have big name stars attached to them, that would have been far more in the spirit of "lesser known" than One Day at a Time or The Rockford Files.

ooooh carter country.... Bernadette peters... va va voom.....

I believe you are thinking of something else; Bernadette Peters does not appear to have been either a cast member or a guest on Carter Country.

Yes, lesser known-not.

huh, I guess that you are right. the va va voom stands tho......

If I recall correctly, Bernadette Peters was in a political comedy called All's Fair (I think) pairing her, a liberal woman photographer (I think), up with a conservative writer, Richard Crenna. Not a great show, but it also ran a few seasons.

I don't remember that one, but I didn't know I was gay yet, so I wasn't a Bernadette Peters fan until later.

yeah, I always had pretty good luck with gay women....

...and they already knew that they were gay. didn t stop em tho.....

Jesus H. Christ fucking the Virgin Mary on the altar, can you get the fucking chip off your shoulder for long enough to get it through that concrete block that passes for your head, that not every fucking word that emanates from someone's goddamned keyboard is some veiled reference to you, or southerners, or whatever fucking victim of the week label you are wearing at the moment. Get it through your fucking skull once and for all, you suppurating pustule oozing from your mother`s gonorrhea infected tampon, no one gives enough of a shit about you to go to the trouble of disguising their insults. It would be a wasted effort anyway, because clearly you lack any discernment to figure out whether it's about you or not.

Get a fucking life of your own and maybe you'll figure out that no one has the slightest interest in wasting theirs on you.

is that a vein pulsing on your forehead cooter?

or are you just glad to see me?

we should go crabbing sometime. just me and you and miles and miles of marsh.......

Scooter wrote:I don't remember that one, but I didn't know I was gay yet, so I wasn't a Bernadette Peters fan until later.

So what year did you choose to be gay?

wesw wrote:we should go crabbing sometime

Better that you and your sister keep your crabs between yourselves.