Welcome Back Kotter is one of my favorites, and movies were huge in 1975 Dog Day Afternoon Escape From Witch Mountain, etc,1975 was a great year. thank you, Fred.
Fred. Once again, you've nailed it. A very special month as our first child, Danielle, was born. She is now 49 with a family of her own. Bravo, Fred. Keep them coming.👍👍🤗
I was at the premiere of Howard Cosell Saturday Night Live in NYC,I saw Bob Hope getting out of his limo at the stage door , I don’t remember how I got the giveaway tix, but I remember commenting during the show,” there’s Bob Hope and No Hope “…the show didn’t last, but NBC’s Saturday Night didn’t become “ LIVE” until Cosell was cancelled…Another great memory Fred, Thanx
Interesting story, Dennis. I saw an SNL episode at the 30 Rock studio in 1980 (Kirk Douglas). I was writing a newspaper TV column and the local station got me tickets (also later for Letterman).
Well that summer vacation went by quickly, and sophomore year begins. Starsky and Hutch was one of my favorite shows of that era,and looking back, probably influenced my career choice later on. Spoiler alert, TV shows do NOT accurately represent real life lol. Thanks for the memories, Fred. You're the closest thing we have to a real time machine 👍👍👍
I took a class with HOWARD COSELL as my teacher called SPORTS AND THE LAW at the NEW SCHOOL IN NY CITY . He was arrogant but only slightly, funny and talked very fondly of Mother ( his wife ) . Met Mohammed Ali , Commissioner Bowie Kuhn , Buzzy Bavase , and other lawyers in the sports industry . For the record, I'm not a lawyer just a retired NYC Elevator Mechanic.
Thank you Fred! Even though I was only 6 I remember that Miss America winning! I loved her pink dress! Couldn't wait even then to fill a dress out properly! ( I had a beautiful aunt with huge boobs I wanted to be just like! ) LOL!😂
I turned 12 in August. What a great time to be alive! Great music selection! Thanks always! I live in Taiwan these past 16 years. A new president today! China is pissed, as usual!
It was the beginning of my sophomore year in high school. I went to see Dog Day Afternoon with a couple of friends from choir. We used to have so much fun singing together...
Started 6th grade. Great memories, but number ONE for me would be KISS ALIVE being released on 9/10/75. They became my main musical obsession for the next 2 years. A friend bought it. I didn't own it until Christmas. Missed Return to Planet of the Apes because Saturday mornings were hockey playing days in the fall and baseball in the spring. The show only lasted 3 months
"Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell" kicked off with it's own try at a Beatlemania moment.; the Bay City Rollers singing "Saturday Night" over a screaming audience. It would be another 18 years before the Ed Sullivan Theatre would become the home of Letterman and later Colbert.
Seeing Rocky Horror in the movie theatre for the first time was quite an experience 😊. Thank you Fred for bringing back the good times, have a blessed day 🙏
@FredFlix I worked in a movie theater in Columbus, Ohio in H.S. 79 and 80. We showed RHPS EVERY Fri and Sat night for years! Longest run of any single movie in history!
@@bridgetmccracken1381 It really needs to be seen with an audience and all the props, but the days of midnight movies and repertory movie theaters are long gone. I remember going to see RHPS at the Vogue Theater (RIP) in Louisville, KY in my high school years.
@@Gobear1 Even though you can no longer see it in the theatre, it still is a fun movie. I also saw it in the theatre which was awesome because we all were part of the experience
September of '75. Ugh! School. I was not having a good school life. My sophomore year and I hated every minute of it. Good movies though. Thanks Fred 👍.
"up your nose with a rubber hose" that was the insult on Welcome Back Kotter that became a national catch-phrase with everyone saying it to their friends.
Fred, I live in Atlanta now, but I used to go to Charleston all the time. I’m 9 yrs younger than you, but your channel has brought me so much joy! I’ve been to Red’s Ice House multiple times 😂
COME BACK, COME BACK! Crikey Fred, great show! My God, I collected Vampirella Magazine for years and haven't a clue what happened to them, I bet my mom tossed em when I went to college in 79... sigh! Thanks Fred, you're the man ❤😊
September 1975 was when I started high school (my town had a three year high school program, 10th, 11th and 12th grades). Today, the only things I remember about Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell are that Bill Murray appeared in comedy sketches on the show (long before he was on SNL), and the show introduced America to The Bay City Rollers (not that that one's necessarily a good thing). Thanks Fred!
Wow! This particular time in history had a really phenomenal amount of pop culture coming out of it! We used to see the previews to Dog Day Afternoon at the matinees of coming attractions my dad took my brother and I to see in theaters! Also, although the series was brief and not well liked by critics, the show to talk about in school weekly was When Things Were Rotten when I was in the sixth grade! Haha!
Hi, Fred: Far Out Space Nuts reminded me of It's About Time. Once again I completely remember a song that I would never have remembered with the Alpha-Getti song.
Fred I got busy on some other personal business and trying to go back and catch with this series. Very well done I was fall semester in college as a sophomore. Good times
OK: Space:1999 (I had a thing for Martin Landau); Petrocelli (...and for Barry Newman); When Things were Rotten (...and for Mel Brooks' humor); Dog Day Afternoon (... and for Al Pacino. Attica! Attica!) At 21, ugly duckling days were already gone for me. 🎶🎵🎶 This series is so nice, Fred. Thanks. 💜🤟
What a blast from the past, Fred. No one else evokes the feeling of the past like you. There was a theater in Denver that showed Rocky Horror every Saturday for years. Beauty pageants are essentially gone.
And a short three years later, I would be 14 and in a corset and fishnets, performing as Frank onstage while my Pop worked 3rd shift. That movie changed my life. Great stuff as always, Fred.
DOG DAY AFTERNOON still a weird flick all these years later. Hard to believe it was ever made in the first place. Artists were lucky in the 1970's, plenty of Boomers to support their work.
This was the month my family & I moved into our new house in Vallejo, CA. We moved in Labor Day Weekend, and this Sept my mom & dad will have lived in that house for 49 years.
Fun one! And that's despite the fact that, as I said in previous comments, I was adjusting to a new, much rougher school at this time. Funny how I'd give anything to back there regardless. Some thoughts: 1) Interesting that stars like Tony Curtis and Lloyd Bridges had comebacks in television during these years. The 70s, thanks to the late 60s changes, was unlike any other decade - yet the old guard was still alive and well, too - which was nice. 2) Loved Warren mags! But my parents wouldn't let me get near Vampirella! Lol. Had to stick to "Famous Monsters," "Creepy" and "Eerie." 3) I remember being very excited when "Space: 1999" debuted in syndication. I recently got the series on blu-ray and have to say - we were awfully desperate for sci-fi in those pre-Star Wars days! 4) I had completely forgotten about the Planet of the Apes cartoon series, Along with the Star Trek Animated series it was one of the few Saturday morning cartoons I remember liking (other than the old Warners toons from the 30s and 40s, of course!). As i say - rough days for me - good thing entertainment and sports were so much fun.
In 1975 I was in the USAF serving in Thailand looking for our guys being held in Cambodia. Sadly, we never found any but we did discover what PolPot was doing. We found thousands of people with their heads cut off. Still makes me sick.
Fred I was nine in 1975, started 4th grade and the bicentennial minutes had started on CBS. Gunsmoke ended that year and didn't Rhoda begin then? Of course like a lot of 70s kids I was watching a little of everything but especially detective and cop shows. You can't leave out the six million dollar man or great Saturday morning cartoons ❤.
SNL was originally titled NBC's Saturday Night during the 1975-76 season to avoid confusion with Saturday Night Live with Howard Cossell. Oh yeah, and potential legal action from ABC. Of course, Howard's show tanked due to low ratings and was cancelled which allowed NBC to change the title of their late night Saturday night show to Saturday Night Live the following season(1976-77).
We chose convenience and celebrity gossip instead of hard news and difficult choices. We could have switched from our dependence on fossil fuels to sustainable alternate energy, but Ronald Reagan wooed us with BS that we could keep burning oil with no consequences. We let talking heads on MSNBC and Fox tell us what to think instead of reading books and thinking for ourselves. We let newspapers and magazines die so we are less informed about the world. We keep sending corrupt politicians like Robert Menendez and Ted Cruz to DC and let the lunatic fringe among the left and the right have far too much influence on our government. "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Colonel Charles Yancey, January 6, 1816. If we want a better country, we have to be better citizens.
Nice job again, Fred! 3:30 - That's the line Travolta used for his successful show audition. 6:28 - I remember seeing THE LOST SAUCER a lot more than FAR OUT SPACE NUTS that season, but both shows were ok. Co-creator Chuck McCann joined Bob Denver in this reworking of "Laurel & Hardy". Apparently Alan Hale, Jr. was unavailable. :) 8:13 - Because Howard Cosell's show called its repertory company (which included Bill Murray) "The Prime-Time Players", NBC'S SATURDAY NIGHT (It didn't add LIVE to its name until Mar. 1977.) called its company "The Not-Ready-for Prime-Time Players". 12:28 - The Miss America Pageant was still going strong through the 1970s. I guess it started fading in the 1980s or more likely the 1990s.
@@FredFlix Did you watch it live that night? I don't remember seeing it until Season 3, my favorite season of the show. I think the show that Richard Dreyfus hosted on 5/13/1978 was the first I saw live, then I saw reruns all summer.
@@jehobden Yes, I saw it opening night. Loved it from the get-go. I also saw it in the studio in 1980. I was writing a newspaper TV column and the local NBC affiliate got me tickets.
Aw, "Dreamboat Annie" was there ever a more beautiful and talented set of sisters than Ann and Nancy Wilson? Still performing and sounding just as great as ever today. And how many times did you go to the midnight showing of Rocky Horror? I know I went at least half a dozen times and that's probably on the low end for my group of friends.
Actually that was AFTER Magers was in San Francisco and before he went to Chicago. He’s reporting about the attempt on President Ford from KSTP in Minneapolis. The entire KPIX (San Francisco) news desk was fired in 1974 and four newbies to the Bay Area were installed, most notably the inept sportscaster Milt Kahn. He was finally fired after reporting that Babe Ruth had just broken Hank Aaron’s HR record 😖
Ah, there we go -- I have sound again! That was a bad month for me; I went homeless, hitch-hiking my way up and down California, a condition that persisted through November. Hey, look at that, it's the Ed Sullivan theater! The same place that Stephen Colbert does his show from now! Anyway, I don't remember any of this because I was living out of a sleeping bag and a backpack in the great (?) outdoors.
seems like a decent year. main stream media had pretty much forgotten about 'nam by this point so it would seem. i was still six years but so looking forward to 7 just two months away and barely knew anything of it then though lol. but year i would think the year just about any of us are 6 is a pretty good year. thanks again sir.
Never saw Far Out Space Nuts with Bob Denver. From what I see here, looks like Gilligan's Island was better? John Houseman! He was Stephanie's driving instructor in Naked Gun with Leslie Nielsen!
Tawny Godin aka Tawny Little former news anchor for "Eyewitness News" and the co host of "Eye On L.A." for KABC TV in the city where I currently live Los Angeles and the ex wife of John Schneider.
Wasn't BITE THE BULLET released back in June? (Its title coincided with the slogan for President Ford's anti-inflation campaign, which didn't help it at the box office!)
Was only six at the time six million dollar man bionic woman Saturday morning cartoons sid and Marty kroft hour and by the Friday after Thanksgiving Japanese monster movie marathons plus channel 22 we caught the craziest Japanese scifi shows and anime like Riedeen the brave also Korean variety shows!!!!😮😅😊😂🎉
What was going on with Miss America? Not a blonde in sight, I don't remember blondes being so "verboten", unless they didn't come into style until the late 70's!
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Welcome Back Kotter is one of my favorites, and movies were huge in 1975 Dog Day Afternoon Escape From Witch Mountain, etc,1975 was a great year. thank you, Fred.
Fred. Once again, you've nailed it. A very special month as our first child, Danielle, was born. She is now 49 with a family of her own. Bravo, Fred. Keep them coming.👍👍🤗
Will do, Richard, and thanks.
Miss America 1976. Beautiful women, no tattoos, no men. Imagine that. I was pretty young but I remember some of it. Thanks for the video.
I was at the premiere of Howard Cosell Saturday Night Live in NYC,I saw Bob Hope getting out of his limo at the stage door , I don’t remember how I got the giveaway tix, but I remember commenting during the show,” there’s Bob Hope and No Hope “…the show didn’t last, but NBC’s Saturday Night didn’t become “ LIVE” until Cosell was cancelled…Another great memory Fred, Thanx
Interesting story, Dennis. I saw an SNL episode at the 30 Rock studio in 1980 (Kirk Douglas). I was writing a newspaper TV column and the local station got me tickets (also later for Letterman).
WOW! Sept '75 - started the school year as a sophomore in h.s. - great times!! Thanks Fred!
You're welcome, Nunetc.
Well that summer vacation went by quickly, and sophomore year begins. Starsky and Hutch was one of my favorite shows of that era,and looking back, probably influenced my career choice later on. Spoiler alert, TV shows do NOT accurately represent real life lol. Thanks for the memories, Fred. You're the closest thing we have to a real time machine 👍👍👍
Many thanks, Robert.
THE GOOD OLD DAYS!!!!
My kid brother loved “Welcome Back, Kotter,” and he got a “Sweathog” t-shirt for his birthday when the show was in its third season.
“Up yer nose with a rubber hose!!”
@@plaistowbill 🤣🤣🤣
I took a class with HOWARD COSELL as my teacher called
SPORTS AND THE LAW at the NEW SCHOOL IN NY CITY .
He was arrogant but only slightly, funny and talked very fondly of Mother ( his wife ) .
Met Mohammed Ali , Commissioner Bowie Kuhn , Buzzy Bavase , and other lawyers in the sports industry .
For the record, I'm not a lawyer just a retired NYC Elevator Mechanic.
That's very cool, Richard.
Thank you Fred! Even though I was only 6 I remember that Miss America winning! I loved her pink dress! Couldn't wait even then to fill a dress out properly! ( I had a beautiful aunt with huge boobs I wanted to be just like! ) LOL!😂
Aw, I'll bet you surpassed her, Chantelle.
Love your work.
Thanks, TJ.
Another beautiful example of the best times to be alive. If I could I’d go back there right for just a couple of days.
A couple of days is exactly right, HLJ. And then we'll start to miss our lives in 2024, even though we complain about them.
@@FredFlix exactly, we’ve gotten soft.
If time travel was possible ( it's not ) I would go back to the 70s or 80s and I'm pretty sure I wouldn't come back to 2024.
I think the early 1960s was the best time to be alive, but that's just me.
@@continentalgin maybe I love the 60’s as well but I wasn’t born until 66 and I don’t remember much of that.
I turned 12 in August. What a great time to be alive!
Great music selection!
Thanks always!
I live in Taiwan these past 16 years. A new president today! China is pissed, as usual!
It was the beginning of my sophomore year in high school. I went to see Dog Day Afternoon with a couple of friends from choir. We used to have so much fun singing together...
Fred, you continue to be a LEGEND!
Not even in my own mind, iscariot. But thanks.
This is my country
"Three Days of the Condor" ❤️❤️
Started 6th grade. Great memories, but number ONE for me would be KISS ALIVE being released on 9/10/75. They became my main musical obsession for the next 2 years. A friend bought it. I didn't own it until Christmas. Missed Return to Planet of the Apes because Saturday mornings were hockey playing days in the fall and baseball in the spring. The show only lasted 3 months
Dog Day Afternoon was one of the best ever. A bravura performance by Al.
Wow, Fred. What a flush of memories.
Absolutely love watching these videos. Thank you so very much.😊
You're welcome, Jan.
Keep them coming Mr. Flix. Love the blast from the past
I will, Mary. I can't help it. These are so fun to make.
I knew Squeaky would get a shout out .. I remember watching Ford's address that night after he got back to D.C.
"Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell" kicked off with it's own try at a Beatlemania moment.; the Bay City Rollers singing "Saturday Night" over a screaming audience.
It would be another 18 years before the Ed Sullivan Theatre would become the home of Letterman and later Colbert.
Seeing Rocky Horror in the movie theatre for the first time was quite an experience 😊. Thank you Fred for bringing back the good times, have a blessed day 🙏
You're welcome, Bridget. Believe it or not, I've never seen Rocky Horror in full, even though I'm a '70s movie buff.
@@FredFlix Honestly it is a fun movie and the songs are a blast!! My favorite is Meatloaf singing Hot Potootie
@FredFlix I worked in a movie theater in Columbus, Ohio in H.S. 79 and 80. We showed RHPS EVERY Fri and Sat night for years! Longest run of any single movie in history!
@@bridgetmccracken1381 It really needs to be seen with an audience and all the props, but the days of midnight movies and repertory movie theaters are long gone. I remember going to see RHPS at the Vogue Theater (RIP) in Louisville, KY in my high school years.
@@Gobear1 Even though you can no longer see it in the theatre, it still is a fun movie. I also saw it in the theatre which was awesome because we all were part of the experience
When things were rotten! Costarring my friend, Misty Rowe!
September of '75. Ugh! School. I was not having a good school life. My sophomore year and I hated every minute of it. Good movies though. Thanks Fred 👍.
You're welcome, Gregg.
Take me back to those times
"up your nose with a rubber hose" that was the insult on Welcome Back Kotter that became a national catch-phrase with everyone saying it to their friends.
"Twice as far with a candy bar!"
Fred, I live in Atlanta now, but I used to go to Charleston all the time. I’m 9 yrs younger than you, but your channel has brought me so much joy! I’ve been to Red’s Ice House multiple times 😂
That's awesome, TO. Do you know if the Ice House is still open? I don't get to downtown anymore.
@@FredFlix As far as I know it still is. I used to take my customers there all the time.
COME BACK, COME BACK! Crikey Fred, great show! My God, I collected Vampirella Magazine for years and haven't a clue what happened to them, I bet my mom tossed em when I went to college in 79... sigh! Thanks Fred, you're the man ❤😊
You're welcome, Doug. I still have one Vamp mag and comic.
A great video... but no mention of "Uncle Croc's Block"!
Back when our breakfast cereals the word "sugar" in the name. Great video my friend.
You're welcome, theskilz00.
Thank you,Fred.
September 1975 was when I started high school (my town had a three year high school program, 10th, 11th and 12th grades). Today, the only things I remember about Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell are that Bill Murray appeared in comedy sketches on the show (long before he was on SNL), and the show introduced America to The Bay City Rollers (not that that one's necessarily a good thing). Thanks Fred!
You're welcome, Ernest. Didn't know Bill was on that show as well.
@@FredFlix Yeah, there was a group doing sketch comedy and he was one of the performers. They were regulars.
Wow! This particular time in history had a really phenomenal amount of pop culture coming out of it! We used to see the previews to Dog Day Afternoon at the matinees of coming attractions my dad took my brother and I to see in theaters! Also, although the series was brief and not well liked by critics, the show to talk about in school weekly was When Things Were Rotten when I was in the sixth grade! Haha!
Hi, Fred: Far Out Space Nuts reminded me of It's About Time. Once again I completely remember a song that I would never have remembered with the Alpha-Getti song.
This video puts me back in sophomore year in college. Life was a lot of fun as long as you ignore crazies in Washington
I love your time capsules! Thank you!😊
You're welcome, Marc.
Fred I got busy on some other personal business and trying to go back and catch with this series. Very well done I was fall semester in college as a sophomore. Good times
Excellent compilation!!
Thanks, Shawn.
Fred-This is awesome-Thanks for posting!
You're welcome, Scott.
OK: Space:1999 (I had a thing for Martin Landau); Petrocelli (...and for Barry Newman); When Things were Rotten (...and for Mel Brooks' humor); Dog Day Afternoon (... and for Al Pacino. Attica! Attica!) At 21, ugly duckling days were already gone for me. 🎶🎵🎶 This series is so nice, Fred. Thanks. 💜🤟
And so are you, Mercedes.
@@FredFlix🤗 💜🤟
What a blast from the past, Fred. No one else evokes the feeling of the past like you. There was a theater in Denver that showed Rocky Horror every Saturday for years. Beauty pageants are essentially gone.
Thanks, Robert.
Thanks for the wonderful clip - sure hit the spot!🙂💯💥👍!
You're welcome, Frank.
Always the best stuff and fun trip, Fred!😎🤟
Thanks again, Tigre.
Sigmund and the Sea Monsters,Land of the Lost,Josie and the Pussy Cats.I never missed those babies,not once.
killer episode. turned 10 in this one. space 1999 was must see.
'Attica! Attica!'
And a short three years later, I would be 14 and in a corset and fishnets, performing as Frank onstage while my Pop worked 3rd shift. That movie changed my life. Great stuff as always, Fred.
Thanks, CAM.
DOG DAY AFTERNOON still a weird flick all these years later. Hard to believe it was ever made in the first place. Artists were lucky in the 1970's, plenty of Boomers to support their work.
I never saw it. But I wondered what the movie was about.
How is it weird? It's a dark comedy based on a true incident. It had a brilliant script and great acting.
@@Ij-jan It's a dark comedy based on a true bank robbery attempt. Great script and acting.
Good times!
This was the month my family & I moved into our new house in Vallejo, CA. We moved in Labor Day Weekend, and this Sept my mom & dad will have lived in that house for 49 years.
I started kindergarten in Sept 75.
Picnic At Hanging Rock, good movie
Fun one! And that's despite the fact that, as I said in previous comments, I was adjusting to a new, much rougher school at this time. Funny how I'd give anything to back there regardless.
Some thoughts: 1) Interesting that stars like Tony Curtis and Lloyd Bridges had comebacks in television during these years. The 70s, thanks to the late 60s changes, was unlike any other decade - yet the old guard was still alive and well, too - which was nice. 2) Loved Warren mags! But my parents wouldn't let me get near Vampirella! Lol. Had to stick to "Famous Monsters," "Creepy" and "Eerie." 3) I remember being very excited when "Space: 1999" debuted in syndication. I recently got the series on blu-ray and have to say - we were awfully desperate for sci-fi in those pre-Star Wars days! 4) I had completely forgotten about the Planet of the Apes cartoon series, Along with the Star Trek Animated series it was one of the few Saturday morning cartoons I remember liking (other than the old Warners toons from the 30s and 40s, of course!). As i say - rough days for me - good thing entertainment and sports were so much fun.
In 1975 I was in the USAF serving in Thailand looking for our guys being held in Cambodia. Sadly, we never found any but we did discover what PolPot was doing. We found thousands of people with their heads cut off. Still makes me sick.
I started high school and turned 14 that month. Thanks for all you do, Fed!
You're welcome, Gobear.
A very nice and entertaining video again thnx.
You're welcome, Rolf.
Fred I was nine in 1975, started 4th grade and the bicentennial minutes had started on CBS. Gunsmoke ended that year and didn't Rhoda begin then? Of course like a lot of 70s kids I was watching a little of everything but especially detective and cop shows. You can't leave out the six million dollar man or great Saturday morning cartoons ❤.
Thanks, Alan.
SNL was originally titled NBC's Saturday Night during the 1975-76 season to avoid confusion with Saturday Night Live with Howard Cossell. Oh yeah, and potential legal action from ABC. Of course, Howard's show tanked due to low ratings and was cancelled which allowed NBC to change the title of their late night Saturday night show to Saturday Night Live the following season(1976-77).
👍📺thx Fredflix
Back to school that month for me! 11th grade all over again.
6:57 - Alpha-Getti - This is a Canadian commercial. Note that the can's label is bilingual (English and French).
Some Canadian items do slip in.
Yeah, when I heard "mummy," I knew that had to be from our neighbors to the north. 🤓
woonderful....👍
Boy, things were much nicer back then. The people and crap we have to go through with today is disgusting !Where did we go wrong ?
That's probably what the people of the Roman Empire asked.
We chose convenience and celebrity gossip instead of hard news and difficult choices. We could have switched from our dependence on fossil fuels to sustainable alternate energy, but Ronald Reagan wooed us with BS that we could keep burning oil with no consequences. We let talking heads on MSNBC and Fox tell us what to think instead of reading books and thinking for ourselves. We let newspapers and magazines die so we are less informed about the world. We keep sending corrupt politicians like Robert Menendez and Ted Cruz to DC and let the lunatic fringe among the left and the right have far too much influence on our government.
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Colonel Charles Yancey, January 6, 1816. If we want a better country, we have to be better citizens.
Ford being threatened twice in a short time. Yeah…great times. Recovery from the shame of Watergate, extremely high gas prices….a true golden age.
Ron Magers at KSTP-TV in Minneapolis-St. Paul (then NBC) reporting on the Ford assassination attempt at 1:00. (Yes, he went to Chicago in 1981.)
Ron Magers before he came to Chicago!
Nice job again, Fred!
3:30 - That's the line Travolta used for his successful show audition.
6:28 - I remember seeing THE LOST SAUCER a lot more than FAR OUT SPACE NUTS that season, but both shows were ok. Co-creator Chuck McCann joined Bob Denver in this reworking of "Laurel & Hardy". Apparently Alan Hale, Jr. was unavailable. :)
8:13 - Because Howard Cosell's show called its repertory company (which included Bill Murray) "The Prime-Time Players", NBC'S SATURDAY NIGHT (It didn't add LIVE to its name until Mar. 1977.) called its company "The Not-Ready-for Prime-Time Players".
12:28 - The Miss America Pageant was still going strong through the 1970s. I guess it started fading in the 1980s or more likely the 1990s.
Thanks, Jon. SNL premiered on my 21st birthday. I was ready.
@@FredFlix Did you watch it live that night? I don't remember seeing it until Season 3, my favorite season of the show. I think the show that Richard Dreyfus hosted on 5/13/1978 was the first I saw live, then I saw reruns all summer.
@@jehobden Yes, I saw it opening night. Loved it from the get-go. I also saw it in the studio in 1980. I was writing a newspaper TV column and the local NBC affiliate got me tickets.
@@FredFlix Very good. Do you remember the episode & host that night? There's a big difference between spring 1980 & fall 1980. :)
@@jehobden Kirk Douglas. Belushi & Aykroyd were gone.
Aw, "Dreamboat Annie" was there ever a more beautiful and talented set of sisters than Ann and Nancy Wilson? Still performing and sounding just as great as ever today. And how many times did you go to the midnight showing of Rocky Horror? I know I went at least half a dozen times and that's probably on the low end for my group of friends.
I've never seen it in full, Dwayne. Never was my cup of tea. Seen portions on tape.
You lived MY exact life!
A look at Ron Magers at a San Francisco TV station before he came to Chicago.
Thanks, FredFlix. 😁
Actually that was AFTER Magers was in San Francisco and before he went to Chicago. He’s reporting about the attempt on President Ford from KSTP in Minneapolis.
The entire KPIX (San Francisco) news desk was fired in 1974 and four newbies to the Bay Area were installed, most notably the inept sportscaster Milt Kahn. He was finally fired after reporting that Babe Ruth had just broken Hank Aaron’s HR record 😖
You're welcome, Luis.
Ah, there we go -- I have sound again!
That was a bad month for me; I went homeless, hitch-hiking my way up and down California, a condition that persisted through November. Hey, look at that, it's the Ed Sullivan theater! The same place that Stephen Colbert does his show from now! Anyway, I don't remember any of this because I was living out of a sleeping bag and a backpack in the great (?) outdoors.
Yikes!
seems like a decent year. main stream media had pretty much forgotten about 'nam by this point so it would seem. i was still six years but so looking forward to 7 just two months away and barely knew anything of it then though lol. but year i would think the year just about any of us are 6 is a pretty good year. thanks again sir.
I know I loved 1960, S&D.
@@FredFlix there ya go. i figured as much.
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Never saw Far Out Space Nuts with Bob Denver. From what I see here, looks like Gilligan's Island was better?
John Houseman! He was Stephanie's driving instructor in Naked Gun with Leslie Nielsen!
4:00 - Isn't that Peter Falk?
No, that's Charles Aidman.
Tawny Godin aka Tawny Little former news anchor for "Eyewitness News" and the co host of "Eye On L.A." for KABC TV in the city where I currently
live Los Angeles and the ex wife of John Schneider.
It's Saturday Night
Wasn't BITE THE BULLET released back in June? (Its title coincided with the slogan for President Ford's anti-inflation campaign, which didn't help it at the box office!)
Ate Alfa getti in Army
Was it really all that long ago?
Seems like yesterday.
Hmm. No sound for me. Maybe if I try later?
Was only six at the time six million dollar man bionic woman Saturday morning cartoons sid and Marty kroft hour and by the Friday after Thanksgiving Japanese monster movie marathons plus channel 22 we caught the craziest Japanese scifi shows and anime like Riedeen the brave also Korean variety shows!!!!😮😅😊😂🎉
I liked Honk, the space aardvark and David Bowie. The rest of it not so much.
What hath man wrought? Me thinks
Fame written by John Lennon
What was going on with Miss America? Not a blonde in sight, I don't remember blondes being so "verboten", unless they didn't come into style until the late 70's!
Great research and editing, and to think if Miss America was staged today Dylan Mulvaney would win it - take me back to the 70's please!
Ha! You and me both!