I was born in 1967, October 1967 to be exact. Those days were truly magical compared to now. We didn't need smartphones, tablets, Wi-Fi, laptop computers, or Xbox. We had our IMAGINATIONS! We actually played outside, created our fun. Built forts, grabbed our fishing 🎣 gear and headed out to the local parks. Or even rode our bikes there, since we could go outside without fear of dying. Such a better time.
@@EdsterIII Hey now. October 1966. What a great month for a birthday. Cool weather. Halloween 🎃 The 70’s was a great time to grow up as a kid. Movies. Toys. Food. Etc.
But Nixon got off with a pardon. The Orange Ape has been indicted and is probably going to be found guilty. That's a great improvement over what happened in the '70s.
I was in the fifth grade as 1975 rolled into 1976. I don't remember much about the news but remember my Mom sitting on the couch in tears as she watched the flag draped coffins coming home from Vietnam. I can also remember how bad inflation was because my Dad didn't make much money. We did without a lot but so did a lot of people in our small blue collar town. My mother wanted to take a part time job but my Dad wouldn't hear of it. If you think about it, it didn't take much money to raise kids then. We didn't have a lot of gadgets. We had thousands of acres of open desert to have fun, and that's exactly what we did. After watching this, I wouldn't say the world is a better or worse place. Just different people with different problems.
Amazed at how much of 1975 that I remembered, including world events and leaders, at age 15. But I was a news hound from an early age. Ended up going into broadcast journalism for nearly two decades. Had a great appreciation of Collingwood, Cronkite, and the entire CBS News team.
It was worse in the 70s and early 80s. We had double digit inflation, huge interest rates. We like to think it was better but economically speaking it was horrible. We were kids then and didn't have to deal with it.
@@EdsterIII And what wasn't garbage about 1975? Vietnam ended in the worst possible way, there were countless wars and conflicts (Bangladesh, Portugal, Angola, Argentina).The US was and is the biggest war mongering threat, but thanks to the Soviets, the second biggest threat, there was also the constant danger of World War 3 and Nuclear Annihilation. All countries under Soviet rule suffered tremendously. And where i live, Germany, was basically at war with the extremely left-wing Red Army Faction kidnapping and murdering people and waging terror everywhere (and it would get worse with the so called "German Autumn" in 1977). Oil Crisis. IRA Attacks in the UK. Massive recession worldwide, including a big crisis in the UK. And then those poor people had to suffer Margaret Thatcher, quickly becoming one of the most hated people in the country. Unemployment rate in the US was nearly 10%. Litereally the one good story was the death of Franco and Spain finally escaping the Dictatorship to become a Democracy again. Nah, politically it was a terrible time.
The thing that was really different, and better, about that time is that a TV network is devoting prime time to really looking at the news, not "true crime" junk about somebody who absconded with their company's money and ran off with the office manager, or whatever. News, not candy. That was before network news operations became run by GE, Westinghouse and Disney.
VERY true. The rise of "infotainment" and the billions of dollars the networks generated in their news divisions led to where we are now. The film 'Network' was prescient wasn't it?
@@ricoz2016 A person like Trump would have been reported on as a repeatedly bankrupt, accused sex abuser when the news, not infotainment took precedent. But in the '80s and '90s, the networks, NBC in particular, treated him like an economic asset, not a public figure requiring scrutiny.
It's worse now. It's striking how much more articulate and reasonable Republicans were back then. Now they lie and natter on about conspiracy theories.
Love this. I hope to find more. I was 13 in 1975 and actually enjoyed watching the news back then. I remember as an even younger kid and watching the Watergate hearings.I loved the political party conventions too. This is great.
I was 7 in 74 when the Watergate hearings played every weekday afternoon, and I was a P. O'd whippersnapper as the afterschool rerun of the Flintstones and Gilligan's Island would not be broadcast in order to bring you this CBS, ABC, NBC News Special Report.
I was still in HS and wouldn't leave home until 1977. My parents were divorced. My father paid only $250 per month in child support for FOUR children. When I moved out, I probably made no more than $3-4/hour. Rent was like $200 per month. Do you miss the 70s? Yes!
This knocks me for a loop!! I'm originally from Boston. I can remember when WNAC Channel 7 was an ABC affiliate and WHDH Channel 5 was a CBS affiliate. That changed in 1972 when Channel 5 became WCVB - ABC and Channel 7 became a CBS affiliate. I remember how confusing and upsetting that was!! But I got over it. I moved from MA to MN several years ago, and I found out recently that WBZ-TV Channel 4 that had ALWAYS been an NBC affiliate is now CBS!! That is MINDBLOWING❗❗❗❗Doesn't make sense at all.
Interesting commercial from Union Carbide touting development of a fusion reactor. Here we are, almost fifty years later and fusion is still a pipe dream.
This was during the era of the Big Three Networks, who ruled the TV airways. At the time this program was shown on TV in Chicago, I was a 6th grader on Christmas break from school.
I remember when JAWS came out. My parents couldn’t find a sitter so they took me to the drive-in with them at age 6. They thought I would fall asleep 😴 in the back of the station wagon ….. NOPE! Saw the ENTIRE movie and refused to go back into the ocean until age 9!
I remember that the car companies said that they weren't going to lower the prices of new cars and they didn't lower the prices. The car companies offered rebates so that they could say that they kept their word. It also started a trend of rebates for nearly every appliance in the stores.
Fusion and nuclear energy will prove to be the most environmental friendly forms of energy as opposed to wind mills and solar panels and EVs that consume massive amounts of cobalt, copper, lithium, phosphate mined by exploited third world children. Not to speak of unable to recycle solar panels and wind farms. This will turn out to be the most wasteful attempt of solving a non existent problem, global warming. Insanity and Left s new religion.
@@steelionx9255 it’s definitely brought a lot of convenience, but it’s also brought a lot of pain and problems ..we did fine without it for many many years
I was 17 in 1975, a sophomore in high school. One thing really stood out from this program. Urban Gardening. It was talked about only briefly. But, a?recent Netflix show illustrates this as a possible solution to feeding people, & doing so in an efficient manner.
That was going to be everyone's job in urban slums during Obama's presidency. It didn't really go anywhere. Maybe it could have, but it seems nobody remembers that less than ten years later.
Imagine the modern audience sitting through such detail for an entire hour. Not just what was going on in the US, but all over the world. No, I can't either.
Those "Year in Review" shows still exist, still get viewers and sometimes are even longer than just 1 measly hour, but i get it "Everything back in the day was awesome, everything now sucks" is the motto of a lot of idiots.
Bear in mind: - Your options were this, or whatever was airing on ABC or NBC. - Recaps were much more interesting before you could just look up video any time of whatever happened over the past year.
The former was eroded by removing God from schools and govt, the latter by the shrinking of the manufacturing base making whole towns and cities dry up, forcing people to move. It became hard to put roots down.
God was removed from the schools and government in 1789 by the constitution. That was one of the founding principles of the nation - no state religion.
Yep, nit one Republican wanted to jeep a strongman abusing departments, bribery/pay-offs, and nit one if any party would even think of going against our Constitution fir a more powerful leader, it outlawing the principals if Democracy, and the 3 press networks were towering beacons of honesty. Cronkite led the mother church of the 4th estate and among him were equals. Handed to Rather. Brokaw, and Jennings. We were protected by this fierce pack 8f watchdogs, nobody sold out...this all worked for 70 years.
I turned 13 in August. I saw Saigon fall on April 30.watched JAWS, and Saturday Nigt Live. Shocked that NYC could go bankrupt. Ended the year transferring to a Catholic School, discovering Aerosmith, Heavy Metal, and Disco, and seeing King Kong at the movies. I learned the words Terrorism and Detente more clearly. Nasa had its last show, until the Space Shuttle would arrive.
I saw Jaws at a California drive-in movie in the summer of 1975. I had a great time, there. Also, that summer, I went to Disneyland. It was a wonderful experience. The summer of '75 definitely rocked for me. I was 7 years old. 🎈
@@HoustonRebel That is cool 😎. I miss the 70s prior to 1978. Those were really special, and exciting times for me, as a child 🤗. In my opinion (& from my experiences), '78 & '79 were very mediocre times, personally & culturally. It seemed like the 70s lost its thrill during those last two years.
@@alaricabercrombie2692 It was toward the end of 1980 for me both personally and entertainment-wise. I was just starting 7th grade. Entertainment in general seemed to not be as great as the 70s. I've been told that I'm an "Old Soul" here recently because I always enjoy 70s and 60s entertainment more than I enjoyed my own teen years (the 80s) and even entetainment today. But that was probably just a nice way for them to say I'm old fashioned. Lol. Most people refer to their teen years as their era but my era was the 70s/60s.
@@HoustonRebel Omg, me too 😃! I have always treasured the 60s & the 70s more so than my teen years from the 80s. Personally, I felt like my childhood ended during the end of the 70s. I don't look back on the 80s with the same fondness as I do with the 70s. I can definitely relate to what you are saying. 😁👏👏👏
Suffolk Downs race track - which is on the border of East Boston an the costal town of Revere was closed several years ago, and has totally been knocked down to be a new multi-use development - the parking lot is now a shopping center.
I was 17 and a senior in high school. Things were bad then, and good. Things are bad now, and good. We have to step back from the instinct to label a time as all one way or the other. The more time we spend contrasting today with 1975, the more we appreciate where we are now, warts and all.
@@brianarbenz1329 Like hell...things may have been "bad" then, but nobody in the school system was trying to get kids to question their gender and make them wonder if they're "really" boys or girls. Or the push to eliminate the word "woman" from the societal lexicon. No one heard of a "birthing person" in 1975. Appreciate where we are now? Whatever you're high on, I don't want any.
There was no social media back then and we weren't slammed with 24/7 news back then. It was easier to keep most of the bad stuff quiet with limited news out outlets. That's why it seems worse now. Just because it wasn't being reported on the nightly news or in newspapers doesn't mean things weren't happening.
15:45 I know about this story for a weird reason. This was the same year that M*A*S*H had shocked audiences by killing off Henry Blake (McLean Stevenson), which was a big deal for a series at that time. Larry Gelbert said that they received hundreds of letters in anger. Gelbert and the other writers responded to all of them, and in those letters, they mentioned this tragedy to offer perspective, gently telling the angry viewers, in essence, "We hope you can feel as much sadness for those children as you do for Henry Blake."
Big phonies, gelbart and the whole CBS "Tiffany network" were so greedy, wouldn't pay Stevenson the salary he deserved. He was the most valuable actor and funniest on the program. MASH went downhill after he was "killed off".
@@user-cs6up8eq7snot even remotely true. The obviously lost uncle Joe constantly stumbled, falls, cannot speak a coherent extemperous paragraph and is a total embarrassing felon of the World.
Yeah, and he wants the population cut down to 500 million by 2030. Henry…if you read this lead by example, stand in line to be culled first. You will get a lot of respect and encouragement to do so.
I thought the 1970's was such a magical innocent decade. Oh wait, that was just pop culture. Everything else going on was chaotic. Nothing really changes. Things are still chaotic today. It's just reported 24/7 today.
I was 15 back then and Ford was teased endlessly about the " clumsy " President, but it was light hearted, he came into office in an impeachment of Nixon, so Ford held us together in trying times. God bless America.🇺🇸
I was 6 when I watched Ali v Frazier fight at our home with Lorenzo, my paternal grandfather, who's memory I still honor and raise a glass to him in admiration.
Love the intro montage at :36 seconds. That was very typical during the mid 60s into the 70s, wether is was sports, documentaries, film, even student films of such that was done by George Lucas in the mid 60s.
We survived through The Era of this Broadcast... and I tell you, no matter HOW BAD it was THEN.... TODAY is INCOMPARABLY WORSE!!! "TIME MACHINE".... PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
OMG that Glade Solid Air Freshener! The shape, the holes! I remember them😂and that Windex ad is just beautiful 😍 actually beautiful, something about it looks so...idk what, but it has the spirit of looking to new things, the future. Plus it's just plain pretty.
@@paradoxstudios6639 I remember the L'eggs Eggs in their big display case, as a kid, I loved getting those discarded eggs! That was a really cool marketing idea. Now I don't think they even have pantyhose or stockings anymore...I never see anyone wearing them or talking about them. Even tights or leotards aren't really around like they used to be...
There are some old ass restaurant bathrooms with these in them and they are old and brown lol. I remember seeing one about 18 years ago and that was 2005 30 years after they came out
Near the end, The Wild World Of Animals. I'd forgotten that for decades. We got that in Australia. I probably watched that slouching around in the lounge room in '75 and '76 and reruns into the 1980s. That and the rest of the fare ? Am I getting myopic about it and ' where's a time machine when you need it " ? No. It is not all that crash hot brilliant.
Well, it was a great time to be a teenager. I can tell you that I was 14. I remember going to Columbia to visit an exchange student and friend. It really open my eyes and after that everything was just peachy….well,almost but alot of fun for sure
These were the days , when the news wasn’t as political as now days . You got the truth from the beginning to the end . Also , I realize this was 1975 almost 50 years ago . 1970’s was a decade that could never be repeated ever . Times when life was good for a lot of people . ✌️N❤️2ALL
About that "Wild, Wild World of Animals": It was also a staple of Channel 7 in New York - WABC Channel 7, that is, on one of the weekdays as carved out by the 1971 Prime Time Access Rule. (The syndicated nature program WCBS Channel 2 aired was "The World of Survival" - narrated by John Forsythe, voiceover by Hank Simms.) I presume that in Boston (and probably New York?), this aired at 5 P.M. EST?
@@darrylh1971 - I'm not sure, but didn't WNBC run "Animal World"? They sure did run "Wild Kingdom," even after it left the NBC network - and "Last of the Wild" was on WCBS as well.
I can’t believe what I just watched that was the best news I’ve ever seen ! True facts zero Bologny. Today for news like this all reporters would be chased like Assange
@13:33 - that has to be Doris Roberts, aka Marie Barone in "Everybody loves Raymond", Mildred Krebs in "Remington Steele", etc. Seems her appearance and voice never changed too much!
I was 9 in 1975. Great years as a kid. The 70’s rocked.
I, too, turned 9 in October of that year. And my middle name is Eric.
Same 😊😁😊🤙 Very true..Got to see Jaws 🦈🦈🦈 at movies 🎥🎥🎥 😁😊🤙
I was born in 1967, October 1967 to be exact. Those days were truly magical compared to now. We didn't need smartphones, tablets, Wi-Fi, laptop computers, or Xbox. We had our IMAGINATIONS! We actually played outside, created our fun. Built forts, grabbed our fishing 🎣 gear and headed out to the local parks. Or even rode our bikes there, since we could go outside without fear of dying. Such a better time.
@@luisbohorquez7096My Mom took me to see 🦈Jaws🦈 at Southridge Mall when it came out and it was EPIC!
@@EdsterIII
Hey now. October 1966. What a great month for a birthday. Cool weather. Halloween 🎃
The 70’s was a great time to grow up as a kid. Movies. Toys. Food. Etc.
"May you be doomed to live in interesting times." is an awesome curse.
Really ?
Great wisdom.
If they only knew about 2020...😓
"May you be doomed to boring quotes" is another one.
Seems like all of time is interesting .
I was 9 years old when this first aired on tv. How I wish I was back in that time again so I could be with my parents and grandparents again!!!
Me too! All the people I loved were alive, healthy, and doing well, and I was just a dumb little kid without a care in the world.
me too
That's so sad :(
People of ALL ages were so much happier! The 1970s was PARADISE
If I Could I Would Go Back To The 1970s I Would Just Too Be With All My Family Again Who Have Sadly Passed On
I Hope You Have Found New People Who Care About You And Whom You Care About As Well. It's A Great Big World, Full Of Amazing People.
@@abraxasjinx5207 I Do Thanks 😁👍✌️
Amen
Same here!!!
Even with all the shit that happened in the seventies I'd rather go back there the world is getting worse and worse
I was six years old when this aired. Why does the world back then look so much more wholesome than today?
Because of that Orange Ape!
But Nixon got off with a pardon. The Orange Ape has been indicted and is probably going to be found guilty. That's a great improvement over what happened in the '70s.
It was lol
I guess it depends on how you define wholesome. This was an era when porn such as Deep Throat played in movie theatres.
@@trixiedelight1350 Precisely. The past looks better because of what we have forgotten, as much as what we remember.
I was in the fifth grade as 1975 rolled into 1976. I don't remember much about the news but remember my Mom sitting on the couch in tears as she watched the flag draped coffins coming home from Vietnam.
I can also remember how bad inflation was because my Dad didn't make much money. We did without a lot but so did a lot of people in our small blue collar town. My mother wanted to take a part time job but my Dad wouldn't hear of it. If you think about it, it didn't take much money to raise kids then. We didn't have a lot of gadgets. We had thousands of acres of open desert to have fun, and that's exactly what we did.
After watching this, I wouldn't say the world is a better or worse place. Just different people with different problems.
Well stated.
Amazed at how much of 1975 that I remembered, including world events and leaders, at age 15. But I was a news hound from an early age. Ended up going into broadcast journalism for nearly two decades. Had a great appreciation of Collingwood, Cronkite, and the entire CBS News team.
I remember 1975. It was a hard time. But our current situation is worse.
Early 80s we had 18 % interest rates, could you imagine getting a bank CD today for 18 percent,,? Wouldn't have to gamble your money in stock market.
Only because of some orange turd who never should have been near the White House
True, but borrowing money for a house or a small business would not be great. Still, my parents did those things.
I don't think so. I was still recovering from combat in Vietnam. It was a difficult time for me.
It was worse in the 70s and early 80s. We had double digit inflation, huge interest rates. We like to think it was better but economically speaking it was horrible. We were kids then and didn't have to deal with it.
This aired on WBBM Channel 2 in Chicago at 4:00pm that Sunday 12/28, right after the Cowboys-Vikings Hail Mary Game!
I just went and watched the hail Mary clip...viking rubes are still in cope mode
@@SA-bq1us As a diehard Bears fan, I concur!
For sure, us Viking fans are still recovering from good ol' Drew Pearson. Personally, the 98 NFC Championship is the worst. Uuuugh
What a Game
The Armand Terzian game...
1975 aside - which was a pretty depressing year, this was a joy to watch!! They should have made these every year! I will look for more!
No offense but 2000-2023 has been a garbage couple of decades +. I'd take 1975 over this time in a snap!
@@EdsterIII And what wasn't garbage about 1975? Vietnam ended in the worst possible way, there were countless wars and conflicts (Bangladesh, Portugal, Angola, Argentina).The US was and is the biggest war mongering threat, but thanks to the Soviets, the second biggest threat, there was also the constant danger of World War 3 and Nuclear Annihilation. All countries under Soviet rule suffered tremendously. And where i live, Germany, was basically at war with the extremely left-wing Red Army Faction kidnapping and murdering people and waging terror everywhere (and it would get worse with the so called "German Autumn" in 1977). Oil Crisis. IRA Attacks in the UK.
Massive recession worldwide, including a big crisis in the UK. And then those poor people had to suffer Margaret Thatcher, quickly becoming one of the most hated people in the country.
Unemployment rate in the US was nearly 10%.
Litereally the one good story was the death of Franco and Spain finally escaping the Dictatorship to become a Democracy again.
Nah, politically it was a terrible time.
@@EdsterIII I agree
Before reporters became entertainers.
Still plenty of Chicago Commie slant.
The thing that was really different, and better, about that time is that a TV network is devoting prime time to really looking at the news, not "true crime" junk about somebody who absconded with their company's money and ran off with the office manager, or whatever. News, not candy. That was before network news operations became run by GE, Westinghouse and Disney.
VERY true. The rise of "infotainment" and the billions of dollars the networks generated in their news divisions led to where we are now.
The film 'Network' was prescient wasn't it?
@@ricoz2016 A person like Trump would have been reported on as a repeatedly bankrupt, accused sex abuser when the news, not infotainment took precedent. But in the '80s and '90s, the networks, NBC in particular, treated him like an economic asset, not a public figure requiring scrutiny.
It was a crazy time too. I remember it well. I would rather go back to that time as the age i am now. People were smarter and better thrn.
I do not watch modern day news at all, but these old clips are more pleasant because they aren't depressing and violent.
I turned 10 in October of 1975.
I remember this show like it was yesterday!
I saw your comment, the same precise details applying to myself, and had to look twice to make sure I wasn't the one who wrote it.
Maybe you two are long lost twins!
It just goes to prove our world was just as nutty when I was 12 as when I'm 60.
True !
I was 10
I would contend it's worse. I was 9. What politicians got away with here was diddly pooh next to what happens now.
It's worse now. It's striking how much more articulate and reasonable Republicans were back then. Now they lie and natter on about conspiracy theories.
Now, THAT is THE TRUTH🤙🤙🤙🤙🤙🤙
The more things change ,the more things stay the same
Starting at 46:30 the prediction that sports and their stars have "reached their limit" in costs/salary is hilarious!
Was a teen in the 70s and too remember CBS 📺 doing a Bicentennial special as well
There were bicentennial specials on each network every five minutes.
@@brianarbenz1329 Today's programming is goat 🐐 tripe 😆
The year, I was born, wow seeing the past. Is crazy and great.
I was 14, in grade 9 and not watching the NEWS at all, unlike today. I follow certain NEWS stories, I'm 61 and still in grade 9
Very interesting glimpse into 1975. I can see some things are still the same.
the more they change the more they stay the same
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My 6th birthday was in 1975. Even though I was so young I remember the news about the fall of Saigon
So was mine!
An ex bf of mine, his family was on the Last helicopter. And people his mom said were like hanging off as it took off and stuff
@pika23 I also went with school with kids who went through that. So mind boggling.
@@kim71749 Glad I'm not the only one here approaching age 54, lol.
@@crocodile1313 not approaching, am 54!
Love this. I hope to find more. I was 13 in 1975 and actually enjoyed watching the news back then. I remember as an even younger kid and watching the Watergate hearings.I loved the political party conventions too. This is great.
Same..I was born in 62 & remember these things & more
I was 3. I was born in November 72.
Same! I was 12 and very aware of global activities! Remember this all
I was 7 in 74 when the Watergate hearings played every weekday afternoon, and I was a P. O'd whippersnapper as the afterschool rerun of the Flintstones and Gilligan's Island would not be broadcast in order to bring you this CBS, ABC, NBC News Special Report.
@@trixiedelight1350 🤣👍
I was still in HS and wouldn't leave home until 1977. My parents were divorced. My father paid only $250 per month in child support for FOUR children. When I moved out, I probably made no more than $3-4/hour. Rent was like $200 per month. Do you miss the 70s? Yes!
And a Big Mac was 89 cents!
My father paid nothing for 15 years for his two children’s child support. Enforcement was weak then.
@@ricoz2016that’s the same price in 2023, adjusting for inflation.
Inflation adjustment is BS. It's another tactic B!!g G0v used to keep people in the dark about their greed.
This knocks me for a loop!! I'm originally from Boston. I can remember when WNAC Channel 7 was an ABC affiliate and WHDH Channel 5 was a CBS affiliate. That changed in 1972 when Channel 5 became WCVB - ABC and Channel 7 became a CBS affiliate. I remember how confusing and upsetting that was!! But I got over it. I moved from MA to MN several years ago, and I found out recently that WBZ-TV Channel 4 that had ALWAYS been an NBC affiliate is now CBS!! That is MINDBLOWING❗❗❗❗Doesn't make sense at all.
Give me 1975 over today
I was seven years old that year. I love that year.
@@joshuabowmans9850 I was 5 that year
@@joshuabowmans9850 I was 8. What awesome fuzzy memories
I was nine but we had double digit inflation and all. Economics were actually worse than now. We didn't know because we were kids.
@@alangray9117 The economics of 1975 while they seemed a bit gloomy at the time were much easier to fix than the economy of today.
Why can’t we have news like this where we don’t hear the opinions of the owners of whomever owns the station we happen to be watching
Interesting to see Rumsfeld and Bush Sr. appointed to the White House at the same time.
Interesting commercial from Union Carbide touting development of a fusion reactor. Here we are, almost fifty years later and fusion is still a pipe dream.
Thanks for this gem!
This was during the era of the Big Three Networks, who ruled the TV airways. At the time this program was shown on TV in Chicago, I was a 6th grader on Christmas break from school.
Absolutely fascinating. Thank you so much for sharing this. Love the ads!!
I remember the commercials, times were much simpler.
I remember when JAWS came out. My parents couldn’t find a sitter so they took me to the drive-in with them at age 6. They thought I would fall asleep 😴 in the back of the station wagon ….. NOPE! Saw the ENTIRE movie and refused to go back into the ocean until age 9!
My dad took me to see Jaws that year! I was 10😊
I remember that the car companies said that they weren't going to lower the prices of new cars and they didn't lower the prices. The car companies offered rebates so that they could say that they kept their word. It also started a trend of rebates for nearly every appliance in the stores.
Wow! I can’t wait till Union Carbide comes out with their fusion energy technology!😏
Pity they had that poison gas leak in Bhopal, India in 1983. ☠️
Fusion and nuclear energy will prove to be the most environmental friendly forms of energy as opposed to wind mills and solar panels and EVs that consume massive amounts of cobalt, copper, lithium, phosphate mined by exploited third world children. Not to speak of unable to recycle solar panels and wind farms. This will turn out to be the most wasteful attempt of solving a non existent problem, global warming. Insanity and Left s new religion.
"Athletes may look back on 1975 as the year the big money ran out." LOL!!!!!!
I was 12,in 1975.Let's travel back to those days!!!!
I graduated from high school in 1975 Huntington park high school
Every year and decade had it's problems and history definitely repeats itself...that being said, it was still a better time to grow up and be alive.
Without a doubt
Technology has really ruined things if you think about it
I'm giving your comments thumbs down if you dare think that technology is a bad thing! You dare want to live in the dark ages?
@@jamesmack3314Uses tech to makes his point about putting down tech. You live a better and longer life because of tech.
@@steelionx9255 it’s definitely brought a lot of convenience, but it’s also brought a lot of pain and problems ..we did fine without it for many many years
I graduated high school that year. I wasn't a big follower of the news then. It's nice to see history when I can appreciate it.
I was 17 in 1975, a sophomore in high school.
One thing really stood out from this program. Urban Gardening. It was talked about only briefly. But, a?recent Netflix show illustrates this as a possible solution to feeding people, & doing so in an efficient manner.
That was going to be everyone's job in urban slums during Obama's presidency. It didn't really go anywhere. Maybe it could have, but it seems nobody remembers that less than ten years later.
Imagine the modern audience sitting through such detail for an entire hour. Not just what was going on in the US, but all over the world. No, I can't either.
I sure as hell can. There are year reviews like this one every year.
Those "Year in Review" shows still exist, still get viewers and sometimes are even longer than just 1 measly hour, but i get it "Everything back in the day was awesome, everything now sucks" is the motto of a lot of idiots.
Bear in mind:
- Your options were this, or whatever was airing on ABC or NBC.
- Recaps were much more interesting before you could just look up video any time of whatever happened over the past year.
I wish I could relive 1975
Me too...😟
I just did for an hour
The world was just as controversial then as it is now but the big distinction between 1975 and 2023 was a sense of morality and community.
The former was eroded by removing God from schools and govt, the latter by the shrinking of the manufacturing base making whole towns and cities dry up, forcing people to move. It became hard to put roots down.
Good luck with 2024
It was eroded plenty by 1975 as well.
God was removed from the schools and government in 1789 by the constitution. That was one of the founding principles of the nation - no state religion.
Yep, nit one Republican wanted to jeep a strongman abusing departments, bribery/pay-offs, and nit one if any party would even think of going against our Constitution fir a more powerful leader, it outlawing the principals if Democracy, and the 3 press networks were towering beacons of honesty.
Cronkite led the mother church of the 4th estate and among him were equals. Handed to Rather. Brokaw, and Jennings. We were protected by this fierce pack 8f watchdogs, nobody sold out...this all worked for 70 years.
I turned 13 in August. I saw Saigon fall on April 30.watched JAWS, and Saturday Nigt Live. Shocked that NYC could go bankrupt. Ended the year transferring to a Catholic School, discovering Aerosmith, Heavy Metal, and Disco, and seeing King Kong at the movies. I learned the words Terrorism and Detente more clearly. Nasa had its last show, until the Space Shuttle would arrive.
I saw Jaws at a California drive-in movie in the summer of 1975. I had a great time, there. Also, that summer, I went to Disneyland. It was a wonderful experience. The summer of '75 definitely rocked for me. I was 7 years old. 🎈
@@alaricabercrombie2692 I was 7 y.o. in '75 too. We must have seen Jaws a dozen times that summer. And the debut of SNL. The best days of SNL.
@@HoustonRebel That is cool 😎. I miss the 70s prior to 1978. Those were really special, and exciting times for me, as a child 🤗. In my opinion (& from my experiences), '78 & '79 were very mediocre times, personally & culturally. It seemed like the 70s lost its thrill during those last two years.
@@alaricabercrombie2692 It was toward the end of 1980 for me both personally and entertainment-wise. I was just starting 7th grade. Entertainment in general seemed to not be as great as the 70s. I've been told that I'm an "Old Soul" here recently because I always enjoy 70s and 60s entertainment more than I enjoyed my own teen years (the 80s) and even entetainment today. But that was probably just a nice way for them to say I'm old fashioned. Lol. Most people refer to their teen years as their era but my era was the 70s/60s.
@@HoustonRebel Omg, me too 😃! I have always treasured the 60s & the 70s more so than my teen years from the 80s. Personally, I felt like my childhood ended during the end of the 70s. I don't look back on the 80s with the same fondness as I do with the 70s. I can definitely relate to what you are saying. 😁👏👏👏
Before TV journalism went to hell. Before network news divisions had to be profitable.
Yes indeed, and what a loss it was for the American people.
I turned 20 in 1975. Years in So Cal were the best of my life.
I was 4 years old in 1975 so I have fuzzy memories of my parents watching the news.
I was also 4 in 75!
Suffolk Downs race track - which is on the border of East Boston an the costal town of Revere was closed several years ago, and has totally been knocked down to be a new multi-use development - the parking lot is now a shopping center.
I agree life was much better I miss my parents and two sisters that have passed
What? No screaming and yelling? No histrionics? No truncated language? Speaking in complete sentences? Not in today's world.
It never too late to start again. Bring back the "Give a hoot. Don't pollute" advisories.
Noooo, especially the truncated language. People today are one step away from walking dead zombies.
There's no screaming and yelling and today's news so thumbs down, Karen!
And no one screaming insensitivity!??! Or gender injustice, or letting kids get sex change operations. OMG a much better world.
No crying about who the biggest victim wow
I turned 1 year old the night this aired. I'm glad I have no clue how bad things were.
BAD??!!! Compared to today it was glorious.
I was 17 and a senior in high school. Things were bad then, and good. Things are bad now, and good. We have to step back from the instinct to label a time as all one way or the other. The more time we spend contrasting today with 1975, the more we appreciate where we are now, warts and all.
@@brianarbenz1329 Like hell...things may have been "bad" then, but nobody in the school system was trying to get kids to question their gender and make them wonder if they're "really" boys or girls. Or the push to eliminate the word "woman" from the societal lexicon. No one heard of a "birthing person" in 1975. Appreciate where we are now? Whatever you're high on, I don't want any.
There was no social media back then and we weren't slammed with 24/7 news back then. It was easier to keep most of the bad stuff quiet with limited news out outlets. That's why it seems worse now. Just because it wasn't being reported on the nightly news or in newspapers doesn't mean things weren't happening.
@HeathNormand, You should have seen the network special about your first birthday. It was great! 😉
15:45 I know about this story for a weird reason. This was the same year that M*A*S*H had shocked audiences by killing off Henry Blake (McLean Stevenson), which was a big deal for a series at that time. Larry Gelbert said that they received hundreds of letters in anger. Gelbert and the other writers responded to all of them, and in those letters, they mentioned this tragedy to offer perspective, gently telling the angry viewers, in essence, "We hope you can feel as much sadness for those children as you do for Henry Blake."
Big phonies, gelbart and the whole CBS "Tiffany network" were so greedy, wouldn't pay Stevenson the salary he deserved. He was the most valuable actor and funniest on the program. MASH went downhill after he was "killed off".
I turned 13 that June,my beloved Red Sox kept me riveted through that summer!!⚾️
I can't wait till 1975.
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Sorry... You missed it on this rock. Maybe it's 1975 on some planet out there in the infinite expanse of the universe.
I was 13 then and could not wait for Christmas Day.
That’s the way the news ought to be delivered
Superb production.
April 1975 I was born. Some things remain the same huh?
2:47 And Chevy Chase's career is born!
Yeah he used to fall all the time way more than President Biden
Now we have a guy falling up stairs too. Of course Brandon is also shaking hands with ghosts and having a lot harder time talking than Ford ever had.
@@josephdykes1820 better president than Trump and ten thousand times the man
@@josephdykes1820 magat tears 😭😭
@@user-cs6up8eq7snot even remotely true. The obviously lost uncle Joe constantly stumbled, falls, cannot speak a coherent extemperous paragraph and is a total embarrassing felon of the World.
No internet, cellphones and tattoos were for sailors and prisoners.
Women have ruined their looks with tattoos
@@jamesmack3314girls and women have turned themselves into ugly sluts. I'm sure they'll be real pretty and proud when they turn 75.
YES!
And to think Henry Kissinger is still alive at 100.
Yeah, and he wants the population cut down to 500 million by 2030. Henry…if you read this lead by example, stand in line to be culled first. You will get a lot of respect and encouragement to do so.
And most everyone else, except Connie Chung, is dead now!
@52:32 - Still prevalent today- lack of basic 'balance of a checkbook' basic math and reading comprehension.
My son is in his 20’s & asked me to show him. 😮
Doris Roberts doing glade commercial 😂
Awesome stuff!!
I thought the 1970's was such a magical innocent decade. Oh wait, that was just pop culture. Everything else going on was chaotic. Nothing really changes. Things are still chaotic today. It's just reported 24/7 today.
I was 15 back then and Ford was teased endlessly about the " clumsy " President, but it was light hearted, he came into office in an impeachment of Nixon, so Ford held us together in trying times. God bless America.🇺🇸
I was 6 when I watched Ali v Frazier fight at our home with Lorenzo, my paternal grandfather, who's memory I still honor and raise a glass to him in admiration.
48:15 Well, that sports analysis from 50 years ago didn't age well...at all.
Ford was a good man. He didnt have a real chance after Nixon. Watching this I realize how hard the job was in 1975
Underrated and not fully appreciated
Had courage, not afraid to travel around the world, and survived TWO assassination attempts
He pardoned Nixon, one of the worst decisions of the modern presidency. Now there is no accountability in the Oval Office.
@@RobCamp-rmc_0 disagree. Xio Xiden is an example of no accountability in the oval orafice.
I was 4 in 1975 ❤️
Me too!
I was 2
The year I was born...😎👍
I was 3.
Love the intro montage at :36 seconds. That was very typical during the mid 60s into the 70s, wether is was sports, documentaries, film, even student films of such that was done by George Lucas in the mid 60s.
This was fantastic! Thank you for uploading.
We survived through The Era of this Broadcast... and I tell you, no matter HOW BAD it was THEN.... TODAY is INCOMPARABLY WORSE!!!
"TIME MACHINE"....
PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Even fuzzier, in 2023! Oh, it’s my fuzzy eyesight! During these years , my age was 24. Quite a while ago, yes; still, interesting to see. 🙏❤️✌️
I was 14, man
OMG that Glade Solid Air Freshener! The shape, the holes! I remember them😂and that Windex ad is just beautiful 😍 actually beautiful, something about it looks so...idk what, but it has the spirit of looking to new things, the future. Plus it's just plain pretty.
Yeah I remember those to, like Leggs pantyhose egg containers.
@@paradoxstudios6639 I remember the L'eggs Eggs in their big display case, as a kid, I loved getting those discarded eggs! That was a really cool marketing idea. Now I don't think they even have pantyhose or stockings anymore...I never see anyone wearing them or talking about them. Even tights or leotards aren't really around like they used to be...
There are some old ass restaurant bathrooms with these in them and they are old and brown lol. I remember seeing one about 18 years ago and that was 2005 30 years after they came out
Doris Roberts in that Glade commercial.
It was funny when the odor thing would dry up to the size of a pea!
Near the end, The Wild World Of Animals. I'd forgotten that for decades. We got that in Australia. I probably watched that slouching around in the lounge room in '75 and '76 and reruns into the 1980s. That and the rest of the fare ? Am I getting myopic about it and ' where's a time machine when you need it " ? No. It is not all that crash hot brilliant.
1975: The Year I Was Born.
Class of ‘93 and ‘94
Well, it was a great time to be a teenager. I can tell you that I was 14. I remember going to Columbia to visit an exchange student and friend. It really open my eyes and after that everything was just peachy….well,almost but alot of fun for sure
These were the days , when the news wasn’t as political as now days . You got the truth from the beginning to the end . Also , I realize this was 1975 almost 50 years ago . 1970’s was a decade that could never be repeated ever . Times when life was good for a lot of people .
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About that "Wild, Wild World of Animals": It was also a staple of Channel 7 in New York - WABC Channel 7, that is, on one of the weekdays as carved out by the 1971 Prime Time Access Rule. (The syndicated nature program WCBS Channel 2 aired was "The World of Survival" - narrated by John Forsythe, voiceover by Hank Simms.)
I presume that in Boston (and probably New York?), this aired at 5 P.M. EST?
There was also at the same time: "Animal World" with Bill Burrad, "Last of the Wild" with Lorne Greene, and "Friends of Man" with Glenn Ford.
@@darrylh1971 - I'm not sure, but didn't WNBC run "Animal World"? They sure did run "Wild Kingdom," even after it left the NBC network - and "Last of the Wild" was on WCBS as well.
"Haven't you forgotten 1 flew over the cuckoo's nest that was on the big-screen that-year".
I remember watching Jaws when it came out in theaters. I’ll never forget the audience reaction of that guy’s severed head in the bottom of that boat.
I can’t believe what I just watched that was the best news I’ve ever seen ! True facts zero Bologny. Today for news like this all reporters would be chased like Assange
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looking back that was the good old days I'm sorry
doris roberts in that glade commercial
She was really good in that commercial! Lol. Easy to see why her career went on from there, right?
@@Mister_Listener She was on Archie , in a bar with Edith, around this time .
It seems most appropriate that an analgesics maker would sponsor this broadcast.
Let us never forget
peter hanson from general hospital tv ad.
That last part of this video, with that wildlife show, I have seen since the 1970's. I forgot all about it!
Joe Biden was in Washington DC in 1975 as a Senator...he's been around FOREVER.
The year I was born.
The ads bring back memories.
Take heart people. The world was going to hell even in “the good ole days”.
But America was still free, and English was still the official language.
In many ways a distant mirror of today.
These newscasters aren't making me angry enough. I don't think they care about their brands.
Back THEN- There was no conservative vs liberal reporting.
😂😂
@13:33 - that has to be Doris Roberts, aka Marie Barone in "Everybody loves Raymond", Mildred Krebs in "Remington Steele", etc. Seems her appearance and voice never changed too much!
16:44 - everyone yelling about how we left all that equipment in Afghanistan remembers nothing of history.