1970-71 Short-Lived TV Shows
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- Опубликовано: 25 мар 2024
- This video is a compilation of most of the shows that were new, and cancelled (or those that were mid-season replacements), from the 1970-71 prime time TV schedule. A couple of the intros are missing, but I've included some of the details of the show.
This follows the days of the week, and time slot that these shows would have fallen on. 
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0:28. RIP, Lou Gossett, Jr., who died yesterday at age 87. Posting 3-30-24.
I remember The Young Rebels but didn't know he was in it.
He had a good life. I thought he was much underated. some quality Rockford's
RIP to a great actor.🙏
All these programs(& even the COMMERCIALS! back then) are a million time better than almost all the crap on free tv now.
And yet back then people were complaining that all the new shows were crap and there was nothing to watch.
Amen!
Even watching compilations like this is more entertaining than most of today's free TV.
@@gregoryfarshtey6856 i'm 65 now, but it was about this time i walked away from popular/ "prime time television". although being only 11 at the time i felt SOMETHING was afoot ! as the years past it became abundantly clear what was taking place ! TOTAL BRAIN WASHING/ MENTAL CONDITIONING ! low and behold HERE WE ARE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
David Hartman’s acting career had more misses than hits, but he found his niche hosting “Good Morning America”.
I always liked David Hartman, I do remember his show Lucas Tanner. I don’t recall if it was GMA or the Today Show but I also remember Mariete Hartley on one of the shows. I loved her on The Twilight Zone, Star Trek and Columbo among others.
Be sure to check David Hartman out in the 1970 Made-For-TV Movie "San Francisco International", with Pernell Roberts and Tab Hunter...It was just uploaded here to RUclips a week ago! He was great in it, and the film is fantastic! Enjoy! Let the good movies play on, and take care! Ms. Elizabeth 📺📼📀📺📼📀
@@STI2000The complete series of "Lucas Tanner" (including the pilot movie) has been uploaded here on RUclips! The Christmas episode is wonderful, and very sentimental and special! Enjoy! Let the good TV Shows play on, and take care! Ms. Elizabeth 📼📺📀📼📺📀
19:17- "NANCY" was Sidney Sheldon's final series. He wrote all 17 episodes, using the same aliases when he wrote various episodes of "I DREAM OF JEANNIE" from 1967 through '69 {"Mark Rowane", "Allan Devon", "Christopher Golato"}, because he didn't want to see his name credited too many times during each episode.
I remember The Immortal. It was basically The Fugitive with a twist.
Also remember Dan August. It was a good series that got caught in scheduling issues and never really took off--but the acting and scripts were great.
I can still vaguely remember it as a young kid. he eats a poisoned tomato...
Such happy memories ! Thank you! I was in junior high and watching these with my twin sister and Mom and Dad❤
Much appreciated! Thank you for watching Denise!
Makes us sound old when you phrase it like that... but back than junior high was 6th though 8th grade now days some states change from 7th grade though 8th and even though 9th grade the times had changed, but we're not getting older just wiser, lol
I too was in Jr High. 8th grade in 1970-71.
@@57highland We’re the same age!!! It was great childhood for me as I pray yours was!!! Thank you for commenting
@@denisesmith2745 Yes, that was a good time to be a kid. I think my favorite TV show (that lasted more than half of one season) was "Alias Smith and Jones."
Dan August got a second run in 1977 when Burt Reynolds roared his way back into the spotlight with "Smokey and the Bandit," as did his other short-lived TV series, ""Hawk," from 1966
TV wasn't much kind to Burt until Evening Shade came along. That was an eclectic cast of characters.
@@msr1116Got My front porch swing a glass of lemonade , baby on my knee , I guess I got it made
A terrific show , the cast was incredible.
Sounds like Tim Conway's old buddy Ernie Anderson is the announcer for his show. Here in Cleveland, we remember Ernie best as the horror movie host Ghoulardi, which he did from 1963 to 1966. Ernie later became the booth announcer for ABC ("The LOOOOOOOOVE Boat!").
Fun to look back and see the primitive technology they used.
Seeing the payphone with a 'out of order sign' on it made me laugh out loud
I sure do remember those days
Got to love those 1970 hair styles on the Young Rebels of 1776.
The Young Rebels was an attempt to make the American Revolutionary War "relevant" for the hippies of that time.
Hay it was 1770's
@@brucebezold2714 Good point. Styles may come back around every 200 years.
If anyone is interested, you can find the COMPLETE series (yes, that means all 15 episodes made) of "The Young Rebels" right here on RUclips! Enjoy the magic all over again! Let the good TV Shows play on, and take care! Ms. Elizabeth 📀📼📺📀📼📺
Wow, I remember some of these I was in junior high. Nice trip back.
sadly there bodies are as hard and stiff as lumber yard plywood.
I remember too
Danny Thomas should have had another spinoff called “Make room for this glass top coffee table”.
Andy Griffin having two shows canceled within a year slowed his career a bit by the mid 70's.
Andy Griffith was in a bind. He tried to move away from Sheriff Andy Taylor but people wouldn’t accept anything else. He didn’t find a steady gig until “Matlock”.
What happened was the pharmaceutical company Bristol-Myers paid $3.5 million back in 1970 to get a season long series starring Andy Griffith.
The initial show was Headmaster which didn’t work out in the ratings and was canceled at midseason.
The New Andy Griffith Show; which aired in the second half of the season in the same timeslot might not have ever been greenlit if Headmaster had done well enough in the ratings to go to the end of the season.
@@fortynights1513 The New Andy Griffith Show must have been thrown together in a hurry.
@@cbalduccIt assuredly was put together real quick because they wouldn’t have known the ratings of the first program.
Side note: The 1970-71 TV network season gets my vote for the most interesting season in the history of broadcast TV.
We have the rural purge at the end, and as a result, we have a mix of programs that were on TV that spanned different eras.
Consider that on one end you have The Ed Sullivan Show, Lawrence Welk show and Red Skelton Show. Three programs that had been on TV since 1948, 1955, and 1951 respectively.
If we are counting shows that originated on radio, then 1970-71 was also the final season of Kraft Music Hall; which first started in 1934.
And on the other end of the spectrum, just getting started were All in the Family, the Mary Tyler Moore Show, and in its third season was Hawaii Five-O.
Shows that went to 1979, 1977, and 1980 respectively.
This was also the first season of Monday Night Football as a regular telecast, which is still active of course (though it was exclusively on cable for a number of years).
All those shows intersected for one season, and that one season is 1970-71.
@@cbalduccIt assuredly was because the network and sponsor wouldn’t have known the first show would fail when they made the investment.
Side note: The 1970-71 TV season gets my vote for the most interesting one in the history of television.
We see an intersection of eras all at once.
In one hand we have Kraft Music Hall, the Ed Sullivan Show, The Red Skelton Show, and the Lawrence Welk Show. Shows that had been going since 1934, 1948, 1951 and 1955 respectively.
And on the other end we have the Mary Tyler Moore Show, All in the Family, Hawaii Five-O, and Monday Night Football.
Shows that would go until 1977, 1979, 1980, and a sports telecast that currently airs.
All those shows intersected for one year in 1970-71.
HAH! The intro for "San Francisco International Airport" has a shot of a plane's landing gear extending - from a B-52 Bomber! If a B-52 lands at SFO, they're going to have a REAL drama!
I'm 75 I've never heard of any of these shows. They must have really been short lived, like in the blink of an eye. lol
I hear U... But never saw most of these
At least on Make room for GrannDaddy Angelica Cartwright had tits
They ran against other shows that you did like and they didn't play them again. They're gone. No VCR no on demand. I can remember the commercials for a couple of these but some ran after my bedtime😅. I had homework and Band, chores, better things to do. Generally those days TV was boring as you can see. 😊
Yes. In and out.
Yes. In and out.
RIP LOU GOSSETT.
I spotted a VW bus and a VW Beetle! I had a ‘65 VW Bug. First car I ever owned. Loved that car.
I was eyeing that VW bus myself never owned one always wanted to I thought they were so cool back in the day.
The best part of these shows were the cars of that era.
The best part about these shows was they weren’t on the air too long bloody awful!!!
@@deniswilliams2212some were good many good shows go nowhere and crappy shows become big hits for 3 to 10 years a 1 year wonder doesnt mean the show is bad you really think mash deserved a 11 year run and i like mash..
Also next to the cars the music and the ladies cars and fashion go out of style but not women.
@@deniswilliams2212There were shows that lasted longer than the people behind them may have wanted in those years, but it does feel like more of them were allowed to last the length that the people behind them initially envisioned then going.
Nowadays chances are a TV show is either a total one off, or a successful series that the network turns into a brand and milks for as long as possible.
Wish there was a pluto like youtube channel that had these shows. Not their entire seasons, just one episode.
That Norman Fell gag was pretty good! Damn man, these videos must've taken a hell of a lot of work. I've never seen ANY of these shows on YT, even lists of forgotten 70s shows. I know I'VE forgotten almost all of these. Except Sandy Duncan's. God I had such a crush on her. Anyways, excellent job!
I really appreciate that Greg! More to come!
The Dan August clips are hilarious. He's always jumping, leaping, running into camera. I'll bet he picked up an injury or 2 on that show. And a friend of mine was so bummed out when The Immortal got canceled. It was worse than The Beatles breaking up for him.
It’s hard to imagine The Bold Ones NOT being successful. It had a powerhouse of top actors. It’s the only show on this list I remember, although I was only 12. Interesting that Dan Hartman was in both the Bold Ones and San Francisco International Airport.
I remember David Hartman from “the Virginian”
I also liked The Bold Ones, but it did have a lot of popular competition. Although the premise of having different genres every week was original.
The Bold Ones lasted several years. It was only the segment "The Bold Ones: The Senator" that lasted one season. It didn't do so well because every single episode was a political lecture.
IT was successful...4 seasons. The New Doctors was at least.
The Bold Ones was a good show that ran from 1968 to 1973. Thats hardly short lived.
I think it was the Hal Holbrook character that was short lived due to bad writing.
His segment was sort of like West Wing, except he played a Senator.
The political premises were unrealistic or very heavy handed. It was usually him, for some reason, standing alone against hollow headed strawmen, and needing to somehow convince anyone with half a brain to see things his way. Audiences tuned out.
There was a new network added to the big 3, PBS, but they were typically on UHF instead of VHF.
For some reason “the Immortal”scared the heck out of me at age 8
MORE! Please give us more short lived shows!
Thank you! More to come!
Loved when Dan August did the slide down the aisle into the camera.
Happy to have found this channel. Enjoy each and every clip memories galore😶
Awesome! More to come!
@@robertsretrorewind5853 😎💯
I remember watching The Bold Ones with my parents late nite.
I miss those old variety shows. A little bit of everything in one show.
Legendary cartoon voice actor and announcer Paul Frees does the voiceover in the beginning of The Immortal (11:22). Headmaster (21:31) features a theme song performed by Linda Ronstadt, plus character actor Parker Fennelly (the Pepperidge Farm guy in TV ads during the '60s and '70s) as the school groundskeeper/janitor.
Although I only remember a few of these shows, this just brings back old memories of my childhood
BURT REYNOLDS was not successful as "DAN AUGUST" from September 1970 to April 1971 as the tv series had only
26 episodes but he made up for it by starring in the blockbuster movie "DELIVERANCE" released on July 1972 . This
movie made BURT REYNOLDS a major movie star !
So I've watched a few of these videos. My biggest question is "why didn't some of these shows make it?“ If you look at the stars, as well as who produced them (Sheldon Leonard is a prime example)...all I can think is that films and TV finally had that unavoidable meeting of the minds, not to mention that a lot of the older 60s shows got forced out. Movie stars were finally embracing television, and TV stars were trying to hang on to what they had built. PS: who doesn't love Sandy Duncan? 😁
Absolutely stellar work, Robert. Thanks for putting these together and I certainly look forward to further installments!
Much appreciated Dominic! More to come!
Looks like Jan Michael Vincent's hair was just starting to grow back post,"Tribes".
Some years later Zalman King was producing, but I don’t think acting in soft core porn. For people who know Yiddish or Hebrew, Zalman is considered a pretty goofy outdated name.
Yup, he did the Red Shoe Diaries series for Showtime.
The early 70s was the last gasp of the variety shows.
"Murder is the most deadly game!"
You don't say! 🤣
Compared to how quickly the networks cancel new shows now, some after only 2-3 episodes, the new old shows got what today counts for a whole season!!
For whatever reason, I recognized “The Bold Ones” about a second in; they must’ve advertised it a lot. There’s also a few other shows I remember. I was 13-14 at the time and Dad picked the shows.
thank you for your research and hard work on these videos. One advice bit, it would be cool to see where each cancelled show wound up in the rankings......I had to research a few. But still thanks and awesome post.
Thank you. I appreciate your suggestion. I do start to add that bit of information in the videos that I've made (1971-72, 1972-73), and will look to continue doing so for future seasons.
Not all of the shows though, show up in the ratings (mid-season replacements and such).
I was even considering adding WHY those shows were cancelled, beyond the ratings.
At any rate, I agree with your suggestion. Thanks for watching!
Amazing how you were able to dig all this up. Very rare.
The only show I remember, because I really liked it, was Barefoot in the Park.
This was before my time . Or at least before my first memories . I was born in 69 . I am interested in seeing what I missed or simply no longer remember
It took almost 40 years for them to disconnect all the pay-phones downtown but “The Silent Force” finally got it done…😂!
Haha! 😂
america can still build them and put them back .
Inger Stevens was originally cast in “The Most Deadly Game”, but she killed herself. Yvette Mimieux replaced her.
I don't remember that show??? But I remember alias Smith and Jones and when Peter duel committed suicide they replaced him with Roger Davis it just wasn't the same, and I always thought if Davis was cast at the beginning of the show it might have lasted longer, I always thought it was a great show just like the guns of will sonnet
Love the opening for Barefoot In The Park. Very well shot and fun.
The Young Lawyers looks like The Mod Squad in a legal setting.
_The Interns_ looks alright.
At 1:23, that's Ernie Anderson doing the voice-over, isn't it? Fancy him being somewhere other than ABC, as "The Tim Conway Comedy Hour" was on CBS.
I always liked Lee J. Cobb, he could play any role movies or T.V.
I love him in "12 Angry Men."
And On the Waterfront
@@jenniferhansen3622Juror number three I believe
Thanks so much for this. I was 4 during this season, so all of this is a revelation to me. I miss the old days. Damn, I'm getting old! 😂
Thank you for watching Patty!
Just think how I feel younger lady, I was 12 and ya gotta look at it this way... you're not getting older just wiser!!!
@@tats7859 😄😄
Ironic that before MASH, Mike Farrell was in a show called Interns.
LOkks like he always played the stable family man.
RIP Lou Gossett, Jr
Budjet cuts meant the orchestras were paired back to the bare essentials that meant the trombone player had to have a really nice vibrato!
Robert Foxworth....has done it all for 54 years straight
Assuming that the networks still own the rights to these shows, I don't know why none of them ever try remaking any of them for a modern audience. The ideas for these shows in all of these videos are not horrible in and of themselves.
3:38 Boy, an old Volkswagen Bus. My family had one. I understand Volkswagen brought the Bus back into production a few years ago.
PURE CLASSIC TV GOLD!🏆 Thank you so very much for all the hard work and research you do in putting these videos together! I am very much enjoying watching them! Are you considering doing the 1960's and 1980's lost TV Shows later on also maybe? I would love to check those out also if you're willing to put them together! Let the good TV Shows play on, and take care! Ms. Elizabeth 📼📀📺📼📀📺
Awesome! Thank you for that!
I will definitely be going into the '60s and the '80s, though I'm mostly excited about the early '60s through to the early '80s. The late '80s (bleeding into the early '90s) isn't as exciting, though my plan is to cover that period too.
Too bad Barefoot in the Park failed. A show starring Scoey Mitchell and Nipsey Russell sounds like it should have been a riot!
It was an adaptation of a Neil Simon play that was also made into a movie
Had my mind blown learning that the Headmaster theme song was recorded by Linda Ronstadt! I don't think it's ever been released on record or CD
I remember The Young Rebels. I was 15 and had a major crush on the French actor.
I saw The Tim Conway comedy show on the Roku channel and I see why that tanked! And R.I.P Lou Gossett Jr.
1970-71: The most interesting season in television history if only for the rural purge.
Great Channel for great memories.
Thank you Jesper! Much appreciated!
I noticed some “Ironside”, “Marcus Welby, MD”, and “Mod Squad” clones. It is sort of like “They liked it the first time, we’ll do it again.”
The industry is like that. When Eight Is Enough aired there were at least two other large family clones that came out around the same time. There were also a spate of hospital shows that came out around the same time as St. Elsewhere. Heck, happens with Hollywood, too. Remember all the baseball movies in the 80s? Or the deep sea horror films around the time The Abyss came out?
@@tstockelTrue enough. “The Immortal” is an example of another clone - an innocent person on the run. It started with “The Fugitive”, and continued with other series, such as “The Incredible Hulk”; “Hot Pursuit”; “Lucan”; “The Phoenix” ; and even odd ones, like “Run Buddy Run”; and “Run Joe Run” on Saturday mornings.
@@13thwho , and “Run For Your Life”.
This happens all the time with not only television but also movies, books, music, streaming programs RUclips channels., etc. Everybody wants a piece of an appealing idea that reliably generates sales or ad revenue.
While I only remember The Bold Ones (and astonishing how it was cancelled with such a a great cast) it is amazing to see all the great actors in these series, both established and at the start of their careers. Loved Hilarie Thompson in everything she did (what ever happened to her). Also the actor David Arkin from Men at Law - is he related to Alan and Adam Arkin?
As far as I know, they're not related.
I'm right there with you about "The Bold Ones". That cast, wow!
She's on Facebook. 🙂
Whoever approved the program about the psychiatrist should have had his examined!!!!!!!!
Sad that Vince Edwards was never able to mount a comeback. He was so great as Ben Casey.
Big names DOESN'T mean good show..or even good acting
How the hell did The Bold Ones flop? Talk about an all star cast. Hal Holbrook, EG Marshall, Burl Ives, David Hartman(Pre Good Morning America of course), John Saxon, James Farentino, and Leslie Nielson. Holy crap. Of course, my 5-6 year old self doesn't remember any of these shows because they came on after my bed time but wow this one should have been a sure thing.
Lou Gossett with hair and way before "An Officer and Gentleman" R.I.P Mr. Gossett..."The Young Lawyers"...Judy Pace hubba hubba, ah rather have that V.W. micro bus...remember "The Immortal" and "Dan August" thought those were long running shows....look at Jan Michael Vincent....oh my god San Francisco International" whatched that show all the time.....kind of a spinoff from "Airport".. good ole Clu, he recently passed, lived a long time 100? Wonder how many of these shows I may have watched but slipped through the ole memory but sure remember the names then the faces. Kinda corney but definitely revisiting old friends
EG Marshall and John Saxon both in one series ? Sounds good .
i like the part in the 6 million dollar man sends the new T800 combat chassis to fight his robot friend.
One of the last seasons I remember watching before my high school graduations. Some shows I remember, most I don't.
So Many Lawyers trying to help the downtrodden. My Goodness 😮
Thanks. I vaguely remember some of them.
i only remember manix. sitting with my dad shareing a beer.
That’s the clearest clip of “Make Room for Grandaddy” I’ve ever seen! Congrats on your restoration process. (I’ve been wanting to see these 24 episodes again for years. Where did you find them?)
No restoration on my part April. For what's available, it probably is the clearest clip. I don't think you can get them on DVD or streaming (researching this), though there are a few episodes available on RUclips; lower quality of course.
I remember Milicent Martin as an air hostess but forgot the name of the show. Last I saw of her was in Frasier
"The Young Rebels" I can only imagine them trying to be pseudo educational while having a young buddy show suitable for younger viewers.
Kind of like Voyagers!
0:38 I recognize Hilarie from "If it's Tuesday, This must be Belgium." I love that movie! 😊 I just realized I also know her from a Brady Bunch episode.
Yes that's right I forgot about that movie - now that i remember it was a laugh riot as i had gone on many European tours and the real tourists acted just like in the movie - a zany, unpredictable of disparate backgrounds and personalities drawn together for better or worse for the duration of the trip. And I remember Hilarie in that movie now but not the Brady Bunch episode - will have to look up that one.
@@muzluv33 I love all of the quirky characters in the movie. It's funny to think that tourists are really like that!! The Brady Bunch episode is the one where they go to that amusement park. "The Cincinnati Kids" from season 5. ☺️
I always liked Zalman King. Never knew he was a co star on a prime time show!
The Young Lawyers doesn't sound very exciting to be honest.
Jeez, I'd have watched _The Silent Force_ every week!
The Immortal looked kinda cool.
Some I remember. I have Dan August on DVD.
Its all about the theme songs.
I really liked The Immortal
I watched Dan August and The Immortal
20;16 I remember watching The Interns. I was in kindergarten.
The 60s and 70s had the best shows by far . When TV was TV. By the mid 80s TV shows weren't as good. Look TV now. Nothing but garbage. Long live the Oldies. Same with music as well.
There’s good and bad shows in every generation.
But if you find yourself longing for the 60’s and 70’s, I could totally see why.
Only 12 at the time remember mom watching the Bold Ones didn't realize it wasn't on very long for me it was The Immortal always liked Christopher George in Rat Patrol he never got a long running series
never heard of most of these. Of course, during this time I was in college and didn’t get to watch much TV.
they must have been short I never heard of them
Judy Pace is beautiful 🎉
RIP Lou Gossett. Never saw Young Rebels. Remember watching Tim Conway Comedy Hour. The Bold Ones was a good show. I liked it. Don't remember The Young Lawyers. Always liked Don Knotts. Liked a lot of those listed variety shows. Didn't watch Men at Law, but, Gerald O'Loughlin I remember from The Rookies. Don't remember Make Room For Granddaddy. Had some good people in it. Don't remember The Immortal, but, Christopher George was in The Rat Patrol. Never saw Dan August, but, it has a good cast. Never watched Barefoot in the Park TV show. Nancy had a good cast. For The Interns Mike Farrell looked so young. Headmaster had a good cast. Don't know why it didn't make it.
Thank you for sharing!
Zalman King had a striking resemblance to Sean Penn.
“Barefoot in the Park” came out in tandem with “The Odd Couple,” which, of course, ran for years. And I remember Tim Conway‘s show as being hilariously offbeat and ahead of its time as far as comedy goes, which is probably the reason it didn’t succeed.
After Conway’s program was canceled, it was replaced by Honeymooners repeats.
Reportedly the Jackie Gleason show was to be renewed for one more season with the variety segments eliminated and it just being the Honeymooners sketches, but Gleason disagreed and they canceled his show.
If Gleason’s show was renewed, then it’s possible that Conway’s program would never have been greenlit in the first place perhaps
Geez! The New Andy Griffith Show looked so sad. 😂
TODAY in 2024 you pay a lawyer 500.000 to 1 million easy walking.
I found the theme on another anthology; but I am surprised by the absence of the theme(s) to "TheAquqnauts"/"Malibu Run".
Excellent list. I vaguely remember some of these. A great trip down memory lane😊
Thank you Roger!
Just curious what was changed from the original video.
I had included 'The Tim Conway Show', which aired starting (and ending) in 1970, but it wasn't part of the 1970-71 schedule. It falls on the 1969-70 schedule, and it ran from January 1970 to June 1970. I also had to change the thumbnail, as I had used a photo from "The Tim Conway Show" on it.
I had also (mistakenly) typed "1871", when a date was supposed to be 1971.
I reference multiple sources for dates/times, and their dates can conflict. There's also some (understandable) confusion, because even if a show only had a few episodes, they might have aired those episodes twice in two separate blocks, and I wrote the original airing coupled with episodes that were reran in a block later on in the year.
@@robertsretrorewind5853 love you channel. New Sub
I barely remember any of them. I must have been watching the more popular series at the time.