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10 Classic Hilarious Comedy Routines
You Have To Laugh At Before You Die!

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TVparty! TRIBUTE to DARK SHADOWS

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A long, strange journey!

The Star Wars Holiday Special?!?

Year in review!

Creator of Gilligan's Island, The Brady Bunch, It's About Time and so many more classic TV shows tells all in a sweeping review of his illustrious career

Wonder Woman on TV
The Amazonian Princess' long, bumpy road to television.

Rodney Dangerfield
Some of his funniest moments on television in the 1970s & 1980s.

Gene Roddenberry
in the 1970s
What happened between the original Star Trek series and the Star Trek movies?

1971-72 TV Season
Glance back to a pivotal year in TV history.

Pamelyn Ferdin Interview
The original voice for Lucy in the Charlie Brown specials, she turned up in dozens of classic shows in the 1970s.

Variety Shows of the 1970s
Sonny & Cher, Redd Foxx, Glen Campbell, Joey Heatherton, Flip Wilson, The Hudson Brothers, Carol Burnett, Cher, The Jacksons, and so many more!

Cher After Sonny
After the TV shows were cancelled, Cher had a rocky ride back to the top.

1970's Daytime Talk Shows / Dinah!

Match Game / Hollywood Squares
Two funny game shows of the 1970s.

Dawn Wells Interview
In the annuls of pop culture, there have been three great debates: Coke or Pepsi? Ford or Chevy?, and Ginger or Mary Ann? The answers to the first two may never be settled, but I'm here to tell you that the third is a no-brainer.

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1972-73 Fall TV Season

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Virginia Graham Show
A television pioneer, she had a ground-breaking talk show for a brief time in the seventies.

Early Cable TV - 1970s

Make Room For Granddaddy
Danny Thomas' failed attempt in 1970 to revive his popular sitcom that left the air six years earlier. It was the first TV series revival of all time!

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How David Brenner's 'Hit' Sitcom Got Snipped Before It Even Aired
The show seemed like it couldn't miss. Creator James Komack made hit shows for comedians like Freddie Prinze (Chico and the Man) and Gabe Kaplan (Welcome Back, Kotter) - so what happened this time?

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Hitchhiker's Guide
to the Galaxy
L. Wayne Hicks interviews the original star of the classic BBC radio & TV series, Simon Jones.

 

TV commercials for Women - the polyester decade played host to some of the most memorable and wildly successful 1970's TV ad campaigns of all time.

The 1970's Most Memorable
Television Commercials
These are the classic commercials that excited American consumers thirty years ago - ad jingles and unforgettable slogans from "Flick My Bic" to "Bet 'cha can't eat just one."

MORE 1970's Classic
Television Commercials

That Girl and TV's Other Single Gals
There were a number of single working women in TV history before Marlo Thomas came along.

Thriller
Not the Karloff series, the spooky syndicated British horror anthology.

Mike Wallace, Virginia Graham
& Jim Longworth
Legends in the talk show game!

Silent Star Marion Mack
On tour with Buster Keaton's masterpiece The General in 1974.

Best Episode of Dallas Ever?
This season is not to be missed!

Bette Midler in the 1970s
How the singer got her start by winning over Johnny Carson and the nation.

Good Times
(They Weren't)
The tumultuous saga of the Evans family - a production even the stars couldn't control.

All in the Family
This program came out of nowhere to become the top-rated show of the decade!

Fonzie's Happy Days profiles the enormous hit that saw a bit player become not only the star of the show, but a cultural phenomenon as well.

Maude was one of the most controversial programs ever broadcast, prompting one of the first widespread boycotts of a TV show.

Rodney Dangerfield
His most hilarious appearances on television in the seventies.

The "N" Word on TV - how a forbidden word reentered the vocabulary via 1970's sitcoms (here).

Grady - the failed Sanford & Son spin-off.

Saturday Night Live's Mr. Bill
The true story behind on of the most popular characters of the decade.

Alias Smith and Jones - One of TVparty's most requested TV shows. Read about the suicide that marred this otherwise fondly remembered western series.

Enjoy a sampling of groovy Fall Season Jingles and network promos from the ABC network and see how they became number one in the '70s.

The Rockford Files
A look at the acclaimed series, and the reason why James Garner won't play Rockford again!

1973-74 TV Shows
The hits and misses of the 1973 fall season on CBS.

1974-75 TV Shows
Jodie Foster, Paul Sand, Kolchak, Sonny Bono, Sons and Daughters - so many shows, so many bombs!

1977-78 TV Shows - a tumultuous year in TV history.

Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp!
Saturday morning hit! The story behind the show and the soundtrack LP.

Top Ten Shows
1970-1976

TV Moms

The Bicentennial Minute
One minute prime-time history lessons that ran from 1974-1976.

Great Commercial Jingles & Catch Phrases of the 1970s
- during the early-seventies commercial breaks during primetime were rarely longer than one minute so there was a great deal less clutter to break through for advertisers on TV. Beauty products, gasoline, automobiles, chemical companies, soap, food, cleaning products, toys, Coke, Pepsi and McDonalds dominated the primetime and daytime commercial landscape during this period.

Mannix & Gail Fisher
What happened to Peggy?

Country Music TV Shows
of the 1960s & 1970s
Flatt & Scruggs and Dolly Parton & Porter Wagoner.

1970's Game Shows
A look at the best and the worst daytime TV games of the decade.

TVparty's 1970's Christmas Features!

BONUS:

1970's Teen Idols & The Hudson Brothers
The hearthrobs that thrilled the young girls in the polyester decade.

The Fess Parker Show

Peter Falk

Tom Bosley

Long Running TV Shows of the 70s

Jackie Cooper

Betty Garrett

Cher in the 1970s

Biff Burger

1970s Fast Food Chains

The Latin Casino in Cherry Hill, NJ

Lost 1970's Fall Previews with rare footage from The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Shaft, Get Christy Love, The A-Team, Baretta, Make A Wish, Room 222, Owen Marshall, Wide World of Sports, Courtship of Eddie's Father, The FBI and more!