CBS Promo 1970

[tomservo56954]

September 19, 1970 was my father's 41st birthday...and this year marks the show's 41st birthday (Dad passed in 1999).

[Dachshund]

This was also the year that CBS introduced such failed shows as "The Interns," "Storefront Lawyers," and "Headmaster."

[tomservo56954]

@Dachshund 1970 was the year the networks went for "relevant" shows, looking for the next MOD SQUAD.

ABC had THE YOUNG LAWYERS and THE YOUNG REBELS...the latter is fascinating because it was set during the American Revolution. portraying a trio of what would later be called guerilla fighters battling the British. It was originally titled YANKEE DOODLE, but was changed for fear it would sound too square to attract the target audience.

[jln55]

Mary was the cutest thing on TV!



[fredstmoritz]

the 70's good times my car my hair the way of life lol what happend to it all

[tony46214]

THE 1970s WAS AN AWESOME DECADE...MY TEENAGE YEARS....TV WAS A LOT BETTER THAN IT IS TODAY....TODAYS KIDS REALLY MISSED ALOT....

[nanlisa]

My sister was born on October 5. 1970; three days after my 13th birthday.

[smittykins]

It's neat seeing promos of classic shows when they were new.

[stevarino1989]

yup I'm a young whippersnapper here! This was my PARENTS generation. I wish I could've been born in the 70s too. I would've loved to see the 80s. I'm only like, 22.

[christheone8773]

and to think, The Mary Tyler Moore Show almost didn't get past its first season in 1970, and it turned out to be one of the biggest sitcoms of the 70s-

[tomservo56954]

@christheone8773 It might not have gotten THAT far...it was originally scheduled on Tuesdays at 8, hammocked between THE BEVERLY HILLBILLIES and HEE-HAW, opposite the second half of THE MOD SQUAD. It was a last minute decision by programming executive Fred Silverman to swap it into the Saturday night slot where GREEN ACRES had been placed.

[christheone8773]

@tomservo56954 and also, it premiered just when CBS was doing the great "rural purge", getting rid of all the rural-themed shows that put the network on the map in the 60s-

[tomservo56954]

@christheone8773 True, but CBS was expecting the big guns that fall would be its "relevance" trilogy...STOREFRONT LAWYERS/THE INTERNS/HEADMASTER.

[christheone8773]

@tomservo56954 LOL - funny you should mention that show, "The Headmaster", that was the one starring Andy Griffith - and even turning the show over into a new format and calling it , "The New Andy Griffith Show" didn't even help - I guess they couldn't stay away from that rural format-

[tomservo56954]

@christheone8773 Urban or rural, it didn't matter...even though I was only 6 that fall, it was strictly THE PARTRIDGE FAMILY for me.

[christheone8773]

@tomservo56954 so was I (six years old that fall) - and it was the BRADY BUNCH for me as well!

[airbus001]

I was -18 years old in 1970 :(

[GFI888]

@airbus001

Dang, I thought I was the oldest person on Youtube ;)

(I was 8 in 1970)!

[christheone8773]

@GFI888 I was only six years old myself!!!

[cartoonmusicandfilm]

short but great

[chrisman737]

That's all you needed -- a few really good shows. Now we have a dish that brings us 300 channels and thousands of shows -- and most of it is CRAP!

[FRANK172]

MTM season 7 coming Tuesday!

[1985OldSkool]

WOW!  I was turning 15 that year (1970).

[wlhardy]

Those were the days when everyone in the country looked forward to the new fall TV season and all the new shows were heavily promoted. MTM was one of my favorites. Nowadays you can get hundreds of channels and there's crap on all of them. We used to get only 3-4 and found something great on each channel!

[nanlisa]

I was still 12 when The Mary Tyler Moore Show first went on. On October 5, three days after my 13th birthday, my mother gave birth to my sister.

Hard to believe that it's been 40 years.

[nanlisa]

Sadly, this was the last season for both Green Acres and The Beverly Hillbillies. In fact that year, both shows were on Tuesday nights. The Beverly Hillbillies came on at 7:30 and Green Acres came on at 8.

[pannoni1]

Scanimate animation is what gives the unique feel to '70s video graphics, falling between the placecard era and the CGI era.

[SilverEspeon26]

What is the font for the caption "We've got it all together"? I've seen that on the CTW logo.

[AarHan3]

Strange...in 1970-71, CBS had "We've Got It All Together," whereas ABC had "Let's Get Together"! Lotta "Togetherness" that season... :^)

[tomservo56954]

@AarHan3 While NBC just told you to "Put Yourself In The Picture".

[mrmoore1970]

Awseome CBS promos during the year I was born!

[Juliaflo]

Heavenly Hash! This year marks the 40th anniversary of

The Mary Tyler Moore Show

The Partridge Family

and anything else I can or should think of.

[AarHan3]

@Juliaflo The Odd Couple, too!

[christheone8773]

@Juliaflo The Odd Couple!!!

[shella2bella]

Wow...I was 3 yrs old.... and my mother gave birth to my sister, Karen on Sept 26.... the following Saturday, a week after the show premiered.

[Nikes62]

Mary, Lou, Ted, Murray, Rhoda..Phyllis, Sue-Ann...how could I ever forget you? Such a brilliant show, never a conscious put-down. The best show ever!

[selloutasaurus]

one of the greatest shows in the history of TV! grew up watching the whole CBS Sat nite lineup: All In The Family, Mary, Bob Newhart, Carol Burnette. MASH was originally a Sat show,then moved to Tues. Each was brilliant! Nothing holds a candle to them today.

[wdashwor]

Wow... do I miss that time. This takes me back.

[steadfastcoward]

What a coincidence! Yesterday, September 19, was ALSO a Saturday!

MTM premiered 39 years ago yesterday!

Did anybody send flowers?

[mattman747]

mary tyler moore show brings back some serious childhood memories!

[altfactor]

It's interesting this was a Mary Tyler Moore promo, since her sitcom turned out to be the biggest hit among all the prime-time entertainment programs launched in September of 1970.

FYI, there was also a companion promo that aired in the Summer of 1970 before CBS began show-specific spots for their new shows. Those spots used the slogan "We're Putting It All Together".

[tomservo56954]

@altfactor While MTM finished at #22 for the 1970-71 season, the biggest freshman hit was THE FLIP WILSON SHOW, at #2. The quasi-new THE MEN FROM SHILOH (revamp of THE VIRGINIAN into a rotating-lead format a la THE NAME OF THE GAME) was #18, and the mid-season THE SMITH FAMILY did well enough to reach #21.

[Del655]

Love this one. Thanks!

[KathleenWilbeck]

I was a junior in high school in 1970....and, boy....what a great show!!!! Those were the days when we didn't have two million television stations....and...Mary Tyler Moore was know by EVERYONE!!!

(P.S. I threw my beret into the wind one day, in a small attempt to imitate Mary......and lost it on top of a building!)

[MissSkymin]

I tried that too-and a fox stole my hat!

[reymatt76]

@KathleenWilbeck No you didn't.

[steadfastcoward]

In 2 years the CBS eye will be sixty. Member eyeontv has a clip of the story as told by the creator and seen at it's fiftieth anniversary (subject to availability, but it's very informative).

[TheCaledonianTwins]

Soon Retro JUnk will have their 2000's section up once we propell to the 2010's.

Television will be awful and bland by then...

[steadfastcoward]

The late night talk show archives ought to make up for that!

[6400az]

Makes me yearn for my beloved Twin Cities even more....depite the winters!! What a beautifull place.

[videoholic1980s]

AWESOME!! This must be one of the oldest CBS promos I've seen yet!!!

[nanlisa]

Ah, yes! The Mary Tyler Moore Show. A show that would become a Saturday night staple on CBS, a classic, and a show that won several Emmys.

They just don't make TV promos like this anymore. Nowadays, when one show is over, another one starts.

[AllRequired]

Usually in a single frame.

Pretty soon, it's gonna be advertising advertising 24/7. Really fucked up.

[fromthesidelines]

The announcer is Roger Carroll, who had previously served as announcer for "THE SMOTHERS BROTHERS COMEDY HOUR", and later "THE SONNY & CHER COMEDY HOUR"...

[tubelover12]

TV and the 1970's brings a warm fuzzy feeling to my heart.....

[buddyboy55]

Dang - I miss the 70's...

[rayjr62]

I am 45 and I wouldn't change the fact that I grew up in the 70's for anything. I really feel sorry for these younger people. And I wouldn't want to trade places with them for anything as well. The 70s rocked.

[buddyboy55]

The 70's were so awesome! We may not have had computers, and video games were pretty much just "pong" but at least we got outside! From early morning until the streetlights came on! We were so much healthier than the kids of the 21st century who spend all day on "MySpace." We had a blast hanging out with friends, just sitting on the front porch with the stereo speakers behind us, jamming to KISS and Aerosmith! If I could go back and live any part of my life over,it would be as a teen in the 70s!

[pazzensutra]

Screw the computers. The 70's were great!!

[steadfastcoward]

And now we sit at our computers watching all of these memories, because computers are the 'new TV'? Remember life before ROTFLMAO? We had to describe how funny it was with WORDS!

[buddyboy55]

LOL! Good point! : )

Still, give me "Pong" any old day..

[StoneCold75]

@rayjr62 Hmmm..I respectfully disagree..the 80s rocked, ask anyone and they know...heck even youngsters love the 80s now thanks to Vh1. The 70s were too hairy lol

[j82f13th3d]

@rayjr62 I LOVE The 1970's!!! Todays poor kids are soooo ripped off.

[YesYou123333]

@rayjr62 I agree with you. I'm 47 and I still remember Saturday nights in the 70's. But, don't you envy today's kids with respect to them having all of this technology to record their childhoods? I mean, if only I had the technology they have today when I was a kid, I could look back at crystal clear videos of the summer nights I used to spend with my first love up the street. And, all of those Christmas memories in 1080p? Now, all I have are poor Kodak prints and what's left in my memory.

[TheDoobiekmodpac13]

@rayjr62 I just turned 44, and I am glad to have experienced some of these tele-gems, because TV now is so hermetically produced, it has no flavor, or texture like it did when we we're kids. I was a neat time, because we got a little bit of everything between then and now. :)

[wheelrchair1]

@TheDoobiekmodpac13 I grew up in the 80's and that was an awesome decade. I wish it was possible to go back to that era.

[TheDoobiekmodpac13]

@wheelrchair1 yes, it would be criminal to deny some of the innovation that developed during that time. Good stuff.

[KathleenWilbeck]

The days of three major stations....and if a program was a hit....EVERYONE in the United States knew every character's name! Kind of cool.....and easier on the remote....or, were there remotes then????

[steadfastcoward]

Engineers at Zenith were responsible for the principals app;ied to the first non-wired TV remotes of the mid 50s. The INFRARED (IR) and RF or radio frequency types we are used to came about as the number of functions controlled grew more complex than older remotes could handle. One of the early Zenith systems used a light gun to zap one of four corners of the set with photocell sensors. It was called "Flashmatic" but reflections and blockage could produce unwanted results.

[steadfastcoward]

cont.

The other was "Space Command" and the name stayed on for about four decades until, as wags will claim, the quality fell apart. The 'clicker' is called that because of the clicking sound made when you push the buttons. The sound the remote made was actually ULTRASOUND...combinations of tones for each function much like those when you push a button on a touchtone phone.

IR remotes became popular as VCRs, Laserdisc players and new, highly sophisticated devices appeared.

[saphopoem]

Very cool

[frankd1965]

Preview of the 1970-1971 season on CBS.

[pannoni1]

Pretty much the dividing line between Boomers and Gen X'ers who remember these promos.

[ZIPPTPH77]

She was a good looking woman for her time.....

[CadillacL]

I was born in '71 & so this is great to see promo's back in the day.

[Green18600]

A splendid presentation!!  A Fat 6!! Any Questions?

[autoamerican79]

Mary Tyler Moore rocks!!

[tennille1998]

You are so right!!! She's the best actress there ever was or will be!!

[AarHan3]

What a fall season.

CBS was "Putting It All Together," whereas ABC declared "Let's Get Together," in 1970.

[mrmoore1970]

Awesome! At least I now know how CBS Prime Time was when I was just born LOL! Thanks a million!

[ZIPPTPH77]

Remember I had a crush on Mary Tyler Moore, I thought she was hot for that time.....

[tennille1998]

I've loved Mary Tyler Moore since a wee child. I thought you can't get any better than her. I won't say I had a crush on her, because being a girl, that would imply I was gay. LOL

[ZIPPTPH77]

I remember they were comparing her to Jackie Kennedy during the dick van Dyke show.....

[tennille1998]

Who was? Who compared her to Jackie Kennedy?

I saw the Dick Van Dyke show, but only in reruns, as I wasn't around when it first came out. I like the show anyway. But I like her show especially, The Mary Tyler Moore Show.

[ZIPPTPH77]

The media at large, and the viewers as well....

[tennille1998]

Oh, okay. I missed all that because I wasn't even born yet. In fact, I don't even know who Jackie Kennedy is.

[ZIPPTPH77]

Oh my God you must be young.... LOL

[tennille1998]

I'm pretty young. I'll be 35 this coming March.

[ZIPPTPH77]

Surely you must have know Jackie Kennedy was the wife of President John Kennedy?

[tennille1998]

I've heard of John Kennedy, but didn't know his wife's name.  I know of John Kennedy because they named an airport after him which I live nearby.

[ZIPPTPH77]

Are you married to "The Captain"?

[tennille1998]

No, I'm not. I'm just her biggest fan. I take it as a compliment though. I wish I were that girl. I'd love to trade places with her, even if it's only for a day. I'd like to meet her first.

[ZIPPTPH77]

I remember Toni Tennile, she was pretty hot for her time......

[tennille1998]

She sure was!!

[ZIPPTPH77]

Yeah I know I live in New York, the airport used to be called "Idlewild".....

[tennille1998]

When was it called Idlewild? Probably before I was born. I've been living there since September 1978. I was so young that I didn't even pay attention to the fact that there was an airport close by. I'm also close to La Guardia airport. I'm right between the 2 airports. I have easy access to both.

[ZIPPTPH77]

The years before JFK was killed, they named it Kennedy soon after that, @ 65, 66 I think.

[tennille1998]

Definitely before my time. I wasn't even thought of then. My mother was a kid herself at that time.

[ZIPPTPH77]

Me too, I just know a little history.....

[tennille1998]

That's good that you know history. History was always my weakest subject in school. I hated it! My best subjects were English and Science.

[ZIPPTPH77]

Didn't mean any offense..... Just been living in New York a little longer....

[tennille1998]

Oh, I didn't get offended - not at all. I was just pointing out what I was good at and not so good at in school. How long have you been living in New York. I've lived in New York all my life. But perhaps you're older than me. What was your best subject in school?

[ZIPPTPH77]

Loved history, was best in that and the lunch break I was good at!

[tennille1998]

I wish I knew you when I was in school. I'd ask you to tutor me in history. I was good at the lunch break as well. LOL That's the best part of the day.

[ZIPPTPH77]

Lol......  I only got by is all!

[tennille1998]

Me too! I was lucky to pass with a 65.

[barber747]

Wait, 65 is passing? I thought 76 and above was passing, unless your grading system is different

[steadfastcoward]

To come to her aid folks...I'll be 43 next month and all my siblings are over 35 yet we never heard claims like that so she ought not feel alone.

I know tennille1998's name well enough from several comment lines.

howdy again

[SkyeHedgehog]

i love to see old slogans and promos on tv.

[surfboy5]

Thanks for the video!!