Classic 1970's Television: Promo for ABC-TV's Daytime Programming of Fall 1974

[beatlefan64]

I remember Korg but I didn't watch it all that much.

[beatlefan64]

Classic stuff!



[ppoobah]

COOL!

[mjnoir1]

wow some of those cartoons are completely unknown to me the motor cycle and frontier one in particular.

[mannymachete461]

Esto lo k mis padre veían en la televisión antes de yo nacer, cuando estaban en sus 20's WOW!

[aldiakaroofus]

Hong Kong Phooey! I got to watch it on its first run!

[darrylhaynes]

who was that great voice...i remember it well

[Skulldini]

Korg sounds like a very novel idea though. Seems they had some other historical family dramas that were really popular, like The Waltons set in the 1920's, Little House On the Prarie set in the frontier era, .. so they tried to have a family drama set during the stone age. Kinda got in ahead of Quest For Fire and Clan of the Cave Bear. They should try reviving that one. It might work today, what, with those Gieko comercials ("Even a caveman can do it" ).

[Skulldini]

I was born in 69, so I'm barely old enough to recall this era of tv.  However, I dont remember Korg or that These Are the Days at all, .. never even seen them in syndication! They must've been very short-lived and unsucsesful!

[Lupton2000]

Could anyone identify the celebs in Password?

[Lupton2000]

@Lupton2000 I figured out now that the celebs were Linda Kaye Herring and Ed Asner from April 74.

[MrJjs77]

Its a Funshine Day!

[Anrkist713]

You know, I've always had a great deal of respect for the older times... times I was not apart of. I think how bad the shows of today are and wonder how great it must have been to see Korg, 70,000 B.C. And after saying that I realize, network executives have always had TERRIBLE IDEAS!

[Rufskin13]

How I would wish if ABC had a classic channel giving all this great shows along with all those commercials everyday.

[TheOlivertwisted]

saturday morning cartoons in the 70's was a event gilligan,planet of the apes scooby doo,jabeerjaws,clue club superfriends batman tarzan ..ill stop now lol

[kneejerker]

@TheOlivertwisted :

Your attempt here at written communication is good evidence of the neural stimulation that you received in these formative years.

[JohnnyFoster]

The 70's WERE the best decade. Absolutely. Wish I had appreciated them more. To be 47 now, and to remember that great feeling back then. Something's changed ; I wonder what it is. I mean, besides me.

[elaztica]

All My Children! YEAH!

[GenXorcist1976]

Ahhhh, the critical difference between GenX and the Millennials (and whatever is coming up after THEM...) - we WERE taken seriously and life was allowed to move at our natural pace. We knew how to have conversations, invent games, go outside and run around. Much more simple than this "gotta-have-it, gotta-do-it, insta-gratification, techno-crazed, reality-TV/trashy 'celebrity'-du-jour" culture that's been cultivated now. It's giving me a 12-alarm MIGRAINE. Fly me back to the 1970s ANY day.

[ElMagnifico44]

the problems we have today were more or less the same during those times....we were just to young to see them. plus kids today are assaulted from all sides from technology that brings them up to the minute information 24/7. we all practically saw the tsunami from japan in real time. good or most of the time bad information never stops coming.......do we really need all this technology

[cranie4]

Ah yes, "Devlin". We were consumed with all things Evel Knievel related in the 70's. Lots of live action stuff too..Dr. Shrinker, ElectraWoman and Dyna Girl...Saturday TV was an event for us. Anyone remember when crime shows back then shifted from guns to where EVERY bad guy had a bottle of Chloroform?

[Attila709]

If only there was a dvd with all the ABC fall preview specials from the 70s. That would be the closest I could come to a time machine. 

[collegeman1988]

I remember the promos for the ABC Saturday morning cartoons. They had a preview on Friday night and then I remember getting up first thing the next morning to watch the Gilligan's Island cartoon and Hong Kong Phooey. Now all they have on Saturday morning is the news, the news and more news.

[WarriorSmurf]

@collegeman1988 Yeah, the other "big two" networks did that as well. I used to look forward to that every september. I also miss Battle of the Network Stars among other things.

[newstarcadefan]

@collegeman1988 Well that, and the crappy E/I programming that must be shown for 3 hours too...

[Shintar66]

i wish to see korg re-released

[LenaAndreia]

Wow, "One Life to Live", "All My Children", and "General Hospital"--my mom watched these all through the 70s and through my childhood during the 80s and 90s. It's really weird to think she probably saw this promo.

[MrMusicman488]

We don't "Take Our Kids Seriously" anymore

[MattTheSaiyan]

@MrMusicman488 Yeah, from what I've heard, the major US networks don't air much childrens shows anymore outside of saturday morning cartoons (which are usually repeats from cable channels, anyway). 

[prcsouthwest]

@MattTheSaiyan Yup you are right,they dont. I am in TV, and work for a tv network. Notice that this is a "promo". This 2:00 minute promo you would never see on todays tv. This one prolly ran, what 3 or 4 times during the week. At 1,000's of $ per every 15 seconds these days, one way to look at it... what were they paying the CEO's of ABC, NBC, CBS back then and what are we paying them now. they cant afford to run promo's, that is why lifetime is beating them.

[prcsouthwest]

@prcsouthwest Lifetime is beating them because you can not get thru a stop set without seeing at least 2 lifetime promos. This is why you only see reality shows... cheaper to produce than a sitcom, and the CEO man needs his bonus. But hey thats OK, they just keep putting in the same junk and expecting something different when it comes out the other end, the ultimate in stupidity, and it will sonner or later ruin them.

[SunbeltRyders]

@MattTheSaiyan Very true, just saw some children's programming Saturday morning at a hotel lobby while on vacation, ABC's idea of prime time Saturday morning programming these days? 5 year old reruns of That's So Raven and Hannah Montana

[bigkdrman1]

@MattTheSaiyan Television sucks today compared to this time period. The news and sports has taken over Saturday mornings and there just aren't any good afternoon shows anymore for kids to watch.I know we should be forcing our kids outside to play but there are just some days when you just have to be indoors so why not have something good to watch?

[RichYan33]

What kid wants to watch a show about a turn of the century family in rural America?

[Buckethead66]

@RichYan33 The same kids who made The Waltons and Little House on the Prairie huge hits!

[jwg2372]

@RichYan33 It's obvious that this comment was made by someone who was born within the last twenty years or so...that's about when television began it's decline into the useless miasma of so-called "reality shows", boring formulaic dramas, and check your brains at the door sitcoms that it is today. They wouldn't know good TV if it came up and bit them on the backside (and if you try to tell me the Jersey Shore or American Idol is good TV then you'll have proved my point for me)

[RichYan33]

@jwg2372 Um...I was watching Saturday Morning TV in 1970. 

[mallamoozoo]

Peter and Alice gettin' jiggy !

HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA­AAAAAAA

[Simon5005]

The country was still young and naive............and we were so much better off. We are on the road to total self destruction now.

[mallamoozoo]

@Simon5005 Yes - such decay in what - 40 years? As a history student it makes the fall of empires over a few hundred so much more believable. Most believe USA has less than 10 years - will collapse as USSR in 1989, before 2020 - maybe 2012.

[Scorpiofootlvr]

Ahhh such a simpler time...

[danthelambboy]

it seams the 70's was big on the whole nuclear family idea

[marioTmaggot]

Then: "We take our kids seriously." Now : Fuck the children Oprahs on!!

[mightyfilm]

@marioTmaggot No, it's Fuck the children, we've got hours of infomercials to run.

Really... these trust fund babies that run networks... thanks for nothing.

[Horrormaniac99]

The Good Old Days !! I wish it was like this now : )

[oilthatgate]

Can someone please identify the music track playing between 0:59 and 1:20?

[mallamoozoo]

@oilthatgate I would just to know what style of music it is - what do they call that? Maybe "newsreel jazz?"

[tubelover12]

I miss my childhood....and good TV!!!

[mallamoozoo]

@tubelover12 yeah but at least you had one - kids today are polluted by a filthy culture. - Illuminati has destroyed the place. (It was about this era that the phenomena of serisl killers started emerging - no co-incidence - illuminat behind it all - aim to terrorize and demoralize society.)

[MadameLil]

I loved so many Sat. morning shows that lasted only one season, like Mission: Magic, These Are The Days, Devlin, Kids From C.A.P.E.R. & Ark II. I also loved Shazam, Isis, Pebbles & Bamm Bamm, the Archie shows, & Super Friends.

It really is a shame nobody uses words like "funshine" anymore. We've gotten less creative & fanciful with the decades. It's bad enough people now overuse the word "amazing" as if it were the only adjective in the English language.

[landrykkb]

I was only 2 years old in 1975 but I remember when The New Adventures Of Gilligan was on.

[ferfoxakeladdy]

How come nobody uses words like "funshine" anymore?

[MattTheSaiyan]

@ferfoxakeladdy It's a shame really. With all the tech we have now, using words like "funshine" should be easier than ever, yet it's extremely rare.

[clh2192]

@MattTheSaiyan To your point. The 70's to me was the last decade of wonder and possibility. In 79, flying cars and space travel still represented the future. And there was a lightheartedness to entertainment and to life. The 80's killed all that.

[miraclefatdude]

@ferfoxakeladdy y2k - funshine has no place anymore! neither do good Sat. Morn cartoons, afterschool specials or P.A.'s .... oh the 60's and 70;s.. miss them much! cheesy, but memorably good cartoons

[ferfoxakeladdy]

@miraclefatdude You are right about that! Kids are becoming less and less innocent. They are exposed to so much crap! Jersey Shore, Kardashians , "real housewives" blah blah blah. Disgusting people, if you ask me.

[weedermann]

@ferfoxakeladdy Probably because it sounds LAME.

[seattleskies13]

Life seemed simple in the 70's, we played out with our friends all day came home to eat and watch Happy Days, Laverne and Shirley, All in the Family, The Jeffersons and Life was just good!

[PupuTheClown]

todays kids get bored with that,,,,,lol,,,and they're out of shape, sad.

[TammiWayKewl]

Notice that Todd Devlin was drawn slightly differently from the way he appeared on the show.

[ThereisNoGoingHome]

This was back when television was free and we didn't have to pay a private company a fee to have the privilege of accessing "public" television (which kind of defeats the entire idea of public television.) or any other channel for that matter.

Ahh the seventies. I remember my father waiting in long lines for gas because our owners (OPEC) decided to make us sweat a little, and the fashions back then. I have photographs of me and my family wearing threads that were dynoMITE!

The good old days.

[MeIancholyMan]

Wow.... Funshine Saturday.. um... SUCKED!! lol no competition against the Bugs Bunny-Road Runner Hour on CBS... nice knock-off attempt on Korg or Land of the Lost... lol

[AarHan3]

Kewl! Anyone got the preview from 1975?

[jupitr2]

'The Girl In My Life' was an interesting show, somewhat of a "This is Your Life'-type show that put an unsuspecting female audience member on stage and she was lavished with gifts and her story was told by her husband/boyfriend or entire family. Kind of a early version of Richard Simmons' 'Dream Maker' TV show. I also recall a really cool game show on ABC called 'Dream House' where contestants won rooms for a house. Some would win just a single room while others won several. Great TV!

[aftershock71]

I remember when we actually had to wait until December to watch the Holiday shows like Charlie Brown Christmas, Rudolph, Frosty, etc...I remember having to get my bath taken, teeth brushed, and in my pajamas before my mom would even let me sit in front of the TV..oh and the homework had to be done!! These kids now, don't know how good they have it!!

[tonlo92]

Great times...we didn't have cell phones & 100 tv channels but yet we were never bored.

[MissMinnieMousegirl]

@tonlo92 We played outside more. Now it's hard to find children playing on the sidewalks like we used to do.

[tonlo92]

@MissMinnieMousegirl We had freedom & I never had a care in the world when I was young..Now parents have to be fearful to let their kids out alone. Neighbors don't know each other or look out for each other like when I was growing up. I feel they are being cheated. I would love to go back to a more simpler time. WOW, I sound old.

[MissMinnieMousegirl]

@tonlo92 Amen! It was great to be a kid. I still fondly remember playing with jump ropes, yoyos, or the FlyBack paddle ball till they broke! I am going to be 50 next year...where has the time gone? But at least we have a boatload of good memories.

[randallcaster]

@tonlo92

Me too, If heaven is a section of our lives, I want this section. Even being in an abusive family, I could go out

and be a kid, with a dog, and explore suburban "wilderness" and swim in gravel pits. It's a no man's land now. No one ccared if we ran around in their yards. It's now so bad for kids. I feel for them badly..

[axcz3]

I agree with you rbatcret. The 1970's were just simply better. Often i wish i had a time machine. I dont even watch many of the shows on TV now. I watch all DVD's or shows from the 70's on the computer or wherever i can find them. TV today, while it has many advantages and is helpful especially with current events and world news. Nothing could compare to the way you feel when you go back in time. I dont know how else to explain it.

[rbatcret]

What I miss most is the wholesomeness of television. Most of what is on today is so called "reality" tv. Oh please transport me back.

[MissMinnieMousegirl]

@rbatcret If you find a way...TAKE ME WITH YOU!!!

[absdilsey]

@rbatcret Let me know when the transports ready. So i can start packing...

[rebel70s]

I missed the good ole days of 1970s and i remembered the game show was on during the daytime hours back then! Hong Kong Phooey was my favorite when i was kid back in the 1970s!

[christheone8773]

I remember every single one of those shows - I was 10 in 1974 - AND, I remember all the game shows too!!

[visor109]

Hong Kong Phooey was the coolest!

[haileysmom728]

Wow - after school specials ....I was 8 years old in '74 - those were the BEST shows ever!

[drummerbraves]

I can recognize Jodie Foster as the pitcher in the Afterschool Special Rookie of the Year. I also recognize Valerie Harper on the $10,000 Pyramid and Ed Asner and Katherine Helmond on Password.

[susan462]

I miss those classic shows and the 70's were the best decade ever..

[drummerbraves]

I agree.