@ilovebobgunton Yes tv today is truly sickening. I'm pretty sure the devil is behind Toddlers and Tiaras! PS Bob Gunton was the best sadistic warden ever!
@ferfoxakeladdy The shows of today just don't have the same strong writing or characters,at least in my opinion. The characters from the 70's shows were people you cared about. 'One Day at a Time','Good Times', 'The Jeffersons',etc. all had good characters and writers. Today's shows revolve too much around sex.
You are right about Bob Gunton as the warden! Hell,he's great at everything. You should hear him sing!
ever notice how many shows at the time were based in APARTMENTS?? Good Times, One Day at a Time, Bob Newhart, The Jeffersons, etc? Not much for living the American Dream i guess. then there were shows like All in the Family, Maude, etc, that showed Duplexes or houses with front porches (in the opening credits) that looked NOTHING like how it was portrayed on the set! Surprised Norman Lear wasn't more for accuracy in the obvious fuck ups
I remember watching this show either in syndication or the later years prior to its cancellation. I never really liked it that much, it seemed so white trash to me.
Man now this is what I'm talking about, we need more shows like this on the tube. I miss the 70's and 80's so much, So many great shows. And was Valerie Bertinelli hot back then or what. Schneider was the funniest.
I was so jealous of Mackenzie Phillips' tall thin figure when this show was on (I was about 13 then and built more like Val Bertinelli). Then years later I find out Mackenzie was skinny because she was a drug head pretty much the whole time.
Crazy-eye be damned, if I could go back to the 70's, I'd make the moves on Bonnie Franklin. Between mustard yellow sheets we would explore/ the feathered mop-top/ and so much more. . .
Wow that show always had some kinda creep o vibe to it like Makenzie would have been excellent for thirller horror flicks she just had that vibe allll ova her,, so sad an creepy,, like I'm so young back then didn't have a clue,,, but now it alll makes sence,, cause all she went threw,, the drugs sex abuse an alll, hmm sad stuff,(
Wow that show always had some kinda creep o vibe to it like Makenzie would have been excellent for thirller horror flicks she just had that vibe allll ova her so sad an creepy,, like I'm so young back then didn't have a clue,,, but now it alll makes sence cause all she went threw the drugs sex abuse an alll, hmm sad stuff,(
Bonnie Franklin and Valerie B. for the first time in over 25 years will be together in a TV show "Hot for Cleavland" which will air on 1/26/11. You could say it is a "One Day at a Time" reunion.
Wow, back then that station wagon was just an old car... now it's a classic. Love the old school Volvo, too. Back when TV shows had memorable theme songs and intros. Valerie Bertinelli is just as HOT now, as she was then. :)
In the first place, I had no idea that this show was created by Meredith Baxter's mother! Very interesting! Furthermore, what exactly are you saying worked out?
This beginning is just too odd, given the circumstances. Their glee is strange. I've seen enough of this show over the years to understand their family dynamic. I think that Ann did the right thing in getting the divorce. Even Julie once said to Barbara (after Barbara said: "I wish it would be like it used to be"): "Yeah, Mom's so much happier now." But the way Ann kissed off David was childish of her ("You are forcing me to marry you"--?? This from an "independent" woman? Oh please).
Just as some other people have stated, I always wondered why Bonnie Franklin never wore a bra. Valerie Bertinelli had great hair .I wanted hair like hers, especially when she got it feathered.
this song, and "Welcome back Kotter" and "the Golden Girls" has got to be my all time favorite song's of 70's-80's sitcoms!!! i also just loved the show's they were awesome!!!
@RavishingRedheadd I know. I hardly ever watch TV anymore, unless it's TV Land =D. At least you got to experience good entertainment in your younger years, I was born in '95... *sigh*
*sigh* *shaking head* City kids!...That scene of her cheering and them driving away from that small country area down the interstate to that big city with nothing but glass, concrete and traffic for as far as you can see actually makes me cry! I just could never think of living in that atmosphere. Gimme my cows, fields of corn etc. and yes my barn smell (city kids are shaking their head at me for that) :) where I can walk down the street at 2 AM without worrying and I wont need anything else.
I'm too young to really have been able to follow this show when it was on in the '70's. What exactly was this all about? It looks like, from this clip, a family moving from a small town to city life. (ick!) :) sorry, but I'm a farm kid! I knew people who used to watch it, but I was too little to get anything out of it then.
@jfpinell If you never watched the show, maybe you should hold your comments as they really have nothing to do with the show. Its not about suburbia versus the city. Its a bout a recently divorced women (this was a big thing then) and her kids leaving the security of suburbia and the trap it meant for them in terms of an unhappy marriage. They move to the city for opportunity as most people do and the make ends meet.
@JhomasE ..yeah I'm thinking that is NOT what KingDT2007 meant...I am sure he was being disgusting about the incest she had to endure as a child/teenager...
@Smartboy8877 ok the point of that joke is this mckinze phillps last year claimed that she had a sexual relationship with her dad either way ewww all in the family is the name of a show all in the family in some terms means sex with relatives keeping it all in the family
In the first place, I am very familiar with the show "All in the Family". I did not, however, know anything about Mckinze's sexual relationship with her dad. In any event, now that you have explained it, I am, sort of, able to understand your play on words. Thank you very much for taking the time to explain!
hmmm..........im bonnie franklin and im sure glad to move to an apartment with a greasy slimey super.........jump for joy im leaving the suburbs and this quiet house for all that!
You are just finding the positive in all this aren't you? Bigred224forever huh? LOL.
I am sure that she was better off there than she was in an unhappy life back at that house with Ed Cooper. She wanted to start over. Schneider was harmless. Give him a chance. He'll grow on you. LOL.
YEA , YEA i know shneider is harmless as an ex -con is with a toddler. The fact is this that the show jumped the shark the minute they let womens lib in and gave ms franklin the keys to the ferrari. The bottom line is that glenn scarpelli got jobbed and the show should have featured him and shneider only nobody else and it should have been called "glenn place". The injustice is still reverberating today. Glenn scarpelli kept that show afloat and is da shizz nizz! long live "da king".
@JhomasE Co-sign...I think Norman Lear's point was to portray that a divorced mom could meet the challenges. This was a new concept to American television in 1975. (IIRC, "Mary Richards" in the MTM Show was originally supposed to be a divorcee...but the network weenies made them change it to "she broke off her engagement" at the last minute.)
What a terribly selfish woman, to uproot her daughters and move them to a dingy apartment, simply because she was "bored" with her marriage (her words). She should have lived with the boredom for another few years until the daughters were finished with school.
Now that I'm older, I understand why my parents didn't like this show.
@kbirdusa How many episodes of this show did you actually watch? Because I saw most of them, including the one that featured a reunion with her arrogant self-absorbed ex-husband, and it was obvious that it wasn't merely "boredom" that drove her to leave him and take the kids. This show aired during the era of the women's movement, when many women were beginning to examine their lives and make new and sometimes hard choices to improve them. Anne Romano wasn't perfect, nor was she "selfish."
@BIGRED224FOREVER First, it's a TV show, ok...don't be so critical. Second, she left Logansport (which I'm sure is a wonderful town in general, but even now, friends tell me there is NOTHING) to move to Indianapolis. Not a bad move. Third, she was making a fresh start as a single-working-mom. Lastly, Schneider ended up being one of her closest friends, he was not a slimey super. :)
It's a shame how Mackenzie's life is in RUINS! If her life is that miserable that she has to shoot up or snort every day, either get some help, move on, and start your life fresh, or pull the trigger and get it over with. I can't believe she's still on hard drugs again! I admire Valerie for what she made of herself. Even today she looks fantastic! I don't know how old she is but she looks in her mid 20s. If I weren't gay, I'd date her! Haha! And where is Bonnie Franklin these days? Hope she's ok
She does theatre now working for the CCAP which is an organization devoted to reviving works that are seldom seen and presenting them to student audiences in order to create a new audience for theatre.
I've noticed a lot of 70s tv theme songs had scenes of people driving places: One Day, Alice, The Jeffersons, Maude, Taxi. I bet I canl think of others.
This comment has received too many negative votesshow
what kind of car is that that crack head aka mackenzie phillips is leaning on? get a load out of that ford pinto on the freeway shot! what a hoot. when i was 10 i wanted a ford capri when i was old enough. i never got it.
I'd hardly call Seinfeld crap. They air One Day here in Canada, I'm just getting into it and love it, the one classic sitcom I'd never seen in my life until now.
I wish this show was still on in reruns. They don't make great classic shows like this anymore. Now, everything's all about sex, drugs and skinny people. Why can't they rerun great shows like this instead of that stupid "Seinfeld" crap?
correct me if i am wrong but were'nt old cars such as a plymouth really really long? this looks like shorter like a rambler or studebaker?
by the way in the early 70s the olds vista cruise was my favorite car. i always wished my mother would get one. those sky lights were too cool, i thought.
Actually, someone else posted that it's a '56 Chrysler.
This looks like the economy line of the Chrysler lineup, so that's why I said Plymouth, and it looks like the body style before the "Suddenly, it's 1960!" 1957 style. My dad had a '56 Plymouth sedan.
I fell in love with the '69 Vista Cruiser (the same year as the one on "That 70's Show") in 1982 - I'm on my third one since then. Vistas are getting really hard to find, though.
I'm the east coast co-president of the GM Skywagon Club.
go read her book ....jagger done her when she was 15 , go get knowledge, she went off the rails dude. she's famous and people have there own opinion f"reedom of speech"...i wouldnt write a book about my down spiral(not).... i love youtube....
hey buster...alls i'm sayin was it respectful to call her a whore? NO! if she was 15 when and if jagger was with her then he is a child abuser, period!
we have all made mistakes but we don't idiots like you calling anyone WHORES. got it? now good night!
Anyonewho thinks mackenzie Phillips was hot either suffers from Glocoma or has a severe case of lonliness.And to think Mick Jagger took her virginity on the set of this show when she was 15 is just plain vulger!
yea, I tell ya, the 70's was a blast, we wrote a lot of songs.....check out my 80's show...just the 10 of us....then there are the Paul Stanley is not gay....those are good. Thanks for your support.
tv theme songs were so good then and so creative. And the disco sounding ones like this were the best. Why don't they do great themes now? Everyone loved them and knew all the words and still do.
It's a 1956 Chrysler, A New Yorker I believe, or possibly a Town and Country. Strange that I don't remember seeing that car before even though I used to watch that show.
Well I guess we have the issue cleared up finally...the majority consensus here is confirmed by Wikipedia that the show indeed aired 9 seasons from 1975 to 1984. But we all were right about at least one thing and wrong about at least one thing that Wikipedia and a few other sources cleared up...the show ran from December '75 to May '84.
Ha ha..thanx for the help and interest! At least we can all count except for one..the issue now is was it in fact fall '75 to spring '84 being nine seasons which half of us have attested or was it early '75 to spring '84 being 10 seasons which the other half seem to think or is it as I originally thought 10 seasons from fall '75 to spring '85. I distinctly remember reading an article in 1985 about the end of the three sitcoms at that time.."Alice", "Jeffersons", and "One Day". Anyone have proof?
Alice and the Jeffersons ended their runs in 1985, but perhaps the other long-running show on CBS you're thinking of that ended was The Dukes of Hazzard?
Can u do easy math? 75 2 85 is 10 as is 85-75. 75 to 84 is 9 as is 84-75. If u don't get the math here is proof. Fall 75 2 spring 76 is 1st season, fall 76 2 spring 77 is 2nd, fall 77 2 spring 78 is 3rd, fall 78 2 spring 79 is 4th, fall 79 2 spring 80 is 5th, fall 80 2 spring 81 is 6th, fall 81 2 spring 82 is 7th, fall 82 2 spring 83 is 8th, fall 83 2 spring 84 is 9th. Til very recently it was always fall 2 spring. I hate spelling out simple stuff. There was no 1/2 season in early 75 or late 84.
You're correct, it lasted for 10 seasons. The show started in January 1975 to about March 1975 (which is considered Season 1) as a midseason replacement And return in the Fall of '75 until May of '84.
Where are you getting this airdate info on this series, just from memory? With Google and every other resource available, this should be happening, lol. Highbed is right, ODAAT did not premiere until December 1975, and ran in original episodes through May 1984.
Totally great theme song! Think about the 70s shows. Barney Miller, Good Times, The Jeffersons(even the music during the end credits), Taxi, hell-even Alice. Even Sesame Street and the Electric Company had great songs! Where is the talent today? So sad.
As a kid, I simply assumed Schneider and Clark Gable were the same person.
ajdc88 4 days ago
Richard Mazur was on 'Rhoda' as well. He played Brenda's dumb boyfriend Nick Lobo.
It's sickening what passes for TV these days. The '70 shows were much better.
ilovebobgunton 2 weeks ago 2
@ilovebobgunton Yes tv today is truly sickening. I'm pretty sure the devil is behind Toddlers and Tiaras! PS Bob Gunton was the best sadistic warden ever!
ferfoxakeladdy 3 days ago
@ferfoxakeladdy The shows of today just don't have the same strong writing or characters,at least in my opinion. The characters from the 70's shows were people you cared about. 'One Day at a Time','Good Times', 'The Jeffersons',etc. all had good characters and writers. Today's shows revolve too much around sex.
You are right about Bob Gunton as the warden! Hell,he's great at everything. You should hear him sing!
ilovebobgunton 1 day ago
All the best shows were in the 70's. Too bad I was born in 1976 and missed them while they were originally on.
I love this theme song.
ilovebobgunton 3 weeks ago
i remember watching season 1 from this show
TheMashwatcher585 2 months ago
ever notice how many shows at the time were based in APARTMENTS?? Good Times, One Day at a Time, Bob Newhart, The Jeffersons, etc? Not much for living the American Dream i guess. then there were shows like All in the Family, Maude, etc, that showed Duplexes or houses with front porches (in the opening credits) that looked NOTHING like how it was portrayed on the set! Surprised Norman Lear wasn't more for accuracy in the obvious fuck ups
ivegotalongdong 3 months ago
you mean e actually had shows that didnt have kardashians in it?
LordChristan1 3 months ago 5
I remember watching this show either in syndication or the later years prior to its cancellation. I never really liked it that much, it seemed so white trash to me.
skershaw2000 4 months ago
Best opening credit ever!!
Beautifulstar24 4 months ago
This theme song rules!!!!!
phatalbert73 4 months ago
Man now this is what I'm talking about, we need more shows like this on the tube. I miss the 70's and 80's so much, So many great shows. And was Valerie Bertinelli hot back then or what. Schneider was the funniest.
bigdannyg1969 5 months ago
@bigdannyg1969 yep life was way better than....not so great now. A common youtube sentiment.
unclebobunclebob 4 months ago
This has been flagged as spam show
Damn she must have been happy as hell to get that divorce you see how high she jumped up lool
I didn't know Norman Lear was behind this too back in the day Aaron Spelling (RIP) and Lear had TV all sewed up
Dablkwid0w2008 6 months ago
Damn she must have been happy as hell to get that divorce you see how high she jumped up lool
I didn't know Norman Lear was behind this too back in the day Aaron Spelling (RIP) and Lear had TV all sewed up
Dablkwid0w2008 6 months ago 6
@Dablkwid0w2008 Free at last!
ilovebobgunton 2 weeks ago
Freezing the camera, so signature 70s.
billybassman21 7 months ago
Annie was a hot mama
video77ab 7 months ago
I was so jealous of Mackenzie Phillips' tall thin figure when this show was on (I was about 13 then and built more like Val Bertinelli). Then years later I find out Mackenzie was skinny because she was a drug head pretty much the whole time.
squeapler 8 months ago
Shut the front door!
er6789er 8 months ago
in later seasons, Mackenzie was so gaunt it was so obvious she was on drugs. A friend of mine lost almost 20lbs in one month from a coke binge.
msmithstud 9 months ago
@msmithstud Wow. That's scary.
ilovebobgunton 2 weeks ago
:35 lol at Bonnie ruining Val's dribbling practice
MrPoopoobreath 9 months ago
I would give my left hand for it to be 1978 again!
MrPoopoobreath 9 months ago
Crazy-eye be damned, if I could go back to the 70's, I'd make the moves on Bonnie Franklin. Between mustard yellow sheets we would explore/ the feathered mop-top/ and so much more. . .
hozayamz 10 months ago
Penny Arcade anyone?
sahirisdabomb 10 months ago
What exactly is the setting of this show? I was around when it was on, but too little to follow it. What exactly is it supposed to be about?
jfpinell 11 months ago
@jfpinell its about a woman who divorces her husband to find herself and moves to indianapolis with her two daughters
KingDT2007 11 months ago
Wow that show always had some kinda creep o vibe to it like Makenzie would have been excellent for thirller horror flicks she just had that vibe allll ova her,, so sad an creepy,, like I'm so young back then didn't have a clue,,, but now it alll makes sence,, cause all she went threw,, the drugs sex abuse an alll, hmm sad stuff,(
zeelove8 1 year ago
Wow that show always had some kinda creep o vibe to it like Makenzie would have been excellent for thirller horror flicks she just had that vibe allll ova her so sad an creepy,, like I'm so young back then didn't have a clue,,, but now it alll makes sence cause all she went threw the drugs sex abuse an alll, hmm sad stuff,(
zeelove8 1 year ago
Bonnie Franklin and Valerie B. for the first time in over 25 years will be together in a TV show "Hot for Cleavland" which will air on 1/26/11. You could say it is a "One Day at a Time" reunion.
pressmin 1 year ago
Wow, back then that station wagon was just an old car... now it's a classic. Love the old school Volvo, too. Back when TV shows had memorable theme songs and intros. Valerie Bertinelli is just as HOT now, as she was then. :)
boofdfast 1 year ago
If they got together for a reunion show, what should we call it? "One Time, Back In The Day"?
MrFritzy1 1 year ago
@MrFritzy1
That sounds like an interesting idea!
Smartboy8877 11 months ago
Good luck running up on the hood and roof of one of today's cars without damaging the crap out of it.
eday2010 1 year ago 2
Gah, suburbia sucks!
nosuchpersonvideo 1 year ago
"The show was based on the creator's Whitney Blake, who was a single mother raising her child, future actress Meredith Baxter. (Family Ties)."
.
So I guess it all worked out after all
.
harleykman 1 year ago
@harleykman
In the first place, I had no idea that this show was created by Meredith Baxter's mother! Very interesting! Furthermore, what exactly are you saying worked out?
Smartboy8877 11 months ago
the older girl was hot
faithie70 1 year ago
@faithie70
her RL dad thought so too....
I wonder if he made her call him daddy
naughtydreadz 1 year ago
the girls are hot on here
faithie70 1 year ago
This beginning is just too odd, given the circumstances. Their glee is strange. I've seen enough of this show over the years to understand their family dynamic. I think that Ann did the right thing in getting the divorce. Even Julie once said to Barbara (after Barbara said: "I wish it would be like it used to be"): "Yeah, Mom's so much happier now." But the way Ann kissed off David was childish of her ("You are forcing me to marry you"--?? This from an "independent" woman? Oh please).
RichHartley19671 1 year ago
Now THIS is a show from the past that I can get behind.
Neville6000 1 year ago
Just as some other people have stated, I always wondered why Bonnie Franklin never wore a bra. Valerie Bertinelli had great hair .I wanted hair like hers, especially when she got it feathered.
nostalgiajunkie70 1 year ago
E! should go back to running good scripted programs like this, albeit reruns, rather than their pseudo-reality crap!
tejaswoman 1 year ago
Does anyone know if there was ever a full version of this theme released? Would love more of it than 52 seconds.
bettychuck 1 year ago
Mackenzie, was fired from the show in 1980 and 1983 due, to her addiction to coke.
FilmNMusicBuff77 1 year ago
Comment removed
robinxyz101 1 year ago
The only thing that changed on Bonnie Franklin, is her hairstyles. She looks just a great today, as she did then.
14DaveHunter 1 year ago
TV shows now barely have theme songs. Most run the opening credits during the beginning dialogue.
lavalampluva 1 year ago
this song, and "Welcome back Kotter" and "the Golden Girls" has got to be my all time favorite song's of 70's-80's sitcoms!!! i also just loved the show's they were awesome!!!
nibornna 1 year ago
funny cool show
69lbcts 1 year ago
Love Valarie B but I always wanted to bang Bonnie Franklin
bobbystj 1 year ago
Hey Bonnie,
Love that jump in the air and your pretty smile.
Was in college then and thought ...OMG, --
YOU look sooooooooooo HOT !
michaelZ1B 1 year ago
Is there a full recording of "This Is It' and if so could you please upload it?
GreatAuntCayce 1 year ago
You can tell that Ann is a practical Women.
GreatAuntCayce 1 year ago
OMG...I have one of those round suitcases.....lol
jss1591 1 year ago
Arguably the best '70s sit-com theme
badgersean 1 year ago
anybody know how I can see the episode Robby Benson guest starred ?
squeky78 1 year ago
aww good show why don't they show these programs anymore?lol i was born in 75.
RavishingRedheadd 1 year ago 2
@RavishingRedheadd I,agree with you.
DR729er 1 year ago
@RavishingRedheadd I know. I hardly ever watch TV anymore, unless it's TV Land =D. At least you got to experience good entertainment in your younger years, I was born in '95... *sigh*
MCRandA7X4life 1 year ago
In other words, it was 1 of those "It'll be good to finally get rid of him and the memories of him out of my life." things?
jfpinell 1 year ago
*sigh* *shaking head* City kids!...That scene of her cheering and them driving away from that small country area down the interstate to that big city with nothing but glass, concrete and traffic for as far as you can see actually makes me cry! I just could never think of living in that atmosphere. Gimme my cows, fields of corn etc. and yes my barn smell (city kids are shaking their head at me for that) :) where I can walk down the street at 2 AM without worrying and I wont need anything else.
jfpinell 1 year ago
I'm too young to really have been able to follow this show when it was on in the '70's. What exactly was this all about? It looks like, from this clip, a family moving from a small town to city life. (ick!) :) sorry, but I'm a farm kid! I knew people who used to watch it, but I was too little to get anything out of it then.
jfpinell 1 year ago
@jfpinell
They moved from the suburbs into an apartment in Indianapolis when Annie the mother got divorced from Ed Cooper, the girls' father.
galveston 1 year ago
@jfpinell If you never watched the show, maybe you should hold your comments as they really have nothing to do with the show. Its not about suburbia versus the city. Its a bout a recently divorced women (this was a big thing then) and her kids leaving the security of suburbia and the trap it meant for them in terms of an unhappy marriage. They move to the city for opportunity as most people do and the make ends meet.
amazonkid 1 year ago
I;m glad that the character of david kane
only lasted for one season
gregersj 2 years ago
@gregersj What did you have against David?
UnholyDestro 1 year ago
Klassic!!!
Mackadoeshez 2 years ago
Love the velvet jumpsuit on that bra-less wonder, Annie Romano
MattLB19 2 years ago 6
you know this one TV show that was not in New York, Los Angeles, or Chicago, which was good, but Indianaoplis
bigwillietheb 2 years ago
After the show when off the air in 84 the same year that the Colts moved from Baltimore to Indianaoplis.
jackful6 2 years ago
I miss the TV show of the 70's 80's and even the 90's. Well today TV show are crap as hell.
jackful6 2 years ago 3
Comment removed
jackful6 2 years ago
I remember when E! used to show cool retro sitcoms, before Chelsea Handler took over the channel 24/7.
store275 2 years ago 2
depressing, going from a house to a apartment !
bilalahmed2123 2 years ago 2
McKinze should have been on all in the family lol bad joke
KingDT2007 2 years ago 6
Wow! Can you imagine her going off on Archie? LOL. Annie could have gone off Archie as well.
JhomasE 2 years ago
@JhomasE ..yeah I'm thinking that is NOT what KingDT2007 meant...I am sure he was being disgusting about the incest she had to endure as a child/teenager...
Jocosity70 1 year ago
@KingDT2007
I am not sure if I understand your attempt at a joke. Would you care to explain?
Smartboy8877 11 months ago
@Smartboy8877 ok the point of that joke is this mckinze phillps last year claimed that she had a sexual relationship with her dad either way ewww all in the family is the name of a show all in the family in some terms means sex with relatives keeping it all in the family
KingDT2007 11 months ago
@KingDT2007
In the first place, I am very familiar with the show "All in the Family". I did not, however, know anything about Mckinze's sexual relationship with her dad. In any event, now that you have explained it, I am, sort of, able to understand your play on words. Thank you very much for taking the time to explain!
Smartboy8877 11 months ago
I always wondered if that freeze-frame of Bonnie jumping for joy @ 0:05 was meant to be a parody of the famous "Mary Tyler Moore Show" opening?
mdumas43073 2 years ago
hmmm..........im bonnie franklin and im sure glad to move to an apartment with a greasy slimey super.........jump for joy im leaving the suburbs and this quiet house for all that!
BIGRED224FOREVER 2 years ago 4
You are just finding the positive in all this aren't you? Bigred224forever huh? LOL.
I am sure that she was better off there than she was in an unhappy life back at that house with Ed Cooper. She wanted to start over. Schneider was harmless. Give him a chance. He'll grow on you. LOL.
JhomasE 2 years ago 3
YEA , YEA i know shneider is harmless as an ex -con is with a toddler. The fact is this that the show jumped the shark the minute they let womens lib in and gave ms franklin the keys to the ferrari. The bottom line is that glenn scarpelli got jobbed and the show should have featured him and shneider only nobody else and it should have been called "glenn place". The injustice is still reverberating today. Glenn scarpelli kept that show afloat and is da shizz nizz! long live "da king".
BIGRED224FOREVER 2 years ago
@JhomasE Co-sign...I think Norman Lear's point was to portray that a divorced mom could meet the challenges. This was a new concept to American television in 1975. (IIRC, "Mary Richards" in the MTM Show was originally supposed to be a divorcee...but the network weenies made them change it to "she broke off her engagement" at the last minute.)
timed02906 1 year ago
@JhomasE Schneider was the MAN!
rtds9fan 10 months ago
@BIGRED224FOREVER Wouldn't you leave an area where you freeze up every few seconds?
CarlD2 1 year ago
What a terribly selfish woman, to uproot her daughters and move them to a dingy apartment, simply because she was "bored" with her marriage (her words). She should have lived with the boredom for another few years until the daughters were finished with school.
Now that I'm older, I understand why my parents didn't like this show.
kbirdusa 1 year ago 3
@kbirdusa: She did it because she wanted to find herself, like a lot of men do as well.
Neville6000 1 year ago
@kbirdusa How many episodes of this show did you actually watch? Because I saw most of them, including the one that featured a reunion with her arrogant self-absorbed ex-husband, and it was obvious that it wasn't merely "boredom" that drove her to leave him and take the kids. This show aired during the era of the women's movement, when many women were beginning to examine their lives and make new and sometimes hard choices to improve them. Anne Romano wasn't perfect, nor was she "selfish."
TheCatgirl6 2 months ago
@BIGRED224FOREVER First, it's a TV show, ok...don't be so critical. Second, she left Logansport (which I'm sure is a wonderful town in general, but even now, friends tell me there is NOTHING) to move to Indianapolis. Not a bad move. Third, she was making a fresh start as a single-working-mom. Lastly, Schneider ended up being one of her closest friends, he was not a slimey super. :)
IndyCote 11 months ago
@BIGRED224FOREVER lol
MrPoopoobreath 9 months ago
@BIGRED224FOREVER It's called being independent.
MultiJRobert 4 months ago
who sings this damn theme song !!!
jofbk 2 years ago
Look at the cars wow
jdhiner1 2 years ago
dang ): i cant find any full episodes of one day at a time.. anyone know where i could watch some? (:
firefwi 2 years ago
hulu
boohauntedhouse65 2 years ago
The entire series is out on DVD. Check Amazon.
rachelazw 2 years ago
I take that back. It looks like only the first season is available on DVD.
rachelazw 2 years ago
It's a shame how Mackenzie's life is in RUINS! If her life is that miserable that she has to shoot up or snort every day, either get some help, move on, and start your life fresh, or pull the trigger and get it over with. I can't believe she's still on hard drugs again! I admire Valerie for what she made of herself. Even today she looks fantastic! I don't know how old she is but she looks in her mid 20s. If I weren't gay, I'd date her! Haha! And where is Bonnie Franklin these days? Hope she's ok
ThirdOfJune4444 2 years ago
She does theatre now working for the CCAP which is an organization devoted to reviving works that are seldom seen and presenting them to student audiences in order to create a new audience for theatre.
kcroyalfanatic 2 years ago
I've noticed a lot of 70s tv theme songs had scenes of people driving places: One Day, Alice, The Jeffersons, Maude, Taxi. I bet I canl think of others.
pnyc1969 2 years ago 2
The ending theme for "Good Times" did as well.
snidelywhiplash 2 years ago
Also, The Doris Day Show, The Mary Tyler Moore Sho, Happy Days had people driving places. And The Bob Newhart Show had Bob riding the subway to work.
rachelazw 2 years ago
This comment has received too many negative votes show
what kind of car is that that crack head aka mackenzie phillips is leaning on? get a load out of that ford pinto on the freeway shot! what a hoot. when i was 10 i wanted a ford capri when i was old enough. i never got it.
daymude63 2 years ago
The line is, "So up on your feet". Just one of the BEST TV theme songes, ever! TV shows don't have theme songs anymore. :(
lcowles 2 years ago 3
"so whuppon your feet" i never could decipher that line as a kid
shittyshit69 2 years ago
I have not seen this particaulr intro since its original release. The reruns I get are a different season. This is cool! Thanks for posting!
jenzeppelin 2 years ago
I loved Mackenzie Phillips, sorry to hear she was busted for drugs again in 2008.. I wish her all the best...stay strong girl and keep your head up!
Take it One Day at a Time, respect!
KillYoSelfSlow 2 years ago 3
Howcome the E! Network logo keeps flashing back and forth?
ShawnaStarlet24 2 years ago
Mackenzie Phillips, was fired from the show in 1980 and 1983 because, she was a full blown addict.
Valerie Bertinelli lost 50 pounts, and she finally had her 1980's figure.
FilmNMusicBuff77 2 years ago
1 of the GREAT sit-coms
newman20072008 2 years ago 2
I'd hardly call Seinfeld crap. They air One Day here in Canada, I'm just getting into it and love it, the one classic sitcom I'd never seen in my life until now.
markallenkellner 2 years ago
yeah our deja view channel rocks i'm tripping down memory lane with it
jenzeppelin 2 years ago
I wish this show was still on in reruns. They don't make great classic shows like this anymore. Now, everything's all about sex, drugs and skinny people. Why can't they rerun great shows like this instead of that stupid "Seinfeld" crap?
ssudioTVgirl 2 years ago 2
This program is on DejaView...around 9 pm Atlantic :) - twice.
jeanniefraser 2 years ago
is that a rambler wagon?
daymude63 2 years ago
Looks like a '54 Plymouth to me!
OldsVistaCruiser 2 years ago
correct me if i am wrong but were'nt old cars such as a plymouth really really long? this looks like shorter like a rambler or studebaker?
by the way in the early 70s the olds vista cruise was my favorite car. i always wished my mother would get one. those sky lights were too cool, i thought.
daymude63 2 years ago
Actually, someone else posted that it's a '56 Chrysler.
This looks like the economy line of the Chrysler lineup, so that's why I said Plymouth, and it looks like the body style before the "Suddenly, it's 1960!" 1957 style. My dad had a '56 Plymouth sedan.
I fell in love with the '69 Vista Cruiser (the same year as the one on "That 70's Show") in 1982 - I'm on my third one since then. Vistas are getting really hard to find, though.
I'm the east coast co-president of the GM Skywagon Club.
OldsVistaCruiser 2 years ago
This comment has received too many negative votes show
SHE WAS A WHORE !!!! Mackenzie was always a loose girl !! ... my Dad had her.
PirateSkip4 2 years ago
and who the fuck are you to be talking about someone like that.
maybe your mother gets fucked in hell by pigs?
daymude63 2 years ago
go read her book ....jagger done her when she was 15 , go get knowledge, she went off the rails dude. she's famous and people have there own opinion f"reedom of speech"...i wouldnt write a book about my down spiral(not).... i love youtube....
PirateSkip4 2 years ago
hey buster...alls i'm sayin was it respectful to call her a whore? NO! if she was 15 when and if jagger was with her then he is a child abuser, period!
we have all made mistakes but we don't idiots like you calling anyone WHORES. got it? now good night!
daymude63 2 years ago
I never saw this show,. but wow this is a sweet theme!
stndrds79 3 years ago
No but Mick Jagger got Leif Garretts anal cherry as well as Donny Bonadoche's.
yomamadontdanz 3 years ago
This comment has received too many negative votes show
i hated this show. it was insipid. the only appealling aspet was the catchy theme song.
reh629 3 years ago
well who would u rather date mckenzie phillips or mike tyson
bostonpaul212 3 years ago
Anyonewho thinks mackenzie Phillips was hot either suffers from Glocoma or has a severe case of lonliness.And to think Mick Jagger took her virginity on the set of this show when she was 15 is just plain vulger!
yomamadontdanz 3 years ago
DAMN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
phillygrl69 3 years ago
Mick Jagger took MacKenzie Phillips virginity? WTF was he on a bender?
Kelski1998 3 years ago
Was Jagger ever charged with a sex crime? The sick bastard should have been.
Stevenleec 3 years ago
Before Richard Masur lost his temper in License to Drive with Corey Haim :)
X23109 3 years ago 2
fuck corey haim!
BrokenLeggBilly 3 years ago 2
I wrote this song for the People of AA. I never thought that it would become a TV series.
chax1971 3 years ago
I noticed that you wrote another song for a situation comedy, Mary Tyler Moore I think it was. You really get around don't you?
warrior350es 3 years ago
yea, I tell ya, the 70's was a blast, we wrote a lot of songs.....check out my 80's show...just the 10 of us....then there are the Paul Stanley is not gay....those are good. Thanks for your support.
MTM and the Loring park 5
chax1971 3 years ago
tv theme songs were so good then and so creative. And the disco sounding ones like this were the best. Why don't they do great themes now? Everyone loved them and knew all the words and still do.
shttrlvr 3 years ago
then what does 1971 have to do with your SN if you indeed wrote the theme, or am i misreading....?
porshaking 3 years ago
it was the year I got sober.
chax1971 3 years ago
"Like most Norman Lear shows that came out, "One Day At A Time" had an opening sequence with outdoor scenery."
...and a divorcee who was THRILLED for a new chance at life~~ :)
timed02906 3 years ago
Don't divorce mommy, stay with daddy.
jerseydevilxx 3 years ago
GREAT theme song
devinci2009 3 years ago
pretty much life....one day at a time
chax1971 3 years ago
I never liked david kane
eci4r 3 years ago
The entire first season is on Hulu right now.
ebob1967 3 years ago
I believe the station wagon in the video was a Chrysler...or a Plymouth..
Sugarbehr1967 3 years ago
It's a 1956 Chrysler, A New Yorker I believe, or possibly a Town and Country. Strange that I don't remember seeing that car before even though I used to watch that show.
OlegKostoglatov 3 years ago
I remember......this was the first opening of the show....I miss these days...
phillygrl69 3 years ago
Valerie Bertinelli is hot.
needles1987 3 years ago 2
Well I guess we have the issue cleared up finally...the majority consensus here is confirmed by Wikipedia that the show indeed aired 9 seasons from 1975 to 1984. But we all were right about at least one thing and wrong about at least one thing that Wikipedia and a few other sources cleared up...the show ran from December '75 to May '84.
Garysc6 3 years ago
We currently have part of the first episode on our channel now.
WorldTune 3 years ago
Ha ha..thanx for the help and interest! At least we can all count except for one..the issue now is was it in fact fall '75 to spring '84 being nine seasons which half of us have attested or was it early '75 to spring '84 being 10 seasons which the other half seem to think or is it as I originally thought 10 seasons from fall '75 to spring '85. I distinctly remember reading an article in 1985 about the end of the three sitcoms at that time.."Alice", "Jeffersons", and "One Day". Anyone have proof?
Garysc6 3 years ago
Alice and the Jeffersons ended their runs in 1985, but perhaps the other long-running show on CBS you're thinking of that ended was The Dukes of Hazzard?
VaultMasterDBT 3 years ago
I thought this show lasted 10 seasons from 1975 to 1985 but I read somewhere it was 1975 to 1984 which would be 9 seasons...anyone know?
Garysc6 3 years ago
'75 - '84 is 10 seasons.
alanp36 3 years ago
Can u do easy math? 75 2 85 is 10 as is 85-75. 75 to 84 is 9 as is 84-75. If u don't get the math here is proof. Fall 75 2 spring 76 is 1st season, fall 76 2 spring 77 is 2nd, fall 77 2 spring 78 is 3rd, fall 78 2 spring 79 is 4th, fall 79 2 spring 80 is 5th, fall 80 2 spring 81 is 6th, fall 81 2 spring 82 is 7th, fall 82 2 spring 83 is 8th, fall 83 2 spring 84 is 9th. Til very recently it was always fall 2 spring. I hate spelling out simple stuff. There was no 1/2 season in early 75 or late 84.
Garysc6 3 years ago
its true....it lasted from December 16, 1975 thru May 28, 1984----a total of 9 seasons.....
highbed 3 years ago
You're correct, it lasted for 10 seasons. The show started in January 1975 to about March 1975 (which is considered Season 1) as a midseason replacement And return in the Fall of '75 until May of '84.
ClassicLoverA 3 years ago
Where are you getting this airdate info on this series, just from memory? With Google and every other resource available, this should be happening, lol. Highbed is right, ODAAT did not premiere until December 1975, and ran in original episodes through May 1984.
VaultMasterDBT 3 years ago
One of the best theme songs ever back when they put time, effort, and money into them. So groovy and discoey!!!
Garysc6 3 years ago
what's with all the "mackenzie was hot" comments? ugh!
now valerie bertinelli was a real cutie, especially as she grew up!
DesiluTrek 4 years ago
Mackenzie, was a junkie and that was why she got fired from the show. Valerie is cute.
blueberryjames77 4 years ago
i'm not opposed to plastic surgery, but i was surprised to find out that valerie had vaginaplasty.
somewhatlongdong 4 years ago
Pretty sure that wagon was either a 54/55 Chrysler or Desoto rather than a Buick. So this is what MacKenzie did after American Graffiti I guess?
CycolacFan 4 years ago
Used to think it was a Chevy Nomad.
BuckyRossler 3 years ago
man one of the best sitcom theme songs. The 70's sitcoms had the best theme songs.
Alexltavares 4 years ago 3
Totally great theme song! Think about the 70s shows. Barney Miller, Good Times, The Jeffersons(even the music during the end credits), Taxi, hell-even Alice. Even Sesame Street and the Electric Company had great songs! Where is the talent today? So sad.
zippertube 4 years ago 3
Who was the singer of this theme?
DENo1MatchGameFan 4 years ago
That is what i wanted to know. All I came up with was this.
jerseydevilxx 3 years ago
I would love to have that cool 54' Buick station wagon now! Make it into a badass custom. Chopped top,black primer and flames!
whitteydog 4 years ago
mackenzie was hot!
couchpotatoe2007 4 years ago 2
Too erratic!
KissFreak09 4 years ago
yes! she was!
chad7777777777 4 years ago
Season one was just released last April !
brivance 4 years ago
The reruns came on E! back in the 90s.
videonut33 4 years ago