Man, even though I was only 8 in the Fall of '74, I still have some good memories of some of this stuff. Marcus Welby, That's My Mama, The Sonny Bono show, Movie Of The Week, Streets of San Fransisco, The Rookies,Saturday morning TV, after school Specials, Free to Be You & Me...ah, those were the days. And I really miss the days of just 3 networks, and you could go to work or school, and chances are your friends would have watched the same thing you did. Now there's too many choices.
I'm almost certain that the building where the two guys are talking about "The Night Stalker" (especially when the camera pulls out at 20:41 or so), is Long Beach (CA) City Hall. The skyline behind them is almost definitely Long Beach and the then-new City Hall was finally opened in 1976. This entire promo show is great for many reasons, but that one is something I find fascinating!
...and "EVERYTHING MONEY CAN'T BUY" (created by Bernard Slade) was "postponed" until February 1976, when it finally aired as "GOOD HEAVENS", with Carl Reiner replacing Jose Ferrer as "Mr. Angel". It lasted 13 episodes.
This was SUPPOSED to be their Fall 1974 schedule. However, that June, the FCC ruled the three broadcast networks weren't going to program any shows on Saturdays and Sundays from 7-8pm(et), as previously promised. So all three had to reshuffle their schedules, dropping several new shows and moving others to different time periods than previously announced that spring. ABC dropped "WHERE'S THE FIRE?" (Sundays, 7pm)- although its two pilot episodes were "burned off" in the summer of '75...
Is that Archie Hahn at 12:00?
meheuck 2 weeks ago
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This had to have been made quite in advance of the '74-'75 season, because "The Brady Bunch" was canceled at the end of the '73-'74 season.
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Man, even though I was only 8 in the Fall of '74, I still have some good memories of some of this stuff. Marcus Welby, That's My Mama, The Sonny Bono show, Movie Of The Week, Streets of San Fransisco, The Rookies,Saturday morning TV, after school Specials, Free to Be You & Me...ah, those were the days. And I really miss the days of just 3 networks, and you could go to work or school, and chances are your friends would have watched the same thing you did. Now there's too many choices.
HardyGirl66 5 months ago
I remmeber superstars it was copied for the U.K awsome
Pauluk33 6 months ago
I'm almost certain that the building where the two guys are talking about "The Night Stalker" (especially when the camera pulls out at 20:41 or so), is Long Beach (CA) City Hall. The skyline behind them is almost definitely Long Beach and the then-new City Hall was finally opened in 1976. This entire promo show is great for many reasons, but that one is something I find fascinating!
DanMan869 7 months ago
...and "EVERYTHING MONEY CAN'T BUY" (created by Bernard Slade) was "postponed" until February 1976, when it finally aired as "GOOD HEAVENS", with Carl Reiner replacing Jose Ferrer as "Mr. Angel". It lasted 13 episodes.
fromthesidelines 7 months ago
This was SUPPOSED to be their Fall 1974 schedule. However, that June, the FCC ruled the three broadcast networks weren't going to program any shows on Saturdays and Sundays from 7-8pm(et), as previously promised. So all three had to reshuffle their schedules, dropping several new shows and moving others to different time periods than previously announced that spring. ABC dropped "WHERE'S THE FIRE?" (Sundays, 7pm)- although its two pilot episodes were "burned off" in the summer of '75...
fromthesidelines 7 months ago
Finding this has made my day. Thank you so much for posting this.
woehler00000 7 months ago
This was AWESOME the Texas Wheelers were my favorite.,,
bo12hughes 9 months ago
I've been waiting forr this since I've seen ABC '69, '70 '71 and '72 promo reels!!!! Thanks for this post!!!
tcidolfan 11 months ago