Tauren, good points...and for the most part it was just 3 networks. At the school bus stop you were either an ABC, NBC, or CBS kid (most were ABC where I grew up). I look back and can't believe that I had to be right in front of the TV at the time the show aired and there was no taping or DVR'ing shows. Remember my dad always leaving my grandmother's in Brooklyn at a set time on Sunday's so we could see "The Six Million Dollar Man" in 1975 and 1976. Ditto for other shows on Friday nights.
Actfray, you stole the words right out of my mouth ! September was a month I dreaded and loved: new TV shows, but school started. BTW, how about the lack of reruns back then ? In the 1960's many sitcoms had 36 shows each year -- no reruns with regularity until the summer. Even the 1970's had most sitcoms producing 25-30 shows each year and the lasted 25 minutes each. Today, you are lucky to get 20-22 episodes and they last under 23 minutes sans commercials.
That's because there weren't many non-whites (blacks especially) on TV back in the day. Of course, times have changed since then, even if it took awhile.
Disagree. Just off the top of my head I remember Room 222, Julia, Good Times, What's Happenin, Flip Wilson, Love American Style, and Laugh In. I didn't notice it back then because I don't spend a lot of time looking at people's skin color. Like you do.
I remember seeing this promo when I was ten years old...sitting on my den couch in late summer - when summer still meant something - and dreading the upcoming school year. But I loved knowing that all my favorite shows would be there to keep me company. Thank you for the trip back in time!
The problem is not that TV people now have no talent, it's that back then, each network was using 1/3 the entire talent in Hollywood. The problem is that now, each channel is leveraging 1/500th the talent, and thus crap.
Oops, not Sandy Duncan but apparently Shirley MacLaine in "Shirley's World"...other shows I missed include Smith Family, Man and the City, Alias Smith and Jones, Longstreet, and The Persuaders. I don't see anything for LOVE AMERICAN STYLE, BEWITCHED (probably because they knew it was the last season), and maybe not for THE FBI (unless that's Effram Zimbalist Jr. right before Oscar Madison). I remember this prom airing during the Summer of 1971 as I got ready to enter the 4th Grade.
@spacepatrolman.....Richard Long died in 1974, not sure if EZ Jr. is in this montage but Richard Long definitely is in this (NANNY AND THE PROFESSOR). I think I see EZ Jr. in the first few seconds of the montage with what looks like an FBI emblem in the background.
@zl1vette427 yea thats the FBI emblem [probably a fake FBI emblem they had a fake FBI headquarters set }EZ is supposed to be a nice guy even though he liked j edgar hoover
Chris, excellent points....and do you remember sitcoms that lasted 25 minutes and hour-long shows that ran 50-51 ? Today, the 1/2 hour shows are 23 minutes or less and the hour-long shows are 43-45 minutes. Oh yeah, instead of 22 episodes for the 1/2 hour shows you'd get 32-36 episodes -- no reruns until summer ! Different time, different place. Can't believe it's been 40 years. Man, we're all getting old.
Here's the same promo, but in the longer unedited version. The sound and quality of the picture are much better: "ABC promo campaign 1971"
How many of you who are over 45 (at least !) can ID all the different boxes/shows that appear in the video ? I count 34 different scenes and I can ID only 22...some of the more adult shows threw me (did I see Sandy Duncan ? If not, I'm down to 21 -- lol). BTW, did you all see the 1970's 'big screen' 25" color TV with knobs and no remote controle ! lol
I think the nostalgia is for a simpler time. Fewer TV channels, no VCR's, no internet, not YouTube or Facebook. You were an ABC, NBC, or CBS kid at the bus stop. You watched the show when it was on not later that night or a week or two later on a DVR. You couldn't pause the TV and if you wanted to switch channels you had to physically get up from the couch -- which meant most of the time you sat and watched the commercials rather than channel-surfed. I love my new HDTV but....ah, memories.
@zl1vette427 OH, how I long for the days when the three networks were competing for our attention on the airwaves with snazzy TV promos- I remember I tried to make a point of watching every new show every fall - nowadays, with so many reality TV shows and so many cable and digital channels, TV is just not the same anymore-
BEWITCHED was on its way out and was out of the Top 20 by 1971 (last season). The 'ruralfication' of CBS and other networks was about to hit, and you had tons of rural-themed shows getting axed in favor of urban sitcoms (Norman Lear, etc). I sometimes wonder if a show like HAPPY DAYS would have been given 3 seasons to break out like it had in the mid-1970's. Or THE SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN which along with ABC's Tuesday comedy lineup, took ABC to #1 after it had been #3 it's entire existence.
@zl1vette427 also, with BEWITCHED, by the time the eighth season came around, Elizabeth Montgomery and William Asher were so tired of doing the show, they felt as if they were going through the motions - they actually wanted to end the show at the end of the fifth season (1968-69) when Dick York left - but BEWITCHED was still one of ABC's top shows, so the network offered them a substantial amount of money and their own production company to keep the show going-
The same reason network executives often turn down "hit series" that later proved themselves elsewehere, 'cegross'- no imagination or foresight [as in CBS turning down "STAR TREK" before NBC bought it]. Sometimes, the end result isn't successful: for instance, CBS rejected Paramount TV's original "BAREFOOT IN THE PARK" pilot for their 1969-'70 schedule. Well, Paramount reshot the pilot with a predominently black cast, and sold the idea to ABC for the fall of 1970. It only lasted 13 weeks....
Something I noticed in the photos is nothing from Bewitched which was on ABC until 1972. But lots of photos from shows that only lasted a couple seasons or less at that time.
bad things happen in life no matter what decade but I think less is more. T.V. was FREE back then there wasn't 24/7 cartoons. Yesterday a little girl was almost abducted from our subdivision that was never ever something I had to think about we could play ride bikes go to friends houses a child life didn't revolve around TV. It was a time when cartoons where on Saturday morning only unless it was a holiday then it was something special. Nothings special anymore or FREE or safe
The music is so melancholy and ethereal with lyrics that promise personal connections with TV stars. Hmmm. I guess those things still remain important to some people.
ABC HAD a chance to buy what became "ALL IN THE FAMILY", in 1969, 'devul', but after two "embryonic" versions of the pilot {one under the title of "JUSTICE FOR ALL"}, they passed on it; they just didn't want "controversy" [they'd just been "burned" showing the first and only episode of "TURN-ON", and affiliates and some viewers weren't happy with what they saw].
To continue, the Los Angeles area TV stations can cover just about all of Sou. Cal. expect past the San Gabriel and San Bernardino mountain ranges. San Diego, Santa Barbara and Bakersfield had their own TV markets, but so have El Centro, Palm Springs and Victorville with an ABC affiliate (folded operations in the 1990s). Thank goodness for cable, transmitters and satellite providers, but we can live without it, LOL. +
The past was no different than now in any appreciable way except you were younger and didn't know any better...go read some old newspapers...enjoy your memories but drop the "good old days" crap that makes you sound like every other old fool since the year 1!
I'd have to agree. It's one thing for us who were there to get the warm and fuzzies looking at this, but the reality was almost never that sweet. It 's interesting (and scary) that in 2029, some will call these the good old days of Hanna Montana and the Jonas Bros.
In my hometown we had only two stations (NBC and CBS affiliates). But then a new local station started in 1971 and brought ABC programming. This promo was one the first adverts I remember on that station.
Cool...the time when a smaller TV market had either one or two stations, such as the Palm Springs area with KPLM 42 (now KESQ 3) was the ABC affiliate. The competitor was KMIR 6 or 36, while you have to get out your rabbit ears for a local CBS programming out of El Centro, Cal. on channel 52 (KECY 9). Too bad ABC never carried "All in the Family" the CBS sensational hit show of the early '70s. +
I had already dug up their Movie of the Week theme when this showed up on the opening page. And at least every other show a classic: Brady Bunch, Mod Squad, Partridge Family, Marcus Welby, the Odd Couple. Can't place a few. But amen to a lot of you here. And we have the pleasure of Danny Bonaduce's presence in my neck of the woods,
Agree with all of the others....man, how time flies. Was it really 36 years ago? Was I really only just turning 9 years old? I love my big screen HDTV and 100's of channels and crystal-clear picture...but there is something about watching this promo that makes me long for those days long ago with the 13" Admiral B&W in my parents room.
I just stumbled on this treasure trove of old TV promos. Hard to control my emotions...can't believe how far everything has fallen. I'd give up every overhyped "modern" convenience like cell phones and satellite tv to return to those times...
pipe down, old fart...gee, early 70's...yeah, Vietnam, Kent St, OD's of Hendrix, Joplin, Morrison-among thousands of others-Love Canal, gas lines 8 miles long, Watergate...wowwee! And I really think everyone misses clunky b+w tv's with bad reception, 8 tracks that don't play...and forget all those advances in everything from drug addiction treatment to a much higher cancer survival rate to hearing aids that are invisible and much more effective...nah, give me 1973 oh yeah!
Yeah You are So right! Today is so much Better. Let me see, we have punks walking into schools with Sub machine guns, wasting everybody. Women killing their own babies, Gay's marrying each other, Legally, terrorist's bombing us, and that's just in one month.
The scary thought is the people who use selected portions of their bible to control the lives of others. Like the people who voted to prevent gays from getting married in California. Or those who have the political power to prevent it in their states while they betray their own marriage (Mark Sanford in South Carolina)
Oh, how I remember this one. All of my favorite shows from that time are represented here. It's odd how we have many more TV channels now than we did back then. And yet, the programs from that time were a lot more fun to watch than they are now. My childhood memories have a chance to live on thanks to youtube!
Thanks for a wonderful memory jolt. I was entering High School then, and times seemed so much simpler. I was a steady ABC watcher, and this video brings it all back. Thanks, again!
You so eloquently said it all, so perfectly, I would add that, knowing what I know now, I would have lived life back then to the fullest. The times were indeed so much better then; those born after the 70's will never know or understand your touching comment---or my response.
i was born in 1988 and i am sad not be able to discuss with you, you are right, times must have been better, i whish beeing born 30 years earlyer.....
What a blast from the past! Yes I remember this very well. I was 8 years old. My sisters & I used to drive my father crazy on our long distance car trips singing this ditty. We'd be in the station wagon, driving to Maine, & he'd pull the car over to the shoulder of the road because we wouldn't stop singing this! That seemed so long ago I was beginning to believe this was in my dreams, a made up jingle. But no! Here it is, I only wish the volume transfer was louder. Thanks for posting.
Oops. Didn't mean to post the lyrics to the whole YouTube gang. I thought I was just replying to Shisha67--she was wondering what the lyrics were. Sorry everyone!
SO glad you posted these lyrics! I've sung my own version of this song ever since 1971. Always wished I could remember the real words. Terrific melody - totally addictive. My kids know "my version" of the song and sing along. Ha ha. Scary. One of them found this online and we've been playing it over and over. Thanks again for posting! And to whoever wrote the song - thanks for helping me 'fly away' from 'turned down days' for all these years just by humming it!
Man, the line-up on ABC in '71, esp. on Friday nights! God help anyone that got in my way when The Partridge Family was on! And I was only 5 then! Ahh...life was good!
Your wonderful comment reminded me of a scene in the movie "Crooklyn" where the children, supposed to be doing their homework upstairs, are secretly watching The Partridge Family. Only then did I really love the filmmaker, he captured the essence of the time, especially when he had the children singing along with The Partridge Family. When I actually met David Cassidy 2 decades later, I was totally 14 again. I was surprised to read the show was based on another group, The Cowsills (MGM Records).
When I found this title I knew exactly what it was. Before playing the clip I paused for a moment, because there is only one first time you hear something after having not heard it for 36 years. This tune has played in my head for that long. Well, it amazes me how a little ABC promo from 1971 can elicit such an emotional response. It was a time when this 12 year old really looked forward to those September shows with great anticipation. Very memorable tune, unlike today's stuff.
Exactly, I hadn't heard this tune or seen the video since it was broadcast 36-years ago, yet I've remembered the jingle in my head ever since. ABC had some of the best shows and their promos were the most memorable. It's well known that hearing songs or music will trigger a memory better than any of the other senses, and this is the perfect example. Many of us remember it as part of our childhood.
I indentify totally. Not only did I pause before listening to this for the first time in eons, I almost fell off my chair afterwards thinking of the memories involved with it. I posted one such specific one above. And yes, it is an emotional response. Some things stayed buried in your brain forever, and they come right back instantly upon a jump start.
Where can you get away After the longest day Touch a star for free So easily? Something is in the air Pull up in the easy chair Leave that turned down day Come fly away A smile can be seconds away from a tear An adventure waiting right here We'll turn it on for you Come this September This is the place to be Hey there remember This is the place to be With ABC
ABC had the best jingles/promos of the three TV networks and this one has rang in my head for over 35-years. As 4kane said earlier, the music was very melodic and the use of some tricky graphics and a montage of floating faces made this one that I remembered all these years. It was great. Now, thanks to YouTube and EyeonTV, I can hear it again, and again... I have to ask, where did you get all of these jewels that we are lucky to see after all these years? Thnx for the post!
Wonderful stuff! I can still recall being wowed by network and local promos and previews of Fall shows for the first time in 1964. This was always one of my favorites. Takes me back to August of 1971. I had more hair in those days.
Tauren, good points...and for the most part it was just 3 networks. At the school bus stop you were either an ABC, NBC, or CBS kid (most were ABC where I grew up). I look back and can't believe that I had to be right in front of the TV at the time the show aired and there was no taping or DVR'ing shows. Remember my dad always leaving my grandmother's in Brooklyn at a set time on Sunday's so we could see "The Six Million Dollar Man" in 1975 and 1976. Ditto for other shows on Friday nights.
zl1vette427 3 months ago
Actfray, you stole the words right out of my mouth ! September was a month I dreaded and loved: new TV shows, but school started. BTW, how about the lack of reruns back then ? In the 1960's many sitcoms had 36 shows each year -- no reruns with regularity until the summer. Even the 1970's had most sitcoms producing 25-30 shows each year and the lasted 25 minutes each. Today, you are lucky to get 20-22 episodes and they last under 23 minutes sans commercials.
zl1vette427 4 months ago in playlist zl1vette427's favorites
There were sure allot more White people back then
AlisoViejoMan 8 months ago
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That's because there weren't many non-whites (blacks especially) on TV back in the day. Of course, times have changed since then, even if it took awhile.
barber747 8 months ago
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Disagree. Just off the top of my head I remember Room 222, Julia, Good Times, What's Happenin, Flip Wilson, Love American Style, and Laugh In. I didn't notice it back then because I don't spend a lot of time looking at people's skin color. Like you do.
paulskipaulski69 1 week ago
I remember seeing this promo when I was ten years old...sitting on my den couch in late summer - when summer still meant something - and dreading the upcoming school year. But I loved knowing that all my favorite shows would be there to keep me company. Thank you for the trip back in time!
actfray 10 months ago
The problem is not that TV people now have no talent, it's that back then, each network was using 1/3 the entire talent in Hollywood. The problem is that now, each channel is leveraging 1/500th the talent, and thus crap.
TaurenBedtime 1 year ago 3
Oops, not Sandy Duncan but apparently Shirley MacLaine in "Shirley's World"...other shows I missed include Smith Family, Man and the City, Alias Smith and Jones, Longstreet, and The Persuaders. I don't see anything for LOVE AMERICAN STYLE, BEWITCHED (probably because they knew it was the last season), and maybe not for THE FBI (unless that's Effram Zimbalist Jr. right before Oscar Madison). I remember this prom airing during the Summer of 1971 as I got ready to enter the 4th Grade.
zl1vette427 1 year ago
@zl1vette427 That is efram zimbalist richard long died of a heart attack then
spacepatrolman 3 months ago
@spacepatrolman.....Richard Long died in 1974, not sure if EZ Jr. is in this montage but Richard Long definitely is in this (NANNY AND THE PROFESSOR). I think I see EZ Jr. in the first few seconds of the montage with what looks like an FBI emblem in the background.
zl1vette427 3 months ago
@zl1vette427 yea thats the FBI emblem [probably a fake FBI emblem they had a fake FBI headquarters set }EZ is supposed to be a nice guy even though he liked j edgar hoover
spacepatrolman 3 months ago
Chris, excellent points....and do you remember sitcoms that lasted 25 minutes and hour-long shows that ran 50-51 ? Today, the 1/2 hour shows are 23 minutes or less and the hour-long shows are 43-45 minutes. Oh yeah, instead of 22 episodes for the 1/2 hour shows you'd get 32-36 episodes -- no reruns until summer ! Different time, different place. Can't believe it's been 40 years. Man, we're all getting old.
zl1vette427 1 year ago
Here's the same promo, but in the longer unedited version. The sound and quality of the picture are much better: "ABC promo campaign 1971"
How many of you who are over 45 (at least !) can ID all the different boxes/shows that appear in the video ? I count 34 different scenes and I can ID only 22...some of the more adult shows threw me (did I see Sandy Duncan ? If not, I'm down to 21 -- lol). BTW, did you all see the 1970's 'big screen' 25" color TV with knobs and no remote controle ! lol
zl1vette427 1 year ago
OH, how I long for the days when the three networks were competing for our attention on the airwaves with snazzy promos-
christheone8773 1 year ago
I think the nostalgia is for a simpler time. Fewer TV channels, no VCR's, no internet, not YouTube or Facebook. You were an ABC, NBC, or CBS kid at the bus stop. You watched the show when it was on not later that night or a week or two later on a DVR. You couldn't pause the TV and if you wanted to switch channels you had to physically get up from the couch -- which meant most of the time you sat and watched the commercials rather than channel-surfed. I love my new HDTV but....ah, memories.
zl1vette427 1 year ago
@zl1vette427 OH, how I long for the days when the three networks were competing for our attention on the airwaves with snazzy TV promos- I remember I tried to make a point of watching every new show every fall - nowadays, with so many reality TV shows and so many cable and digital channels, TV is just not the same anymore-
christheone8773 1 year ago 2
This is so cool! Thank you for giving me the opportunity to see this. I love it! :)
ilovemartinmilner 1 year ago
Let's not get too sentimental, especially about 70s television. Like now, there was a lot of crap on TV, but it was on a lot fewer channels.
mediamadman747 1 year ago
Ahhhh memories.....
HUSKY57887 1 year ago
BEWITCHED was on its way out and was out of the Top 20 by 1971 (last season). The 'ruralfication' of CBS and other networks was about to hit, and you had tons of rural-themed shows getting axed in favor of urban sitcoms (Norman Lear, etc). I sometimes wonder if a show like HAPPY DAYS would have been given 3 seasons to break out like it had in the mid-1970's. Or THE SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN which along with ABC's Tuesday comedy lineup, took ABC to #1 after it had been #3 it's entire existence.
zl1vette427 2 years ago
@zl1vette427 also, with BEWITCHED, by the time the eighth season came around, Elizabeth Montgomery and William Asher were so tired of doing the show, they felt as if they were going through the motions - they actually wanted to end the show at the end of the fifth season (1968-69) when Dick York left - but BEWITCHED was still one of ABC's top shows, so the network offered them a substantial amount of money and their own production company to keep the show going-
christheone8773 1 year ago
The same reason network executives often turn down "hit series" that later proved themselves elsewehere, 'cegross'- no imagination or foresight [as in CBS turning down "STAR TREK" before NBC bought it]. Sometimes, the end result isn't successful: for instance, CBS rejected Paramount TV's original "BAREFOOT IN THE PARK" pilot for their 1969-'70 schedule. Well, Paramount reshot the pilot with a predominently black cast, and sold the idea to ABC for the fall of 1970. It only lasted 13 weeks....
fromthesidelines 2 years ago
Something I noticed in the photos is nothing from Bewitched which was on ABC until 1972. But lots of photos from shows that only lasted a couple seasons or less at that time.
saturnday 2 years ago
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saturnday 2 years ago
bad things happen in life no matter what decade but I think less is more. T.V. was FREE back then there wasn't 24/7 cartoons. Yesterday a little girl was almost abducted from our subdivision that was never ever something I had to think about we could play ride bikes go to friends houses a child life didn't revolve around TV. It was a time when cartoons where on Saturday morning only unless it was a holiday then it was something special. Nothings special anymore or FREE or safe
GeoSusan 2 years ago 2
The music is so melancholy and ethereal with lyrics that promise personal connections with TV stars. Hmmm. I guess those things still remain important to some people.
imbluz 2 years ago
ABC HAD a chance to buy what became "ALL IN THE FAMILY", in 1969, 'devul', but after two "embryonic" versions of the pilot {one under the title of "JUSTICE FOR ALL"}, they passed on it; they just didn't want "controversy" [they'd just been "burned" showing the first and only episode of "TURN-ON", and affiliates and some viewers weren't happy with what they saw].
fromthesidelines 2 years ago
can you explain why they turned down Beverly Hillbilies and the Cosby Show?
cegross 2 years ago
To continue, the Los Angeles area TV stations can cover just about all of Sou. Cal. expect past the San Gabriel and San Bernardino mountain ranges. San Diego, Santa Barbara and Bakersfield had their own TV markets, but so have El Centro, Palm Springs and Victorville with an ABC affiliate (folded operations in the 1990s). Thank goodness for cable, transmitters and satellite providers, but we can live without it, LOL. +
devulboy1 2 years ago
Gee and I thought I was a pessimist, you people have me beat big time on that one!
DanIN72 2 years ago
Wonder what this would look like if you were high.
SteelCity1981 2 years ago
The past was no different than now in any appreciable way except you were younger and didn't know any better...go read some old newspapers...enjoy your memories but drop the "good old days" crap that makes you sound like every other old fool since the year 1!
sixsixxsixxxx 2 years ago
I'd have to agree. It's one thing for us who were there to get the warm and fuzzies looking at this, but the reality was almost never that sweet. It 's interesting (and scary) that in 2029, some will call these the good old days of Hanna Montana and the Jonas Bros.
Themaddprof 2 years ago
The singers sounded like the Partridge Family to me.
luvsmovies79 2 years ago
In my hometown we had only two stations (NBC and CBS affiliates). But then a new local station started in 1971 and brought ABC programming. This promo was one the first adverts I remember on that station.
hankaaron1961 2 years ago
Cool...the time when a smaller TV market had either one or two stations, such as the Palm Springs area with KPLM 42 (now KESQ 3) was the ABC affiliate. The competitor was KMIR 6 or 36, while you have to get out your rabbit ears for a local CBS programming out of El Centro, Cal. on channel 52 (KECY 9). Too bad ABC never carried "All in the Family" the CBS sensational hit show of the early '70s. +
devulboy1 2 years ago
I had already dug up their Movie of the Week theme when this showed up on the opening page. And at least every other show a classic: Brady Bunch, Mod Squad, Partridge Family, Marcus Welby, the Odd Couple. Can't place a few. But amen to a lot of you here. And we have the pleasure of Danny Bonaduce's presence in my neck of the woods,
fgldnglbs 2 years ago
It makes me happy and sad at the same time.
rspjep 2 years ago
How cool is this?! I LOVE it! Thank you, poster!
UUabuse 3 years ago
Agree with all of the others....man, how time flies. Was it really 36 years ago? Was I really only just turning 9 years old? I love my big screen HDTV and 100's of channels and crystal-clear picture...but there is something about watching this promo that makes me long for those days long ago with the 13" Admiral B&W in my parents room.
zl1vette427 3 years ago
yes....I had this tune in my head since '71 too......I only knew a few words......TG for youtube and TY for posting!
Ktopm64 3 years ago 2
lol..yeah, I remember some of these lyrics as well
MightySaturn5 3 years ago
I just stumbled on this treasure trove of old TV promos. Hard to control my emotions...can't believe how far everything has fallen. I'd give up every overhyped "modern" convenience like cell phones and satellite tv to return to those times...
Mality 3 years ago 8
pipe down, old fart...gee, early 70's...yeah, Vietnam, Kent St, OD's of Hendrix, Joplin, Morrison-among thousands of others-Love Canal, gas lines 8 miles long, Watergate...wowwee! And I really think everyone misses clunky b+w tv's with bad reception, 8 tracks that don't play...and forget all those advances in everything from drug addiction treatment to a much higher cancer survival rate to hearing aids that are invisible and much more effective...nah, give me 1973 oh yeah!
sixsixxsixxxx 2 years ago
And the Bronx was burning... literally... to the ground. That's a fragment from my childhood past I would never want to relive ever again...
danawadd 2 years ago
Yeah You are So right! Today is so much Better. Let me see, we have punks walking into schools with Sub machine guns, wasting everybody. Women killing their own babies, Gay's marrying each other, Legally, terrorist's bombing us, and that's just in one month.
Monstermack40 2 years ago
Wow, gay people marrying each other just like hetero's, the horror!.
oneputtsteven 2 years ago
Wait a minute. Not all Gays can marry each other. We only have 5 of the 50 states so far. 45 more to go to FULL EQUALITY.
saturnday 2 years ago
A very scary thought. These things must happen though so Jesus can come back soon
Monstermack40 2 years ago
The scary thought is the people who use selected portions of their bible to control the lives of others. Like the people who voted to prevent gays from getting married in California. Or those who have the political power to prevent it in their states while they betray their own marriage (Mark Sanford in South Carolina)
saturnday 2 years ago
Oh, how I remember this one. All of my favorite shows from that time are represented here. It's odd how we have many more TV channels now than we did back then. And yet, the programs from that time were a lot more fun to watch than they are now. My childhood memories have a chance to live on thanks to youtube!
budscin 3 years ago 9
I'm crying. How sweet are the memories attached to this?
ssosmcin 3 years ago 10
Thanks for a wonderful memory jolt. I was entering High School then, and times seemed so much simpler. I was a steady ABC watcher, and this video brings it all back. Thanks, again!
ftsjr 3 years ago 6
Still the ONE! (Remember THAT one??) Great stuff; good years!!!
paladin520 3 years ago 8
thank you so much, this really touch me so much. it brought back so many beautiful memories when times were better. thanks again.
luvs2cover 3 years ago 9
You so eloquently said it all, so perfectly, I would add that, knowing what I know now, I would have lived life back then to the fullest. The times were indeed so much better then; those born after the 70's will never know or understand your touching comment---or my response.
KojiRecords 3 years ago 22
i was born in 1988 and i am sad not be able to discuss with you, you are right, times must have been better, i whish beeing born 30 years earlyer.....
petesahatna88 3 years ago 23
I want the '72 version!
angusthethird 3 years ago
Geez, thanks ABC, for just showing images from the shows and not telling us what these shows are or when they're on the air.
crowtservo 3 years ago
LOL....Considering it was 37 years ago, you might not be so pissy.
scorpdan 3 years ago
What a blast from the past! Yes I remember this very well. I was 8 years old. My sisters & I used to drive my father crazy on our long distance car trips singing this ditty. We'd be in the station wagon, driving to Maine, & he'd pull the car over to the shoulder of the road because we wouldn't stop singing this! That seemed so long ago I was beginning to believe this was in my dreams, a made up jingle. But no! Here it is, I only wish the volume transfer was louder. Thanks for posting.
clockworktim 4 years ago
That's a great story. I was born in '64 and the abc movie of the week song is my mega blast from the past.
scorpdan 3 years ago
Oops. Didn't mean to post the lyrics to the whole YouTube gang. I thought I was just replying to Shisha67--she was wondering what the lyrics were. Sorry everyone!
GoodguyNYS 4 years ago
SO glad you posted these lyrics! I've sung my own version of this song ever since 1971. Always wished I could remember the real words. Terrific melody - totally addictive. My kids know "my version" of the song and sing along. Ha ha. Scary. One of them found this online and we've been playing it over and over. Thanks again for posting! And to whoever wrote the song - thanks for helping me 'fly away' from 'turned down days' for all these years just by humming it!
ImRelatedToIt 3 years ago 8
Man, the line-up on ABC in '71, esp. on Friday nights! God help anyone that got in my way when The Partridge Family was on! And I was only 5 then! Ahh...life was good!
HardyGirl66 4 years ago 2
Your wonderful comment reminded me of a scene in the movie "Crooklyn" where the children, supposed to be doing their homework upstairs, are secretly watching The Partridge Family. Only then did I really love the filmmaker, he captured the essence of the time, especially when he had the children singing along with The Partridge Family. When I actually met David Cassidy 2 decades later, I was totally 14 again. I was surprised to read the show was based on another group, The Cowsills (MGM Records).
KojiRecords 2 years ago
When I found this title I knew exactly what it was. Before playing the clip I paused for a moment, because there is only one first time you hear something after having not heard it for 36 years. This tune has played in my head for that long. Well, it amazes me how a little ABC promo from 1971 can elicit such an emotional response. It was a time when this 12 year old really looked forward to those September shows with great anticipation. Very memorable tune, unlike today's stuff.
Claud959 4 years ago 4
Exactly, I hadn't heard this tune or seen the video since it was broadcast 36-years ago, yet I've remembered the jingle in my head ever since. ABC had some of the best shows and their promos were the most memorable. It's well known that hearing songs or music will trigger a memory better than any of the other senses, and this is the perfect example. Many of us remember it as part of our childhood.
jupitr2 4 years ago
I indentify totally. Not only did I pause before listening to this for the first time in eons, I almost fell off my chair afterwards thinking of the memories involved with it. I posted one such specific one above. And yes, it is an emotional response. Some things stayed buried in your brain forever, and they come right back instantly upon a jump start.
clockworktim 4 years ago
EyeOnTV, You sure do have your eye on TV!
Great memories and material finds. Classic clips. Love it all.
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JIMMASTERSTV 4 years ago
EXCELENT wish I could understand more of the words of this quality video
Shisha67 4 years ago
GoodguyNYS 4 years ago
Would like to know the words and name of the singers.
Shisha67 4 years ago
ABC had the best jingles/promos of the three TV networks and this one has rang in my head for over 35-years. As 4kane said earlier, the music was very melodic and the use of some tricky graphics and a montage of floating faces made this one that I remembered all these years. It was great. Now, thanks to YouTube and EyeonTV, I can hear it again, and again... I have to ask, where did you get all of these jewels that we are lucky to see after all these years? Thnx for the post!
jupitr2 4 years ago
Wonderful stuff! I can still recall being wowed by network and local promos and previews of Fall shows for the first time in 1964. This was always one of my favorites. Takes me back to August of 1971. I had more hair in those days.
frightfan1 4 years ago
I tried to understand the lyrics to this song when I found a similar file on the TV Party website, but the audio lacked quality.
Jim856796 4 years ago
What a lovely, melodic jingle. I was 6, but I remember this jingle very well. Thanks!
4kane 4 years ago
Do you have the longer one, the one where people/actors were inside the animation?
barber747 4 years ago
Psychedelico!
barber747 4 years ago