I do remember them singing that we were gonna like it a lot. Funny, I don't think I watched it a lot. (and apparently, not many other people did either)
You know, the blind panic that had to have happened at the NBC programming department that fall would be worthy of an HBO series in its own right. 74-75 season had been a good one-Chico and the Man, Rockford Files, Police Woman-all in the top 20 and new that year. Then this and nothing but worse for ten years. It's like a curse had been placed on them or something. Really, Old Testament like disasters and horror.
I remember this vividly from childhood. Albert Brooks made a brilliant parody of these promos & NBC's lousy season in an SNL film around the same time.
@selloutasaurus Yes, I remember that parody very well! Those shows in the "fake" promo would have actually been way better than the real shows that premiered that fall.
"Stupid decade" would actually be more appropriate, because every year from 1975 until 1985, NBC found themselves floundering in last place behind both CBS and ABC; during this time, they encountered having so many programming failures, and then topping it off in the summer of 1980 was the boycott of the Moscow Olympics, which cost NBC more than $80 billion in ad revenue; and indeed you are right about NBC's fortunes not turning around for the better until 1985-86.
"Stupid Season" was more appropriate. NBC just totally fell apart in '75-'76, with "Sanford And Son" its only top-10 show (one episode managed to make fun of itself). Game 6 of the World Series was just about the only big highlight. The new logo didn't help, either. Some folks were already heartsick for the peacock!
NBC's reputation as Nobody's Broadcasting Company was getting under way and would not reverse itself for another decade.
@newscaster13 NBC's 1975-76 "SuperSeason" wasn't very super. It was a bust.
The only new NBC show from the 1975-76 season to become a hit wasn't even in prime-time: "Saturday Night Live" (originally titled "NBC's Saturday Night" for it's first two or three seasons).
@newscaster13 Weren't the red and blue colors of the "SuperSeason" graphic also in tribute to the coming U.S. Bicentennial and NBC Radio's old "Red" and "Blue" networks??
Funny thing you should mention "NBC'S SATURDAY NIGHT" (as it was originally known), 'sean'- a month later, Albert Brooks parodied this kind of promo on the show {DICK TUFELD: "Even a 'Super Season' has super failures! That's why, at NBC, we've got SUPER REPLACEMENTS...!"}.
btw that was Julie Harris in the Glenn Ford show not Julie Christie, she was in the movie "Shampoo" in 75
MADWORLD1427 1 month ago
I do remember them singing that we were gonna like it a lot. Funny, I don't think I watched it a lot. (and apparently, not many other people did either)
psykdiva 3 months ago
Wonder which SNL broadcast this was peeled from. Had to be one of the first two or three.
noahf67 4 months ago
@noahf67 Look in the description. October 11, 1975, the debut of SNL
MisterConan90 1 week ago
You know, the blind panic that had to have happened at the NBC programming department that fall would be worthy of an HBO series in its own right. 74-75 season had been a good one-Chico and the Man, Rockford Files, Police Woman-all in the top 20 and new that year. Then this and nothing but worse for ten years. It's like a curse had been placed on them or something. Really, Old Testament like disasters and horror.
saskwatcher 5 months ago
So I take it this was NBC's campaign for the 1975-76 season?
barber747 5 months ago
Sunday may have been the two strongest nights (along with Fridays) of NBC's 1975-76 primetime season..
Yes, "Family Holvak" got dumped fast, but "Disney" and "Mystery Movie" were (and would continue to be) solid hits.
altfactor 5 months ago
"David McCallum is "The Invisible Man" on NBC!" Anyone remember that?
SchizoidMan100 6 months ago
I remember this vividly from childhood. Albert Brooks made a brilliant parody of these promos & NBC's lousy season in an SNL film around the same time.
selloutasaurus 7 months ago
@selloutasaurus Yes, I remember that parody very well! Those shows in the "fake" promo would have actually been way better than the real shows that premiered that fall.
lonestarrooster 5 months ago
"The Wonderful World of Disney", "The Family Holvak" and "The NBC Sunday Mystery Movie" promos was v/o by the late Norman Rose.
usa02 8 months ago
Mcnzlea--
"Stupid decade" would actually be more appropriate, because every year from 1975 until 1985, NBC found themselves floundering in last place behind both CBS and ABC; during this time, they encountered having so many programming failures, and then topping it off in the summer of 1980 was the boycott of the Moscow Olympics, which cost NBC more than $80 billion in ad revenue; and indeed you are right about NBC's fortunes not turning around for the better until 1985-86.
EricEbac22 8 months ago
"Stupid Season" was more appropriate. NBC just totally fell apart in '75-'76, with "Sanford And Son" its only top-10 show (one episode managed to make fun of itself). Game 6 of the World Series was just about the only big highlight. The new logo didn't help, either. Some folks were already heartsick for the peacock!
NBC's reputation as Nobody's Broadcasting Company was getting under way and would not reverse itself for another decade.
Mcnzlea 9 months ago
The Red in SUPER, and the Blue in SEASON
This was in preparation to introduce the two-trapezoid N Logo: One Left Trapezoid RED, and Second trapezoid BLUE on the right.
newscaster13 10 months ago
@newscaster13 NBC's 1975-76 "SuperSeason" wasn't very super. It was a bust.
The only new NBC show from the 1975-76 season to become a hit wasn't even in prime-time: "Saturday Night Live" (originally titled "NBC's Saturday Night" for it's first two or three seasons).
altfactor 9 months ago
@newscaster13 Weren't the red and blue colors of the "SuperSeason" graphic also in tribute to the coming U.S. Bicentennial and NBC Radio's old "Red" and "Blue" networks??
altfactor 5 months ago
Funny thing you should mention "NBC'S SATURDAY NIGHT" (as it was originally known), 'sean'- a month later, Albert Brooks parodied this kind of promo on the show {DICK TUFELD: "Even a 'Super Season' has super failures! That's why, at NBC, we've got SUPER REPLACEMENTS...!"}.
fromthesidelines 1 year ago
Notice how NBC avoids the usage of any network logos in that particular promo. Seeing as their "N" logo was introduced only a couple of months later.
BTW, which SNL episode was this tagged onto?
nx01alpha 1 year ago