1972 ABC Fall Preview Part 1

[holmeed]

best part, shorter commercials, the reason I dont watch live tv anymore...

[hilarioph]

The sixth sense is a sci-fi or what?

I going to buy this DVD because never

watch this in the Philippines since i was

born in 1975

[SkittlesEarth]

yes, they're were vcrs back then but they were expensive...the tv studios did record all theyrw shows on tape

[lineba20]

Where do people come up with these previews?  There were no VCRs back then.

[wamcalif5]

Fascinating to see this stuff for the first time since 1972. Many people today don't have the patience to sit through those drama driven shows and movies. They don't know what they are missing. Does ABC retain the rights to those old Movie of the Week films? Why don't they try to rerun them?

[mediamadman747]

Nostalgia aside, almost all of these programs look like c-r-a-p.

[johntegot]

..all I can say is THANK YOU!!!!!

[jorial6675]

I can hardly wait!!!

[brooke9218]

I definitely would rather live in the '70s than now. I agree that we have so many more channels , but very little choices.

[scottbaino]

Man, the '70s and '80s were a time you could not WAIT until the fall lineup of shows! Nowadays it's just PC crap that pushes the envelope with sex and bad language.

[craigblast]

memories.

[Nikes62]

I got that "Divorce/His/Hers" for a dollar at Walmart, and I haven't even watched it yet. It looks intriguing.

[mrkrinkle72]

dont you all wish tv was still this cool? i wish they would put rolling man on dvd dennis weaver was a brilliant top notch character actor! and i love the deep blue ABC graphics!

[computerwife]

i love that sixth sense promo,i saw an eye an eye everywhere,priceless

[frankd1965]

was used from the NBC Series "Night Gallery" with Rod Serling

[rangeclerk]

When Room 222 strarted in the late

1960's, always watched it and liked Kaen Valentine!

[mrkrinkle72]

i love room 222 karen sure was a dish purrr:P

[Apsu72]

I swear YouTube is the closest invention to a "Time Machine" as you can get

[frankd1965]

Just like Mr. Peabody's wayback machine

[pahlorstoker]

@Apsu72 this is so true

[mikestrat56]

@Apsu72 Definitely. Especially when you go and watch some of the great TV commercials you remember when you were a kid. Regardless of the decade, it's all here.

[barber747]

@Apsu72

I agree with that 10,000%! You can never see any of this stuff on TV anymore!

[imbluz]

I was born in 68' and I do not remember this promo, but I do remember watching most of these shows.

[TruEfuckinLegend]

you were fucking 4 so of course you dont remember

[Apsu72]

take it easy man. He knows that. LOL

[MalubaySyecado]

1972 ABC was the greatest programming of all time. If this played in order on TV LAND I would watch it. Every single one of these shows was awesome. Special kudos to TUESDAY MOVIE OF THE WEEK (and the oft forgotten WEDNESDAY MOVIE OF THE WEEK). The greatest movies of ALL TIME, why aren't all these in box sets?

[frankd1965]

8:38 to 8:42 shows the skyline of San Diego

[royalfuzziness]

I used to watch Love American Style until my dad would come in and turn it off,he said it was not something a 10 yr old

should be watching. Then he would leave the room and i would turn the show back on, how else is a kid growing up the 70s gonna learn about the facts of life.

[maychen]

My dad turned off Love American Style, too. And Benny Hill. And by the time I was 16 he would come in and turn off Married With Children and MTV.

[Apsu72]

that's funny lol

[frankd1965]

6:22 to 7:15 Dennis Weaver starred in "Rolling Man" which aired 10/04/72. He was doing "McCloud" on NBC at that time.

8:05 to 9:05 Explosion was later changed to Pursuit. filmed in San Diego

[MalubaySyecado]

Just one year before he was on Tuesday Movie of the Week. The movie? Steven Speilberg's DUEL.

[vividwatch47]

Dennis Weaver guest starred on other television series and television movies even when he was on "Gunsmoke" and "McCloud"!

[frankd1965]

"Rolling Man" was about a man who was paroled from jail and trying to rebuild his life. With Sheree North, sausage king Jimmy Dean and Agnes Moorhead in her final film appearance.

[vividwatch47]

"Rolling Man" may have been Agnes Moorehead's last live action appearance, except when she was the voice of the goose in Hanna-Barbera's animated theatrical film "Charlotte's Web".

[vividwatch47]

...and scored by Jerry Goldsmith!

[NJTank]

Great MNF promo at 4:57

[okumahowa]

Now = Phoney, no talent, no meaning, no heart, negative, silly story, copycat, pointless, violent, boring.

Then = Creativity, art, love, fun, reality, deep, principle, positive, right & wrong, purpose.

[mikestrat56]

1972 three network TV or 2009 cable with 9405 channels and HD??? I'll take '72.

[mark40511]

@mikestrat56

I agree! Quality, not quantity.

[MrUnidyne]

@mikestrat56 What did Bruce Springsteen sing? "Fifty Seven Channels and Nothin's On"?

[mikestrat56]

@MrUnidyne And when nothing was on TV, we picked up a " TELEPHONE" (remember that ancient device) actually spoke to someone, went to see them and then we went to meet other friends. Communicating with friends without text or Facebook, How did we ever do that? Positively barbaric.

[MrUnidyne]

@mikestrat56 And then when someone was out of the local area, there was that machine called a "typewriter" which was used to write "letters" (using conversational English with proper syntax and no automatic spell checker) that were sent through the "Post Office". How DID we ever survive those years?

[mikestrat56]

@MrUnidyne I'm glad there are kindred spirits out there who enjoy technology as I do, yet still embrace our analog roots with passion and energy.

[MrUnidyne]

@mikestrat56 You can't fully embrace modern technology without acknowledging its roots.

[smithdsmit]

@mikestrat56 i agree with you. i pay over 100 a month for cable and i fell like sucker for doing it.free tv when i was a kid is way better

[67nairb]

@smithdsmit You said it.

[RetroToledo]

@mikestrat56 It was so much easier then.

[taratupa73]

@mikestrat56 Amen, brother!  You're a man after my own heart!

[DSCOBLUE]

I remember this like it was yesterday... TV was so much better then. You had to use your imagination and stuff wasn't so much in your face...

[Lagomort]

I was going to respond and say how I remembered this like it was just yesterday, and then I looked at your top post,,,

[TerryT1976]

LOL, @ 2:10! That was a funny blackout skit from Love, American Style!

[MightySaturn5]

I'd say my favorite ABC Wendsday night movie was one from early 73' called "The moon and the desert" staring Lee Majors as a test pilot that had a horiffic crash and lost both legs, his right arm and his left eye.

A very touching movie that showed how one man came to grips with his atomic powered prothetics

[KidAJonni]

i wasnt born in 73, i was born in 1980 and i do remember seeing that movie too, and that would be later "The Six Million Dollar Man" TV Series from 74-78.

[Laceykat66]

I thought Smith & Jones was in the later 70s, not that early.

Thanks for the post.

[flipwiggins]

Wow!!!!! What a treasure trove. Thank you so much for posting these. I haven't seen them in decades.

[MeInTX]

Did Dennis Weaver do anything else in the early 70s besides ABC's MOW?

Divorce His/Divorce Hers? I would have thought that might hit just a little too close to home for the Burtons.

And did the NFL really think that that cheesy cartoon was the best way to sell MNF? Or was ABC intentionally coming up with the stupidest way to promote the series in an effort to get the league to release actual game footage?

[TheDescendant620]

so thats what it was like one year before I was born!

[saphopoem]

Yes thanks so much! Please keep them coming!

[bobtwcatlanta]

Thanks, I hope they will stay around this time :)/

[TerryT1976]

Welcome back and thank you so much for reposting these wonderful fall previews again.