CBS Promo 1970

CBS's fall campaign promo in 1970 was "Putting It All Together".

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[rayjr62]

I am 45 and I wouldn't change the fact that I grew up in the 70's for anything. I really feel sorry for these younger people. And I wouldn't want to trade places with them for anything as well. The 70s rocked.

[KathleenWilbeck]

I was a junior in high school in 1970....and, boy....what a great show!!!! Those were the days when we didn't have two million television stations....and...Mary Tyler Moore was know by EVERYONE!!!

(P.S. I threw my beret into the wind one day, in a small attempt to imitate Mary......and lost it on top of a building!)

[christheone8773]

@Juliaflo The Odd Couple!!!

[christheone8773]

@tomservo56954 so was I (six years old that fall) - and it was the BRADY BUNCH for me as well!

[tomservo56954]

@christheone8773 Urban or rural, it didn't matter...even though I was only 6 that fall, it was strictly THE PARTRIDGE FAMILY for me.

[christheone8773]

@tomservo56954 LOL - funny you should mention that show, "The Headmaster", that was the one starring Andy Griffith - and even turning the show over into a new format and calling it , "The New Andy Griffith Show" didn't even help - I guess they couldn't stay away from that rural format-

[tomservo56954]

@christheone8773 True, but CBS was expecting the big guns that fall would be its "relevance" trilogy...STOREFRONT LAWYERS/THE INTERNS/HEADMASTER.

[christheone8773]

@GFI888 I was only six years old myself!!!

[christheone8773]

@tomservo56954 and also, it premiered just when CBS was doing the great "rural purge", getting rid of all the rural-themed shows that put the network on the map in the 60s-

[tomservo56954]

September 19, 1970 was my father's 41st birthday...and this year marks the show's 41st birthday (Dad passed in 1999).

[tomservo56954]

@Dachshund 1970 was the year the networks went for "relevant" shows, looking for the next MOD SQUAD.

ABC had THE YOUNG LAWYERS and THE YOUNG REBELS...the latter is fascinating because it was set during the American Revolution. portraying a trio of what would later be called guerilla fighters battling the British. It was originally titled YANKEE DOODLE, but was changed for fear it would sound too square to attract the target audience.

[tomservo56954]

@altfactor While MTM finished at #22 for the 1970-71 season, the biggest freshman hit was THE FLIP WILSON SHOW, at #2. The quasi-new THE MEN FROM SHILOH (revamp of THE VIRGINIAN into a rotating-lead format a la THE NAME OF THE GAME) was #18, and the mid-season THE SMITH FAMILY did well enough to reach #21.