Almost Nobody Remembers These 70s TV Shows. Do You?

Three’s Company was a sitcom that aired for eight seasons on ABC from March 15, 1977, to September 18, 1984. The story revolves around three single roommates: Janet Wood, Chrissy Snow, and Jack Tripper, who all platonically live together in a Santa Monica, California apartment complex.

The Love Boat was a comedy television series set on a cruise ship, which aired on the ABC Television Network from May 5, 1977, until May 24, 1986. The series revolves around the ship’s captain and a handful of its crew, with several passengers‚Äîplayed by various guest actors for each episode‚Äîhaving romantic and humorous adventures.

The White Shadow was a drama television series starring Ken Howard that ran on the CBS network from November 27, 1978, to March 16, 1981, about a white former professional basketball player who takes a job coaching basketball at an impoverished urban high school with a racially mixed basketball team.

Cannon was a detective television series produced by Quinn Martin which aired from 1971 to 1976. The primary protagonist is the title character, private detective Frank Cannon, played by William Conrad.

McMillan & Wife was a police procedural that aired on NBC from 1971 to 1977 starring Rock Hudson and Susan Saint James in the title roles. Initially airing on Wednesday night, the original lineup was shifted to Sundays in the second season, where it aired for the rest of its run.

Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids was an animated series created, produced, and hosted by comedian Bill Cosby, who also lent his voice to a number of characters, including Fat Albert himself. Filmation was the production company for the series. The show premiered in 1972 and ran until 1985.

Adam-12 was a television police procedural drama that follows Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) officers Pete Malloy and Jim Reed as they ride the streets of Los Angeles in their patrol unit 1-Adam-12. The show ran from September 21, 1968 through May 20, 1975.

McCloud was a television police drama that aired on NBC from 1970 to 1977. The show was centered on Deputy Marshal Sam McCloud of the small western town of Taos, New Mexico, who was on loan to the metropolitan New York City Police Department (NYPD) as a special investigator.

M*A*S*H was a war comedy-drama television series that aired on CBS from 1972 to 1983. The television series is the best-known of the M*A*S*H works and one of the highest-rated shows in U.S. television history.

Lou Grant was a drama television series starring Ed Asner in the title role as a newspaper editor that aired on CBS from September 20, 1977, to September 13, 1982. The series was the third spin-off of the sitcom The Mary Tyler Moore Show.

The Streets of San Francisco was a crime drama filmed on location in San Francisco, California. It starred Karl Malden and Michael Douglas as two detectives in San Francisco. The show ran for five seasons, between 1972 and 1977 on ABC, amassing a total of 119 60-minute episodes.

Hawaii Five-O was an American police procedural drama series produced by CBS Productions and Leonard Freeman. Set in Hawaii, the show originally aired for 12 seasons from 1968 to 1980, and continues in reruns.

Barney Miller was a sitcom set in a New York City Police Department police station on East 6th St in Greenwich Village. The series was broadcast from January 23, 1975, to May 20, 1982, on ABC. It was created by Danny Arnold and Theodore J. Flicker.

Roots was a television miniseries. The series first aired on ABC in January 1977. It was produced on a budget of $6.6 million. The series introduced LeVar Burton in the role of Kunta Kinte.

Taxi was a sitcom that originally aired on ABC from September 12, 1978 to May 6, 1982 and on NBC from September 30, 1982 to June 15, 1983. It focuses on the everyday lives of a handful of New York City taxi drivers and their abusive dispatcher.

Starsky & Hutch was an action television series. The show was created by William Blinn, produced by Spelling-Goldberg Productions, and broadcast from April 1975 to May 1979 on the ABC network.

Barnaby Jones was a television detective series starring Buddy Ebsen and Lee Meriwether as a father and daughter-in-law who run a private detective firm in Los Angeles, California. The show was introduced as a midseason replacement on the CBS network and broadcast from 1973 to 1980.

Kung Fu was an action-adventure martial arts western drama television series starring David Carradine. The series aired on ABC from October 1972 to April 1975 for a total of 63 episodes.

Police Woman was a television Police procedural starring Angie Dickinson that ran on NBC for four seasons, from September 13, 1974, to March 29, 1978. The series revolves around Sgt. “Pepper” Anderson, an undercover police officer working for the Criminal Conspiracy Unit of the Los Angeles Police Department.

The New Scooby-Doo Movies was an animated mystery comedy television series produced by Hanna-Barbera for CBS. It is the second animated television series in the studio’s Scooby-Doo franchise, and follows the first incarnation, Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!. It premiered on September 9, 1972 and ran for two seasons on CBS as the only hour-long Scooby-Doo series.

Quincy, M.E. (also called Quincy) was a medical mystery-drama television series from Universal Studios that aired from 1976 to 1983 on NBC. Jack Klugman stars in the title role, as a Los Angeles County medical examiner.

60 Minutes was a newsmagazine television program broadcast on the CBS television network. Debuting in 1968, the program was created by Don Hewitt, who chose to set it apart from other news programs by using a unique style of reporter-centered investigation.

Emergency! was a television series that combines the medical drama and action-adventure genres. It debuted on NBC as a midseason replacement on January 15, 1972 and ran until May 28, 1977. It was created and produced by Jack Webb and Robert A. Cinader.

Schoolhouse Rock! was an interstitial programming series of animated musical educational short films that aired during the Saturday morning children’s programming block on the U.S. television network ABC. The topics covered included grammar, science, economics, history, mathematics, and civics. The series’ original run lasted from 1973 to 1985.

The Tom and Jerry Show was an animated television series produced in 1975 for ABC based on the theatrical shorts and characters Tom and Jerry. This series marked the first time ever that Tom and Jerry appeared in animated installments produced exclusively for television.

Alice was a sitcom that aired on CBS from August 31, 1976, to March 19, 1985. The show stars Linda Lavin in the title role, a widow who moves with her young son to start life over again, and finds a job working at a roadside diner in a suburb of Phoenix, Arizona.

The Rockford Files was a television drama series starring James Garner that aired on the NBC network between September 13, 1974, and January 10, 1980. Garner portrays Los Angeles-based private investigator Jim Rockford with Noah Beery Jr., a retired truck driver nicknamed “Rocky”.

The Midnight Special was a late-night musical variety series originally broadcast on NBC during the 1970s and early 1980s, created and produced by Burt Sugarman. It premiered as a special on August 19, 1972, then began its run as a regular series on February 2, 1973; its last episode was on May 1, 1981.

WKRP in Cincinnati was a sitcom that featured the misadventures of the staff of a struggling fictional radio station in Cincinnati, Ohio. The show was created by Hugh Wilson and was based upon his experiences working in advertising sales at Top 40 radio station WQXI in Atlanta.

Baretta was a detective television series which ran on ABC from 1975–78. The show was a revised milder version of a 1973–74 ABC series, Toma, starring Tony Musante as chameleon-like, real-life New Jersey police officer David Toma. When Musante left the series after a single season, the concept was retooled as Baretta, with Robert Blake in the title role.

Yogi’s Gang was a 30-minute Saturday morning animated series and the second incarnation of Hanna-Barbera’s Yogi Bear series which aired 16 half-hour episodes on ABC from September 8, 1973, to December 29, 1973. The show began as Yogi’s Ark Lark, a special TV movie on The ABC Saturday Superstar Movie in 1972.

Mannix was a television detective series that ran from 1967 to 1975 on CBS. Created by Richard Levinson and William Link and developed by executive producer Bruce Geller, the title character, Joe Mannix, is a private investigator. He was played by Mike Connors.

The Mod Squad was a crime drama series that ran on ABC from 1968 to 1973. It starred Michael Cole as Peter “Pete” Cochran, Peggy Lipton as Julie Barnes, Clarence Williams III as Lincoln “Linc” Hayes, and Tige Andrews as Captain Adam Greer.

Ellery Queen was a TV series, developed by Richard Levinson and William Link. The series ran on NBC from September 11, 1975, to April 4, 1976 featuring the titular fictional sleuth. The series stars Jim Hutton as the titular character, and David Wayne as his father, Inspector Richard Queen.

Monty Pythons Flying Circus was a sketch comedy series created by the comedy group Monty Python and broadcast by the BBC from 1969 to 1974. The shows were composed of surreality, risqué or innuendo-laden humour, sight gags and observational sketches without punchlines.

Columbo was a television series starring Peter Falk as Columbo, a homicide detective with the Los Angeles Police Department. The character and show, created by Richard Levinson and William Link, popularized the inverted detective story format.

Trapper John, M.D. was a medical drama television series and spin-off of the film MASH (1970). Pernell Roberts portrayed the title character, a lovable surgeon who became a mentor and father figure in San Francisco, California. The show ran on CBS from September 23, 1979, to September 4, 1986.

The Dukes of Hazzard was an action-comedy television series that aired on CBS from January 26, 1979, to February 8, 1985. The series was inspired by the 1975 film Moonrunners, which was also created by Gy Waldron and had many identical or similar character names and concepts.

The Waltons was a television series created by Earl Hamner, Jr., based on his book Spencer’s Mountain and a 1963 film of the same name, about a family in rural Virginia during the Great Depression and World War II. Beginning in September 1972, the series subsequently aired on CBS for nine seasons.

Gunsmoke was a radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman Macdonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West. The radio series ran from 1952 to 1961. The television series ran for 20 seasons from 1955 to 1975.

The Bob Newhart Show was a sitcom produced by MTM Enterprises that aired on CBS from September 16, 1972, to April 1, 1978. Comedian Bob Newhart portrays a psychologist having to deal with his wife, friends, patients, and fellow office workers.

The Partridge Family was a musical sitcom starring Shirley Jones and featuring David Cassidy. Jones played a widowed mother, and Cassidy played the oldest of her five children who embarked on a music career. It ran from September 25, 1970, until March 23, 1974, on the ABC network as part of a Friday-night lineup.

Rhoda was a sitcom starring Valerie Harper which aired from September 9, 1974 to December 9, 1978. Harper between the years 1970 and 1974 played the role of Rhoda Morgenstern, a spunky, weight-conscious, flamboyantly fashioned Jewish neighbor and native New Yorker in the role of Mary Richards’ best friend.

Dallas was a prime time television soap opera that aired on CBS from April 2, 1978 to May 3, 1991. The series revolves around a wealthy and feuding Texas family, the Ewings, who own the independent oil company Ewing Oil and the cattle-ranching land of Southfork.

Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In was a sketch comedy television program that ran for 140 episodes from January 22, 1968, to March 12, 1973, on the NBC television network. It was hosted by comedians Dan Rowan and Dick Martin.

All in the Family was a sitcom TV-series that was originally broadcast on the CBS television network for nine seasons, from January 1971 to April 1979. It starred Carroll O’Connor, Jean Stapleton, Sally Struthers, and Rob Reiner.

The Brady Bunch was a sitcom created by Sherwood Schwartz that aired from September 26, 1969, to March 8, 1974, on ABC. The series revolves around a large blended family with six children.

Bonanza was an NBC television western series that ran from 1959 to 1973. The show is set in the 1860s and it centers on the wealthy Cartwright family that live in the vicinity of Virginia City, Nevada, bordering Lake Tahoe.

My Three Sons was a sitcom that ran from 1960 to 1965 on ABC, and moved to CBS until the end of its run on April 13, 1972. My Three Sons chronicles the life of widower and aeronautical engineer Steven Douglas (Fred MacMurray) as he raises his three sons.

The Six Million Dollar Man was a science fiction and action television series about a former astronaut, Colonel Steve Austin, portrayed by American actor Lee Majors. It aired on the ABC network as a regular episodic series for five seasons from 1974 to 1978.

Wonder Woman was a television series based on the DC Comics comic book superhero of the same name. The show stars Lynda Carter as Wonder Woman/Diana Prince and Lyle Waggoner as Steve Trevor Sr. & Jr. It originally aired for three seasons from 1975 to 1979.

S.W.A.T. was an action/crime drama television series about the adventures of a Special Weapons And Tactics (S.W.A.T.) team operating in an unidentified California city. A spin-off of The Rookies, the series aired on ABC from February 1975 to April 1976. It was created by Robert Hamner and developed by Rick Husky.

Welcome Back, Kotter was a sitcom starring Gabe Kaplan as a sardonic high school teacher in charge of a racially and ethnically diverse remedial class called the “Sweathogs”. It originally aired on ABC from September 9, 1975, to May 17, 1979.

One Day at a Time was a sitcom that aired on CBS from December 16, 1975, until May 28, 1984. It starred Bonnie Franklin as a divorced mother raising two teenaged daughters in Indianapolis. The daughters were played by Mackenzie Phillips and Valerie Bertinelli.

The Muppet Show was a family-oriented comedy-variety television series that was produced by puppeteer Jim Henson and features The Muppets. The show lasted for five series consisting of 120 episodes which was first broadcast in Britain between September 5, 1976 and March 15, 1981 on ATV.

Benson was a sitcom that originally aired on ABC from September 13, 1979, to April 19, 1986. The series was a spin-off of the soap opera parody Soap in which the character Benson, portrayed by Robert Guillaume, had first appeared as the wise-cracking yet level-headed African-American butler for the highly dysfunctional Tate family.

Soap was a sitcom that originally ran on ABC from September 13, 1977 until April 20, 1981. The show was created as a night-time parody of daytime soap operas, presented as a weekly half-hour prime time comedy.

The Scooby-Doo Show was an animated mystery comedy series. A total of 40 episodes ran for three seasons, from 1976 to 1978, on ABC, marking the first Scooby series to appear on the network.

Speed Buggy was an animated television series, produced by Hanna-Barbera, which originally aired for one season on CBS from September 8, 1973 to December 22, 1973. The show follows an orange anthropomorphic dune buggy who alongside teenagers Debbie, Mark, and Tinker, solves mysteries while participating in racing competitions around the world.

Charlie’s Angels was a crime drama television series that aired on ABC from September 22, 1976 to June 24, 1981, producing five seasons and 110 episodes. The series was created by Ivan Goff and Ben Roberts and was produced by Aaron Spelling.

Kojak was an action crime drama television series starring Telly Savalas as the title character, New York City Police Department Detective Lieutenant Theo Kojak. Taking the time slot of the popular Cannon series, it aired on CBS from 1973-78.

The Dean Martin Show, not to be confused with the Dean Martin Variety Show (1959–1960), was a TV variety-comedy series that ran from 1965 to 1974 for 264 episodes. It was broadcast by NBC and hosted by entertainer Dean Martin.

Don Kirshner’s Rock Concert was a television music variety show that ran during the 1970s and early 1980s, created and produced by Don Kirshner and syndicated to television stations, initially through Viacom Enterprises, and later through Syndicast. It premiered on September 27, 1973, with a performance by The Rolling Stones; its last episode was in 1981.

The Carol Burnett Show was a variety/sketch comedy television show starring Carol Burnett, Harvey Korman, Vicki Lawrence, and Lyle Waggoner. The show originally ran on CBS from September 11, 1967, to March 29, 1978, for 279 episodes, and again with nine episodes in the fall of 1991.

Night Gallery was an anthology series that aired on NBC from 1969 to 1973, featuring stories of horror and the macabre. Rod Serling, who had gained fame from an earlier series, The Twilight Zone, served both as the on-air host of Night Gallery and as a major contributor of scripts.

Sanford and Son was a sitcom that ran on the NBC television network from January 14, 1972, to March 25, 1977. Known for its edgy racial humor, running gags and catchphrases, the series was adapted by Norman Lear and considered NBC’s answer to CBS’s All in the Family.

Little House on the Prairie was a western drama television series, starring Michael Landon, Melissa Gilbert, Karen Grassle, and Melissa Sue Anderson, about a family living on a farm in Walnut Grove, Minnesota, in the 1870s and 1880s. The series premiered on the NBC network on September 11, 1974, and last aired on May 10, 1982.

Good Times was a sitcom that aired on CBS from February 8, 1974, to August 1, 1979. Created by Eric Monte and Mike Evans, and developed by Norman Lear, the series’ primary executive producer, it was television’s first African American two-parent family sitcom.

Hee Haw was a television variety show featuring country music and humor with the fictional rural “Kornfield Kounty” as a backdrop. It aired first-run on CBS from 1969 to 1971, and in syndication from 1971 to 1993. Reruns aired on TNN from 1996 to 1997.

Fred Flintstone and Friends was a 30-minute weekday animated anthology wheel series and a spin-off of The Flintstones produced by Hanna-Barbera and Columbia Pictures Television which aired in first-run syndication from October 3, 1977 to September 1, 1978.

What’s Happening!! was a sitcom that aired on ABC from August 5, 1976, to April 28, 1979. The show premiered as a summer series. It returned in November 1976 as a weekly series. It remained a weekly series until 1979. It was loosely based on the Eric Monte-penned film Cooley High.

Upstairs, Downstairs was a British television drama series produced by London Weekend Television (LWT) for ITV. It ran for 68 episodes divided into five series on ITV from 1971 to 1975. The series depicts the servants “downstairs” and their masters‚Äîthe family “upstairs”‚Äîbetween the years 1903 and 1930, and shows the slow decline of the British aristocracy.

The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour was a variety show starring American pop-singer Cher and her husband Sonny Bono. The show ran on CBS in the United States, when it premiered in August 1971. The show was canceled May 1974, due to the couple’s divorce.

The Doris Day Show was a sitcom that was originally broadcast on the CBS Television network from September 1968 until March 1973, remaining on the air for five seasons and 128 episodes. The series is remembered for its multiple format and cast changes over the course of its five-year run.

Mork & Mindy was a sitcom that aired on ABC from September 14, 1978 to May 27, 1982. It starred Robin Williams as Mork, an extraterrestrial who comes to Earth from the planet Ork in a small, one-Orkan egg-shaped spaceship. Pam Dawber co-starred as Mindy McConnell, his human friend and roommate.

ESPN Monday Night Football was a live television broadcast of weekly National Football League (NFL) games on ESPN in the United States. From 1970 to 2005, it aired on sister broadcast network ABC. Monday Night Football was one of the longest-running prime time programs ever on commercial network television.

Eight Is Enough was a television comedy-drama series that ran on ABC from March 15, 1977 until May 23, 1981. The show was modeled on the life of syndicated newspaper columnist Thomas Braden, a real-life parent with eight children, who wrote a book by the same title.

Laverne & Shirley was a television sitcom that ran for eight seasons on ABC from January 27, 1976, to May 10, 1983. It followed the lives of Laverne DeFazio and Shirley Feeney, two friends and roommates who work as bottle-cappers in the fictitious Shotz Brewery in late 1950s Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Maude was a sitcom that was originally broadcast on the CBS network from September 12, 1972, until April 23, 1978. Maude stars Beatrice Arthur as Maude Findlay, with her fourth husband, Walter Findlay. Maude embraces the tenets of women’s liberation, always votes for Democratic Party candidates, and advocates for civil rights and racial and gender equality. However, her overbearing and sometimes domineering personality often gets her into trouble when speaking about these issues.

CHiPs was a drama series that originally aired on NBC from September 15, 1977, to May 1, 1983. CHiPs followed the lives of two motorcycle police officers of the California Highway Patrol (CHP). The series ran for 139 episodes over six seasons, plus one reunion TV movie in October 1998.

The Flintstone Comedy Hour was a 60-minute Saturday morning animated series and a spin-off of The Flintstones and The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show produced by Hanna-Barbera which aired on CBS from September 9, 1972 to September 1, 1973 and re-titled The Flintstone Comedy Show for a second season of reruns as a half-hour show from September 8, 1973 to January 26, 1974.

The Incredible Hulk was a television series based on the Marvel Comics character The Hulk. The series aired on the CBS television network and starred Bill Bixby as David Banner, Lou Ferrigno as the Hulk, and Jack Colvin as Jack McGee.

The Odd Couple, formally titled onscreen Neil Simon’s The Odd Couple, was a television situation comedy broadcast from September 24, 1970, to March 7, 1975, on ABC. It stars Tony Randall as Felix Unger and Jack Klugman as Oscar Madison.

Donny & Marie was a variety show which aired on ABC from January 1976 to January 1979. The show starred brother-and-sister pop duo Donny and Marie Osmond. Donny had first become popular singing in a music group with his brothers, The Osmonds, and Marie was one of the youngest singers to reach #1 on the Billboard Country Music charts (with “Paper Roses”, in 1973).

The Mary Tyler Moore Show was a sitcom created by James L. Brooks and Allan Burns that aired on CBS from 1970 to 1977. Its central character is a never-married, independent career woman, a rarity in American television in the early 1970s.

The Jeffersons was a sitcom that was broadcast on CBS from January 18, 1975. It is the second-longest-running American series with a primarily African American cast and the first to prominently feature a married interracial couple.

Fantasy Island was a television series that originally aired on the ABC network from 1977 to 1984. It starred Ricardo Montalb√°n as the mysterious Mr. Roarke who grants the fantasies of visitors to the titular island for a price. The series was created by Gene Levitt.

The Flip Wilson Show was an hour-long variety show that originally aired in the U.S. on NBC from September 17, 1970 to June 27, 1974. The show starred American comedian Flip Wilson; the program was one of the first American television programs starring a black person in the title role to become highly successful with a white audience.

Diff’rent Strokes was a sitcom that aired on NBC from November 3, 1978, to May 4, 1985, and on ABC from September 27, 1985, to March 7, 1986. The series stars Gary Coleman and Todd. It is about two black boys from Harlem who are taken in by a rich white Park Avenue businessman and widower named Phillip Drummond.

Marcus Welby, M.D. was a medical drama television program that aired on ABC from September 23, 1969, to July 29, 1976. It starred Robert Young, James Brolin, and Elena Verdugo. It was produced by David Victor and David J. O’Connell.

Ironside was a television crime drama that aired on NBC over 8 seasons from 1967 to 1975. The show starred Raymond Burr as Robert T. Ironside, a consultant for the San Francisco police, who was paralyzed from the waist down after being shot while on vacation.

Chico and the Man was a sitcom that aired on NBC for four seasons from September 13, 1974 to July 21, 1978. It stars Jack Albertson as Ed Brown (the Man), the cantankerous owner of a run-down garage in an East Los Angeles barrio, and Freddie Prinze as Chico Rodriguez, an upbeat, optimistic young Chicano who comes in looking for a job.

Happy Days was a television sitcom that aired first-run from January 15, 1974, to September 24, 1984 on ABC. The series presented an idealized vision of life in the mid-1950s to mid-1960s Midwestern United States. It became one of the biggest hits in television history.

The Bionic Woman was a television science fiction action series starring Lindsay Wagner that aired between 1976 and 1978. The Bionic Woman series features Jaime Sommers, who takes on special high-risk government missions using her superhuman bionic powers.

Room 222 was a comedy-drama television series produced by 20th Century Fox Television that aired on ABC for 112 episodes from September 17, 1969, until January 11, 1974. The show was broadcast on Wednesday evenings at 8:30 (EST) for its first two seasons before settling into its best-remembered time slot of Friday evenings at 9.

Here’s Lucy was a sitcom starring Lucille Ball. The series co-starred her long-time partner Gale Gordon and her real-life children Lucie Arnaz and Desi Arnaz Jr. It was broadcast on CBS from 1968 to 1974. It was Ball’s third network sitcom following I Love Lucy (1951‚Äì57) and The Lucy Show (1962‚Äì68).

Hong Kong Phooey was a 30-minute Saturday morning animated series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions and broadcast on ABC from September 7, 1974, to December 21, 1974. It is a parody of kung fu shows and movies of the time.