@@m.woodsrobinson9244 Katherine Hammond guest starred as Jessica Tate in a couple of episodes. It was established from the beginning that she and Gov. Gene Gatling are cousins.🌞
@thomash.schwed3662
3 жыл бұрын
@@m.woodsrobinson9244 In my book, "Benson" is a case of the spin-off being even better than the original series. And, again in my opinion, that takes nothing away from "Soap", which was a good program in its own right. The "controversies" associated with "Soap" were only in the "minds" of latter-day Johnny Rebs who should have kept to themselves instead of forcing ABC to pull the plug. Of course, that's just the thought of this Yankee (born and raised in Ohio)!
@RobCamp-rmc_0
3 жыл бұрын
Thank god we finally! got a sort of Sweepstakes reunion when Richard Mulligan and Dinah Manoff shared the screen again on Empty Nest. I needed it- no, _America_ needed it.
@thomash.schwed3662
3 жыл бұрын
I'm glad I wasn't the only one to notice that.
@ChrisJones-ij3xp
3 жыл бұрын
I absolutely LOVED the 20/20 clip with the two anchors describing themselves to each other, then it's all about Greyhound racing, Flip Wilson, Jerry Brown, and an amateur nuclear-bomb builder. Talk about NOSTALGIA!
@taratupa73
3 жыл бұрын
Louis Armstrong, Pearl Bailey, Bing Crosby, and Andy Williams. What a quartet!
@55Quirll
3 жыл бұрын
Yes, 4 great singers!
@scott1178
4 жыл бұрын
Ugh, the canned laughter and applause on those variety shows is excruciating. I wonder who green-lit giving a couple of mimes a variety show? I remember their robot couple act was kinda funny.
@frankbonini9128
2 жыл бұрын
They Were a Huge Deal Back in Those Days. Often Appearing on Other Talk & Variety Shows of the Time ... Which I Believe Led to Someone Giving Them Their Own Show ... It Was the 70s, After All
@Tiberius291
3 жыл бұрын
'Benson' was the only show i watched on a regular basis back then, the theme is unmistakable.
@wdh47211
6 жыл бұрын
I remember Shields and Yarnell being on different variety shows....I think they were a married couple who did mime work...
@MegaMagicdog
5 жыл бұрын
Indeed they were. They trained as mimes under Marcel Marceau and later went on to develop their own unique style. They divorced back in '86. Shields is an artist and jewelry designer in AZ. Yarnell sadly passed away in 2010. I remember her not only forher work with her ex-husband, but also as Dot Matrix in the comedy, "Spaceballs".
@kittiekat7819
5 жыл бұрын
No matter how crappy these. Shows seem, I'd still take them over the crappy reality shows of today.
@jimsguts
5 жыл бұрын
Wow. Sweepstakes had 4 Grease actors in it: Avalon, Blondell, Manoff, and Byrnes.
@jb888888888
4 жыл бұрын
Manoff and Richard Mulligan were in _Soap_ together (as step-father/daughter in law) and later as father and daughter in _Empty Nest._
@AgnosticProle
8 жыл бұрын
I was born in 64 and I remember some of these shows. Thanks for the video!
@momster64
7 жыл бұрын
AgnosticProle Me too, born in '64, memories!
@galemiller8936
5 жыл бұрын
Same here 5/13
@m.woodsrobinson9244
4 жыл бұрын
Me, too! And I love the John Inman pic!
@DavidBDavis-lz7bt
4 жыл бұрын
@@galemiller8936 6/19 for me.
@misterelom
6 жыл бұрын
Me and The Chimp looked like a real stinker. Hard to believe that came from the same people who gave us Laverne & Shirley. Guess even the greats are entitled to a wtf moment lol
@potsdam28
5 жыл бұрын
ebbowman it was gonna be called the Chimp and I but he refused to be billed second after a chimp
@brinsonharris9816
3 жыл бұрын
It was even worse than the opening sequence suggests. Buttons, the chimp. Named Buttons because he liked to press buttons. Bessel went from taking guff from Marlo Thomas to having a chimpanzee flinging feces at him. Played exactly the same character, too. Show biz is brutal.
@flyergymgirl125
3 жыл бұрын
After Me and the Chimp got cancelled Kami Kotler got the part as Elizabeth on the Waltons.
@craigbusick9676
4 жыл бұрын
I love the the theme song to Nanny And The Professor.
@ellenfleming9685
Жыл бұрын
i loved everything about nanny and the proffessori
@mindyenglish5305
4 жыл бұрын
That's not the Hunter I was looking for. Fred Dryer will always be Hunter to me.
@DavidBDavis-lz7bt
4 жыл бұрын
I'd heard of this Hunter--a spy drama--but I don't remember actually seeing it. Looks like it had Linda Evans as part of the cast, so that's something!(lol).
@fromthesidelines
3 жыл бұрын
Yes, Linda did co-star with James Franciscus in that brief 1977 series.
@55Quirll
3 жыл бұрын
That's what I was thinking of too, there was a reboot but there were 6 cops then instead of just Hunter and DD McCall
@dougghiz8339
4 жыл бұрын
The New Bill Cosby Show has the theme to Jack Narz game show Now You See It
@BRBTheFireball
3 жыл бұрын
Bill Cosby and Quincy Jones co-wrote that song. The official title of it was "Chump Change".
@lp-xl9ld
5 жыл бұрын
The only shows of these I remember seeing during their original runs were SHIELDS AND YARNELL and NANNY AND THE PROFESSOR. Don't remember what attracted me to a show starring two mimes...and NANNY was part of a bigger lineup that I watched straight running.
@johnpierce2095
5 жыл бұрын
benson and vegas were pretty good shows
@luisreyes1963
8 ай бұрын
David Hedison quit the show was replaced by Rene Auberjonois.
@179cpv
7 жыл бұрын
Lola Falana was a total babe!!
@DavidBDavis-lz7bt
4 жыл бұрын
She was! I remember her guesting on Sha Na Na; she sang "Rescue Me". Boy, did she heat up the screen!🌞
@michaelmerck7576
3 жыл бұрын
She paid her dues and stardom was deserved,long overdue I might add
@lindaackerman3507
3 жыл бұрын
I actually remember nanny and the professor with cute little kim Richards who is now on the housewives of beverley hills and is the sister of kyle on the show and kathy Hilton, kim was in other shows too like ...hello Larry with mclean stevenson, and many movies. Also loved Vegas with Robert Ulrich, and Tony Curtis, best musical intro ever...😍
@jknuttel
4 жыл бұрын
THE SEARCH FOR THE NILE is an excellent mini-series. It's now available on DVD from the UK (for those of us who want to see it in the US you'll need a region-free player).
@recordman64
7 жыл бұрын
Ted Bessell always deserved better than he got. He certainly was a hell of a lot better than playing sidekick to ditzy Marlo Thomas or second banana to a chimp. And BJ and the Bear...I always thought it was a little weird that they made a billboard with the show's name just to plow through it with a truck.
@ferociousgumby
5 жыл бұрын
Mark Speck and those crossed eyes were dreamy.
@timfart9414
4 жыл бұрын
I thought the same thing about the billboard.
@lindaackerman3507
3 жыл бұрын
I really agree about Ted Bessel, he was so great and deserved much better but he did go on to direct some future shows and stayed mostly in the background, he was a great guy.💗
@davidbrain1192
2 жыл бұрын
Lol.
@oakboyh
8 жыл бұрын
As a kid I loved Bj and the bear and I was fascinated by the Vega$ theme song.
@playsbass1969
6 жыл бұрын
me ttooo
@MegaMagicdog
5 жыл бұрын
When I see so many shows that didn't even make it past a season (if that), I always wonder what it must be like during a pitch meeting; especially when these shows were pitched! Cocaine - it's one hell of a drug!
@brianfuller7691
5 жыл бұрын
BJ and the Bear was good and this cast for Sweepstake was great. Vegas is iconic.
@luisreyes1963
8 ай бұрын
Sweepstakes on NBC fell victim to the one-two punch in the 1978-79 season by ABC's Friday Night Movie & CBS' Dallas.
@JerryMinion
11 ай бұрын
0:00 Benson 0:58 Nanny and The Professor 1:58 Me and The Chimp 2:53 BJ and the Bear 4:15 Sweepstakes 5:48 Chopper One 6:49 Vega$ 8:12 Hunter 9:26 Shields & Yarnell 9:55 The New Bill Cosby Show 11:25 The Pearl Bailey Show 12:23 3 Girls 3 13:41 Headliners with David Frost 14:25 PrimeTime Sunday 15:13 20/20
@ooklathemokfan
6 жыл бұрын
Chopper One- I was born in 1969, and this was one of the earliest prime time shows I remember because of the premise of the helicopter. A "hook" that made them stand out from other cop shows.
@timfart9414
4 жыл бұрын
I remember it too. I haven’t seen anything about it in 40 years so I thought I might have imagined it.🤷♂️
@camwilliams2827
5 жыл бұрын
The 70s had a fascination with chimps I take it
@dannyboyy8465
4 жыл бұрын
My guess is that one reason being that the original Planet of the Apes franchise was in big back then.
@jpwcpa
3 жыл бұрын
Let's not forget the Saturday morning live action show, "Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp".
@preahko
3 жыл бұрын
some truly wretched shit was on the TV in the 1970s. and I know, I was a kid then watching it nightly, haha
@momster64
7 жыл бұрын
Nothing beats the ever-so-funky Bill Cosby dancers....
@jacquesbarnes9125
3 жыл бұрын
These were the Good Old Days! Variety T.V.!
@marksalo2544
6 жыл бұрын
Chopper one sounds like Matt Houston and T.J. Hooker combined.
@dorothydromgoole4649
3 жыл бұрын
Love B.J and the Bear, had a crush on Grage Evigan. One of many. I love alot of the shows in the 1970's.
@luisreyes1963
Жыл бұрын
Yecch. 😩
@rocketmom60
6 жыл бұрын
It is interesting to see that some actors never did much and others went on to significantly bigger careers.
@LarryLeeMoniz
8 жыл бұрын
I didn't know 20/20 started without Hugh Downs and Barbara Walters.
@luisreyes1963
8 жыл бұрын
It was originally hosted by Harold Hayes & Robert Hughes, but for only 1 telecast.
@LarryLeeMoniz
8 жыл бұрын
Awesome, thanks! BTW, that avatar is awesome, I love Tom Baker.
@luisreyes1963
8 жыл бұрын
Larry Lee Moniz Thank You very much.
@williamwingo4740
4 жыл бұрын
6:49 Vega$ was great. I have the whole series on disk. The cars, the clothes, the babes (especially Phyllis Davis), the paper-thin plots, the guest stars from yesteryear--Sid Caesar, Mamie van Doren, Edie Adams--it doesn't get much better than that. And it's even more ironic considering what Las Vegas has turned into nowadays. ...and TONY CURTIS is Roth!
@m.woodsrobinson9244
4 жыл бұрын
Very good show! Saw a couple of episodes someone posted on KZitem and was impressed. I only remembered Urich from his 80s stuff.
@frankbonini9128
2 жыл бұрын
The Cameos, as Well
@JayLangly
Жыл бұрын
Hey some of these visuals hold up damn good-- pre digital production.
@Dabhach1
7 жыл бұрын
In her prime, Juliet Mills was SERIOULY hot. Like if you agree.
@PlasmaCoolantLeak
5 жыл бұрын
God, yes. She was the only reason I watched that show.
@Portugal2025
4 жыл бұрын
Totally. A dreadful show but a real looker
@WalterDWormack214
5 жыл бұрын
Richard Long. Like Trevor Goddard, another totally cool actor, *TAKEN AWAY TOO SOON!*
@mikewrasman5103
2 жыл бұрын
Roone Arledge about flipped out when he saw the premier of 20/20. He fired Robert Hughes and Harold Hayes and brought in Hugh Downs.
@thelionessreigns
5 жыл бұрын
So that's Lola Falana!
@daviddemar8749
5 жыл бұрын
Wow Kami kotler and Kim Richards as little kids!
@jhorhee1045
8 жыл бұрын
great vid! just subscribed!
@gogoyubari366
6 ай бұрын
BJ and the Bear was a great show!
@frankbonini7085
Жыл бұрын
Imagine a TV Show About the Powerball or Mega Millions ... I'm Guessing "Sweepstakes" Was the 70s Version of That, Huh?
@luisreyes1963
8 ай бұрын
They tried to revive the concept of NBC's Sweepstakes. First in 1983 on ABC with LOTTERY! & again in 2006 with Windfall on NBC.
@frankbonini7085
8 ай бұрын
@luisreyes1963 I Remember Lottery ... I Don't Remember Windfall, Though
@squalor33
3 жыл бұрын
I wish that for the BJ and the Bear theme they had just gotten Jose Feliciano to sing the Chico & The Man theme, changing only the name of the show in the lyrics.
@yodagaming1007
5 жыл бұрын
Was Benson's opening filmed at 251 N. Bristol?
@MegaMagicdog
5 жыл бұрын
Yup! Same house was used years later as the exterior of the Banks' mansion for "Fresh Prince of Bel Air".
@timfart9414
4 жыл бұрын
You guys are good!👍
@christopherthorkon3997
2 жыл бұрын
15:19 Few remember that this initial version of 20/20 was a complete flop and a critical disaster. The format was quickly re-worked. The two hosts were dumped immediately and replaced by just one host, Hugh Downs. And 20/20 became a hit.
@chrish7975
5 жыл бұрын
Nanny and the Professor.. class.
@luisreyes1963
4 жыл бұрын
So nauseatingly cloying, it makes Touched By An Angel look like NCIS.
@hudsony777
3 жыл бұрын
Poor Ted Bessel. It was That Girl or nothing. Good he became a director.
@jmcclain8237
6 ай бұрын
I loved Benson.
@RecordSeeker
3 жыл бұрын
Good old "B.J. and the Bear," or as it was known in pre-production, "Monkey with a CDL".
@55Quirll
3 жыл бұрын
Later came BJ and the 7 truckers and then the Miss adventures of Sheriff Lobo
@frankbonini7085
2 ай бұрын
The 70s Belonged to Chimps, & the 80s Belonged to Orangutans
@davidbrain1192
2 жыл бұрын
They put a lot of thought into the title of Me and the chimp, it would have been funny if the chimp got top billing!!
@SmithMrCorona
3 жыл бұрын
What the hell was with the theme song from The Nanny and the Professor? It's beyond terrible - I don't even know if it's technically a song.
@preahko
3 жыл бұрын
That Benson intro is very racist and disturbing.
@HeronCoyote1234
Жыл бұрын
Vegas, or anything with Robert Urich.
@michellepost1016
6 жыл бұрын
The oldest boy on Nanny and the Professor was G.W. of The Waltons, who kept hanging around Mary Ellen in school, and dated Erin during the war eps.I never liked B.J. & the Bear...too corny.I had a very good friend I'd travel with on his trucking runs in his Kenmore some years ago.We sure never had a monkey, and crooks never tried to kill us or steal the cargo. LOL. I recall that show of Shields & Yarnell, but never heard of Bill Cosby's variety show.
@RwDt09
6 жыл бұрын
Cosby had two variety shows in the 70s, The New Bill Cosby Show which lasted a season on CBS Mondays at 10 through the 1972-73 season and Cos on ABC Sundays at 7 that lasted only two months in the fall of 1976.
@luisreyes1963
4 жыл бұрын
I think the diesel truck was a Kenilworth.
@joebradio
8 жыл бұрын
at 10:00 now you see HIM.. Bill Cosby ..
@keonjenkins1852
7 жыл бұрын
LOL I was gonna say that too....This is Johnny Olson speaking for the New Bill Cosby Show, a Mark Goodson Bill Todman Production..... Stay tuned for Love of Life, next on most of these CBS stations.
@Ian16545
7 жыл бұрын
The clue is: he ain't heavy, he's "hey-hey-hey!" Letter... letter... letter... line 5, position 7: ALBERT.
@debratunnicliff8718
8 жыл бұрын
I only remember a couple of them. Esp. BJ & The Bear. Which makes me wonder now, why I watched it. As it's so corny. Guess when I was a teen, there wasn't a whole lot to watch.
@williamcrowe2576
7 жыл бұрын
What was Sweepstakes about?
@luisreyes1963
6 жыл бұрын
William Crowe It was a dramatic anthology that ran on NBC from January to March of 1979. Each episode featured 3 people chosen to be the one possible winner of a state lottery in which the main prize was $1 million.
@MegaMagicdog
5 жыл бұрын
@@luisreyes1963 They revived that show in the 80s! Same basic format, except one man worked for the lottery to give the winning ticket, his partner was an IRS employee who had to take out the taxes. The persons in the episode however were winners, rather than potential winners.
@luisreyes1963
4 жыл бұрын
@@MegaMagicdog You're right! It was Lottery, it ran on ABC for only one season from 1983-84.
@DavidBDavis-lz7bt
4 жыл бұрын
@@luisreyes1963 I liked that show...there was a nice bit in the opening credits Eric Rush: "We just need to develop a little 'give-and-take'." Patrick Sean Flaherty: "We already have that. I give..." Eric Rush(understanding dawning): ...and I take..." Probably not an exact quote, but you get the idea.🌞
@fromthesidelines
3 жыл бұрын
That was producer Rick Rosner's souped-up version of "THE MILLIONAIRE".
@rudisetyatmaja6650
5 жыл бұрын
I dreamt Richard Long was my father
@CelesteKTheNewWaveRevue
6 жыл бұрын
I hope that they never turn BJ and the Bear into a movie!
@burritodeluxe
5 жыл бұрын
They did! It's called 'Passion of the Christ'.
@timfart9414
4 жыл бұрын
What kind of movie?🙄
@CelesteKTheNewWaveRevue
4 жыл бұрын
@@timfart9414 A reboot like they did with The Brady Bunch.
@timfart9414
4 жыл бұрын
Celeste Keenan I was joking. I had something much different in mind with bj in the title!🤣 Hope you’re not upset.
@CelesteKTheNewWaveRevue
4 жыл бұрын
@@timfart9414 No! I'm not upset. Thanks for clearing that up. 😂🤣😂🤣😂
@paulcoy9060
6 жыл бұрын
"Soft and sweet, white and wonderful, ..." That Nanny and the Professor show sounds like it would be very popular with the racists.
@luisreyes1963
6 жыл бұрын
paul coy Nanny and the Professor was the TV equivalent of an ipecac.
@lp-xl9ld
5 жыл бұрын
I've listened to this several times since reading the comment and I'm fairly sure that the original intent was to say "Soft and sweet, WISE and wonderful..." but if it didn't come out that way...
@DavidBDavis-lz7bt
4 жыл бұрын
The lyric was definitely "wise", not "white". I vas dere, cholly!
@paulcoy9060
4 жыл бұрын
@@DavidBDavis-lz7bt As Harry Nilsson said, "People hear what they want to hear." Now if you'll excuse me while I kiss this guy, there's a bathroom on the right, and I'm hung up like a douche, another rumor in the night.
@DavidBDavis-lz7bt
4 жыл бұрын
@@paulcoy9060 Yes, I've read the same book(lol). As long as you're not bringing present-day assholery into my good memories, you'll be fine. Cheers!🌞
@michaelmerck7576
3 жыл бұрын
Ted bessell really was desperate to get a show,too bad that girl didn't work out
@dasteelers75
6 жыл бұрын
Nanny & The Professor, WTF was THAT!!! And who else thought that Benson’s intro song was ANNOYING as “F”?
@FlavioGirl
4 жыл бұрын
greg evigan was hot back then :)
@scottlarson1548
7 жыл бұрын
Come on, why would anyone have wanted to watch Chopper One with that pathetic intro? Helicopters weren't new technology in the 70's. Now if they had a monkey flying a helicopter, that would have been a 40 share easily!
@luisreyes1963
8 жыл бұрын
BJ & The Bear was to me the WORST American TV had to offer (at least during that time). Everything else in that video was indicative of the throwaway quality of TV back then. With the exception of NBC's Sweepstakes & ABC's Vega$.
@greg6363
6 жыл бұрын
Even worse was its spinoff “The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo”.
@jamesodell4249
3 жыл бұрын
Bj and the bear was a good show
@luisreyes1963
8 ай бұрын
Ugh. 😣
@richardjoubert8471
6 жыл бұрын
my god what crap they had on tv,in the 70s
@luisreyes1963
3 жыл бұрын
Not all of it was crap, David Frost ran an interesting talk show.
@MrEab2010
4 жыл бұрын
the 70s was a creative dry spell, lot of lazy shows.
@thomash.schwed3662
3 жыл бұрын
If the '70's were "a creative dry spell", as you put it (not that they were, although, to be sure, there were some programs which could be considered clunkers), the bulk of the last twenty years have been a creative desert, with its glut of "reality" programs, falsely so-called. That's actual laziness on the part of the network executives, to say nothing of outright cheapskatery!
@MrEab2010
3 жыл бұрын
@@thomash.schwed3662 to be honest tv has been neither creative nor interesting since the early 1970s.
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