^ I'm still holding out for a UFO remake. It would, of course, be required by law to star Neal McDonough. As for other 70's shows: What the fuck does "shlemiel, shlamazel, Hassenpfeffer Incorporated" (from Laverne & Shirley) actually mean? I never understood that bit.
Wow, I forgot to mention one of my '70s favorites: Emergency! That was the lunchbox I had. I never missed Space:1999 but I couldn't help but notice my parents could barely stand it. When I saw it again as an adult I sympathized with them.
Same. I still like the original in many ways, but a properly done remake/reboot could rock. And it's gotta have some of that iconic music particularly the main theme. That's something I'm also hoping for The Man From U.N.C.L.E. when I get around to seeing it. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8CvURidpkCY It's amusing to recall how funky those shiny purple wigs looked back in the day--it was so out there--and yet today you can go out in public and it shouldn't be too long before you spot someone with purple, blue, green, yellow, orange or unnaturally red hair.
The Rookies! Though Kate Jackson was the "non-glamourous" Angel, she was absolutely stunning in The Rookies. Oh, and in Dark Shadows!
Star Trek was the prime example of catching up on shows from the '60s in the '70s, but there were quite a few others. Shows that I had only a fragmentary awareness of in the earlier decade between the ages of 1-10. In the 1960s there were few shows I watched with any sort of regularity: the Adam West Batman, Spider-Man, Space Ghost, Speed Racer, and a few others. The Adventures of Superman (the George Reeves series) was actually a show from the '50s that I caught up with daily on the Commander Tom Show in the 1960s. So many series from the '60s were rerun heavily into the '70s long after they ended their original run. Man, we watched a lot of freakin' television when we were kids.
Well, I was a child during the 70's, so I can't help but remembered that decade. As for the shows: Too many.
As a boy in the '70s I watched: Space:1999 Star Trek(reruns)/Star Trek:TAS Ark II Space Academy/Jason Of Star Command UFO Battlestar Galactica Buck Rogers In The 25th Century Logan's Run(1977-1978) Lost In Space(reruns) Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea(reruns) Planet Of The Apes(1974-75) Return To The Planet Of The Apes:TAS(1975-76) Flash Gordon:TAS Land Of The Lost Vallet Of The Dinosaurs Fantastic Journey(1976-1977) In Search Of... Starlost Doctor Who[Tom Baker] Kolchak:The Night Stalker Battle of the Planets:TAS [Gatchaman] StarBlazers:TAS [Space Battleship Yamato] Superfriends:TAS Scooby-Doo:TAS Avengers(reruns)/New Avengers Man From Atlantis Wonder Woman Amazing Spider-man [CBS live-action series] Six Million Dollar Man / Bionic Woman Project:U.F.O. Quark
There were a lot of things I liked in the '70s, but it was a decade with a lot of lousy cars perticularly from Detroit. And this is when I was coming of age and getting interested in cars. I was so turned off by what Detroit was cranking out in those days that it would be decades before I felt U.S. automakers deserved any respect again. Now I feel it's finally a level playing field and in some cases I actually like some domestic cars better than the imports (in terms of trucks I think Ford and GM always did decently and didn't seem to suffer the same crap as the cars).
I'm a little embarrassed to admit that I pretty much was dressed just like Bobby Brady in the early to mid 70s.
I can't recall what year exactly, but my father knew a man who bought a new Thunderbird every year since the first one came out. The only one he passed on was one of the mid 70s models. He said it was the ugliest car he ever saw. (I think I recall one with a white Landau roof with portholes.)
I think '72 was the last year for the S-bars, and then '73 started the opera windows. Besides being ugly, god they were big. Only two doors but each one felt like it weighed a hundred pounds. I'm sure! You should have seen my pumpkin orange shirt with cocoa brown yoke over brown corduroy bell-bottoms!
Baseball uniforms in the 70's were sometimes even worse than civilian attire. And not just the "do not adjust your set" brain-frying color schemes of, say, the Astros; I distinctly remember one game where the White Sox wore unis with shorts .
Fun Fact: the forward end of Ark II is taken from the mockup of the Seeker from Space Academy/Jason of Star Command.