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Browsing: TV – 1970s
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1 9 7 8 – 1 9 8 1 (USA) This drama series focused on Ken Reeves (Ken Howard), a one-time professional basketball player with the…
1 9 7 3 (Sweden) 13 x 30 minute episodes In 1930s Sweden, nine-year-old Fia (Julia Hede) and her piano-teacher mother live in a country villa…
1 9 7 2 (Canada) 13 x 60 minute episodes This Canadian miniseries chronicling the lives of a family of southern Ontario aristocrats over 100 years…
1 9 7 8 – 1 9 7 9 (USA) 30 minute episodes This unusual syndicated children’s series explained aspects of the adult world to…
1 9 7 2 – 1 9 7 3 (UK) 20 x 30 minute episodes 1 9 7 5 (UK) 12 x 30 minute episodes…
1 9 7 7 (UK) 8 x 50 minute episodes British boatbuilder Alan Haldane (Jack Hedley) returns to the island of Crete where he played a…
1 9 7 8 (USA) 11 x 30 minute episodes Garry Marshall was enjoying a modest but successful winning streak in 1978. He was already the…
1 9 7 2 – 1 9 7 8 (UK) 48 x 45 minute episodes Host Jon Pertwee (initially Edward Woodward) presented this highly popular,…
1 9 7 2 (UK) 6 x 30 minute episodes Following the successful formula of Up Pompeii, Frankie Howerd returned with Whoops Baghdad, transplanting the action from ancient…
1 9 7 9 (UK) 12 x 30 minute episodes Debuting on Monday 18 June 1979, this ATV children’s series was set in the children’s ward…
1 9 7 3 – 1 9 9 5 (UK) 25 minute episodes The full title of this Saturday morning summer show for kids was actually Why…
1 9 7 0 (UK) 6 x 54 minute episodes This drama series from London Weekend Television was based on true-life cases of women who made…
1 9 7 3 – 1 9 7 6 (USA) 131 x 90 minute episodes Beginning on 8 January 1973, this 90-minute late-night mystery and…
1 9 6 3 – 1 9 8 8 (USA) Viewers of Wild Kingdom in its heydey remember insurance company Mutual of Omaha’s sponsorship (the full title…
1 9 7 8 (UK) 13 x 60 minute episodes The former star of The Main Chance, John Stride, played novelist-sleuth Rupert Wilde, who sallied…
1 9 7 8 (UK) 6 x 60 minute episodes Rumpole of the Bailey creator John Mortimer was given the task of writing the bard’s life…
1 9 7 0 – 1 9 7 2 (USA) 18 x 30 minute episodes This animated half-hour Saturday morning kiddie’s show from Filmation depicted painfully…
1 9 7 7 – 1 9 7 8 (UK) 26 x 50 minute episodes Chaps in sheepskin jackets, leather flying caps and goggles featured…
1 9 7 5 – 1 9 8 7 (UK) Jimmy Tarbuck welcomed the guests and the unseen Geoffrey Wheeler – who also devised the…




















