TV INTROS TO 18 SHORT-LIVED SITCOMS OF THE 70s

Turnabout probably sounded good on paper.

The Feld-dog! lol...little did anyone know back then the gigantic heights of musical brilliance he would go on to unleash upon the world.

Ted Knight’s escort service?

I grew up in the 70s and in most regards it was better than today, but home entertainment was awful. You didn't have choices like you do now so you were spoonfed dreadful sitcoms and dramas. It was just horrible. Vapid and inane television.

So many of these shows focused on New York or some "big city" setting. And while that's an okay setting for those who live in big cities, it wasn't very relatable to small-town America. This seemed to be a huge staple of 70's sitcoms. I know the video footage here is likely taken from many sources, but you can see a variety of good/bad film stock from the originals (realizing that these were later copied to videotape and even VHS). There's just a certain grain and quality to some shows that stamps them as "70's TV." So many of these ideas were horribly conceived and executed. Almost embarrassing.

Anybody help me out there? Best as I can recall, in the late 1970s, some network tried to rip off the "Kotter" formula, with a young nun (or almost nun?) going back to teach at the tough Catholic high school where she'd formerly been a "bad girl". Believe that the show died almost immediately, but was heavily promoted.

“Turnabout” - oh bro-therrrr. If the set up takes that long to explain….

Was Winnie the Pooh the narrator for Turnabout? LOL

Good Heavens was recycled into Fantasy Island; both shows had the premise of fantasies coming true with the moral of be careful of what you wish for. Turnabout was a basically a ripoff of Freaky Friday where bodies/personalities are switched. Needles and Pins was recycled as Just Shoot Me years later; both shows took place in NYC's fashion industry.

Shelly Fabares was in about half of them. Curse of the TV pilot?

I liked Nancy & Bridget Loves Bernie. And Danny Thomas' was good also. At least to me. Lol

Poor Shelley is all i can say too!

Wish a few of these had made it. ThatcDanny thomas show wouldve been nice, the good life and the bad news bears had potential. So many future Drama series stars of the 80s and 90s were really plugging along...or struggling in the 70s. Perseverance pays off i guess. I love Diana Rigg but a sitcom??? Poor Yul, how could they take a great true story turned excellent musical into a Sitcom?????

So short lived that I don't remember them. But Bridget Loves Bernie did last a few seasons.

Dear Lord! How many failed sitcoms WAS Shelley Fabares involved in? Rumor has it that Craig T. Nelson had a minor stroke when told Fabares would be his co-star on "Coach"..

Most of these shows only lasted about 2 episodes. I only remember 5 shows.

I was born in 1970 . I never seen ANY of these ......

ted knight ran an escort service? could we order a mary tyler moore lookalike?

I remember a few of these. Bad News Bears is one of them and, at the time, I remember thinking the intro was soooo long! Took up half the show!

I missed every single one! I've always been lucky.

Anyone remember Holmes and Yoyo?

I remember “Turnabout.” Didn’t watch it much, but I remember an ad for one episode where the female gets pregnant. “I can’t be pregnant! I’m a man!”

Can’t make that joke today.

And even as a youngster, knowing where babies come from, I did kind of think about how the two of them would still be having such relations. Must’ve been… an interesting change for them.

90% never-heard-of cast members with a smattering of wow-how-did-they-survive-this actors who went on to better roles.

I use to watch The Bad News Bears as a kid. I had no idea Cory Feldman was in that. I vaguely remember some of the other shows. I was a kid in the 70's ad 80's when a lot of this stuff was on reruns.

Paul Sands in Friends and Lovers was a WAY ahead of its time show. It was done by the Mary Tyler Moore show company. I recall it being rather hip / Bob Newhart with a pinch of "Seinfeld 1974". I think this could have been a big 5 season show. Maybe Paul Sands himself turned people OFF.

The Brain Keith show / Little People was on Friday nights . Around this time ; The Brady Bunch and the partridge Family were DYING . TV was changing a LOT.

The opening for “Get It Together” has to be the worst opening to a show ever. It’s like grating and annoying.

The only ones I remember were The Bad News Bears, and Sanford Arms. Who remembers Carter Country?

I was born in 1966 and I don’t remember any of these shows.

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The TV Theme song. Now pretty much a thing of the past. Some of these shows had real comedic star power in them. Norman Fell, Louis Nye, Celeste Holm. A shame nnoe of the shows lasted very long.

It seems like a hundred years ago ; our society has become filled with bickering and hatred .
I would take the ‘70s over today any time . We didn’t have the digital universe of crap to wander around in aimlessly .

"The Brian Keith Show Starring...
Brian Keith"!!!

the only one I ever heard of or watched was Bridget loves Bernie

"Bridget loves Bernie" was parodied by MAD as "Idjit loves Ernie," which sounds like a "Sesame Street" spinoff

What’s amazing are the producer names that were just starting out like Steven Bochco, Lowell Ganz, and some stars before they either hit it big or got on a hit show.

The only city that anyone lived in at this time was apparently New York.

J.R., Abby Cunningham and Original Recipe Digger Barnes were all in a sitcom together!

The only ones I remember actually seeing were Turnabout, Bad News Bears, and Bridget Loves Bernie. All the others drew a blank

I love 60's and 70's T.V.

The BAD NEW BEARS the TV show its from early 80's. The movie version its from the latest 70's.

A lot more WORK went into ideas and production compared to the cookie-cutter piffle made by the big entities these days. Young people are so taken in by media, truly fooled - out of pocket and their minds. By the way, I knew a bunch of these "short-lived" shows and I am not an American. Television was pervasive socially in a way that the market-splitting Internet is not, even with Google's Performance Max and A.I. bosch.

Please correct me if I am wrong but I believe that to this very day "Bridget Loves Bernie" remains the highest rated show in TV history to be canceled after one season. The show finished number 5 for the year and earned higher ratings then CBS counterparts "The Mary Tyler Moore Show", "The Bob Newhart Show" and "The Carol Burnett Show" for the 72-73 TV season. Back in 1972, the interfaith marriage plot line caused too much controversy and too many protests for CBS so they canceled it.

I liked the bad news bears, but I think that was more of an 80`s show no?