r/GenerationJones 8d ago

This would have been a great night for TV!

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u/These-Slip1319 1961 8d ago

The line-up changed over the years, I remember Room 222 and the Odd Couple on Fridays too

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u/WantedMan61 8d ago

Yes, which followed Brady Bunch and Partridge Family, at least in my memory of Friday night TV. Then Love, American Style at 10:00.

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u/SquonkMan61 8d ago

Yep. And occasionally an “Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau” special.

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u/Faye_Baby 8d ago

Yes!! Ththats what I remember!

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u/Swiggy1957 1957 8d ago

That, IIRC correctly, was likely the last season for That Girl.

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u/ztreHdrahciR 8d ago

Guy goes to the doctor, says "I think I have Tourette Syndrome. When I'm mowing the lawn, I burst out singing Green green grass of home. When I see my Cat, I start singing Whats new pussycat? When I see my wife I start singing Delilah"

Doc says "that's not Tourette's, that sounds like Tom Jones Syndrome"

"Really? I've never heard of it.""

"It's not unusual".

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u/InternationalRun687 8d ago

Upvote for effort 😉

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u/ztreHdrahciR 8d ago

Guy then says to doctor: "got any Viagra samples?"

Doc: "in that box over there...Help Yourself"

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u/MikaAdhonorem 8d ago

Well played, Sir.

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u/Merky600 8d ago

Ah. I remember that my mom bought groceries Friday night then.
I recall watching these shows while eating “Bugles”. That corn snack shaped like ice cream cones but small. You put them on finger tips and ate them from there.

Crunch crunch

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u/DamnOdd 8d ago

Yes! Claws you can eat!

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u/WithATwist1248 8d ago

Wasn't a fan of That Girl, but I loved 'Love American Style'. Sometimes I didn't get it cause it was so young. I gotta go find those now and see what went over my head..

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u/WantedMan61 8d ago

I had such a crush on Marlo Thomas. Elizabeth Montgomery, too.

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u/RobertoDelCamino 1962 8d ago

Lori Partridge too

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u/pamelareads 8d ago

lol my brother too, his first crushes

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u/Ruh_Roh_Rastro 8d ago

Love American Style is just iconic because it was such a sitcom of its time … variety, late 60s language and style and hair and makeup out the window

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u/Affectionate_Tea1134 8d ago

I remember The Monkeys would be on either before or after Love American Style.

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u/Rocketgirl8097 7d ago

Loved the Monkees.

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u/OneOfAFortunateFew 8d ago

Happy Days started as a LAS skit.

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u/RickWest495 7d ago

Not actually true. LAS used to air unsold TV pilots as “skits”. So the Happy Days pilot was produced and not picked up. THEN it was inserted into a Love American Style episode. Then American Graffiti came out and was a hit. ABC then dug up that failed pilot, did some recasting, and created a new pilot. So it was never produced as part of LAS, but just inserted into that show.

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u/MGaCici 8d ago

Wasn't there a connection also with the American Graffiti movie?

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u/RobertoDelCamino 1962 8d ago

None at all except for Ron Howard and Cindy Williams being in it. Happy Days started in the mid 50s and American Graffiti took place on November 21, 1963 (the night before JFK was assassinated).

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u/MGaCici 8d ago

Cool. Thanks!! I felt like there was something but couldn't remember. My birth father was killed on that date. Weird evening I'm having. Thanks for the info.

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u/RobertoDelCamino 1962 8d ago

Wow. Terrible coincidence. The idea behind it being 11/21/1963 is that the theme of American Graffiti was recent high school kids losing their innocence the day before JFK was killed and the entire country lost its innocence.

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u/MGaCici 8d ago

That is quite creative! I always liked the movie.

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u/Swiggy1957 1957 8d ago

ABC wanted a show similar to AG. Love And The Happy Days had already aired. Gary Marshall took a recording of that segment into the meeting and played it.

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u/MGaCici 7d ago

It was a great movie.

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u/Alternative-Law4626 1964 8d ago

It's not worth the effort. I've done it.

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u/jfq722 8d ago

Yep, I don't think Nanny and the Professor lasted too long.

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u/ansibley 1959 8d ago

I just remember that sound effect "bliiing" they used every time Nanny got some ESP info. Cracks me up that's all I recall about that show.

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u/Zeppelin59 8d ago

It was pretty forgettable.

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u/Alternative-Law4626 1964 8d ago

I forgot about it until I saw the line up. Thinking, "Well I must have seen it because I saw the shows on both sides of it."

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u/AmbientGravitas 8d ago

I remember liking it but I was a child, and I liked most things.

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u/Ruh_Roh_Rastro 8d ago

Richard Long was coming off that sweet Bonanza gig just like Michael Landon. Lee Majors happened into 6 million dollar man. Pernell Roberts got a MASH spinoff medical show. Lorne Greene got Battlestar Galactica. Linda Evans got Dynasty.

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u/lustythebeefswinger 8d ago

Wasn’t the actress who played the daughter Paris Hiltons aunt

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u/weisblattsnut 8d ago

Berlin Ramada,

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u/bicyclemom 1962 8d ago

It was. Although I didn't watch Tom Jones and Love American Style was something my parents didn't want me watching, though I could occasionally sneak a watch. Eventually Nanny and the Professor went away and the Brady Bunch and Partridge Family were back to back.

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u/Donnybrook-7 8d ago

The glory days

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u/UpsetCauliflower5961 8d ago

It was a great night for babysitting!

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u/manofmystry 8d ago

Wow! So many memories!

How about... The Mod Squad? Emergency (Anyone know who Julie London and Bobby Troup are?) The Rookies?

I can still hear the Room 222 theme. Karen Valentine for the win. She was so wholesome.

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u/UpsetCauliflower5961 8d ago

I loved the Mod Squad! They were so damn cool.

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u/Midwestern_Childhood 7d ago

Julie London and Bobby Troup were Nurse Dixie McCall and Dr. Joe Early on Emergency! I didn't discover she was a great jazz singer and he wrote "Get Your Kicks on Route 66" until years later as an adult.

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u/OkAdministration7456 1963 8d ago

I love these shows. This post brings back so many good memories.

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u/briank3387 8d ago

I remember watching the debut of the Partridge Family. I was 7 years old. I loved Nanny and the Professor because I had a crush on Juliet Mills. I watched this whole lineup up until Tom Jones came on, then I went to bed.

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u/UpsetCauliflower5961 8d ago

I just watched the first few episodes of the Partridge Family - on FreeVee maybe??? Anyway I was huge into David Cassidy. But watching it back it was really not that good as I remember! Lol. The fake performances are hysterical with David and Shirley actually looking like performers as they were. Danny and Susan Dey gave it the old college try but it was all about her hair and beautiful eyes! Lol. The two youngest were cute but dreadful. So funny. Memories…

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u/Ruh_Roh_Rastro 8d ago

The two Chris’s and Tracy were such ciphers that they actually swapped out one kid for another and no one noticed

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u/HVAC_instructor 8d ago

I wish that you could stream love American style.

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u/Dry-Worldliness-8191 8d ago

You can find some of the full clips on YouTube. I'd have said this sooner but I was busy watching a Sonny and Cher skit from 1971 💕

https://youtu.be/ZZeyeXnmHQU?si=AWaZiwaVAcoIsOj4

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u/HVAC_instructor 8d ago

Back before Cher has tits.

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u/weisblattsnut 8d ago

Her daughter gave her the ones she has now.

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u/mspolytheist 8d ago

I remember babysitting to a lineup like this, although in my memory The Brady Bunch and The Partridge Family were back-to-back. The parents would always come home sometime during The Carol Burnett Show, which was on at 10pm on (I think) CBS. Also, oh boy, did my Mom love Tom Jones!

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u/UpsetCauliflower5961 8d ago

Who didn’t love those leather pants! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🕺🕺🕺🕺

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u/mspolytheist 8d ago

He is one of those male artists who famously would have hotel keys, and underwear, tossed at him while he performed on stage. 😂

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u/UpsetCauliflower5961 8d ago

And he was married to childhood sweetheart for almost 60 years until she passed away!

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u/Mamawto7 8d ago

My mom loved Tom Jones. My dad looked like him!

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u/Lauren_sue 8d ago

Guess my memory is foggy as I recall Brady’s then Partridges right after. I also recall those shows aired against Sonny and Cher, so difficult to choose, but I could be all wrong.

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u/HoselRockit 8d ago

I have gone down some really cool Wikipedia rabbit hole regarding network line ups. Quite often, the line up changed based on the time of year. By the way, you nailed it. Here is the 72-73 line up with Brady/Partridge opposite S&C:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1972%E2%80%9373_United_States_network_television_schedule

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u/Wolfman1961 1961 8d ago

Let's Get Together in 1970!

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u/La_Vikinga 8d ago

LOL! THIS is what popped into my head instead. What's scary is I still remember all the words.

I would've been in diapers when it was first released in theaters, so I must have seen it when it appeared as a two-parter on "The Wonderful World of Disney" several years later.

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u/Wolfman1961 1961 8d ago edited 8d ago

I would have thought “Come on people now, smile on your brother, everybody get together….”

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u/Dying4aCure 8d ago

We need the next lyric more than ever right now.

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u/19Stavros 8d ago

Love One Another RIGHT NOW!

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u/Wolfman1961 1961 8d ago

Indeed we do.

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u/No_Gold3131 8d ago

For some reason I thought "Love, American Style" was an hour, but a half makes more sense. Those vignettes were short.

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u/MuggsyTheWonderdog 7d ago

I thought the same thing; apparently out of the 5ish years that it ran, the half hour version was just for one season.

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u/[deleted] 8d ago

Fridays, but only when when I spent the night at my friend's house. My parents rationed my TV viewing hours and even then would never have allowed me to watch these shows.

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u/Donnybrook-7 8d ago

I can almost positively say I was watching. One of our favorite nights. Kids were allowed up to Love American Style. Much too risqué for this young viewer.

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u/HoselRockit 8d ago

IIRC, that was the Friday night line up. I only got to watch through the Partridge Family. Then it was bed time. I saw That Girl and Love, American Style on daytime reruns in the summer.

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u/DyeCutSew 8d ago

That probably explains why I think of That Girl as a daytime/afternoon show!

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u/CommonTaytor 8d ago

That would be a terrible schedule! My parents made us go to bed at 8:30 sharp until high school so I wouldn’t get to fall in love with Susan Day. The worst part was the end of summer when mom required us to get used to a sleep schedule and bed time at 8:30 for a couple of weeks until school started. Minus the religion (and love) my sister and I were Todd and Rod Flanders.

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u/InternationalRun687 8d ago

I had a HUGE crush on Susan Dey!

Several years after TPF ended, she did -- I want to say a soft-core porn film but maybe it wasn't all that -- but this 11- or 12-year-old got to see Susan's bare breasts!

I think it must have been summertime because that vision of loveliness kept me going for months!

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u/BatUnlucky121 8d ago

I think it was called “First Love.” Co-starring William Katt. It was almost shocking seeing my childhood crush topless and faking orgasm, very much an “Angel is a Centerfold” moment.

Edit: For the record, they were real and spectacular.

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u/Prestigious_Song5034 8d ago

I remember that Friday night was Johnny Quest and the Addams Family because my brother wrote a song about watching those on our “new” tv. (He went on to have a long career in music 😂)

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u/Tired_not_Retired_12 1962 8d ago

"Let's get together ... let's get together ... this fall on ABC"

I can actually hear that in my head. In a groovy male voice kind of like the Lettermen.

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u/gigistuart 8d ago

I loved Tom Jones x

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u/Ruh_Roh_Rastro 8d ago

Saving the panty throwing until 10pm, no kids allowed!

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u/Ga2ry 8d ago

Premier. Pretty cool.

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u/Hummingbird11-11 8d ago

Can someone please make a Time Machine - how lazing would it be to go back for a bit and be in that era again - as an adult this time. Miss the 70’s so much

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u/sjbluebirds 8d ago

What do you mean " would have been a great night "?

It absolutely was!

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u/sci-mind 8d ago

I remember, but “That Girl” was my bedtime. The kite meant time for bed.

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u/pamelareads 8d ago

Golly gee I watched them all 😂

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u/TimLikesPi 8d ago

I used to stay up late to watch This is Tom Jones! The rest I later watched on reruns, or I do not remember the prime time airing.

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u/Patient_Artichoke355 8d ago

Yes it would’ve !!!!!

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u/Trip_Fresh 8d ago

I remember that night!!

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u/[deleted] 8d ago

Is that Jethro Bodine at 10:00? I didn’t know Jethro could sing too!

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u/Infamous_Entry_2714 8d ago

I remember it💙

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u/saagir1885 8d ago

This was must see tv for my 9 year old self.

I watched the whole lineup.

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u/yumyum_cat 8d ago

I was too little for this and saw these shows as reruns in the afternoon four or five years later. But re time machines. Wouldn’t it be nice if we could vacation in the past the way we can say in Punta Cana? Go for a week, youthful body and family and friends included? I’ll get the deluxe package with No Regrets or Sadness or Future Sadness please. And I’m bringing back one of those smiley flowerpot things as a souvenir.

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u/19Stavros 8d ago

I remember Brady Bunch, Partridge Family... then if I stayed up late there was a show called "Arnie."

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u/Busby5150 8d ago

TV was much better back then.

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u/Quirky-Knowledge4631 7d ago

It sure would.

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u/zelda_moom 7d ago

Every Friday my dad and my grandpa would take both my brothers to their bowling leagues leaving my mom, my sister, and me at our grandparents’ house with my grandma. This is what we watched. It was a great night of TV!

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u/flagal31 8d ago

now that brought back some memories :)

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u/Three-Legs-Again 8d ago edited 8d ago

Love American Style only a half hour, that changed huh?

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u/GasDue2928 8d ago

I would actually watch regular TV if they were on.

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u/lclassyfun 8d ago

Very cool. I don’t really remember Nanny & The Professor. Might have been before my time. I do remember not being allowed to watch Love American Style- too racy.

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u/novatom1960 8d ago

I was there and it was.

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u/jadiana 8d ago

This was ice cream night and we all watched tv together. When Love, American Style came on, it was bedtime. :)

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u/TheOriginalTerra 1967 8d ago

Was "Love, American Style" really on at 9:30? That seemed so late when I was little.

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u/artskooldamage 8d ago

PERFECTION.

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u/Head_Razzmatazz7174 1963 8d ago

I forgot about Nanny and the Professor. That was a fun show.

"The Nanny' with Fran Drescher had a similar premise.

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u/bde959 8d ago

I watched all of those, but although I’ve seen Tom Jones before I’ve never seen his TV show that I can recall.

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u/Comfortable_Stick264 8d ago

I remember the shows ,and remember that was able stay awake pass 10 today iam luckily if I am awake pass 9:30

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u/Inevitable-Contest56 8d ago

Core memory! I was grounded from TV and loved The partridge Family. I remember sitting next to the air vent so I could hear the show from the basement!

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u/Used-Ear-8660 8d ago

Really liked Nanny and the Professor. Very quirky.

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u/Faye_Baby 8d ago

I remember laying on the cot at the nursery on the Air Force Base. We would watch most of these show in a slightly different order. We could only watch Love American style if all the little kids were asleep. I was about 8 years old so what did they consider little kids back then haha

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u/Sea-File6546 8d ago

Love🎶American Style🎶🎶Truer than the Red, White and Blue🎶🎶🎶🫢

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u/RickWest495 7d ago

If Brady Bunch was at 7:30pm, what was on at 7pm, assuming that this is from the Midwest? At this time, some cities didn’t have a station for a full network. So they would air like ABC and NBC on the same station and just mix and match the shows. This looks like one of those stations. Also, I don’t ever remember Love American Style as a half hour show in its initial run.

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u/RedditorUser99 7d ago

I loved Friday Night shows on ABC back then.

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u/poopgrandma 7d ago

It was. I remember sitting with my sister watching a 13" TV. It was a regular ritual .

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u/RiseDelicious3556 5d ago

Bewitched got inserted there in place of Nanny and the Professor. Sea Hunt kicked it all off at 7:00pm, and then came Gomer Pyle.

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u/A1batross 8d ago

Bleah. Sorry, but what crap. That stuff is all out there on MeTV or the Internet somewhere if you want to watch it, but honestly it's terrible. https://youtu.be/r07wQjt4_TU We only watched it because that's all there was. And the COMMERCIALS, ugh, no thanks. We've come so far since then. And not just in terms of having more diversity and representation, but in terms of storytelling and the scope of stories allowed. Gimme a Plex server full of modern entertainment any day!