Television Nostalgia
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The Lost Saucer is an ABC network television series produced by Sid and Marty Krofft. It first aired on September 6, 1975.
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The Baseball Bunch is an American educational children's television series that originally aired in broadcast syndication from August 23, 1980 through the fall of 1985. Produced by Major League Baseball Productions, the series was a 30-minute baseball-themed program airing on Saturday mornings, which featured a combination of comedy sketches and Major League guest-stars, intended to provide instructional tips to Little League aged children. Throughout its five season run, the series starred Johnny Bench, Tommy Lasorda and The Famous San Diego Chicken alongside a group of eight children (boys and girls ranging in age from 8–14) as "The Bunch".
Ark II is an American live-action science fiction series, aimed at children, that aired on CBS, beginning on September 11, 1976 and ending on December 18, 1976 (as well as reruns through November 13, 1977) as part of its weekend line-up. It returned for another run on September 16, 1978 and ran through August 25, 1979.
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A MAN CALLED HAWK
Doug Henning's World of Magic was the first of seven annual prime-time television specials starring magician Doug Henning, which aired live on NBC Friday, December 26, 1975.
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It's Your Move is an American sitcom starring Jason Bateman, Tricia Cast, Caren Kaye, Ernie Sabella, David Garrison, and Garrett Morris. The show originally aired on NBC from 1984 to 1985.
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Shields and Yarnell were an American mime team, formed in 1972, consisting of Robert Shields (born March 26, 1951) and Lorene Yarnell (March 21, 1944 – July 29, 2010). Their dance and mime performances were featured in 1977 on their own CBS television comedy-variety program, The Shields and Yarnell Show.
In 1975, Disney released the original black and white "Mickey Mouse Club" episodes to syndicated television. They were so well received by young audiences of the time that Disney was convinced to bring back the show as The New Mickey Mouse Club, starting in January, 1977. While the show had 2 seasons, it didn't make it to a 2nd year. It was never as popular as the original.
Actually it does work that way. Most Americans today are ignorant of their true history and how their government works. Now they have a President just as stupid as they are. Ultimately you get the government you deserve.
Superboy is an American television series based on the fictional DC Comicscomic bookcharacter Superman's early years as Superboy. The show ran from 1988–1992 in syndication. It was renamed The Adventures of Superboy at the start of the third season.
Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Futureis a 1987–88 Canadian-American science fiction/action television series, merging live action with animation based on computer-generated images, that ran for 22 episodes in Canadian and American syndication.
Damn, this took me back
Amazing Stories is a fantasy, horror, and science fiction television anthology seriescreated by Steven Spielberg. It originally ran on NBC in the United States from 1985 to 1987.
Roller Games was the name of a sports entertainment spectacle created in the early 1960s in Los Angeles, California[1] as a rival to the Jerry Seltzer-owned Roller Derby league, which had enjoyed a monopoly on the sport of roller derby — and its name — since its inception in 1935. Roller Games provided a mostly televised, increasingly theatrical version of the sport. Games were aired on TV (as "Roller Superstars"); and skaters "Psycho" Ronnie Rains and Ralphie Valladares became minor celebrities in Los Angeles.
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Games People Play is an NBC television show that ran from 1980 to 1981, hosted by Bryant Gumbel and Mike Adamle. The format centers on unusual sports competitions, including a belly flop contest and a taxicabdemolition derby. Sylvester Stallone discovered Mr. T, whom he subsequently cast as Clubber Lang (the villain in Rocky III), when Mr. T won a "World's Toughest Bouncer" competition on the show.
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WMAC Masters is an American live-action television show produced by Norman Grossfeld featuring choreographed martial arts fights. It was created and produced by 4Kids Productions (later known as 4Kids Entertainment) in conjunction with Renaissance-Atlantic Films (best known as the co-producers of the Power Rangers franchise), and syndicated by The Summit Media Group (4Kids and Summit Media were divisions of licensing agency Leisure Concepts Inc., known today as 4Licensing).
The show, while featuring real martial arts by trained martial artists, depicted a fantasy setting using fictional episodic stories, with each episode relating a life lesson. Battles were fought on elaborate closed sets, with an omniscient narrator, on-screen scoring and health gauges, giving the show a feel of a cinematic live-action video game.
3-2-1 Contact is an Americanscience educational television show that aired on PBS from 1980 to 1988, and an adjoining children's magazine. The show, a production of the Children's Television Workshop (now known as Sesame Workshop), teaches scientific principles and their applications. Dr. Edward G. Atkins, who was responsible for much of the scientific content of the show, felt that the TV program would not replace a classroom but would open the viewers to ask questions about the scientific purpose of things.
Puttin' on the Hits is an American syndicated music/variety competition show hosted and written by Allen Fawcett. The show featured amateur acts lip-synching to popular songs. The show aired on weekends from 1984 to 1988.
My favorite episode was the one about the WWII bomber plane. Dude was stuck in the gunner turret, underneath the plane, and he drew the cartoon wheels for the plane to land on.
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century is an American science-fiction adventure television series produced by Universal Studios. The series ran for two seasons between 1979 and 1981.
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These took me wayyyyyy back.
I'm first gen tv baby...I grew up when most families had at least one tv in the crib and they were programming lotsa kids shows, and we were parked in front of the TV as a sitter.
While I might not be able to remember my passwords to a login, I recall ALL these shows' theme songs. Some I haven't heard in 50 years or so.
Space Academy is a live-action sci-fi children's television program produced by Filmation that originally aired Saturday mornings on the CBS television network, from September 10, 1977, to December 17, 1977. (Repeats ran on and off until September 1, 1979.) A total of 15 half-hour episodes were made.
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The Red Hand Gang is an American live-action Saturday morning television series that aired on NBC from September 10 to November 26, 1977. The show featured five crime-solving pre-teens and their dog Boomer, who lived in the inner city. The group was so named because its members left red hand prints on fences to mark where they had been.
You brought back some sad memories. I was like 6 years old and Montgomery Wards had an application for the new Mousketeers. My aunt filled it out for me and I just knew I was going to be one. When the series started I was heartbroken.
I love this thread . it captured my entire childhood Saturday mornings except really old shoals like room 22 those were before my time. All those olsteries I forgot like misfits of science and the sitcoms like small wonder and out of this world. TV waso good back then . the only thing that's entertaining now is Americas got talent.