“An American epic. The victory and the tragedy. The nightmare and the dream of The New Land.” Happy 4th of July! Our Daily 70s Spot aired exactly 37 years ago. Here’s an ABC promo for The New Land (Max von … Continue reading
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“Get to the heart of the convention.” Daily 70s Spot incoming. Here we have newscaster Harry Reasoner in an ABC promo for the 1976 summer political conventions. Spot aired in early July, 1976. The Democratic National Convention ran July 12 … Continue reading
“You’d never know they were cops – unless you broke the law.” Let’s fire up the Gran Torino and peel into our Daily 70s spot. Here’s a cool ABC promo for Starsky & Hutch featuring, of course, Paul Michael Glaser … Continue reading
“Sunday afternoons – right here, on ABC.” Time to fish up our Daily 70s Spot. Here we have an ABC promo for The American Sportsman with host Curt Gowdy and guests; Jimmy Dean, Bing Crosby, Phil Harris, Ted Williams, Dale … Continue reading
Baretta (a re-tooling of the cop show, Toma) originally ran on ABC from January, 1975 to June, 1978. The police drama stars Robert Blake as undercover detective, Tony Baretta, who works without a partner in an East Coast-based city (though … Continue reading
Hanna-Barbera’s These Are the Days originally ran on ABC from September, 1974 to September, 1975. A total of 16, 30-minute episodes were produced. The series was one of the few serious cartoons created by HB and focused on an early-20th … Continue reading